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Jonas Vingegaard made it safely over the finish line to win the Tour.

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Belgium's Jasper Philipsen won the dash for the line on the cobbled Champs-Elysées to take the iconic final stage victory on Sunday, July 24.

The ecstatic Philipsen lifted his bike aloft at the finish line after taking his second win of this Tour, turning the page on his embarrassment of mistakenly celebrating on stage four , when he had in fact finished second.

Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard won the Tour de France on Sunday, ending the reign of two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar who was second. Geraint Thomas, the 2018 champion, was third.

Vingegaard and his Jumbo-Visma teammates all crossed the line together in a line and cheering wildly.

After a relentless struggle over peaks and plains in a crushing heatwave, Vingegaard assured his win on Saturday's time-trial having taken the lead in the Alps and extended it in the Pyrenees.

His Dutch team Jumbo produced a brilliant collective effort with six stage wins, the green sprint jersey for van Aert and the polka dot mountains jersey for Vingegaard.

Defeated champion Pogacar won the best under-25s jersey for the third time and leaves this Tour with his reputation intact after attacking Vingegaard to the bitter end.

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Jonas Vingegaard Wins Tour de France, Completing His Sudden Ascent to Top

Vingegaard, 25, won cycling’s most prestigious race on his second attempt, setting up a new rivalry with the two-time champion he dethroned, Tadej Pogacar.

By Juliet Macur

PARIS — Head down and legs churning, Jonas Vingegaard crossed the finish line of the penultimate stage of the Tour de France on Saturday and cupped his hand over his mouth, as if to stifle a gasp. He had done what he had come to do, and his astonishing accomplishment was sinking in.

In only his second Tour de France, and only three years after becoming a professional cyclist, Vingegaard, a 25-year-old Danish rider, had sealed his victory in cycling’s most prestigious race.

His victory became official on Sunday, when the race concluded with its traditional celebratory ride into Paris. But the Tour had been effectively over for days, and when Vingegaard finished second in Saturday’s time trial to his Jumbo-Visma teammate, Wout van Aert of Belgium, his effort on the 25-mile course was enough to leave him with such a large lead in the overall standings — 3 minutes 34 seconds ahead of his closest pursuer — that the final stage brought almost no drama at all.

Vingegaard steered clear of danger on the final laps in Paris, crossing — safely — alongside his teammates well behind the peloton. His winning time was 79 hours 33 minutes 20 seconds.

“We made a plan and we followed it 100 percent,” he said on the podium afterward . “And thanks to everyone in the team, behind the team. It has been really incredible journey for us and now we finally did it.”

After about three full weeks of the Tour, Vingegaard, as he had on Saturday, immediately sought out his partner and toddler daughter in the area past the finish line and gave them a long, sweaty hug.

While Vingegaard had pedaled up and down all the endless hills and unforgiving mountains, and across all the flat roads past fields of flowers and farms, he had wanted to win for them. During every day of searing heat that at times rose above 100 degrees, melting pavement and sidelining some riders with heat exhaustion, he said, he had steeled himself for them.

And, in the end, Vingegaard, who grew up in a small fishing town in northern Denmark, won what was arguably one of the most grueling Tours in history.

Tadej Pogacar, the Slovene rider looking for his third straight Tour win, finished second overall, 2:43 behind Vingegaard, after fighting Vingegaard for the lead until the race’s final days. Geraint Thomas of Britain, the 2018 Tour winner, was third, 7:22 off the pace. Every other rider was at least 13 minutes behind Vingegaard.

“I think the battle between me and Jonas was really something special,” Pogacar, 23, said Saturday, acknowledging the eventual outcome. He offered Sunday’s only hint of a surprise: a late sprint into the lead on Sunday’s final lap, though he was immediately reeled back into the lead group.

“It’s going to be an interesting couple of years ahead for us,” Pogacar said of his nascent rivalry with Vingegaard. “He’s stepped up from last year, he’s taken control of things from the beginning, and he’s proved he’s a strong rider.”

Going into this Tour, Pogacar most likely expected Vingegaard to be his greatest rival after Vingegaard’s improbable second-place finish last year.

