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Sprint | Paris - Hauts des Champs Élysées (68.3 km)

Points at finish, kom sprint (4) côte des grès (7.4 km), youth day classification, team day classification, race information.

• Date: 18 July 2021
• Start time: 16:30
• Avg. speed winner: 40.748 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
• Distance: 108.4 km
• Points scale: GT.A.Stage
• UCI scale: UCI.WR.GT.A.Stage - TM2022
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• ProfileScore: 14
• Vert. meters: 699
• Departure: Chatou
• Arrival: Paris Champs-Élysées
• Race ranking: 1
• Startlist quality score: 1646
• Won how: Sprint of large group
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Tour de france stage 21: wout van aert wins champs-élysées sprint as tadej pogačar seals second tour title, mark cavendish misses win number 35 after chaotic sprint, van aert scores hat trick of victories across mountain, time trial and sprint stages..

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Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) won the most prestigious bunch sprint of pro cycling Sunday.

Van Aert was first across the line on stage 21 of the Tour de France on Sunday, narrowly edging out Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Fenix) and pre-stage favorite Mark Cavendish (Deceuninck-Quick-Step).

The Belgian’s sprint win in Paris puts a cap on a Tour that has seen him take wins after a double ascent of Mont Ventoux, a 31-kilometer time trial, and finally Sunday’s bunch kick.

“I cannot believe it,” van Aert said after the stage. “This Tour has been amazing, it’s been such a rollercoaster. To finish with a win like this is beyond expectations.”

Van Aert will have little time for celebrating his standout Tour de France. He will be making the long journey to Tokyo on Sunday night along with a swathe of Tour riders as the peloton turns its sights on the Olympic Games.

Van Aert did not regret racing so hard in France just 10 days before the Olympic time trial.

“I’ve put myself in trouble – I have to catch a flight tonight [to Japan] and all these interviews will take a while I guess. We’ll see if I can get there,” he joked. “It’s definitely not a pity I went for it tonight because a victory like this is priceless.”

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Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) safely rolled to the line to seal his second yellow jersey in two years. The defending champion won the race by a huge 5:20 margin after first landing in yellow on stage 8. Pogačar also won the white jersey for best young rider and the polka dots for the mountains classification.

The Champs-Élysées finish line was some 300 meters further down the road this year than in most recent Tours, stretching the distance from the final corner of the circuit and changing the dynamic of the sprint.

The bunch had fallen into chaos in the final two kilometers as several teams swamped to the front and crowded out Deceuninck-Quick-Step and Jumbo-Visma.

Mike Teunissen led the bunch around the bend for van Aert as Cavendish sat on the Belgian’s wheel. Van Aert hit the front first as Cavendish was boxed between the charging Philipsen and the barriers, leaving him little room to move. Once van Aert was at full speed, the win looked in no doubt as Philipsen and Cavendish struggled to respnd.

Van Aert’s victory torpedoed Cavendish’s dream finish to his comeback Tour.

The Manx sprinter had scored four stage wins in the first two weeks to draw level with Eddy Merckx’s Tour de France record – but number 35 will have to wait one more year. Cavendish will take consolation in winning the second green jersey of his illustrious career however.

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As always, the peloton enjoyed a snoozy opening 60km of the stage as teams posed for photos and riders relaxed into the last day of racing.

The race finally gained pace when the bunch hit Paris to take on eight circuits of the tight city-center tour of the capital’s monuments and boulevards.

Deceuninck-Quick-Step marked the early moves before a break of three went away for a short period.

In a sign of what was intended to happen several laps later, Michael Mørkøv delivered Cavendish to take the intermediate sprint behind the breakaway, easily outpacing a challenge by BikeExchange and Michael Matthews.

A second trio attacked into the fifth lap, this time with Ide Schelling (Bora-Hansgrohe), Michael Valgren (EF Education Nippo) and Brent van Moer (Lotto Soudal) hitting out. Deceuninck-Quick-Step and Alpecin-Fenix didn’t give the trio any rope and reeled them in at the start of the final circuit.

A final flurry of last-ditch attacks went in the final six kilometers but the bunch sprint was an inevitability as Deceuninck-Quick-Step controlled, only to be flooded out in the final few bends.

Jakob Fuglsang a DNS

Jakob Fuglsang did not start Sunday’s stage. Team Astana-Premier Tech stated Sunday morning that Fuglsang had been struggling with sickness and chose to abandon the race to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics.

