David Gaudu seizes the leading red jersey after the 4th stage, won by Ben Turner at Sprint

Classified at the same time as Jonas Vingegaard, the Frenchman doubles it in the cumulation of places since the departure of this 2025 edition.

In the event of a massive sprint, he had to finish eight places ahead of Jonas Vingegaard to taste the flavor of the red jersey. In Sprint, in Voiron in France, Tuesday August 26, David Gaudu did the necessary in the face of a Danish who did not give everything to defend his leader tunic. By cutting the finish line from the 4th stage to the 25th position – Vingegaard finished 42nd -, the winner of the day before will wear the leader jersey for the first time in his big tour career. Two years after Lenny Martinez, another Frenchman from the Groupama-FDJ team will have this honor on the Vuelta, who saw Valentin Paretrere leaving his roads on abandonment for illness.

“It's a bit symbolic. I win on the Vuelta, Italy, after a failed Giro and I will take the leader's jersey in France (after giving up on the Tour). It's a beautiful wink. It will be beautiful to have it”appreciated the Breton, who got involved in the great battle of sprinters. “It is the first and last time that I go in there”he blown with a smile at the microphone of Eurosport. On Wednesday, he will have the heavy task of keeping his tunic on the team time trial, an event that rarely smiles at Groupama-FDJ.

In front of him, the sprint of the big thighs was dominated by the British Ben Turner (ineos grenadiers), winner of his first stage on a large tour, in front of Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and his teammate Edward Planckaert, who badly negotiated the sprint while they were in the ideal position.

As the day before, few twists and turns occurred before the final packaging. The morning escape had no chance of shining, his last representative, the Spanish Sinuhé Fernandez (Burgos Burpellet BH), was taken up 47 km from the finish. Frenchman Bruno Armirail (Decathlon-Ag2r La Mondiale) then attempted his chance alone for fifteen kilometers, but ended up capitulating against the train led by the sprinters.