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Tour de France: Tadej Pogačar snares yellow with stage 4 victory in high mountains

Evenepoel, Ayuso and Roglič trail UAE Team Emirates rider into Valloire and put seconds into Vingegaard at the line

Tadej Pogačar laid down a hefty marker at the Tour de France after he attacked near the summit of the Col du Galibier to win stage 4 in Valloire and move back into the yellow jersey.

His teammates imposed a relentless pace on the mighty Galibier, whittling the front of the race down to a UAE Team Emirates-dominated group of eight riders, and a Pogačar attack seemed inevitable. The only surprise was that it took so long to materialise, but Pogačar’s eventual acceleration, 900 metres or so from the summit, was a violent one.

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) was the only rider to match Pogačar’s initial onslaught. Although the Dane was distanced on the final ramps of the climb, he put up fierce resistance, cresting the summit just eight seconds down.

On the vertiginous 18km drop into Valloire, however, Pogačar’s power and descending skills came to the fore, and the Slovenian gradually stretched out his advantage over Vingegaard, whose Tour preparation was interrupted by his heavy crash at Itzulia Basque Country in April.

After limiting his losses on the technical early part of the descent, Vingegaard flagged on the final approach to Valloire, where his deficit stretched out beyond half a minute, and he was caught by Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers) and Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) with a shade over 4km to go.

Out in front, Pogačar was every bit as remorseless as he had been at May’s Giro d’Italia, inexorably extending his advantage. He would cross the line 35 seconds clear of the chasers, who were led home by Evenepoel and Ayuso, with Vingegaard coming in a further two seconds back.

Thanks to the time bonuses he collected atop the Galibier and at the finish, Pogačar now holds a lead of 45 seconds over Evenepoel in the overall standings, while Vingegaard lies third overall at 50 seconds.

On the evidence of the final kilometre of the Galibier, this Tour might yet prove to be a Pogačar-Vingegaard duel for the fourth successive year, but after losing out for the past two Julys, the Slovenian will be heartened by his early advantage here.

“I’m super happy. This was more or less the plan, and we executed it really well,” said Pogačar, who had trained extensively in the area ahead of the Tour. 

“I wanted to hit hard today, I know this stage really well, I’ve been training a lot of weeks already, it felt like a home stage. I had confidence at the start. I had good legs, so I had to try.”

Evenepoel was the best of the rest on the Galibier behind Pogačar and Vingegaard, cresting the summit only 15 seconds down, but the Belgian lost ground on the technical early part of the descent, on roads made treacherous by melted snow.

“I was a little surprised to see wet road on the first few corners, so it was bit scary,” Pogačar explained. “This descent is super fast, so if you know the road it’s a big help.”

Roglič, who had looked to be in severe difficulty when the road climbed, recovered well on the descent, scrambling back up to Rodríguez et al, but he is now already 1:15 down on his compatriot in the overall standings.

The Tour had never climbed this high this soon in the race, and there was a high rate of attrition on this early foray into the Alps, which took the peloton from Italy into France by way of the climbs of Sestriere and the Col de Montgenèvre.

UAE Team Emirates whittled down the group of favourites on the interminable climb of the Galibier, with yellow jersey Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) and Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) among those distanced by the forcing of João Almeida and Adam Yates, who had set down a startling pace on the ascent.

Jorgenson and Bernal conceded 2:42, while Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla) lost four minutes and Carapaz came home more than five minutes down.

The windy conditions on the ascent saw UAE rotate their pace-making duties, with Almeida the most impressive, though Ayuso also stepped up with a bracing turn of his own in the last 2km of the ascent.

“At first, it was a lot of headwind on the climb, so on the wheel it was not super hard,” Pogačar said. “The team did a super good job but I didn’t want to go too early because of the wind. I had to make all the difference I could in the last few hundred metres. Then I knew the descent to the finish.”

How it unfolded

After a relative truce on the long run to Turin on Monday, the Tour returned to its more usual state of ceaseless belligerence for stage 4, as the race entered the high mountains and crossed into France for the first time.

An uphill start to a short, mountainous day like this was already liable to provoke breathless racing from the gun, but ASO’s decision to place an intermediate sprint just 18km into the stage only heightened the intensity of the high-octane opening.

With the green jersey firmly in mind, Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) was among the most persistent attackers as the peloton splintered and reformed on the gentle lower slopes of the long climb towards Sestriere.