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Tour de France 2021 LIVE stage 21: Pogačar's coronation and Champs-Élysées sprint

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Start: 4.15pm French time (3.15pm BST)

Estimated finish: 7.00pm French time (6.00pm BST) 

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We have made it to Paris! It's stage 21 of the 2021 Tour de France. All the jerseys are all basically decided except for the points jersey that is still quite tight with Michael Matthews being 35 points behind Mark Cavendish.

However, Cavendish has a date with destiny today. If he wins today he will become the rider who has the most stage victories ever at the Tour. Can he do it? Or will the likes of Wout van Aert and Jasper Philipsen defend their fellow Belgian, Eddy Merckx's record?

Jonas Vingegaard will finish second at his debut Tour de France. The 24-year-old has announced himself to the world this Tour de France so we spoke to those who know him well to find out more.

Read more: Meet Jonas Vingegaard: Inside the early fish market mornings and a ‘Great Danish Bake Off’ star for a mother-in-law

Richard Carapaz will round out the podium with a solid third overall. 

Read more: Richard Carapaz happy with Tour de France podium but admits Tadej Pogačar is 'very difficult' to beat

Chris Froome has managed to make it round the race. 

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Make sure to get voting on our Twitter poll today! Will Cavendish manage to pull off his 35th Tour stage win? It would be his fifth at this year's race.

Who will win on the Champs-Élysées? Can Cav make history of will a Belgian protect the record from being broken? #TDF2021 July 18, 2021

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I'm Tim Bonville-Ginn and I'm going to be taking you through the entire final stage of the Tour de France.

Should be a very interesting stage. Obviously we have the usual parade into Paris before the race explodes into life and the sprinters teams take over to set up the fast men.

The difference this year is that the finish is 400 metres further up the road than usual due to the poor surface on the final corner. Will that play more into the hands of the power sprinters like Wout van Aert? Or is it all set for a Mark Cavendish win?

Jakob Fuglsang has ridden the entire Tour and decides to leave with one day to go to look after his legs for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

💠 @LeTour @jakob_fuglsang wont start today’s stage after waking up feeling unwell after yesterday’s ITT. With Tokyo in mind, the decision has been made to prioritize his recovery.Thank you Jakob for all your great work over the last three weeks. #TDF2021 pic.twitter.com/R1KbRUnJAs July 18, 2021

Some words from Froome before the start

🎙🇬🇧 @chrisfroome "Cette année, ça a été fantastique. J'ai beaucoup souffert mais c'est tellement bon d'être ici. Je suis incroyablement fier d'avoir terminé ce Tour. Je suis vraiment fier d'arriver à Paris."#TDF2021 pic.twitter.com/h4qx4V9rMa July 18, 2021

Watch out for Qhubeka-NextHash's special orange helmets and bar tape as they celebrate Mandela Day! 

A very special day for the South African registered team.

We have set off on our neutralised start. Tadej Pogačar has just signed Wout Poels' polka dot jersey while riding. That's quite skilful.

Of course, Poels is wearing the jersey but Pogačar owns that jersey and has won it, he just needs to finish.

Same can be said for the white jersey which is being worn by Jonas Vingegaard.

Here is the signing 

We have passed through kilometre zero but the precession continues. Here are the jerseys.

UAE Team Emirates are wearing special white and yellow kits today, I'm trying to find a shot for you to show. 

Mark Cavendish still not happy with his setup just before the start of today

We're on our final categorised climb of the Tour de France. Just one point available on the Côte des Grès. 1.9km at an average of 5.1 per cent. Mikkel Bjerg takes it.

We have 99km to go but we have a long way to go with the precession. The racing actually starts when we really get to the Champs-Élysées.

There was a lovely moment a few minutes ago where Slovenians, Pogačar, Matej Mohorič and Luka Mezgec held Primož Roglič's number. 

Something that is really interesting is how most riders won't get chance to have a party. Pogačar being one of them. As they all go out to Tokyo tonight for the Olympics. 

Pogačar spoke to Alberto Contador on Eurosport earlier today and said that he will see how he feels with the jet lag and possibly look at the Vuelta a España.

It will be a tough ask but he is likely going to be one of the big favourites in the Olympics, if he wins there then it will be interesting to see. He trains to focus on recovery so it isn't out of the question.

Peloton has now settled down to a solid pace with everyone riding two abreast as we've just completed 3333.3km which is quite pleasing. 81km to go.

Riding in front of the imposing Versailles palace.

