Visma-Lease a Bike‘s Classics-style 2025 Tour de France squad once again made their presence felt in stage 4’s hectic finale, but despite squeezing the peloton down to a minimum, the ‘Killer Bees’ once again found that stage winner Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) was immune to their stings.
In a viciously technical finale, Visma began raising their pace with some 10 kilometres to go. Whilst expectations had perhaps been that Wout van Aert might be more of a factor in such testing, punchy terrain, instead, 2025 new signing Victor Campenaerts arguably played the most crucial team role.
The 2024 Tour stage winner simultaneously guided the front group through the switchback streets of Rouen, and almost single-handedly reduced those capable of holding his wheel to just 25 riders in the process.
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