Tadej Pogacar THERMONUCLEAR Attack on Jonas Vingegaard | Tour de France 2025 Stage 4

Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of Tour de France 2025 Stage 4.

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must confess early afternoon, I was expecting a few different things. First of all, not Lenny Martinez in the breakway because this is a flat start to the race. Cross wins not strong enough to split it, but enough to make it hard. But no teams apart from four tried to go in the breakaway. There’s a succession of hills near the finish where to me there could only be two or maybe three or four winners being Vanipool, Pagatcha or a lucky puncher that slips away. And yet it’s only Casper Asgaran who decides to be the fourth man in that breakway. Dileier gets back to pacing for Alison. So Viper was the favorite for the stage, the yellow jersey. Uh Pagati was the second favorite, but it was very very tricky. Look at Yonas Fingerard here. He escapes narrowly. Seep Cous isn’t so lucky when Verse moves left or crashes left after Fedorov hit the road furniture. It’s Fingergard who’s the last man looking behind that misses it. And it’s Seep Cous that comes down on his buttocks. And there’s going to be a few more crashes with so much road furniture around the Ruan where they did the stage today. This one wasn’t I think about road furniture, but Vingigard again, he’s in the back left. The domino effect nearly takes him and puts him into the hedge. And I think it was a lot of the guys who crashed yesterday going down again. Fedorov Py verse and Julian Alfalipe in great position with Chuda the first categorized climb of the day. A great puncher for this sort of finish. He has a mechanical a rear flat and they try to change the wheel. They change the wheel and then eventually change the bike. His race is over. I mean the succession of climbs are starting. UAE and Vizma are not going to slow down and you’re never coming back. Even if you do come back, which they nearly do, you’re trying to do it on a 1.5k 9% climb. Lenny Martinez goes clear from the breakaway. UAE start to put a pace on this climb and then continue with Solair on the flatter sections and Civicov to keep it in a line because you want to be in front. You want to have it in a line so that when there’s narrowings, you aren’t involved in crashes. I think Oscar Ronley was involved in that. Lenny Martinez makes it to 20ks to go. He’s caught at the base of that climb and Albus Dunik, they know what they’re doing. 900 me 7% if you enter in good position look at Vimesh he’s trying to move over and box Civikov Groves moves over to box Valance they don’t want UAE doing a hard pace doing a lead out and by boxing those two in by the time UA gets to the front to start pacing again it’s like 138 m left to the climb they’ve already taken out 2/3 75% of the climb where UAE could set a hard pace so Albertson they know that pretty much everyone that can sprint is going to get dropped they don’t need the race any harder. They want to try and stop UAE making it harder. And UAE had a line in a line on that descent. But the second last climb was the easiest of the four. And so you’re not really hurting people on 5%. Pagata is able to look down and play with his head unit. Vingard looks relaxed. No one extra’s dropping. A Neapol sees well and start to pace. And he’s like, hm, is a Patcher attack coming here? Are they about to send it over the descent? But it’s a wide road. So if you had the legs, you could move up in this moment. And Campernon begins to slide up the left hand side for Vizma and then does a full lead out with the team over the top of this climb. It’s a very twisty descent. Um then there’s a there’s actually a pinch 2/3 the way down the descent and Camponaut sends it. Aanapool takes the wheel of Vanard off Pagatcha and Pagatcha wasn’t very comfortable with it. Vanderpool’s able to dive bomb the corner onto Navi’s wheel. whose teammate obviously lets him slide in. And talking of wheels, Venat might have let the wheel go here. He’s the Vizma rider on the bit of a gap. It’s Benote, Jurgensson, Vingerard, and Campernuts ahead. And would Remco have shot the gap? And there’s this pinch where Camp is sending it. Probably Pagatra and Navi or Navi would have solved it on this pinch here, but Pagatcha was able to come in front of Remco and Remco dropped the wheel. And look at the the damage behind. Gold dropped. Livitz on a gap losing time. It really split on that descent. And then they’re into the final key climb. It’s 7% for a bit. That’s where they are now. This isn’t the steep part. And then they go left, right, and it’s an absolute wall. The KM starts here. Nice is looking back. Where’s Pagacha? Here he is. Lead out time. Time to send it. And he sends it indeed. But only in good position. Schelmo are there. Roglish there. Venard there. But it’s Almeida who comes up and starts smashing it. Setting up the world champion to attack. Vanderpool immediately puts his head down. He cannot respond to this from Tai Pagatcha. Vingard is off the wheel. He has to close it, but it’s not looking. This is Pagatcha’s terrain. The winner of Flesh Walone twice. The winner of Lege Baston Lege multiple times. Look at the gap they’ve put on the others. But Vingigard’s looking comfortable. Is Pagata going to sit down? But then Vingard looks behind, sits down, and Pagatcha keeps sprinting away. This looked like the repeat of the Galibier last year where Pagatcha was going to go over the top and take 30 seconds on Vingard, but he stalls. Just in the last 50 m of this climb on the steep gradients, Pagatcha stalls and Vingard realizes he can sprint back to his wheel. So, what a battle we had on the uh Asa on a puncher style stage, stage four. These two going head-to-head. Vingard neutralizes Paga. Pagatric is running. We’re looking where’s Remco? And Remco’s in a difficult spot. Jurgensson’s not going to chase behind his teammate. Omni is going to sit in. Vanderpool’s gassed. Almeida is not going to chase behind Tatt Paga. And so Remco has to close these two down. By the time Finger starts relaying, it’s too late. And Ramco’s already shut it on the flat. But now what can Jorgensson do? What can the others try and do to disrupt the inevitable sprint of Machu Vanderpool? And Pagata closes that one. Stalemate. It’s pretty fast downhill in this moment and so there’s a lot of draft benefit in the wheels. Almeida starts to set a pace to stop others attacking. Grego, Gilmo, and Vocalan look like they’re about to come back. Gregoire’s about to get on and then Remco even attacks but it’s before a couple of corners which can be good if you’re a Vanderpool you can use the corners to get a gap but Remco takes a bad line here and then on the leftander here he misjudges it has to break a lot and Ala’s basically back into his wheel uh straight away and then Jorgensson counters under the flam’s already done a lot of work he’s paced can he bring back Jorgensson and Almeida again made the difference today sewing it back up for Tad Pagatcha. And look at Vanipool. He moves up to close the gap for Rem in front of Remco, but he’s got Pog on the wheel. And then as it kicks up again, Almeida does the hard uphill lead out. Vingard in the wheel of Pagatcha. Still stage two, we saw nobody could beat Vanderpool once he opened his sprint and he gets a gap immediately off Vingard from Pagatcha’s wheel. Pagatcha today when Vanderpool sits down is able to come over the top of him and win this sprint easily for his hundth professional victory in the rainbow bands at the tour to France. Vanderpool and Vingard Oscar only fantastic performance. Gregoire Ala apool Jurgensen skil vocal line. Here is what Pagata had to say. I tried with an an attack the second last climb, I mean the last climb and then uh yeah uh Yonas followed me and uh then everything come together and uh yeah he did uh such an amazing job to lead me out until the very end even if people were attacking. So I’m super super happy and proud of the team today. Uh amazing. Uh yeah, I’m just without words was such a nice victory. In terms of GC, Vanderpool is still in the yellow jersey. Pagata is in the KM jersey. They’re 8 seconds ahead of Vingard. Jurgensson’s on 19 seconds. Vocal 26. We got the TT tomorrow. It’s the 33k TT. Avan’s the heavy favorite. It be exciting if he wins. Hope you enjoy the video. See you tomorrow. 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