In 2021, Jumbo-Visma’s top rider, Primoz Roglic, had dropped out of the Tour after a crash and Vingegaard took it upon himself to show what he could do . His performance was breathtaking — and unexpected. On the daunting Mont Ventoux, he left Pogacar behind to record one of the fastest times ever for that legendary climb.

Vingegaard’s entire career has been nothing short of a fairy tale played out on two wheels and on fast forward.

Six months before joining Jumbo-Visma in 2019, he was working part-time in a Danish factory where he gutted, cleaned and packed fish into ice-filled boxes. Before that, he worked at a fish auction. He credits those days of waking at 4 a.m. and all that hard manual labor in the shivering cold with helping him get to where he is now, at the top of the cycling world.

His Jumbo-Visma team, especially van Aert, was at his side all the way.

Van Aert had his own remarkable race, spending every day of the Tour except the first in the green jersey, which is awarded to the rider who accumulates the most points for stage finishes and in midrace sprint sections. But his biggest achievement over the past three weeks might have been his support of Vingegaard.

Van Aert was there for Vingegaard when his teammate needed him the most on the grueling Hautacam climb that turned out to be the deciding stage in the overall competition. He took off on a breakaway and mercilessly dictated a fast pace, challenging the notion, at 6-foot-3, that light, smaller riders like Vingegaard and Pogacar are naturally the best climbers.

Pogacar, who was battling Vingegaard for the overall lead, couldn’t keep up. As Vingegaard and van Aert kept climbing, Pogacar faded, looking like a car with a sputtering engine as the Jumbo-Visma teammates powered ahead.

The Jumbo-Visma team had won six of the Tour’s 20 stages entering Sunday’s finale. After Saturday’s stage, though, Vingegaard faced questions about his fairy-tale career. One reporter asked him about his rapid rise in the sport, and about how he could have finished 22nd in the 2019 Danish national time trial and then go on to nearly win Saturday’s time trial after three weeks of the Tour.

If Vingegaard was familiar at all with Tour history, or Danish racing history, it was possible that he expected the question. The only other Dane to win the Tour was Bjarne Riis in 1996, and a decade later Riis admitted that he had doped to win the race. Many past winners, though none recently, have either been caught doping or have admitted to doing so.

No, Vingegaard said, he did not go fast because he had doped. It happened because he and his team improved his aerodynamics by toiling in the wind tunnel and adjusting his body position and bike.

“We’re totally clean,” he said in his news conference, broadening his denial to include his entire team. “Every one of us. I can say that to every one of you. No one of us is taking anything illegal.”

High-altitude training camps and attention to detail — in food, in equipment, in preparation — were behind Jumbo-Visma’s rise, he said. “That’s why you have to trust,” he said.

Vingegaard appears to take sportsmanship seriously. On one descent during Stage 18, Pogacar crashed on a section of gravel as he and Vingegaard zoomed down a hill nearly side by side. But instead of taking advantage of Pogacar’s fall, Vingegaard waited for him down the road, allowing his rival to catch up .

After coming back together, Pogacar reached out in an expression of gratitude and the two clenched hands in a moment that will be replayed for years as an example of the good side of sports.

But only one of them was invited to climb atop the podium in Paris and celebrate on the Champs-Élysées. Only one got to pose for photos and family memories that will last a lifetime. And only one will be celebrated in his home country this summer as the king of cycling.

A series of ceremonies honoring Vingegaard already has been scheduled in Copenhagen, the city that hosted the start of this year’s Tour — the kickoff to Vingegaard’s ride to victory.

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Jasper Philipsen and Jonas Vingegaard crowned in Paris

Jasper Philipsen took the title of most successful sprinter of the 109th Tour de France as he became the only one of them to score for the second time. The Belgian outclassed former Champs-Élysées winners Dylan Groenewegen and Alexander Kristoff to emulate his childhood hero Tom Boonen who also won his second Tour de France stage in Paris at the age of 24 in 2004. Wout van Aert didn’t contest the last sprint to celebrate Jonas Vingegaard ’s first overall victory.

