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Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Tour de France Stage 4 results, standings: Tadej Pogacar beats rivals at finish
The battle for the yellow jersey at the 2025 Tour de France is heating up after a thrilling finish on Tuesday, July 8, involving some of this year's favorites at cycling's biggest event. Three-time Tour de France and current world champion Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia surged past Mathieu van der Poel and rival Jonas Vingegaard near the finish line to take Stage 4 and inch closer to grabbing control of the yellow jersey. It was Pogačar's first stage win this year, and 18th overall stage win at the Tour de France. The race, which took place on a 174.2-kilometer course between Amiens and Rouen and featured several late climbs, also became the 100th victory of his professional career. Van der Peul began the day with the yellow jersey and will retain it heading into a crucial individual time trial in Caen on Wednesday, July 9 for Stage 5. He and Pogačar are currently tied in overall time, eight seconds ahead of Vingegaard. American Matteo Jorgenson sits in fourth. Pogačar, who races for UAE Team Emirates XRG, also moved ahead of Belgian Tim Wellens to claim the polka dot jersey as the top climber at the Tour de France through Stage 4. Advertisement Here's a look at the complete stage 4 results and 2025 Tour de France standings after Tuesday, July 8, as well as what's coming up for cycling's biggest race: 2025 TOUR DE FRANCE: How to watch, schedule, stages for cycling's top race Stage 4 results Final results of the 174.2-kilometer Stage 4 from Amiens to Rouen at the 2025 Tour de France on Tuesday, July 8. Pos. Rider Team Time Gap B 1 Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates XRG 03h 50' 29'' - B : 10'' 2 Mathieu van der Peul Alpecin-Deceuninck 03h 50' 29'' - B : 6'' 3 Jonas Vingegaard Team Visma | Lease a Bike 03h 50' 29'' - B : 4'' 4 Oscar Onley Team Picnic Postnl 03h 50' 29'' - - 5 Romain Gregoire Groupama-FDJ 03h 50' 29'' - - 6 Joao Almeida UAE Team Emirates XRG 03h 50' 29'' - - 7 Remco Evenepoel Soudal Quick-Step 03h 50' 32'' - - 8 Matteo Jorgenson Team Visma | Lease a Bike 03h 50' 32'' - - 9 Mattias Skjelmose Lidl-Trek 03h 50' 36'' - - 10 Kevin Vauquelin Arkea-B&B Hotels 03h 50' 39'' - - Tour de France 2025 standings Mathieu van der Poel, Netherlands: 16h 46' 00'' Tadej Pogačar, Slovenia: 16h 46' 00'' Jonas Vingegaard, Denmark: 16h 46' 08'' (8 seconds behind) Matteo Jorgenson, USA: 16h 46' 19'' (19 seconds) Kevin Vauquelin, France: 16h 46' 26'' (26 seconds) Enric Mas, Spain: 16h 46' 48'' (48 seconds) Oscar Onley, Great Britain: 16h 46' 55'' (55 seconds) Joao Almeida, Portugal: 16h 46' 55'' (55 seconds) Remco Evenepoel, Belgium: 16h 46' 58'' (58 seconds) Mattias Skjelmose, Denmark: 16h 47' 02'' (1 minute, 2 seconds) 2025 Tour de France jersey leaders Yellow (overall race leader): Mathieu Van der Poel, Netherlands Green (points): Jonathan Milan, Italy Polka dot (mountains): Tadej Pogačar, Slovenia White (young rider): Kevin Vauquelin, France Advertisement Who's wearing the rainbow jersey at 2025 Tour de France? In addition to the four traditional colored jerseys at the Tour de France, the reigning world road race champion wears a rainbow-colored jersey. It's white with five colored stripes – blue, red, black, yellow and green (same as the colors of the Olympic rings) – and is currently worn by Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia. 2025 Tour de France next stage Stage 5 is a 33-kilometer individual time trial in Caen on Wednesday, July 9. Contributing: Steve Gardner, USA TODAY Sports This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Tour de France Stage 4: Tadej Pogacar wins, closes in on yellow jersey
France 24
09-07-2025
- Sport
- France 24
Rider quits Tour de France after cycling 174km with fractured shoulder
