Tour de France: Pogacar outmuscles Vingegaard on stage four to take yellow

, from Pinerolo to Valloire, after out-climbing defending Tour champion, Jonas Vingegaard, at stage four’s summit of the Col du Galibier.

With bonus seconds, Pogacar now leads the race overall, from Soudal Quick-Step’s Remco Evenepoel, by 45 seconds.Whatever work Team Visma’s Vingegaard may have put in on his descending during his enforced lay-off from racing, from mid-April to late June, it wasn’t enough and the Slovenian slalomed through the serpentine bends to put distance on the chasing group, led in by Evenepoel, with Vingegaard in his wake, by 35 seconds.

Pogacar’s attack, when it finally came, on the approach to the top of the final climb, again drew a sharp response from Vingegaard, but this time his acceleration did enough to distance the Dane in the final hairpin bends to the Galibier’s summit.

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