1 LAST KOM POINT FOR SIMON GESCHKE

135 riders started stage 21 at 16.46 at Paris La Défense Arena. 3 non-starters: Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Michael Woods and Guillaume Boivin (Israel-Premier Tech). Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), the super combative of the 109th Tour de France, symbolically attacked from the gun one last time but it was for a laugh along with Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar. As per tradition, the peloton rode slowly for the first fifty kilometres or so. Polka dot jersey wearer Simon Geschke was allowed by the rest of the riders to symbolically take the last KOM point up for grab at côte du Pavé des Gardes. Also as per tradition, Jumbo-Visma, the team of the Maillot Jaune, entered Paris in the lead of the peloton.

BREAKAWAY GROUPS ON THE CHAMPS-ELYSEES Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost) and Stan De Wulf (AG2R-Citroën) attacked with 45km to go. They were joined in several waves by Jan Tratnik (Bahrain Victorious), Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies), Dani Martinez (Ineos Grenadier), Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar), Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Mikkel Honoré (Quick Step). It was all together again with 33km to go. The next leading group involved Schachmann again. The German was accompanied by Jonas Rutsch and Owain Doull (EF Education-EasyPost), Antoine Duchesne and Olivier Le Gac (Groupama-FDJ). The quintet got a 25’’ lead with 25km to go as their maximum advantage. It went down to 15’’ with 15km remaining. Schachmann and Rutsch were the last to surrender and it was all together again with 6.8km left.

ONE LAST ATTACK BY TADEJ POGACAR White jersey holder Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) attacked but Filippo Ganna reacted for Ineos Grenadier and the peloton was strung out in the run in to the last 3-km. Alpecin-Deceuninck seized the reins of the peloton. BikeExchange-Jayco took over at the red flame. Dylan Groenewegen launched from far out and Jasper Philipsen had the situation under control. He sped up on the right hand side to take his second stage win at the age of 24, eighteen years after Tom Boonen, the last Belgian green jersey winner before Wout van Aert, did so on the Champs-Elysées. Both hail from Mol and Philipsen has often been touted as the next Boonen. Last year’s Champs-Elysées winner Wout van Aert remained quietly at the back of the pack, along with Jonas Vingegaard who took home his first Tour de France trophy.

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Sprint | Champs-Élysées (75.4 km)

Points at finish, kom sprint (4) côte du pavé des gardes (43.3 km), youth day classification, team day classification, race information.

• Date: 24 July 2022
• Start time: 16:45
• Avg. speed winner: 38.85 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
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• Vert. meters: 748
• Departure: Paris La Défense
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Jonas Vingegaard safely completes final stage to claim Tour de France glory

Jonas Vingegaard has come home safely to win the Tour de France in Paris while Jasper Philipsen powered to victory in the final stage on the Champs-Elysees.

Denmark's Vingegaard, the leader of the all-conquering Jumbo-Visma team, had effectively sealed his triumph in Saturday's time trial and was shepherded home in 77th place on the largely ceremonial 21st and final stage on Sunday.

"It's just incredible — I finally won the Tour. Nothing can go wrong anymore," the 25-year-old said, holding his young daughter

"It's the biggest cycling race you can win and now I've done it and no-one can take it away from me.

"I'm super happy about my victory. I want to relax, celebrate — but I also want more."

That bodes well for a thrilling new era for the sport after Slovenia's Tadej Pogačar, winner of the two previous editions, finished second overall 3 minutes 34 seconds behind the winner.

Britain's former champion Geraint Thomas took third place.

The irrepressible Pogačar may have been dethroned but he still had the cheek to launch his own attack in the denouement in Paris, before it was quickly pulled back.

Belgian Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) proved a dominant winner in the sprint finale to the 115.6km stage, racing away from runner-up Dylan Groenewegen, the star sprinter of the Australian outfit Team BikeExchange-Jayco, and Norwegian Alexander Kristoff.

"I cannot believe it, it's a childhood dream coming true," said Philipsen, who also won his maiden Tour victory this year on stage 15 in Carcassonne.

"This will take a while to realise. I'm just super proud of the team. That we could finish a Tour like this is the cherry on the cake."