We are well within Paris now. We have the Louvre to go by. I've been to the Louvre. It was a cold damp day so we decided to go, lucky we did make a day of it. 

By the time you get to the section of the ancient Egyptians it feels like you've walked to Egypt. Some amazing historical pieces there, but goodness me pace yourself if you ever get to go. It is far bigger than you think.

Apparently this is a thing... Congrats Chris!

Chris Froome awarded as nicest and most polite Tour de France rider https://t.co/AIN9Hk0jfF #TDF2021 July 18, 2021

UAE Team Emirates have now moves up to the front to set the pace as they head well into the French capital. Deceuninck - Quick-Step just sat behind them. It feels like we're actually racing now too.

We have 59km to go and the pace is quite good. 

Here is that lovely moment for the Slovenians earlier 

🇸🇮 The Slovenian riders celebrate this second Tour de France win without forgetting their fellow countryman @rogla! 💛🇸🇮 Les Slovènes célèbrent ce deuxième titre consécutif sans oublier leur compatriote @rogla, forcé à l'abandon ! 💛#TDF2021 pic.twitter.com/ssUZnZKp4P July 18, 2021

And onto the Champs-Élysées we go! It is former world champion, Rui Costa leading then onto it. 55km to go.

UAE Team Emirates spread across the peloton and they cross the line for the first time with eight laps to go.

The team wave to the crowd but we have attacks already! EF Education-Nippo launching it first. We are racing!

Jonas Rutsch, Brent Van Moer, Omar Fraile, Chris Juul-Jensen, Ide Schelling, Philippe Gilbert, Julian Alaphilippe, Stefan Küng, Dries Devenyns, Tim Declercq and more joining. 

Bit more from the Louvre

We have Stefan Bissegger, Harry Sweeny and a DSM rider now clear with the peloton bearing down on them. 49km to go. 

Casper Pedersen is the DSM rider. There is a TotalEnergies rider following to try and bridge but I believe he has given up.

Team BikeExchange are now helping Deceuninck - Quick-Step in the chase as they want to be in with a chance of taking more point jersey points. 

Somehow, Patrick Konrad has bridged to the leaders. Not sure how he managed that, but he has. 45km to go and a gap of 14 seconds.

Pedersen has sat up from the break. He is the last man in the lead out for DSM. 

It looks like Valentin Madouas has set off on a counter-attack as Alpecin-Fenix also join the chase. 42km to go.

Madouas caught very quickly. Intermediate sprint just over a kilometre away. 29 seconds to the leaders with 41km to go.

Bruno Armirail having a go now for Groupama-FDJ, trying to get a mention for the sponsors I think. 

Intermediate and Cavendish eases to the points behind the break. Bissegger took the 20 points but Cavendish lead the peloton in ahead of Michael Mørkøv with Matthews really not getting going. 39km to go.

Not a bad setting really is it?

Team TotalEnergies now try and get a couple of riders in the break with Anthony Turgis and a team-mate of his. But Deceuninck - Quick-Step are shadowing every move. 33km to go with 15 seconds to the leaders now.

Oh believe it or not, it was Pierre Latour who was the other TotalEnergies rider. Jan Bakelants and Philippe Gilbert then tried again but nothing doing. Everything brought back again.

Gilbert tries again but that's going nowhere. Ide Schelling counters that but Alaphilippe is marking it along with Gilbert. 31km to go. 

That move is caught so Schelling goes again alongside, I think, Van Moer as another EF Education-Nippo rider tries to bridge. 

Anthony Perez has somehow got a plastic bag in the derailleur, he's just had it taken out by his mechanic. 

So the leaders are Schelling, Van Moer and Michael Valgren. He's appeared a few times in the front in this final week, which is nice to see. 26km to go with 20 seconds gap. 

Quentin Pacher also tries to go clear but he only has a handful of seconds. He's been joined by another rider I haven't had a clear look of but they have been brought back.

What a shot! Love it, every year. 

Three laps to go with 20km left of racing in this 108th Tour de France. Team DSM and Deceuninck - Quick-Step chase the trio of Schelling, Valgren and Van Moer. They have 20 seconds gap.

Cavendish sat right towards the back with Mørkøv, he'll be moved up when needed.

Cyril Gautier and the super combativity winner Franck Bonnamour now try and go clear for B&B Hotels p/b KTM but they're not getting far as Israel Start-Up Nation join the chase in the peloton too. 

