PA Media/DPA
London
Tadej Pogacar won stage four of the Tour de France to reclaim the yellow jersey as he put more than half a minute into defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and his other chief rivals.
Pogacar attacked from a select group inside the final kilometre of the mighty Galibier climb before racing clear down the twisty descent to the finish in Valloire as the race crossed into France after three days on Italian soil.
Richard Carapaz cracked still with six kilometres of the Galibier climb to go to lose his grip on yellow after only one day, finishing some five minutes back.
The Ecuadorian was among a string of high-profile victims of a blistering pace on the climb set by Pogacar’s UAE Emirates team-mates, who whittled the pack down to just a handful of contenders before Pogacar, who bided his time to attack wary of a powerful headwind, made his move.