Once again, luckless Australian star Caleb Ewan missed out, failing to find the right position to strike in the denouement and finishing eighth.

He also became only the second Australian ever to win the Lanterne Rouge, the accolade bestowed on the slowest finisher after the three-week slog.

Finishing last of the 135 riders who finally made it across the line, the Sydneysider — who had to battle through two crashes en route — had been in the saddle for 85 hours, 14 minutes, 2 seconds.

In contrast, Vingegaard finished in 79:33:20, some five hours 40 minutes quicker.

He was the first Danish rider to win cycling's biggest race since Bjarne Riis's largely discredited triumph in 1996 after he admitted later to doping.

The top Australian finisher on the Tour was BikeExchange-Jayco's Nick Schultz, who ended up 23rd, 1:39:41 down on Vingegaard.

Michael Storer (Groupama-FDJ) was 35th, Chris Hamilton (DSM) was 38th, and stage winner Michael Matthews (BikeExchange-Jayco) was 78th.

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Jonas Vingegaard takes Tour de France glory and Pogacar’s aura of invincibility

• ‘We are totally clean,’ Dane insists of Jumbo-Visma team
• Geraint Thomas, third behind Pogacar, ponders one more Tour

From the Grand Départ in Copenhagen to the denouement in Paris, a besotted nation has been hanging on to Jonas Vingegaard’s coat tails. On Sunday, the Champs Élysées turned steadfastly Danish, with a dash of impetuous Slovenian and a hint of deadpan Welsh.

Vingegaard swept into Paris transported by his near-infallible Jumbo-Visma team to win the Tour de France at his second attempt, from defending champion Tadej Pogacar and the peloton’s Mister Consistency, Geraint Thomas, who took his third podium finish in four years.

Twelve months ago, it was Pogacar, the Slovenian prodigy leading the big-budget UAE Emirates team, who was expected to win serial yellow jerseys. Now however the landscape has changed and it is the unflappable Dane, and his big-budget team, who seem invincible.

As the Belgian Jasper Philipsen sprinted to his second stage win in the frenetic final dash to the line, Vingegaard and his teammates fanned out across the cobbles and joined arms, to bask in their success. With six stage wins and the yellow and green jerseys, some eye-watering climbing speeds and collective domination, it has been a remarkable performance.

Inevitably, in his traditional winner’s press conference, the new champion was asked if such complete command of the peloton, given the context of the sport, could be trusted. “We are totally clean, every one of us,” Vingegaard said.

“I can say that to every one of you. No one of us is taking anything illegal. I think why we’re so good is the preparation that we do.

“We take altitude camps to the next step. We do everything with material, food, and training. The team is the best within this. That’s why you have to trust.”

His teammate Wout van Aert, winner of Saturday’s final time trial in Rocamadour, was less receptive. “It’s a shit question,” he said. “Because we’re performing at this level, we have to defend ourselves. I don’t get it.

“Cycling has changed. I don’t like it that we keep on having to reply to this. We have to pass controls every moment of the year, not only at the Tour de France, also at our homes. If you just look through our team, how we’ve developed through these years, it hasn’t come from nowhere.”

The main victim of their collective strength was defending champion Pogacar, dominant and explosive himself in 2020 and 2021, who this year seemed, at times, a blunt instrument when compared to Vingegaard’s performance in the Tour’s summit finishes.

The Slovenian leader of the UAE Emirates team, who began winning major races as early as February and after winning two stages and his home national tour in June, seemed certain to be the rider to beat, showed flashes of immaturity that came back to haunt him.

The key moment came on the 11th stage to the Col du Granon, a high altitude trawl of some of the biggest Alpine passes, on which an isolated Pogacar misjudged his tactics, mugged for the TV cameras, but then paid for it moments later when he couldn’t respond to Vingegaard’s acceleration. After that, he was constantly on the back foot.

From there, Vingegaard was in control and could even survive the loss of two team mates, Primoz Roglic and Steven Kruiswijk , and accept Van Aert’s roving role, without showing any signs of being unnerved. Pogacar suffered the loss of key helpers, George Bennett and Rafal Majka, but it is debatable if either of those accomplished climbers would have changed the destiny of the maillot jaune .