Bonnamour has now gone solo to try and bridge but he has about five seconds on the peloton. 10km to go, 18 seconds gap.

Not sure what happened, Anthony Turgis is a long way down, almost a whole lap behind sadly for the Classics specialist. 

Meanwhile, back at the front, 8km to go and it's just 10 seconds gap now to the peloton for the leaders. Julian Alaphilippe setting the pace.

The break is caught as Geraint Thomas tried a move then I believe with 6km to go. Kasper Asgreen was not about to allow the Welshman away. Bora-Hansgrohe try a double move but Asgreen drags it back again.

We are on the final lap, by the way. We have done the gradual climb up to the Arc before heading down the hill again. Bora have a battle plan here but I doubt they'll pull it off. 

Bahrain Victorious have brought Sonny Colbrelli up but Deceuninck - Quick-Step have got their men at the front again for Cavendish. 4km to go. 

Israel Start-Up Nation and BikeExchange join forces to try and bully Deceuninck - Quick-Step. Wout van Aert also looking for Cavendish's wheel as EF Education-Nippo take the lead again.

Maybe they're setting up Magnus Cort. Mike Teunissen moves Van Aert to the front as Deceuninck - Quick-Step have been swamped a bit.

Cofidis lead under the tunnel as they work for Christophe Laporte. 2km to go. Matthews perfectly placed at the moment.

Mørkøv and Cavendish are a bit too far back for now but they jump onto the Bahrain train as they go under the flamme rouge with Asgreen on the front. We turn back onto the Champs-Élysées. 

Here comes the sprint lead out by Jumbo-Visma

Wout van Aert wins stage 21 of the Tour de France 2021! Cavendish was boxed in and Van Aert somehow adds a bunch sprint to his mountain stage and his time trial win! That was immense from the Belgian champion.

Tadej Pogačar wins the overall title for the second year in a row by a huge margin. Congratulations to him. 

Cavendish does not break the record of Eddy Merckx. He will have to settle to level it. 

Stage top five.

1. Wout van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma, in 2-39-37 2. Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 3. Mark Cavendish (GBr) Deceuninck - Quick-Step 4. Luka Mesgec (Slo) Team BikeExchange 5. André Greipel (Ger) Israel Start-Up Nation 6. Danny van Poppel (Ned) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 7. Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange 8. Alex Aranburu (Esp) Astana-Premier Tech 9. Cyril Barthe (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 10. Max Walscheid (Ger) Qhubeka-NextHash, all at same time.

Race report: Wout van Aert denies Mark Cavendish to win Champs-Élysées stage 21 of Tour de France 2021

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Tour de France 2021 : Wout van Aert s'impose au sprint sur les Champs-Elysées, Tadej Pogacar remporte sa deuxième Grande Boucle d'affilée

Le Slovène de 22 ans, déjà sacré en 2020, conserve son titre. Mark Cavendish manque le record de victoires d'étapes. 

Wout van Aert, trois fois Wout van Aert. Sur les Champs-Elysées, dimanche 18 juillet, le Belge a privé Mark Cavendish d'un 35e succès sur la Grande Boucle . Après un succès en montagne à Malaucène, puis samedi sur le contre-la-montre de Saint-Emilion, l'homme à tout faire de Jumbo-Visma remporte sa troisième étape sur le Tour de France. Mark Cavendish, ressuscité sur ce Tour de France, se consolera avec quatre victoires d'étapes et le maillot vert de meilleur sprinteur.

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates), déjà vainqueur en 2020, remporte le classement général devant Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) et Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers). Premier Français, Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) termine 8e, à 15'33 de Pogacar. 

Cavendish manque le record

La cadre était idéal pour Mark Cavendish, devenu cette année l'égal d'Eddy Merckx au nombre de victoires d'étapes sur la Grande Boucle (34). Son train, si précieux dans ses quatre succès précédents, était en place jusqu'aux derniers 500 mètres. Mais sous la pression mise par Jumbo-Visma, le Cav' a perdu la roue de son poisson-pilote, Michael Mørkøv. Il a alors pris Wout van Aert en filature jusqu'à la ligne d'arrivée. Sauf que le coup de pédale du Belge était aujourd'hui bien au-dessus de celui du Britannique. L'homme de Man n'a pu que constater sa supériorité, secouant un poing rageur face à cette opportunité historique manquée.