Bernal and Roglič were surprisingly among those caught behind, though both men would make it safely back up to the yellow jersey group further up the climb. Red Bull insisted that Roglič had fallen back due to a lapse in concentration rather than a lack of strength, but it was a needless error all the same. The Galibier would reveal more.

After Pedersen took the intermediate sprint at Castel del Bosco, the race gradually settled into some kind of a pattern on the 40km haul to Sestriere. The sprinters were distanced, men like Bernal and Roglič made it back up to the yellow jersey group and, 30km into the stage, a 17-man break took shape.

Stevie Williams (Israel-Premier Tech), Chris Juul-Jensen (Jayco-AlUla), Julien Bernard (Lidl-Trek), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale), David Gaudu, Romain Gregoire, Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), Mathieu van der Poel ( Alpecin-Deceuninck), Oier Lazkano (Movistar Team), Raúl García Pierna, Cristian Rodríguez (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Kobe Goossens (Intermarché-Wanty), Warren Barguil (DSM-firmenich-PostNL), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan), Odd Christian Eiking, Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) quickly built up a lead of two minutes, and that gap would remain more or less static over the climbs of Sestriere and the Col de Montgenèvre, where the Tour crossed from Italy into France.

Williams signalled his king of the mountains ambitions by outsprinting his breakaway companions to maximum points both at Sestriere and atop the Montgenèvre. Behind, UAE Team Emirates were doing bulk of the pace-setting in the bunch on the climbs, with some help from the EF Education team of yellow jersey Richard Carapaz. Pogačar’s teammates would underscore their intentions by briefly splitting the yellow jersey group on the drop off the Montgenèvre.

At the foot of the mighty Col du Galibier, the escapees had 2:48 in hand on the yellow jersey group, though that gap was always going to shrink on the 23km haul to the summit, some 2,642m above sea level.

Lazkano attacked midway up the climb, but the Basque’s only reward was to be the last man standing from the break as UAE’s startling collective strength washed over the Galibier, and he was caught 7.5km from the top.

By then, Simon Yates had already been distanced, and more lofty names were to follow, as UAE shredded the group in the manner of the Team Sky of old. Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) was dropped 6.5km from the summit, with Carapaz following soon afterwards. 

Within another few hundred metres, Vingegaard and Roglič had lost all their teammates. Evenepoel still had Mikel Landa for company, but everybody – Vingegaard included – was a passenger as UAE imposed their will on the race and beat a pathway up the mountain for Pogačar.

Nice is still a long way away, but the Giro-Tour double will feel considerably closer for Pogačar after his latest startling feat of strength here.

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Mediaweek visits Italian cities in opening Stages before Tour moves into France

The world’s premier cycling events are returning to SBS.

The 2024 Tour de France begins June 29 with the first three stages in Italy this year. The Tour de France Femmes starts on August 12, the day after the Paris Olympics finishes.

Tour de France 2024 dates Men: June 29 – July 21 Women: August 123 – August 18

With visits to Italy and two tiny microstates (San Marino and Monaco) the 111th Tour De France cycles through four counties this year.

For the first time in history, the race will not finish in its traditional Paris destination, but the city of Nice in the Cote d’Azur which will host the final stage of this year’s Tour.

Mediaweek on location in Italy

Prior to the start of the tour, Mediaweek has been on the road in Northern Italy, visiting the major cities that the tour will visit in its first three stages.

The cobblestone streets of Florence will be cleared of tourists for the start of the race on Saturday June 29. People watching on TV will, as usual, have the best views with the fleet of choppers set to deliver some of the most memorable images of the start of a Tour. US tourists in particular have returned en masse to Europe this year. Understandably, Florence is one of their key stops in Italy.

The Stage 1 route from the tourist magnet city tracks eastward toward the Adriatic Sea and the coastal town of Rimini. Along the way, the riders will visit San Marino, the microstate where you get a separate stamp in your passport on arrival. That stretch of the race promises the most impressive images as the riders climb the hilltops where San Marino sits.

Then it is downhill to the coast and Rimini. The aerial shots here too should be memorable as riders head to the finish line with miles of beach umbrellas and sun lounges hugging the coast. Much of the Rimini seafront is being upgraded. That together with thousands of visitors will ensure bedlam near the beach.  Something that TV viewers will be able to marvel at, without being stuck in the gridlock.