Thomas, in what some believe to be the finest performance of his career, withstood all the sound and fury between the two main contenders, to grind out a vintage performance of character and resilience. In terms of winning the race, he was never in contention, but his experience, allied to his ability to keep his head when all around were sometimes losing theirs, rewarded him with third place, albeit more than seven minutes behind the winner.

Thomas was unclear if this would be his last Tour de France. “I don’t know,” he replied when asked. “I’ve got a contract to the end of next year. I might stop, I might do one more. I’m still enjoying the racing, I’m still enjoying this race, the biggest race in the world. Never say never. We’ll see.”

He reiterated too that he had always believed in himself. “The end of last year was really hard mentally for a number of reasons. When I started again it was steady, which is normal. I was confident if I kept working hard I could be in the mix. I never put a number on it. I always believed that I could be there or thereabouts. With regards to the team, it’s more a question for them. I’m just happy to be in the mix.”

As for the Tour itself, it sits uneasily in contemporary French culture. Lauded by President Macron for its continued significance to France’s sense of patrimoine , but increasingly globalised, it looked painfully out of touch at times this July.

When teenage climate protesters were brutally manhandled by senior race officials after blocking the path of stage 10, within sight of the disappearing glaciers of Haute Savoie, the disconnect between green machine and corporate juggernaut was laid bare.

There is no doubt that, as its popularity around the world grows with younger and more diverse audiences, the Tour will need to try harder.

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Jonas Vingegaard crowned Tour de France winner after Champs-Elysees finale

Runner up tadej pogacar confident the uae team emirates will return stronger next year.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 21 - Paris La Defense Arena to Champs-Elysees - France - July 24, 2022 Jumbo - Visma's Jonas Vingegaard celebrates on the podium wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey after winning the Tour de France REUTERS / Christian Hartmann

Tadej Pogacar said he could take many positives from his three stage victories and finishing second behind Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard in the 2022 Tour de France.

The UAE Team Emirates star and winner of the Tour in 2020 and 2021 was outshone by Vingegaard, who was outstanding throughout the 21 stages of the gruelling race.

“I can be really happy with this Tour de France,” Pogacar said before the start of the final stage won by Belgian Jasper Philipsen at Champs-Elysees in Paris on Sunday.

“For sure we wanted to win, but also the second place and three stage wins is something to be proud of. I am looking for new challenges.

“Stage wins are always incredible in the Tour. It's something I cannot describe. For me, that's why it's so beautiful.”

Pogacar was also unlucky as he lost four teammates during the Tour. Vehard Stake Laengen and George Bennett dropped out after testing Covid-19 positive, while Marc Soler was forced to pull out after falling ill and then Rafal Majka due to an injury.

However, nothing should be taken away from Vingegaard and his team Jumbo-Visma’s incredible success.

They scored six stage victories and Vingegaard took both the yellow and green jerseys as the overall winner and the king of the mountains. Van Aert was also awarded the red dossard as the race’s most combative rider.

Pogacar, 23, took the white jersey for the young rider category to add to his three stage victories.

🤩After 3 weeks of highs and lows, Jonas Vingegaard wins the #TDF2022 ! 🤩 Après 3 semaines de lutte et de souffrance, Jonas Vingegaard remporte le #TDF2022 ! pic.twitter.com/VkXpc861iJ — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 24, 2022

After completing the penultimate time trial stage on Saturday in which Pogacar finished third, the Slovenian acknowledged his UAE Team Emirates squad had made a lot of mistakes during the race.

“For sure we can take a lot of things from this Tour – a lot of mistakes that we made, and a lot of good things,” he explained.

“I think we have a good opportunity for next year because I know that we can improve and I'm looking forward to new challenges. We can try to get better at a lot of things. I think we can do it.”

Pogacar admitted that he had been "too motivated" to follow the moves made by Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic on the Galibier, and that he paid for his efforts later in the day.

“The mistake I have made was the stage to the Col du Granon,” he said. “I was too motivated to follow everyone, and I think in the end I paid really hard. That's one mistake I made but for sure, there's a bit more.

