Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of Vuelta a España 2026 Stage 4.
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Not really sure what to think of Almeida, he was the best domestique for pogi in 2024 TdF, last year he crashed unfortunately, but since then idk his form is really not that good.
Each time again and again he gets dropped so early, not that he has a single bad day or so but today was basically the first mountain stage and he lost what 25min or so.
Hope he will find his form again
Three category 1 climbs on stage 4 of a GT. Great way to decide the GC race within the first week.
Pogacar wins a bike race. in other news: water is wet…
Why does anyone think they have a chance when Pog is gonna ride whatever ?
Celebrate like a Cat 1 racer in a Cat 3 race Pogi!🙄
yea, people will obviously complain about pog winning getting stale, but if nobody ever cooperates to bring him down and play for 2nd place, he's not gonna wait, now, is he ?
I find it hard to watch the ‘on another level’ / doper on a motorbike.
Without Pog this would have been an all timer Grand Tour
I'm surprised you don't mention Tadej's nose wipe. Anytime he does the infamous nose wipe, that signals the beginning of his monster time trial mode.
LR is the man
Roglic!? Didn't see that coming at all.
In a professional sport, where only the best of the best make it to a top team and ride such races like the grand tours, we have:
A guy who makes everyone else look like complete amateurs in climbs, by far the best climber ever. Except he's built like a classics specialist.
A guy who, while being the best climber ever, has some serious sprinting capabilities, which should be impossible if he's maxing out the aerobic performance.
A guy who, while being the best climber ever while being a decent sprinter still has the lactic capacities to stay with the beasts of classics like MVDP and WvA on terrain like Roubaix and seriously challenge them for victory, while ridiculing them in Flandres.
A guy who's never tired, barely brakes a sweat while shattering every single record and beating the next best guy by ridiculous margins, a guy who's never out of shape who doesn't need to time the peak of his form, dominating everything from Milan – San Remo till the World Championships.
A guy like that in the dirtiest sport in the history of sports, tied to a oil money team with unlimited funding, ties with UCI and dirty doctors of the sport's dirty past.
A clean rider, obviously, just like Armweak.
A bit over his head to try and follow Pogacar but Decathlon really just accept that Pogy does his own thing and then race like he's not there 😀
Tadej 'Pretty Boy Floyd' Pogačar
Knukles FTW!
Poggi… tell us you're doped to the gills without telling us you're doped to the gills.
Sadly the most boring stage I’ve ever seen outside of a flat sprint stage.
Total dominance.
Vuelta is over 😢
Not that it wasn't over before it started, but now there is no reason to even watch.
Stage 4 & they've surrendered to racing for 2nd place already…don't see that too often lol
Carapaz saving up for some big moves 🙂
Amazing training ride.Congrats again,Pogi,for another win.
Tadej confirms his status as the GOAT, but his team don't look strong, and the other GC riders will have taken note of that. It will be an interesting tour without the strongest team around him.
I was hoping we'd have a cameo of crouching Patrick on one of the turns in final kilometres of the descent IYKYK
Of course I would prefer a contested GC, but the race isn't over. Nothing is guaranteed in a 3 week grand tour. And we still have 2 more GC podium positions, stage wins, green jersey, KoM jersey, white jersey, and team classification. And in the tour we got to see some things you don't usually see – like the GC winner playing domestique for his teammate and taking a final pull to set up MVDP for the win in Paris. Plus you may as well enjoy the spectactle that is Tadej Pogacar while it lasts since you'll likely never see anything like it again in your lifetime.
shout out Onley who's had a tough season and been ill this week. Hoping for a big couple weeks from the Scot
It’s good to see Roglic back up at the front
why do they ride the bikes during the interview? they just cant stop cycling?