The 26-year-old, riding in his first Tour, crashed at the end of Monday's third stage in Dunkirk. His team said he suffered facial injuries, multiple bruises and had stitches in a number of cuts. He even had to get a dentist to open up to fix a broken tooth. Remarkably, Jeanniere went on to complete the gut-busting 174-kilometre fourth stage from Amiens to Rouen on Tuesday, struggling home in 147th place, more than 15 minutes behind stage winner Tadej Pogacar. His team said further medical examinations on Wednesday morning had "revealed a fracture of the left shoulder blade" and he had withdrawn from the race. "I ended up with minor injuries in the end considering the seriousness of the incident," Jeanniere told France TV. "Yesterday, I did the stage in that state, it held up. I had some pain. I asked to have a scan which happened this morning. "It's my first Tour de France. I'm very emotional because I'll miss something that is very important for me, for the team. "It's unfortunate, it's sad, but that's cycling. I'll be back." Team Lotto also announced Belgian rider Jasper De Buyst, who was suffering from a fever early on Wednesday, would take no further part. Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel wears the yellow jersey going into Wednesday's 33-kilometre time trial although he has the same time as race favourite and three-time champion Pogacar. Two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard is a further 8sec behind although all eyes are on Belgium's time trial world and Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel, who needs to overturn a 58sec deficit if he is to pull on the yellow jersey for the first time in his career.
Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
All of Brigitte Macron's most awkward moments from THAT face grab to encounter with Donald Trump and breaking royal protocol
The relationship between Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte – and their 24-year age gap - has long been a subject of fascination both in France and abroad. Mrs Macron, now 72, was a drama teacher and the President, now 47, was a pupil when they met at a private Catholic school in their hometown of Amiens. A mother of three children, she divorced her husband and began a relationship with Mr Macron while he was in his late teens – before they tied the knot in 2007. Now, interest in their marriage has intensified in recent weeks following an incident in Vietnam where Mrs Macron appeared to shove her husband in the face. Brigitte ignores helping hand from her husband Emmanuel Macron was ignored by his wife Brigitte while he offered her a hand off a plane yesterday as they arrived in Britain for their three-day state visit. The visiting leader was being welcomed by the Prince and Princess of Wales after disembarking his jet before the first lady at RAF Northolt in West London. As his wife walked down the steps towards the waiting royals, who were greeting the couple on behalf of King Charles III, President Macron held out a helping hand. But Mrs Macron appeared to ignore it, instead holding the handrail as she walked down - leaving him to awkwardly drop his hand, before giving Kate's hand an air kiss. Minutes later, the Macrons were seen in a car waiting to leave the base - and relations appeared frosty, with Mrs Macron looking at her phone after getting it out of her bag. Pushing her husband's face on a plane Brigitte Macron sparked a storm in May when she was seen pushing her husband's face away with both hands before they disembarked a plane in Vietnam. The president dismissed the gesture - caught on camera - as horseplay, but it caused a huge stir in France, with daily Le Parisien newspaper asking: 'Slap or 'squabble'?' Mrs Macron seemed to stick out both her hands and give her husband's face a shove, leaving him startled before he recovered and turned to wave through the open door. The couple proceeded down the staircase for the official welcome by Vietnamese officials, though Mrs Macron did not take her husband's arm when he offered it. 'My wife and I were squabbling, we were rather joking, and I was taken by surprise,' Mr Macron later said, adding that it had 'become a kind of planetary catastrophe'. His office said in a statmeent: 'The president and his wife were decompressing one last time before the start of the trip by horsing around. It's a moment of complicity. It was all that was needed to give ammunition to the conspiracy theorists.' Breaking royal protocol at Normandy memorial Brigitte Macron committed of a faux pas in June 2024 when she tried to hold hands with a rather reluctant Queen Camilla at the British Normandy Memorial in France. Camilla and Mrs Macron, both dressed in white, laid wreaths at the memorial at Ver-sur-Mer, before stepping back to take a moment of reflection. The First Lady then reached out to the Queen, but Camilla seemed somewhat reluctant to proffer her gloved hand. After appearing to give the royal's hand a slight