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The 2014 Tour de Romandie was the 68th running of the Tour de Romandie cycling stage race. The race consisted of six stages, beginning with a prologue stage in Ascona on 29 April and concluding with another individual time trial, in Neuchâtel, on 4 May. It was the fourteenth race of the 2014 UCI World Tour season. In the exact same podium positions as the 2013 edition, Great Britain's Chris Froome of won the race for a second successive year, after winning the final time trial stage in Neuchâtel. Having trailed rider Simon Špilak by a single second going into the stage, Froome turned the deficit into a 28-second race-winning margin over the stage. Špilak finished second, having won the race's third stage – the queen stage into Aigle – by beating Froome in a two-up sprint, after the pair had attacked towards the end of the stage. The podium was completed again by Rui Costa, now riding for , who finished third for the third year in a row. Costa finished 64 seconds behind Špilak,〔 and one minute 32 seconds behind Froome. In the race's other classifications, the 's Jesús Herrada was the winner of the white jersey for the young rider classification as he was the highest placed rider born in 1989 or later, finishing in ninth place overall, 16 seconds ahead of nearest rival, 's Thibaut Pinot.〔 Martin Kohler of the won the green jersey for the most points gained in intermediate sprints, while the pink jersey for the King of the Mountains classification went to Johann Tschopp of .〔 The teams classification was won by the , after the squad placed three riders – Beñat Intxausti (sixth), Jon Izagirre (eighth) and Herrada – inside the top ten overall.〔 ==Teams== As the Tour de Romandie was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Only were awarded a wildcard place into the race, thus completing the 19-team peloton. Pre-race favourites were Chris Froome, Tejay van Garderen, Michał Kwiatkowski, Simon Špilak, Vincenzo Nibali and Rui Costa. The 19 teams that competed in the race were: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2014 Tour de Romandie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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