Swooping Down to Valloire on Stage 4 Tour de France 2024
Pogacar won Stage 4 of the Tour de France 2024 in Valloire.
Team UAE took control on the climb of the Galibier, reducing the peloton to an elite few, including Vingegaard, Evenepoel, Landa, Roglic and Carlos Rodriguez as well as Tadej Pogacar.
Pogacar attacked about 800m before the summit, and got a gap of around 8s over Vingegaard. Pogacar took the maximum bonus seconds over the top of the Galibier.
The Slovenian UAE rider increased his lead over Vingegaard on the descent, particularly the less technical lower section.
In the end, the next group over the line was Evenepoel, Juan Ayuso and Roglic (at 35s), and Vingegaard and Carlos Rodriguez (37s).
Video Highlights
These are video highlights of Stage 4 Tour de France 2024.
The Breakaway
A breakaway group went early in the stage. The riders were:
- Odd Christian Eiking
- Tobias Johanessen
- Warren Barguil
- Bruno Armirail
- Alexey Lutsenko
- Stephen Williams
- Julien Bernard
- David Gaudu
- Valentin Madouas
- Romain Grégoire
- Kobe Goossens
- Mathieu van der Poel
- Oier Lazkano
- Mathieu Burgaudeau
- Chris Juul-Jensen
- Raul Garcia Pierna
- Cristian Rodriguez
Stephen Williams took the mountains points at Sestriere, and again at the top of the Col de Montgenevre.
Early on the climb of the Galibier, the leading group was down to Gaudu, Lazkano, Juul-Jensen and Burgaudeau. Lazkano was the last survivor.
UAE drove the pace on the front of the bunch on the Galibier, with Politt and Almeida doing strong turns. They swallowed up the breakaway riders well before the top of the col.
Overall Standings
With the bonus seconds he hoovered up at the top of the Galibier and on the line, Pogacar now leads the Tour de France by 45s from Remco Evenepoel.
Vingegaard is third at 50s.
