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Tadej Pogacar took the 100th victory of his stellar career on Tuesday, beating Mathieu van der Poel and Jonas Vingegaard to win stage four of the Tour de France.

Almost everyone thought that Tadej Pogacar would go into the rest day wearing the yellow jersey. After nine days of tough racing, that is not the case, but the world champion can indeed speak of a kind of pole position in the GC.