“We had a lot of bad luck with Covid-19 before and in the middle of the Tour. We ended the race with four riders – only half the team. A lot of factors we can talk about all day, but it's something we have to analyse after the Tour.”

Pogacar paid tribute to Vingegaard and the Jumbo-Visma team on their success in the Tour.

“This Tour there were almost no weaknesses in their team,” he added. “They lost two riders, but in the end it didn't seem like they had any less, maybe because we had four. They rode really perfectly in this Tour and because they rode perfectly, they got to win.”

Vingegaard thanked his team after safely crossing the finish line with his teammates in Paris.

“It's just incredible,” the 109th winner of the Tour de France said. “I have finally won the Tour. Nothing can go wrong any more. I sat with my daughter with me. It is just incredible.

“It is the biggest cycling race of the year, the biggest one you can win and now I have done it. Nobody can take this away from me."

Philipsen said it was his “childhood dream” to win the final stage of the Tour.

“It will take a while to realise,” he said. “I'm super and happy and proud that I could win on the beautiful Champs-Elysees. It is the dream of any sprinter.”

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Jonas Vingegaard crowned champion as Jasper Philipsen crushes rivals on Champs-Elysees at Tour de France

Updated 24/07/2022 at 19:56 GMT

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard was crowned Tour de France champion in Paris on Sunday after crossing the line arm-in-arm with his Jumbo-Visma team-mates on the Champs-Elysees. With team-mate Wout van Aert opting not to contest the sprint, victory in Stage 21 went to Jasper Philipsen – despite an opportunistic last-ditch attack on the final lap by Tadej Pogacar.

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Jonas Vingegaard wins the men's Tour de France

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The pack with Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, passes the Louvre Museum during the 21st stage of the men's Tour de France cycling race. Bertrand Guay/AP hide caption

The pack with Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, passes the Louvre Museum during the 21st stage of the men's Tour de France cycling race.

PARIS — Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark won his first Tour de France title on Sunday after coming out on top in a thrilling three-week duel with defending champion Tadej Pogacar.

The 25-year-old Vingegaard became the first Danish rider to win cycling's biggest race since Bjarne Riis in 1996.

Vingegaard, who was runner-up to Pogacar last year, built his success in the mountains. He first took the yellow jersey from Pogacar in the Alps with a memorable ride up the Col du Granon, and followed up this week with an impressive display of strength in the last Pyrenean stage to the resort of Hautacam.

Vingegaard celebrates his win in the men's Tour de France. Thibault Camus/AP hide caption

Vingegaard celebrates his win in the men's Tour de France.

Vingegaard also had the upper hand in the race against the clock, gaining more time on Pogacar in Saturday's individual time trial to effectively secure the title.

Pogacar finished runner-up overall and Geraint Thomas, the 2018 Tour winner, completed the podium.

Jasper Philipsen won Sunday's last stage — a mainly processional ride around Paris to the Champs-Elysees — in a sprint ahead of Dylan Groenewegen and Alexander Kristoff.

Tour de France 2022: Philipsen wins on Champs-Élysées, Vingegaard seals GC triumph

Results 21st stage 2022 Tour de France

1. Jasper Philipsen (bel) 2. Dylan Groenewegen (nld) s.t. 3. Alexander Kristoff (nor) s.t. 4. Jasper Stuyven (bel) s.t. 5. Peter Sagan (slo) s.t. 6. Jérémy Lecroq (fra) s.t. 7. Danny van Poppel (nld) s.t. 8. Caleb Ewan (aus) s.t. 9. Hugo Hofstetter (fra) s.t. 10. Fred Wright (gbr) s.t.

Final GC 1. Jonas Vingegaard (den) 2. Tadej Pogacar (slo) + 2.43 3. Geraint Thomas (gbr) + 7.22 4. David Gaudu (fra) + 13.39 5. Aleksandr Vlasov (rus) + 15.46 6. Nairo Quintana (col) + 16.33 * 7. Romain Bardet (fra) + 19.11 8. Louis Meintjes (rsa) + 18.44 9. Alexey Lutsenko (kaz) + 22.56 10. Adam Yates (gbr) + 24.52

* disqualified after testing positive on painkiller tramadol during the Tour de France

Race report Van Aert attacks from the gun. Pogacar goes with him and Vingegaard bridges across.

