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Pogačar didn't lose the yellow jersey on Stage 4 — he surrendered it, deliberately, in a heatwave, letting a breakaway go thirteen minutes up the road while UAE held the handbrake and banked recovery. Mads Pedersen wins for Lidl-Trek in a perfectly executed sprint, Torstein Træen pulls on yellow in a historic moment for Uno-X Mobility and Norwegian cycling, and the GC contenders arrive together — but the story is UAE's calculated decision to play the long game before the mountains even arrive. Nothing has changed about who's going to win this race. Everything has changed about how they're winning it.
Every stage, we take you inside the team bus — the tactical read, the data behind the drama, and what to watch for next. This is The Cycling Debrief.Daily cycling intelligence from SEMIPRO CYCLING, produced with AI-assisted research, scripting, and synthetic voice.