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James Shrubsall

'It's a big gap' – Tadej Pogačar predicts it could be a long time before he wears the Tour de France yellow jersey again

Tadej Pogacar stage 4 Tour de France 2026.

As new Tour de France GC leader Torstein Træen is already finding out, being the wearer of the yellow jersey in the Tour de France is at once the most privileged and the most onerous job in cycling. But when your name is Tadej Pogačar that pressure is doubled.

No wonder he seemed perfectly happy to have handed it over on stage four. He'll pass the next few days, maybe more, in comparative anonymity – or as close to that as Tadej Pogačar wearing the rainbow bands can ever come in the Tour de France – while Træen fields the various podium and press conference duties required of the yellow jersey.

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