Team Sky Pro Cycling's Chris Froome (Great Britain) wins stage 4 of 2013 Tirreno-Adriatico; Team Omega Pharma-QuickStep's Michal Kwiatkowski takes overall Tirreno-Adriatico lead.

Team FDJ's French national champion Nacer Bouhanni sprints to victory in final stage ahead of Matt Goss (Team GreenEdge) and BMC Racing Team's Taylor Phinney.

Team Sky Pro Cycling's Christopher Froome climbed to victory in today's fifth stage of this year's Tour of Oman when he beat Team Saxo-Tinkoff's Alberto Contador and yesterday's stage winner Joaquin Rodriguez (Team Katusha) in a sprint to the finish line.

Team Sky Pro Cycling's Chris Froome takes overall 2013 Tour of Oman race lead and Alberto Contador (Team Saxo-Tinkoff) advances to third position in the general rankings.

The opening salvos of the 2013 Tour de France have already begun.