• Tour de France 2026: Mads Pedersen surges clear to win stage four in extreme heat – as it happened

    Mads Pedersen outsprinted his breakaway rivals to win stage four of the Tour de France as Torstein Træen took the yellow jersey from Tadej Pogacar in Foix174km to go. 14 riders have gone up the road, including Jasper Stuyven and Mads Pedersen, but the chase is on.No ITV coverage also means no goosebump-inducing theme tune. Enjoy it one more time:The post race analysis on Ch 5 is much weaker than the ITV4 used to be because it’s non-existent. Dreadful. Continue reading...
  • ‘Grateful’ Træen takes yellow jersey after Pedersen wins stage four amid 40C heat

    Norwegian was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2022Træen builds eight-minute lead on Pogacar in FoixEmergency measures were implemented by the Tour de France organisers to combat the crushing heatwave that has settled on the race this year as the riders tackled stage four, at the end of which the cancer survivor Torstein Træen had stolen the yellow jersey and built an eight-minute lead on the four-time champion Tadej Pogacar.The peloton was fried by 40C-plus conditions over 181 gr

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