Countdown clocks around Rimini prepare the locals for Stage 1

For Stage 2 , riders travel by coach a little further north and then jump on their bikes from Cesenatico onto Bologna. It’s another 200k ride and the streets of Bologna too are heavy with visitors at this time of year. The crowds will be nothing like the crush in Florence though, with many visitors to this Italian city keen to sample the food delights. Along the way, riders cycle through the ancient Roman layout that makes Ravenna’s streets wide and flat. The local Carabinieri shouldn’t have too much trouble keeping the tourists and locals under control. Ravenna doesn’t attract the tourist hordes that invade other cities despite the reassures housed here in eight Basilicas. The town was the capital of the western Roman Empire with the now UNESCO Monuments offering a stunning collection of glittering mosaics from around 1500 years ago.

For Stage 3 of the Tour, it starts 90 minutes in a coach away from the end of Stage 2 in the smallish town of Piacenza. The town square is dominated by a Gothic Palace and a nearby eight-sided Basilica. A day of 230k will bring the riders to their final stop in Italy at the biggest city close to the French border – Turin. The streets in the old town are again wide and flat. There are impressive Piazzas at every turn, ringed with highlights of architecture from the last 500 years.

Overview of all 21 Stages of men’s race

Crossing 3,492 kilometres, including 52,340 metres of vertical gain over 21 stages, the Tour will visit 39 picturesque towns, through stunning scenery and historic landmarks.

Four mountain ranges, the Apennines, the French and Italian Alps, the Massif Central and the Pyrenees, will deliver spectacular scenery and the renowned difficulty associated with the Tour de France. In this years’ route, cyclists will tackle eight flat stages, four hilly stages, two individual time trials and seven mountain stages – four of which will conclude at the summit (Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet, Plateau de Beille, Isola 2000 and Col de la Couillole). For the first time in 35 years, the race will finish with an individual time trial.

Tour de France women

The Tour de France Femmes will begin the day after the Paris Olympic Games on August 12 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Travelling through Belgium and France, the race will cross three countries and three French regions, covering 10 departments. The cyclists will battle it out to the finish line on August 18 on the most famous Alpe in Tour history – Alpe d’Huez, making its debut in the women’s race route. The eight stages of the Tour de France Femmes include three flat stages, two hilly stages, two mountain stages, and one individual time trial.

SBS coverage of both events

Both Tours will be available to stream live, in full, on SBS On Demand, where visitors can also visit the Tour de France Hub for a variety of Tour content including extended highlights, full stage catch-up replays, and mini-stage recaps.

Live coverage of the Tour will include new cultural and historical segments. The SBS Sport website is the place to be for all the latest news updates, opinions, expert analysis, statistics, results, and short highlight videos. The Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes broadcast times vary.

Long-term SBS contract

After the 2020 Tour de France, SBS secured a long-term 10-year contract for the race. This is the fourth year of the 10 years covered in that contract.

SBS director of sport, Ken Shipp said: “With SBS’s extensive coverage of the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, Australia’s home of cycling is going to be jam-packed with gripping cycling coverage following every twist and turn of the rigorous route cyclists are fearlessly tackling this year. Sport unites people from all corners of the globe, and the world’s biggest annual sporting event, the Tour de France, captivates audiences worldwide. SBS is incredibly proud to bring all the action and captivating moments to Australian audiences. We’re ready for this year’s event and cannot wait to cheer on the Aussies as they conquer these challenging routes.”

See also: SBS secures exclusive rights to Tour de France until 2030

SBS Cycling Podcast

The new exclusive daily Jayco & SBS Cycling Podcast is the destination for all things cycling during July and August 2024. Hosted on location by Christophe Mallet and David McKenzie alongside expert guests, the podcast will provide cycling enthusiasts with an exploration of the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift with in-depth race analysis, exclusive rider interviews, and behind-the-scenes insights taking audiences on a journey of the route.

An episode for each stage of the races is available for listeners on their favourite podcast apps.

SBS ŠKODA Tour Tracker app

All stages of the Tour will be available live on the SBS ŠKODA Tour Tracker app which will feature uninterrupted live coverage of every stage, combined with data and rider statistics giving cycling fans an enhanced viewing experience.

