{"id":1802,"date":"2026-04-09T10:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:37:40","slug":"the-route-and-profile-of-the-4th-stage-this-thursday-april-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"The route and profile of the 4th stage this Thursday, April 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>Three days, three French victories. Those who follow the Tour of the Basque Country will not be disappointed this year. After the two successes of Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA-CGM) on the first two stages, Axel Laurance (INEOS Grenadiers) managed to win on Wednesday. Thursday, around Galdakao, the 19-year-old prodigy will try to keep his Yellow Jersey, he who is 1&#8217;59&#8221; ahead of his runner-up, Primoz Roglic (RedBull &#8211; Bora-Hansgrohe).<\/p>\n<h2>At what time and on which TV channel to watch the 4th stage of the Tour of the Basque Country 2026<\/h2>\n<p>The race will be broadcast on Eurosport 2, live from 3:30 p.m., Thursday April 9, 2026, live.<\/p>\n<h2>The profile of the 4th stage of the Tour of the Basque Country 2026<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"c-media\">\n<div class=\"c-media__content\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The profile of the 4th stage of the Tour of the Basque Country 2026\" class=\"c-img\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"718\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1640px) 718px, (min-width: 1440px) calc(40vw + 70px), (min-width: 1080px) 590px, (min-width: 780px) calc(88.57vw - 349px), (min-width: 660px) calc(100vw - 414px), 211px\" src=\"https:\/\/img.20mn.fr\/6uWWlhB2SzmG8EJg1Z_EIyk\/590x0 590w, https:\/\/img.20mn.fr\/6uWWlhB2SzmG8EJg1Z_EIyk\/342x0 342w, https:\/\/img.20mn.fr\/6uWWlhB2SzmG8EJg1Z_EIyk\/211x0 211w\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"mt-s@xs mx-m@xs mx-0@md color-grey-400 text-xs@xs\">The profile of the 4th stage of the Tour of the Basque Country 2026<span class=\"color-grey-300 text-xs@xs text-italic\">&#8211; The Red Flame<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The route of the 4th stage of the Tour of the Basque Country<\/h2>\n<p>The peloton will have to cover 167.2 kilometers around Galdakao. A real roller coaster is on the program with seven listed passes to climb.<\/p>\n<p>The double ascent of Elorritxueta (4.3km at 8.1%) will be one of the highlights of this edition of Itzulia.<\/p>\n<h2>The Top 5 in the ranking before the 4th stage of the Tour of the Basque Country<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Paul Seixas &#8211; Decathlon CMA CGM 8h08&#8217;24&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Primoz Roglic &#8211; RedBull &#8211; Bora-Hansgrohe at 1&#8217;59&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Florian Lipowitz &#8211; RedBull &#8211; Bora-Hansgrohe at 2&#8217;08&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Mattias Skjelmose Jensen &#8211; Lidl &#8211; Trek at 2&#8217;14&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ben Tulett &#8211; Visma Lease a Bike \u00e0 2&#8217;27&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days, three French victories. Those who follow the Tour of the Basque Country will not be disappointed this year. After the two successes of Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA-CGM) on the first two stages, Axel Laurance (INEOS Grenadiers) managed to win on Wednesday. Thursday, around Galdakao, the 19-year-old prodigy will try to keep his Yellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}