squeeze, Mrs Macron dropped it and the two stood side by side in front of the memorial. Emmanuel Macron also kept the King and Queen waiting when he was 20 minutes late for a showpiece D-Day memorial ceremony during the same visit. The Royals were already sitting waiting when France's head of state finally arrived at the 80th anniversary event at the memorial. Donald Trump telling her she is 'good shape' Donald Trump made his admiration for Brigitte Macron clear back in July 2017 in Paris when he told France's first lady: 'You know, you're in such good shape.' The compliment to Mrs Macron, then 64, was made in front of her husband - and Mr Trump repeated it to him before turning back to her and saying: 'Beautiful.' During the exchange, which was captured on a French official livestream, the reaction of Mr Trump's wife Melania was not seen, because her back was to the camera. However the American first lady seemed to move closer to Mrs Macron and put her hand around her protectively as President Trump spoke to her. The awkward exchange came after an also-awkward lingering embrace with Mrs Macron as she and her husband welcomed the Trumps on the eve of Bastille Day. Mr Trump kissed Mrs Macron Parisian-style, once on each cheek, before taking both her hands for a prolonged grip, in which he appeared to jerk her left arm towards him as she appeared to be struggling to get him to let go. Melania Trump put her hand around Mrs Macron protectively as President Trump spoke to her
CTV News
08-07-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
Pogačar claims 100th career win, beating Van der Poel in sprint on stage 4 of Tour de France
Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, right, celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the fourth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 172.2 kilometres with start in Amiens and finish in Rouen, France, Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) Defending champion Tadej Pogačar secured the 100th professional victory of his stellar career in typically flamboyant style, beating Mathieu Van der Poel in a dash to the line to win the hilly fourth stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday. Van der Poel was the better sprinter of the two at the end of Sunday's second stage and looked set to clinch a second win in this year's race when he attacked about 200 metres from out and led. But the defending Tour champion somehow found another gear to surge past him at the line, then pumped his fists in celebration. The 26-year-old Slovenian star wore a cap with 100 written on it when he spoke after the stage. His long list of wins includes 18 stage wins at the Tour de France, the world road race, a multitude of one-day classics and other stage wins at races like the Giro d'Italia, the Paris-Nice and Critérium du Dauphiné. 'It was an amazing finale, a classic stage, the end was even more explosive than we thought,' he said. 'I'm very happy to have won the 100th victory (overall) of my career, here on the Tour de France wearing the world champion's jersey.' Pogačar and Van der Poel have exactly the same overall time of 16 hours, 46 minutes after four stages, and count one stage win each, but Van der Poel kept the yellow jersey because of better finishing positions in the other two stages. 'I would liked to have won but Tadej was the strongest today. I am glad to keep the yellow jersey, but tomorrow will be hard,' Van der Poel said. 'I tried to launch my sprint but I just didn't have the legs.' The 174-kilometre stage suited allrounders, starting from Amiens and ending with five consecutive small climbs to the Normandy city of Rouen. The first of the climbs — Côte Jacques Anquetil — bore the name of a five-time Tour champion. The Frenchman dominated cycling in the 1960s, when he also won the Giro d'Italia twice and the Spanish Vuelta. The peloton's pace picked up strongly heading into the last two climbs, with speeds reaching 60 kph (37 mph). Pogačar attacked on the last climb up Rampe Saint-Hilaire and initially dropped archrival Jonas Vingegaard, but the two-time Tour winner responded well and caught up. As the frontrunners turned for home, Van der Poel was right behind and then launched a trademark attack, like he did to win Stage 2 on Monday by outsprinting Pogačar. But this time roles were reversed as Pogačar claimed the 18th stage win of his Tour career. Vingegaard finished third. Riders enjoyed dry weather conditions after rain on Sunday and during Monday's crash-marred third stage — where Belgian cyclist Jasper Philipsen, the Stage 1 winner, retired from the race after breaking a collarbone in a heavy crash. He had successful surgery on Monday night. Yellow card for Coquard French rider Bryan Coquard was shown a yellow card by the race jury for causing Philipsen's fall, meaning the Cofidis team rider will be excluded altogether if he gets another yellow. The sanction came despite Coquard not being at fault for the crash — Coquard was himself knocked off balance by another rider — and apologizing to Philipsen and his team. 