Aussie riders on the men’s Tour

176 riders will be attempting to conquer the men’s route this year. The star-studded line up of general classification contenders is expected to include international stars Jonas Vingegaard who will be attempting to achieve a Tour De France hat trick whilst defending his 2023 and 2022 title against David Gaudu, Simon Yates, Mikel Landa , and reigning Giro d’Italia winner Tadej Pogacar who will attempt to conquer both grand tours this year.

After Giro d’Italia victory in 2022 and winning a stage in the Tour de France last year, Australian Jai Hindley will be a top contender to secure a spot on the podium. Jack Haig also has his eye on the Tour de France podium this year, with fellow Australians Luke Durbridge and Chris Harper featuring in the Australian Jayco Aulula Team supporting their team leader Simon Yates .

SBS commentators guide

SBS’ expert commentary team will be on the ground in Europe, capturing all the action and fierce competition. Reporting on location will be Australia’s experts, the ‘Australian voice of cycling’ Matthew Keenan and national time trial champion Dr Bridie O’Donnell for both the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes.

They are being joined by Tour de France yellow jersey wearer and multiple Tour stage winner Simon Gerrans for the men’s race. Providing exclusive interviews and reporting on the ground for both Tours will be Australian National Road Race Champion David McKenzie , alongside Christophe Mallet who will deliver insights on race tactics and information on the cultural and historical significance of the captivating locations travelled.

Matthew Keenan

2024 will be Matt’s 18th year commentating on cycling’s biggest event, the Tour de France. After two seasons of amateur racing in Europe, Matt turned to commentary, having since commentated on the Commonwealth Games, Tour of Spain, Paris-Nice, Giro d’Italia and Tour of Qatar. Known for his supreme cycling knowledge and ability to recall detailed information about individual cyclists, Matt is recognised internationally as one of the leading commentators in the business.

Simon Gerrans

Simon Gerrans holds the unique position of being the first Australian to have won a stage in all three Grand Tours – the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana. He found competitive cycling as a teenager on the suggestion of Australian cycling legend Phil Anderson, who then lived on a property nearby Gerrans’ parents farm in country Victoria. Anderson, who saw Gerrans cycling as rehabilitation from a serious knee injury after a motor bike racing crash, encouraged him to take up the sport competitively. Simon has been a proud ambassador and active fundraiser of the Chain Reaction Challenge Foundation since 2010 and was the founder of the Victorian Inter-School Cycling Series.

Dr Bridie O’Donnell

Dr Bridie O’Donnell

Dr Bridie O’Donnell graduated from the University of Queensland Medical School. Between 1995 and 2006 she competed in Olympic distance and Ironman triathlon, finishing the Ironman Hawaii World Championships in 2006. In 2007, she began road cycling and in 2008 after winning the National Time Trial title, she raced in the Australian National Team, and then Professional Italian teams in Europe and the United States, representing Australia at three World Championships between 2008-2012. From 2013-2017, Bridie managed and raced for Rush Women’s Team in the Cycling Australia National Road Series and in 2016, she broke the UCI Women’s Hour World Record at the Adelaide Superdrome. In 2017, she was appointed the inaugural Head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation by the Victorian Government and in 2018, her cycling memoir Life and Death was published, detailing her experiences as a professional cyclist in Europe. When she’s not commentating cycling, she works in the Community and Public Health Division of the Victorian Department of Health.

David McKenzie

David McKenzie brings nine years’ experience as a professional cyclist to SBS, providing in-depth analysis of the race, the riders and everything viewers need to know about road racing. Starting his career on the track, David made his first appearance for Australia at just 16. He joined his first professional cycling team in 1997 after a stint at the Australian Institute of Sport and in 1998 won the Australian National Road Championship. On the pro-cycling circuit David has competed in Australia and throughout Europe for various teams, winning stages at a number of events including the Giro d’Italia, Tour of Japan and Tour Down Under.

Christophe Mallet

Christophe is a television presenter, podcast host and long-time Executive Producer of SBS Radio’s French program. In 2017 he was awarded a National Order of Merit – he was incredibly honoured to be introduced as a Knight of the Order of Merit in France. Over the course of his 10+ years at SBS, Christophe has been involved in many projects including hosting the Tour de France highlights show, Bonjour le Tour, alongside David McKenzie and has been heavily involved in SBS’s coverage of the Dakar Rally. He’s also been responsible for producing more than 6,000+ radio shows across the SBS network.

