Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar celebrates Sunday as he crosses the end line to win the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France biking race, a person time trial over 33.7 kilometers (20.9 miles) that began in Monaco and completed in Good, France.
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Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia has received this yr’s Tour de France, making it his third championship title.
He beat Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard by 1 minute and three seconds throughout a 21-mile time trial that completed in Good, France, on Sunday. Pogačar and Vingegaard have developed a rivalry through the years after Pogacar received the Tour de France back-to-back in 2020 and 2021, whereas Vingegaard received back-to-back in 2022 and 2023.
Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel, the reigning world champion in time trials and one other of Pogačar’s rivals, completed third.
“I must say how happy I am to win this Tour de France and how crazy the journey was, how crazy the battles we had with Jonas here and Remco,” Pogačar mentioned through the podium ceremony. “It was one of many craziest excursions, I believe, within the historical past.
The championship is usually held within the Paris space, however was moved as the town prepares for the Olympics there, which start Friday.
Vingegaard’s title was his sixth every day win within the three weeks of the Tour. He additionally received the game’s different main race, the Giro D’Italia, earlier this yr, making him the primary man to win each in a season because the flip of the century.
