{"id":248574,"date":"2025-07-08T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248574\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:42:09","slug":"tour-de-france-pogacar-takes-100th-win-in-thrilling-stage-four-finish-but-denied-yellow-jersey-tour-de-france-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248574\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France: Pogacar takes 100th win in thrilling stage four finish but denied yellow jersey | Tour de France 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Pogacar secured his 100th career win on stage four of the Tour de France<\/a> after the defending champion narrowly outsprinted race leader Mathieu van der Poel just before the line in central Rouen.<\/p>\n

On the brutal, hilly finishing circuit, Pogacar again asserted himself as the rider to beat in this year\u2019s race, piling pressure on rivals Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel on the eve of the Tour\u2019s first time trial.<\/p>\n

Having exploded past Van der Poel in the final metres, Pogacar said that all victories were \u201cspecial\u201d but that \u201c1oo victories later, it still feels super good to cross the finish line first\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pogacar and Van der Poel are now tied on overall time, with the Dutchman retaining the yellow jersey only on stage result countback.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I launched my sprint, my legs didn\u2019t want to continue any more,\u201d Van der Poel said. \u201cTadej was the strongest today. It\u2019s no shame losing to him on this parcours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van der Poel expects to cede the race lead in Wednesday\u2019s 33km time trial around Caen. \u201cIf we are being realistic, tomorrow will be my last day in yellow.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his part, Pogacar, has his eyes firmly fixed on the Olympic time trial champion, Remco Evenepoel, who inflicted a significant defeat<\/a> on the Slovenian in the time trial stage of the recent Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemco will progress through this race,\u201d he said. \u201cTomorrow is the perfect time trial for him. He can take some seconds back and there\u2019s no doubt he is the best time triallist in the world. I\u2019ll go full gas from the start and see where this places me, but tomorrow is the race of truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the Tour\u2019s fourth day, the race assumed its familiar mantle of warm sunshine, high cloud and giant hay bales, as the convoy crossed the Somme and entered Normandy. A four-man break, including Lenny Martinez, the French climber who finished dead last on stage one to Lille but was now seeking points in the mountains classification, moved ahead, although it only ever led the peloton by a little over two minutes.<\/p>\n

As the quartet of finishing climbs loomed on the horizon the peloton picked up speed, reeling in Martinez before the succession of breathless uphill sprints, particularly the 15% Rampe Sainte-Hilaire in Rouen, took their toll.<\/p>\n

Lenny Martinez, Kasper Asgreen, Jonas Abrahamsen and Thomas Gachignard compete in a breakaway on stage four. Photograph: Tim de Waele\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

While Jasper Philipsen, who crashed out on Monday, began his recovery from surgery on his broken collarbone, the rider he collided with, Bryan Coquard, was under siege, both from some in the Tour convoy and others on social media.<\/p>\n

The UCI\u2019s decision to give the Frenchman a yellow card had drawn an angry reaction from his Cofidis team boss, C\u00e9dric Vasseur, on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re giving a yellow card for this, it devalues what that card means,\u201d Vasseur said. \u201cWe\u2019ll discuss it further with the race directors, and maybe it will be overturned. If that\u2019s the standard, they\u2019ll be handing out 25 cards a day, and in a few days, we\u2019ll all be sent home.\u201d<\/p>\n

A second yellow would see Coquard expelled from the Tour. His Cofidis team were not the only ones to question the sanctions imposed on the Frenchman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very easy to judge from watching on a 55-inch TV what one should have done,\u201d said the EF Education-EasyPost sports director, Charly Wegelius. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit different when you\u2019re on the bike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coquard\u2019s sponsor, Cofidis, also sprang to his defence saying: \u201cWe condemn any form of intimidation or abuse directed at our riders on social media. The team reserves the right to file a complaint against anyone who damages their integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere during Tuesday\u2019s stage there were local media reports circulating that an individual was arrested near the finish of the stage at the Saint-Hilaire roundabout at around 3pm. He was said to be wielding a knife and attempted to stab one officer, who was uninjured owing to his protective vest, but reportedly injured another in the leg.<\/p>\n

In Italy, meanwhile, Anna Henderson of Lidl-Trek defended her overall lead in the women\u2019s Giro d\u2019Italia, despite being caught in a mass crash close to the finish line in Trento. The British rider leads Marlen Reusser by 13 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar secured his 100th career win on stage four of the Tour de France after the defending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-248574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114818852051570132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}