Special thanks to the team at SBS for their Tour de France 2024 guide. Large segments of this have been used in this preview.

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How to watch Tour de France stage 21: live stream the action

Here's how to watch stage 21 of the 2023 Tour de France on TV

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We're into the final day of this year's race, so a Tour de France stage 21 live stream is going to be a hot ticket if you want to watch the riders make their final journey into Paris. The Tour de France is free-to-air on ITVX (UK) and SBS On-Demand (AUS) . Make sure you know how to watch for free with a VPN from anywhere .

The 2023 Tour de France is coming to an end and stage 21 is the final chance for the sprinters to battle it out on Paris' most famous avenue, the Champs Élysées. All of the jerseys are wrapped up so we should see the typical champagne-filled procession in and around Paris.

The final stage begins at the Velodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines before setting off on the journey back into Paris where yellow jersey winner, Jonas Vingegaard, will no doubt enjoy some champagne on the road with his teammates. Once they hit the city, the peloton will pass the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre multiple times before the wind-up for the final sprint begins. Alpecin-Deceuninck have been the best leadout unit at the 2023 Tour, with Jasper Philipsen winning four flat sprints. The flying Belgian should have Mathieu van der Poel and co. working to bring him to the final trip up the Champs Élysées safely before he looks to win the final Tour stage for the second year running. Groenewegen was closest to him last year and will be one of the other sprinters left after a brutal Tour trying to dethrone the green jersey wearer. 

With one final stage remaining, it’s helpful to know there are plenty of channels around the world broadcasting Tour de France 2023 live streams to help you keep up with the last bit of action. Here's how to watch stage 21 of the Tour de France 2023 .

Quick guide to watching Tour de France stage 21 live streams

As with the rest of this year's race, the Tour de France stage 21 live stream is available on GCN+, Discovery+ and Eurosport, as well as ITV4, in the UK and in Europe.  

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AUS FREE live stream: SBS On Demand

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Watch Tour de France stage 21: live stream in the UK

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Welsh cycling fans also have the option of watching the race on Welsh-language channel S4C.

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Tour de France stage 21: the route

Stage 21: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to Paris Champs-Élysées (Sunday, July 23) The final stage of the 2023 Tour de France is the typical processional stage in and around Paris. It starts at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome which will play host to the track cycling at next year's Olympic Games, before looping back east towards the French capital. The 115.1km route is incredibly flat and only has one category four climb, but that won't threaten Giulio Ciccone's lead of the polka-dot classification. It's all set for the sprinters' royale on the Champs-Élysées with the fast men and leadouts ready to fight for position and battle for the win after completing nine laps of the Parisian circuit. The long finishing road on Paris's most famous avenue has long played host to the final Tour and was last won by Jasper Philipsen, holder of the green jersey, who will be the favourite for the day. 

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TOTAL: 3 498 km

This will be the first Grand Départ in Italy and the 26th that’s taken place abroad  First finale in Nice. Due to the Olympic and Paralympic Games taking place in Paris, the race will not finish in the French capital for the first time.

Two time trials. 25 + 34 = 59km in total, the second of them taking place on the final Monaco>Nice stage. This will be the first time the race has seen a finale of this type for 35 years, the last occasion being the famous Fignon - LeMond duel in 1989.

Apennines (Italy), the Italian and French Alps, Massif Central and Pyrenees will be the mountain ranges on the 2024 Tour route.

The number of countries visited in 2024: Italy, San Marino, Monaco and France. Within France, the race will pass through 7 Regions and 30 departments.

The number of bonus points 8, 5 and 2 bonus seconds go to the first three classified riders, featuring at strategic points along the route (subject to approval by the International Cycling Union)these will have no effect on the points classification. Bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds will be awarded to the first three classified riders at road stage finishes.

Out of a total of 39, the locations or stage towns that are appearing on the Tour map for the first time . In order of appearance: Florence, Rimini, Cesenatico, Bologna, Piacenza, Saint-Vulbas, Gevrey-Chambertin, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, Évaux-les-Bains, Gruissan, Superdévoluy, Col de la Couillole.

The number of sectors on white roads during stage nine, amounting to 32km in total .

