Tour de France 2024 stage 4
Tour de France 2024 stage 4
Will Carapaz remain in yellow as the Tour hits high altitude in the first week?
After the opening weekend's hilly stages and yesterday flat one, the race has today a hard mountain stage.
3900 meters of climbing and they will go above 2000m (they will climb up to 2627m on the Galibier).
Pogacar should test Vingegaard, and it could be too much climbing for Remco.
But, even with the precious climbing data, the slopes may not be hard enough to make differences. They should go full gas the whole climb and some riders can break when surpassing the 2000m mark.
Great attack by Pogacar, the descending was pretty scary. Evenepoel seemed to be struggling with it on the more technical section with the switchbacks but once it straightened out he looked extremely strong once again. He is impressing me considering this is his first time racing at the Tour.
Carapaz getting dropped early on Galibier with his teammates up ahead was very strange. I'm not sure if the team was hedging its bets or there was poor communication but it looked pretty bad considering they ended up dragging him to the finish line anyway. Contrast that with how quickly UAE sorted out their issues when Ayuso was shirking his team responsibilities on the final climb.