Cet accroc n'empêchera pas le Tour de Mark Cavendish d'être une réussite, après cinq ans de traversée du désert. Les Champs-Elysées ont sacré un autre coureur peut-être encore plus exceptionnel : Wout van Aert. Son triplé au Ventoux, sur un contre-la-montre, et sur les Champs-Elysées est un exploit venu d'une autre époque. Celle, justement, d'Eddy Merckx. Hériter spirituel du Cannibale par sa polyvalence, Wout van Aert a protégé son record. Joli symbole. 

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21eme étape : Le sprint des Champs-Elysées pour Van Aert, deuxième titre pour Pogacar

A l'issue d'une dernière étape très animée sur les champs-elysées, wout van aert a pris le meilleur sur jasper philipsen et mark cavendish au sprint. tadej pogacar a scellé sa deuxième victoire.

Wout Van Aert en avait encore sous la semelle ! Vainqueur ce samedi du dernier contre-la-montre de l’édition 2021 du Tour de France, le champion de Belgique est allé chercher sur les Champs-Elysées une troisième victoire d’étape devant Jasper Philipsen et Mark Cavendish. Comme le veut la tradition lors de la dernière étape de la Grande Boucle, le peloton a profité de l’occasion pour faire la fête. L’équipe UAE Team Emirates a changé de tenue pour l’occasion avec un maillot bardé de jaune pour célébrer la victoire annoncée de Tadej Pogacar. Une parade qui a vu Mikkel Bjerg, pour la forme, aller chercher le dernier point disponible pour le Grand Prix de la Montagne au sommet de la Côte des Grès, après un peu plus de sept kilomètres. Toutefois, après avoir multiplié les photos et pris du bon temps, la course a rapidement repris ses droits une fois le peloton arrivé sur les Champs-Elysées. Après avoir laissé l’équipe du maillot jaune ouvrir la voie à l’occasion du premier passage sur la ligne d’arrivée, les hostilités ont été lancées par Brent Van Moer. Celui qui a cédé face au peloton à quelques mètres de l’arrivée lors de la 4eme étape a finalement laissé la place à un trio composé de Stefan Bissegger, Casper Pedersen et Harrison Sweeny. Mais, avec plus de 50 kilomètres à parcourir, le défi était trop grand pour Casper Pedersen, qui a très vite coupé son effort.

Cavendish a assuré, Schelling a attaqué

Plusieurs coureurs ont alors tenté de faire la jonction avec ce trio, qui a maintenu un écart proche des 30 secondes avec le peloton. Patrick Konrad avec le soutien de Nils Politt, Valentin Madouas ou encore Bruno Armirail ont échoué dans leur tentative de rejoindre la tête de course. Le troisième tour du circuit final a vu les sprinteurs s’expliquer mais Mark Cavendish a fait bonne garde et aisément repris trois points à l’Australien pour consolider un peu plus son maillot vert. Après un peu moins de 20 kilomètres de résistance, la tête de course a dû s’avouer vaincue… mais ça n’a pas refroidi les ardeurs d’un certain Ide Schelling. Le Néerlandais a placé un démarrage avec Philippe Gilbert, dont c’était le dernier jour de course sur le Tour de France. Par précaution, l’équipe Deceuninck-Quick Step a délégué un de ses coureurs pour contrôler ce duo et… c’est un certain Julian Alaphilippe qui a endossé ce rôle, tout heureux de placer son maillot de champion du monde en tête de course sur les Champs-Elysées. A 30 kilomètres de l’arrivée, alors que la Patrouille de France est passée au-dessus du peloton, le trio a été repris par le peloton mais Ide Schelling avait de la suite dans les idées, repartant cette fois avec Brent Van Moer et Michael Valgren. Quentin Pacher et Pierre Latour ont tenté de faire la jonction, sans réussite.

Bonnamour s’est montré, Van Aert irrésistible

L’équipe Deceuninck-Quick Step a solidement contrôlé l’échappée mais ça n’a pas empêché un duo de l’équipe B&B Hotels p/b KTM de tenter sa chance. Auréolé de son titre de « Super-combatif », Franck Bonnamour a accéléré avec Cyril Gautier avant d’y aller seul. Un gros dernier relais de Julian Alaphilippe a mis un terme à cette tentative quand, dans le même temps, un Anthony Turgis fiévreux s’est laissé distancer par le peloton. A peine la cloche entendue pour annoncer le dernier tour que Geraint Thomas a placé un démarrage qui a scellé le sort de l’échappée. Nils Politt et Lukas Pöstlberger ont tenté d’accélérer mais Mattia Cattaneo les a mis au pas. A partir de là, un sprint massif était inévitable et les trains se sont progressivement mis en place. Mais, contrairement à son habitude, Mark Cavendish n’a pas pu prendre la roue de Michael Morkov. A l’entrée dans la dernière ligne droite, Mike Teunissen a lancé le sprint pour Wout Van Aert qui n’a pas été débordé par Jasper Philipsen et Mark Cavendish, qui assure tout de même sa victoire au classement par points. Le champion de Belgique termine le Tour de France par un succès de prestige quand, plus en retrait, Tadej Pogacar a pu savourer ces derniers moments de course, lui qui remporte à 22 ans seulement son deuxième Tour de France.