Of course, it’s just for fun. The peloton peddels back to their wheel.

Bissegger and De Wulf initiate the breakaway on the Champs-Élysées circuit. Tratnik, Burgaudeau, Martínez and Jorgenson track them down before they are caught with 32 kilometes to go.

Doull, Rutsch and Schachmann are next. Duchesne en Le Gac rejoin them. They reach a maximum gap of 20 seconds, while Doull loses contact inside the last 20 kilometres. Le Gac drops back 13 kilometres before the line. The remaining three enter the last 10 kilometres with a lead of 7 seconds.

The catch is made just before the bell for the last round sounds.

Jasper Philipsen powers to a commanding victory in the ensuing bunch sprint, while Jonas Vingegaard finishes together with his team mate to celebrate the GC win.

Another interesting read: route 21st stage 2022 Tour de France.

Tour de France 2022 stage 21: routes, profiles, more

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Tour de France 2022: Jasper Philipsen wins Stage 21 sprint

Jasper Philipsen was first over the finish line as Jonas Vingegaard sealed a Tour de France victory that he and Denmark can be proud of

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Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) won the Stage 21 sprint on the Champs-Elysees to close out the 2022 Tour de France.

It was a frenetic last 3km or so, with the trains forming to lead out their sprinters. The lead out men were used up early and the sprinters gathered near the front.

The sprinters were spread across the width of the road, with Dylan Groenewegen (BikeExchange-Jayco) going early on one side but he couldn't match the kick of Philipsen on the other side of the Champs-Elysees.

Rounding out the top 10 after an amazing Tour de France was Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious), what an amazing race the young British rider has had.

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), a favourite for the day, had disappeared from the front of the race before the sprint kicked off. It became clear why he'd done so later, when he crossed the line arm-in-arm with his team – the yellow jersey of Jonas Vingegaard in the centre.

The stage was the usual spectacle we've become used to for the final stage of the Tour: photos, champagne, faux-attacks and plenty of posing for the cameras as the peloton made its way from somewhere near Paris to the Champs-Elysees.

But no one was complaining and we'll all be back in front of our televisions to watch again next year.

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Once the remaining riders in the 2022 Tour de France hit the famous boulevard, and had eight laps to go before the final crossing of the finish line, the pace went up and the race was on.

The attacks started and were either brought back quickly or always kept under control by the sprinters' teams before the final sprint.

Stage 21 at the 2022 Tour de France: Textbook final stage

Rolling out from not very far from away from the finish line, Stage 21 of the 2022 Tour de France ventured away from the centre of Paris to take in some sights and allow for the obligatory photoshoot of the jersey winners (and wearers) celebrating with champagne at the head of the peloton.

The only jersey wearer, but not winner, was Simon Geschke (Cofidis). The involuntary Miss Havisham was forced – by convention and contract – to wear the polka dot jersey since losing his lead in the competition on Stage 18, by which point there was no chance of recovering it.

At the flag drop, white jersey and second overall Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), green jersey Wout van Aert and this year's overall winner Jonas Vingegaard (both Jumbo-Visma) attacked off the front. Smiles on the faces of the former pair, possibly considering just going clear, were not matched by the latter, Vingegaard, who more likely wanted an easy day and to leave the riding to the sprinters' teams.

Jumbo-Visma rolled to the front and in a touching gesture held up the race numbers of their three teammates who started but did did not finish the 2022 Tour de France.

Ineos Grenadiers dropped off the back of the peloton to have a team photo, with all eight starters still present, to celebrate winning the team classification.

While they were posing with their yellow helmets and yellow numbers, the six Danish riders who will make it to the final finish line in Paris had a chat off the front for a while, posing for the cameras.

Geschke popped up again, riding over the KOM line to take the one point available on today's stage ahead of a slow moving peloton. He waved at the fans and smiled, proving he's a good sport.

The posing and backslapping stopped on the first passage of the finish line, which marked eight laps of the Champs-Elysees between the riders and the end of the 2022 Tour de France.

