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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - Cycling was everything.
00:06 It gives me a lot of nice things.
00:08 It tooks me also a lot, sacrifices.
00:10 Eight years to make a record, yeah.
00:16 Long time. (laughs)
00:18 (crowd cheering)
00:21 When new riders arrive,
00:23 for me every year is harder to compare with the others, yeah.
00:29 - A very important day for this green jersey competition.
00:32 - It was a pretty messy sprint.
00:36 - We got boxed in by Jaco and Lotto.
00:40 - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:42 - That was close.
00:43 - I believed for a few seconds I could win.
00:47 - It is what it is, we saw a strong team.
00:49 - You need to win.
00:50 - Go, go, go.
00:51 - Everyone's super strong, all the teams are super strong.
00:55 - We can for sure win one time in this tour.
00:58 - If I'm in a good position I know I can win.
01:01 - And we're underway on stage four.
01:13 182 kilometers from Dax to Nogado.
01:17 (dramatic music)
01:20 - Until the breakaway is gone, full concentration now.
01:35 - Hey guys, let's get together now.
01:42 Get in position, let's start to take our spot.
01:45 (dramatic music)
01:48 - We suddenly have a bit of an acceleration
02:06 as we get towards the intermediate sprint.
02:09 (dramatic music)
02:11 - Now the sprint gets started.
02:17 Right hand side, Quinn Simmons brings forward Pedersen.
02:20 Here goes Alex Kirsch now as he brings Pedersen
02:23 to give him a little bit of daylight.
02:25 Philipsen is getting ready to go.
02:27 Philipsen goes right hand side, Pedersen goes left hand side.
02:30 Pedersen right now as we look, Caleb Ewan is up there,
02:34 but Philipsen is super fast right now.
02:38 He is the virtual green jersey now of this Tour de France.
02:42 - The day's first attack finally came
02:48 after almost 100 kilometers as French duo
02:51 Benoit Cosnefoix and Anthony De Laplace went clear.
02:54 The sprint teams didn't give them much more than one minute,
02:57 but there was a combativity prize up for grabs.
03:00 (speaking in foreign language)
03:07 (speaking in foreign language)
03:11 - And the breakaway is over.
03:23 The two riders come back, well done to the two of them.
03:25 Thank you for their entertainment during today's stage.
03:28 (speaking in foreign language)
03:38 (dramatic music)
03:41 - Yes, he's been put in a very safe place.
03:47 A big effort from the team to make sure nothing happens to him.
03:49 The safest plate is on the wheel of a teammate,
03:51 especially at the front.
03:53 Be interesting to see now if they can lead out
03:54 as far as possible to get him there in that safer position,
03:58 or they're going to slow down.
03:59 Now that he isn't within the three kilometers,
04:01 yes, it looks to be like he's more relaxed now.
04:03 He's dropping down.
04:04 - He relaxed a little bit.
04:06 - And is the Lolo train really in a good position now
04:09 with three riders?
04:10 And Mark Cavendish is in a great position today.
04:15 This is a great sprint for them.
04:16 It's not as well organized as yesterday.
04:18 (speaking in foreign language)
04:22 - Matty Morich moves forward
04:23 for the team of Bahrain victorious.
04:25 Vengergaard goes immediately onto the wheel,
04:28 looking for an opportunity
04:29 because Pogacar is nowhere near.
04:31 Vengergaard might steal a few seconds here.
04:34 2.4 kilometers to go,
04:35 and Vengergaard is racing this
04:37 like it means real business.
04:40 40 kilometers an hour as Morich came out the turn.
04:43 On his wheel is Vengergaard.
04:44 Brian Cochrane in a great position.
04:46 Look at how stretched it is on this motor race circuit.
04:50 - And you can just see how you're talking about the splits.
04:52 You have riders who are starting to swing off the line.
04:55 - Vengergaard is still in second wheel.
04:58 Taddej Pogacar trying to move up
05:02 onto the wheel of Vengergaard
05:03 'cause I think he realizes
05:05 that something is going on here
05:06 with Vengergaard and Jumbo Visma.
05:08 Moving up, the team of UNO-X.
