Four-Square and Counting: Pogacar’s New Geometry of Victory

Tadej Pogacar has drawn his fourth yellow square on the grand blackboard of the Tour de France, levelling Chris Froome and sliding to a single chalk-stroke from the penthouse quartet—Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault, Indurain. Four, too, is the tally of bouquets plucked this July—two fewer than last year’s six, but harvested with a different hand: less the rapacious prodigy, more the cool professor.