I abandoned my plans to go and watch stage 4 down at Willunga due to the wet (and sometimes rather wild) weather today. So that means I can’t report back in person unfortunately, but as usual there is live coverage online.

The riders are just heading for the big KOM climb, with all of the GC leaders in the peloton. Sounds like there’s a storm on the way, we’ve had some pretty strong winds here in Adelaide, hopefully they all make it safely down to the finish line.

Hans Dekkers (Agritubel) won the first sprint today with Laurent Brochard (Bouygues Telecom) second. The two then swapped positions for the second sprint. This gives Brochard a nice lead in the points classification.

UPDATE 15:03 CST – It’s pouring down here but apparently not at Willunga where they didn’t get the storm that was threatening. The top 3 were Pieter Ghyllebert (Chocolade Jacques – Topsport Vlaanderen), Sergey Lagutin (Navigators Insurance Cycling Team), Martin Elmiger (AG2r Prevoyance).

Karl Menzies was in the lead group, but Elmiger’s 2 second time bonus puts him in the Ochre jersey with a lead of 1 second! Looks like there’ll be some action tomorrow around the North Adelaide circuit.

Also the top KOM points for today’s stage went to Julian Dean (Credit Agricole).