05:11 There's still no Wout van Aert,
05:13 and Vengergaard is in the sprint.
05:14 Oh, crash! - Oh, big, big crash!
05:16 - And it's Jakobsen.
05:17 - Jakobsen hits the deck.
05:18 63 kilometers an hour.
05:22 Jakobsen took a huge fall.
05:24 The sprint continues.
05:27 Cochrane is in a good position.
05:28 Cavendish, I think, was also balked by that one.
05:32 On the deck, Jakobsen,
05:35 oh, battle scars all over the place.
05:37 Cavendish moves up left-hand side.
05:39 1,300 meters to go.
05:41 Cocard is there.
05:41 Alaphilippe is there in third wheel.
05:44 There was always gonna be a crash on this run-in.
05:47 Groenewegen makes a move on the outside.
05:49 1,000 meters to go.
05:51 - And we're gonna come now
05:55 into a very extremely fast left-hand turn
05:57 straight after this right-hand turn,
05:59 and the riders will see the finish line
06:01 from about 700 meters to go.
06:03 Cocard sitting in second position.
06:05 Kristoff in a great position too.
06:08 Jasper Stuyven with Pedersen on the wheel.
06:11 About six or seven position.
06:12 - Out of the turn now, and we are go, go, go
06:16 on the motor race circuit for this sprint.
06:18 Who's gonna win?
06:19 A big crash! - Oh, and a crash!
06:20 - Another load of riders hit the deck.
06:22 One of them the Astana team rider.
06:25 It's now gonna be Kristoff.
06:26 Cocard is there, moving up on the other side.
06:29 Here comes Max Pedersen.
06:31 Cavendish gets set.
06:32 Soren Varenskog setting up Alexander Kristoff.
06:36 It's gonna be a big blast for the finish line.
06:39 Gemay is there.
06:40 Here comes Mathieu van der Poel on his wheel.
06:45 Jasper Philipsen, Philipsen now!
06:48 Huge crash on the left-hand side.
06:50 Philipsen goes.
06:52 Caleb Ewan on his wheel.
06:53 It's gonna be Ewan and Philipsen.
06:56 Doubles up!
06:57 Jasper Philipsen wins another stage
06:59 of the Tour de France.
07:01 - No doubts today?
07:07 - Yeah, it was close in the end.
07:09 Also here are some crashes around me,
07:13 so I hope everybody is okay and safe.
07:17 But that was a bit of a hectic final
07:20 with the turns in the end.
07:28 - Second victory, second consecutive victory.
07:30 Now you will start considering the green jersey?
07:34 - Yeah, I think it's looking good for green so far,
07:36 but we're only four stages, yeah, just started.
07:40 So the Tour is a long, long way,
07:43 and yeah, we try to defend it.
07:45 - Philipsen has now won the last four bunch sprints
07:55 at the Tour de France.
07:56 The same top three as yesterday
07:58 in a slightly different order.
07:59 Philipsen, Ewan, Bauhaus.
08:01 Adam Yates will spend a fourth straight day
08:05 in yellow tomorrow after finishing safely in the bunch.
08:08 He remains six seconds clear of his teammate,
08:10 Taddy Pogacar, and his brother Simon.
08:12 Jonas Vingegaard is sixth at 17 seconds.
08:15 With a maximum haul of 70 points today,
08:21 Philipsen has opened up a tidy gap
08:23 in the green jersey standings.
08:25 Victor Lefebvre slips down to second,
08:27 with Ewan up to third.
08:29 It was a quiet day in the mountains classification,
08:37 where Nielsen-Paulus remains 11 points clear of Pogacar,
08:40 but things are going to liven up tomorrow
08:42 when we hit the Pyrenees.
08:44 The Tour's best young rider will no doubt
08:49 be eyeing up the bonus seconds on the Col de Marie Blanc,
08:52 which comes just before the descent into La Rance,
08:54 as the sprinters take a back seat
08:56 and the GC battle continues.
08:59 (applause)
09:01 (music)
09:03 (music)
09:05 (music)
09:07 (music)
09:09 (whooshing)
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