The number of stages: 8 flat, 4 hilly, 7 mountain (with 4 summit finishes at Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet, Plateau de Beille, Isola 2000, Col de la Couillole), 2 time trials and 2 rest days.

The number of riders who will line up at the start of the Tour, divided into 22 teams of 8 riders each.

The height of the summit of the Bonette pass in the Alps, the highest tarmac road in France, which will be the “roof” of the 2024 Tour.

The total vertical gain during the 2024 Tour de France.

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Stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes Is Hot, Wet, and Hilly—and a Classics Rider’s Dream

With eight punchy climbs from Valkenburg to Liége, the day will belong to the one-day specialists.

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Watch it in the US: Peacock ($5.99/month or $59.99/year) Watch it in Canada: FloBikes ($29.99/month CDN) Watch it in the UK: Eurosport and Discovery+ (£59.99/year) In the US, CNBC Sports will also air Stages 7 and 8. CNBC’s race coverage is available on cable and the following platforms: Hulu with Live TV , Fubo , YouTubeTV , and DirecTV . Start Times: 7:50 a.m. Estimated Finish Time: 10:20 a.m.

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After three stages in two days in the Netherlands, the 2024 Tour de France Femmes leaves the country in the midst of Stage 4, headed for Belgium. The day starts in the Belgian town of Valkenburg, taking a loop around the small city before heading south. From there, it heads south, passing Liége, before hooking back up and back into the famed cycling city.

Stage 4: Valkenburg > Liége

122.7 km (76 m) – 1,833 m (6,013 ft) of elevation.

How hard is Stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes?

For the first time in this year’s Tour, the peloton will face more than just flat roads. The hilly Stage 4 is littered with categorized climbs. Eight of them, to be precise. And while all eight of them are short in length, they make up for it in their pitchiness.

The average grades of the final three climbs are 9.4 percent, 7.8 percent, and a leg-busting 11 percent. Given its profile and berg-laden route, Stage 4 will look more like a one-day race than anything else we’ve seen in a women’s Grand Tour.

The climbing starts almost immediately, with a ride up the 1.3 km, 4.9 percent Bemelerberg just after kilometer six. From there, the day will see three more climbs in quick succession. But after kilometer twenty-five, Stage 4 eases off just a bit with a series of rollers over the next fifty or so kilometers. Then, after the intermediate sprint at kilometer sixty-seven, the riders will tackle four more categorized climbs, some of which have been featured in Liége-Bastogne-Liége in the past, before heading into Liége on a slight downhill before a flat finish.

What will the weather be like, and how can it affect the stage?

Hot and wet. With temperatures in the upper eighties and chances of rainfall as high as eighty-two percent, a steamy and slick day should define Stage 4.

Who can win Stage 4?

Though Stage 4 is loaded with climbs and tops out at more than 6,000 feet of elevation, it’s a punchy Classics course more than it is a climber’s course. So expect to see some of the peloton’s one-day specialists at the pointy end of the race.

Visma-Lease a Bike’s Marianne Vos is one of the best one-day racers cycling’s ever seen, so she is our top contender. And that’s not to mention SD Worx-Protime’s Lorena Wiebes, Lidl-Trek’s Elisa Balsamo , and the winner of Stages 1 and 2, Charlotte Kool of team dsm-firmenich-PostNL

How can Stage 4 affect the General Classification?

Regardless of who wins, Stage 4 shouldn’t give anyone an outright stranglehold on the GC competition, as the race margins shouldn’t be huge by the end of the day. However, now that Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) has taken the Yellow Jersey after Stage 3, come tomorrow, she may have to fend off rivals such as Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM) and Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) who are favorites to win the stage and who also have eyes on the overall win. Holding on to the jersey might go a long way in the psychological battle that can play such a role in any Grand Tour.

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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 05: (L-R) Joshua Cranage of Australia, Louis Leidert of Germany, Adrià Pericas of Spain, Héctor Álvarez of Spain, Kasper Haugland of Norway, Jakob Omrzel of Slovenia, Andrea Bessega of Italy, Viego Tijssen of Netherlands and a general view of the peloton competing during the men's junior road race at the 96th UCI Glasgow 2023 Cycling World Championships, Day 3 127.7km course in Glasgow / #UCIWWT / on August 05, 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images) Source: Getty / Dario Belingheri/Getty Images

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