Tour de France icon Tadej Pogacar was left with a bloodied wrist after being cut open by the £250,000 watch he was wearing during the race.

Defending champion Tadej Pogacar secured the 100th professional victory of his stellar career in typically flamboyant style, beating Mathieu van der Poel in a dash to the line to win the hilly fourth stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday.

Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar was the big winner of the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday, July 9, taking the yellow jersey as Belgian Remco Evenepoel won the stage, a time trial on mostly flat Normandy terrain.

The 33-km individual time trial set around Caen on day 5 of the Tour de France 2025 saw Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) dominate the field. In line with his maiden victory last year in Gevrey-Chambertin ...

The Tour de France has truly kicked off now! That’s something we can definitely say after Tuesday’s spectacle. Tadej Pogacar tried it “in his typical Pogacar way,” but Jonas Vingegaard was just - very narrowly – able to follow on the steep final climb.