Tadej Pogacar wins the 4th stage of the Tour de France. The classification

The 2024 edition of the Tour de France, the most popular cycling race in the world, continues. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) won the fourth stage, the Pinerolo-Valloire, 139.6 kilometers: the Slovenian cyclist left all his main rivals behind on the Galibier pass and also took back the yellow jersey, snatching it from Colombian Richard Carapaz. Remco Evenepoel, second, arrived 35 seconds behind Pogacar, followed by the Spaniard Juan Ayuso, the Slovenian Primoz Roglic and the Dane Jonas Vingegaard, who was the last to be dropped by Pogacar on the Galibier but then lost ground on the long descent to Valloire. Carapaz crossed the finish line five minutes behind. In the general classification, Pogacar now has a 45-second advantage over Evenepoel and 50 over Vingegaard. The best of the Italians was Giulio Ciccone, ninth at 3’20”.
The Grande Boucle this year has a very particular route (also due to the coincidence with the Olympics in France). The start was from Italy (from Florence) and will arrive after 21 stages with an individual time trial in Nice (an unusual finale compared to the classic parade in Paris). Today, with the fourth stage, the race left Italy to arrive in France. Yesterday Girmay won the stage from Piacenza to Turin.

The fourth stage

The race then left Italy for France with the first mountain stage, short (only 139 km) but very tough. Starting from Pinerolo and climbing to Sestriere, a second category GPM of 39.9 km at 3.7%. At km 68 the border was crossed and the riders entered French territory. Then the ascent to the Col de Montgenèvre (8.3 km at 5.9%), in the finale the climb to Lautaret and the arrival on the Galibier (23 km at 5.1%), the first Hors catégorie of this edition. The arrival was not uphill: 18.9 km of descent to Valloire.

The Tour de France 2024

There are 21 stages: 8 sprint stages, 4 mixed stages, 2 time trials, 7 mountain stages, four of which with a mountain finish, and 14 dirt road sections. In total, the riders must tackle more than 52,000 meters of elevation gain over a distance of 3,498 kilometers, of which 59 are time trials and 32 are dirt roads. The highest point is the Col de la Bonette, at 2,802 meters above sea level. These are the climbs above 2,000 meters: Sestriere (2,035 meters), Galibier (2,642 meters) from Briançon, Tourmalet (2,115 meters) from Luz-Saint-Sauveur, Col de Vars (2,109 meters) and Isola (2,024 meters).

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