Asked to assess the damage to his Tour de France hopes of another breathless stage in which he shipped almost a minute to his great rival Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard smiled. And then, like Emma Raducanu at Wimbledon on Monday, he reached for a footballing analogy. “We’re 1-0 down,” the Dane admitted to reporters outside his team bus in the Alpine resort of Valloire half an hour or so after the stage ended. “But we expected to be 3-0 behind by now. So I think that’s a small win. We know what
Two-time former champion Tadej Pogacar soloed to victory in stage four of the Tour de France in the Alps on Tuesday to reclaim the overall leader's yellow jersey on the first major mountain challenge.Pogacar, 25, reclaimed the overall lead he took on stage two in Bologna.
The 111th edition of the Tour de France is under way. The race is one of the three grand tours – the others being the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España – that form the backbone around which the cycling season is structured.