'It's an unjustified penalty, Bryan didn't make any mistake, it's an unfortunate racing incident,' Cofidis team manager Cédric Vasseur said. 'Otherwise we give yellow cards to riders involved in all the crashes accidentally, we give out 25 each stage and all go home after four days.' Wednesday's stage is quick Stage 5 is a 33-kilometre (20.5-mile) time trial around the Normandy city of Caen, and the overall standings could be shaken up a bit. This year's race is held entirely in France, with no stages held abroad, and ends on July 27 in Paris. ___ Jerome Pugmire, The Associated Press
Irish Times
08-07-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Tadej Pogacar celebrates 100th professional win on Tour de France stage four
Tadej Pogacar claimed the 100th victory of his professional career to move level on time with Mathieu van der Poel in the yellow jersey on a thrilling stage four of the Tour de France in Rouen. In the hometown of the Tour's first five-time winner Jacques Anquetil, Pogacar took a stride to what he hopes will be his fourth title with a show of strength on another classics-style stage, beating Van der Poel and his great rival Jonas Vingegaard in an uphill sprint. It was Pogacar's 18th career Tour stage win and one that put him on the same time as Van der Poel – who retains yellow on countback – with Vingegaard eight seconds back going into Wednesday's time-trial. Pogacar, 26, became the fourth youngest rider to reach 100 professional wins. Oscar Onley, the 22-year-old Scot riding his second Tour, was fourth on the stage as he was able to hang with an elite group of riders on a lumpy finish to the stage from Amiens, with all five categorised climbs in the last 50 of the 174 kilometres. READ MORE Lenny Martinez, the last survivor of a four-man breakaway, was collected with around 20km left as Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad and Vingegaard's Visma-Lease A Bike team came to the fore, quickly making a major selection in the peloton as few could keep with the pace. Pogacar tried to attack on the steepest section of the last categorised climb, where gradients hit 15 per cent on the Rampe Saint-Hilaire, briefly distancing Vingegaard, who was the only man who could follow before getting back on to his rival's wheel by the summit. Remco Evenepoel dragged a handful of riders back across to the leading pair on the descent into Rouen, Van der Poel among them, but there would be no beating the world champion to victory. 'I think today I got very, very close to the limit,' Pogacar said. 'I tried with an attack on the last climb and then Jonas followed me and everything came together. 'Joao [Almeida] did such an amazing job to lead me out until the very end, even if people were attacking me. So I'm super happy and proud of the team today, it's amazing and I'm just without words, it's such a nice victory. 'To win at the Tour is incredible, to do it in this jersey even more so and to win 100 victories is amazing ... We will see, tomorrow is the real test. Already to win a stage in this jersey for me it's enough, I just go on enjoying this race. Of course we aim for yellow and we will see.' Evenepoel conceded another three seconds to Pogacar and Vingegaard, leaving him 58 seconds off yellow, while Primoz Roglic lost 32 seconds to fall one minute 27 seconds down. Onley's performance was enough to lift the Team Picnic-PostNL rider up to seventh overall, 55 seconds down. 'It was pretty cool,' Onley said of being in the mix. 'It doesn't get much bigger than this in terms of races and competitors so it's nice to prove to myself that I can be there right at the top.' Ireland's Ben Healy moved up six places to 35th position on GC after coming home 45th on stage four, while Eddie Dunbar made the jump from 83rd to 55th after finishing 42nd.
