Albasini wins Romandie fourth stage, Spilak keeps lead

Swiss Michael Albasini made it a hat-trick of victories in the Tour ofRomandie by winning Saturday's fourth stage after 175km around Fribourg.Slovenia's Simon Spilak kept his one second lead over Tour de France winner ChrisFroome in the overall standings.Albasini, who had already won the first and second stages on Wednesday andThursday, beat Frenchman Thomas Voekler and Jan Bakelandts of Belgium in asprint finish among the five-man escape group, that included two more Frenchmen,Alexis Vuillermoz and Jean-Marc Marino. "Before the Tour of Romandie I would have been happy with one stage win so threeis a bit crazy," said the 33-year-old Albasini."After this I'm going on holidays so I'm trying to give it my all during the race."The Swiss rider's win continued his Australian Orica-GreenEDGE team's fine formthis last week, with young Briton Adam Yates leading the Tour of Turkey having wonFriday's sixth stage in that.Australian Simon Gerrans also claimed victory at Liege-Bastogne-Liege last Sundayfor Orica.Katusha's Spilak had taken the leader's yellow jersey off Albasini by outsprintingFroome to win Friday's mountainous third stage.Sunday's fifth and final stage is an 18.5km individual time trial around Neuchatel, inwhich Froome will be the overwhelming favourite to retain his title.The last three winners of Romandie -- Froome, Bradley Wiggins in 2012 and CadelEvans in 2011 -- have gone on to win the Tour de France. Source: AFP