"It seemed to be an easy stage, but to catch the two escapees was really difficult."

Those were the words of Astana's Alessandro Vanotti after stage four of the Critérium du Dauphiné. Vanotti and all his teammates worked very hard in the finale to catch the riders on the attack.

At the end of the longest stage, Nacer Bouhanni of France won the mass sprint.

Andriy Grivko is still in third position in the General Classification followed by Vincenzo Nibali, Lieuwe Westra, Michele Scarponi and Rein Taaramäe with a 4-second deficit to race leader Rohan Dennis of Australia.