Several riders attempted breakaways, bumping all over the mini-cobbles as they tried to get a gap over the peloton. Stan Dewulf (AG2R Citroën) and Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost) got away first before being joined by a few more riders.

First of those riders were Jan Tratnik (Bahrain Victorious), Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) and Daniel Felipe Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers).

With the sprinters' teams on the front of the main bunch, the doomed break's advantage barely flickered above 10 seconds. It didn't last long and they were back in the fold.

EF Education-EasyPost, with a lack of an out-and-out sprinter, were the most active as they launched again. Maximilian Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) joined the EF pair of Owain Doull and Jonas Rutsch on a little ride around the Champs-Elysees. A two-up time-trial from Groupama-FDJ made its way to the head of the race to put a bit more fire power into the doomed enterprise.

With 25km to go they had 20 seconds over a fast moving peloton. Doull was the first to surrender to the inevitable but the remaining quartet kept the pressure on the pedals before falling away one-by-one. Schachmann and Rutsch were last to be caught with 6.9km to go – as the bell was rung was the final lap.

Maybe tired of the non-competitive nature of the final stage, Pogacar followed an attack from the Ineos duo of Geraint Thomas and Filippo Ganna to go about seven metres clear for no more than a minute; a good bit of excitement for the final lap.

From there we were into the lead outs, with the surprise (and disappointment) of seeing Van Aert going backwards through the group making it clear that he wouldn't be competing in the sprint.

His reasoning became clear after Philipsen had won: Jumbo-Visma crossed the line as a team, arm-in-arm.

Tour de France 2022: Stage 20 results

1. Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Deceuninck, in 2-58-32 2. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) BikeExchange-Jayco, at the same time 3. Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux, st 4. Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo, st 5. Peter Sagan (Svk) TotalEnergies, st 6. Jeremy Lecroq (Fra) B&B Hotels-KTM, st 7. Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Bora-Hansgrohe, st 8. Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto-Soudal, st 9. Hugo Hofstetter (Fra) Arkea-Samsic, st 10. Fred Wright (GBR) Bahrain Victorious, st

Final General classification of the 2022 Tour de France

1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma, in 79-33-20 2. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates, at 2-43 3. Geraint Thomas (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers, at 7-22 4. David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ, at 13-39 5. Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Bora-Hansgrohe, at 15-46 6. Nairo Quintana (Col) Arkea-Samsic, at 16-33 7. Romain Bardet (Fra) Team DSM, at 18-11 8. Louis Meintjes (RSA) Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux, at 18-44 9. Aleksey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Qazaqstan, at 22-56 10. Adam Yates (GBR) Ineos Grenadiers, at 24-52

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Tour de France past winners

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Previous overall and classification winners 

1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 2 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma 3 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Ineos Grenadiers

2020 1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 2 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 3 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo

2019 1 Egan Bernal (Col) Team Ineos 2 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Ineos 3 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma

2018 1 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 2 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 3 Chris Froome (GBr) Team Sky

2017 1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 2 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale-Drapac 3 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R-La Mondiale

2016 1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 2 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R-La Mondiale 3 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team

2015 1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 2 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team

2014 1 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 2 Jean-Christophe Péraud (Fra) AG2R-La Mondiale 3 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ.fr

2013 1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling 2 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team 3 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha

2012 1 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling 2 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling 3 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale

2011 1 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 2 Andy Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek 3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek

2010 1 *Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 2 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 3 Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi

2009 1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Astana 2 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 3 Lance Armstrong (USA) Astana

Note: *Andy Schleck was awarded victory of the 2010 Tour de France after original winner Alberto Contador was disqualified for doping. *Lance Armstrong was stripped of all race results from August 1, 1998 onwards following the US Anti-Doping Agency’s investigation into doping at the US Postal Service team. *Austria's Bernhard Kohl tested positive for EPO-CERA on October 13, 2008. He admitted to its use on October 15, 2008 and was stripped of his third place GC finish at the 2008 Tour de France. *Oscar Pereiro was awarded the victory of the 2006 Tour de France on October 16, 2007, after original winner Floyd Landis was disqualified for doping.

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