CYCLISME - UCI WORLD TOUR / TOUR DE FRANCE 2021 21eme et dernière étape - Chatou-Paris Champs-Elysées (108,4km) - Dimanche 18 juillet 2021 1- Wout Van Aert (BEL/Jumbo-Visma) en 3h39’37’’ 2- Jasper Philipsen (BEL/Alpecin-Fenix) mt 3- Mark Cavendish (GBR/Deceuninck-Quick Step) mt 4- Luka Mezgec (SLO/BikeExchange) mt 5- André Greipel (ALL/Israel Start-Up Nation) mt 6- Danny van Poppel (PBS/Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux) mt 7- Michael Matthews (AUS/BikeExchange) mt 8- Alex Aranburu (ESP/Astana-Premier Tech) mt 9- Cyril Barthe (FRA/B&B Hotels p/b KTM) mt 10- Maximilian Walscheid (ALL/Qhubeka-Nexthash) mt ... Classement général final 1- Tadej Pogacar (SLO/UAE Team Emirates) en 82h56’36’’ 2- Jonas Vingegaard (DAN/Jumbo-Visma) à 5’20’’ 3- Richard Carapaz (EQU/Ineos Grenadiers) à 7’03’’ 4- Ben O’Connor (AUS/AG2R-Citroën) à 10’02’’ 5- Wilco Kelderman (PBS/Bora-Hansgrohe) à 10’13’’ 6- Enric Mas (ESP/Movistar) à 11’43’’ 7- Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ/Astana-Premier Tech) à 12’23’’ 8- Guillaume Martin (FRA/Cofidis) à 15’33’’ 9- Pello Bilbao (ESP/Bahrain Victorious) à 16’04’’ 10- Rigoberto Uran (COL/EF Education-Nippo) à 18’34’’ ...

Tour de France 2021 Route stage 21: Chatou - Paris

Champs-Élysées is French for Elysium, the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous in Greek mythology. What a place to end the world’s biggest annual sporting event!

The riders clip into their pedals in Chatou, which is situated on the Seine river just 13 kilometres shy of the finish line on the Champs-Élysées. Obviously, the riders will approach Paris’ city centre via a détour. A glass of champagne, a photo shoot, a very slow pace – those are the ingredients of the parade stage on the final day of action. But once the riders hit the cobbles on the Champs-Élysées the bunch accelerates. The stage ends with eight fast laps of almost 7 kilometres.

For four consecutive years Mark Cavendish was the fastest sprinter in Paris, but that was awhile ago in the period 2009-2012. In subsequent years Marcel Kittel (2013, 2014), André Greipel (2015, 2016), Dylan Groenewegen (2017), Alexander Kristoff (2018), Caleb Ewan (2019), and Sam Bennett (2020) powered to victory.

Bennett’s sprint victory on the Champs-Élysées had a green lining, as the Irishman also won the points competition. Cavendish could do the same. And add something extra to the mix: the all-time record of 35 stage wins at te Tour de france.

The first three riders on the line gain time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds.

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Mark Cavendish: "It's great to have a full team for the Champs-Elysées"

“The ITT has been okay for me. It was very flat, so I just tried to stay aerodynamic in order to save energy. I actually enjoyed the course through the vineyards. The crowds were also incredible: it is so nice to see so much people on the roadside. I’m already thinking of tomorrow. I hope for a stage win. As with every stage, there are many teams who haven’t won yet and will battle for victory. Anyway, it will normally come down to a sprint on the Champs Elysées. I will just try to win this bike race. It is great to arrive to Paris with the full team, and three guys placing top10 on the ITT. I’m still very grateful they supported me so much in the mountains. I’m impressed with Tadej Pogacar both as a rider and as a person. He is a nice little kid, always smiling and in a good mood. All these young guys like Vingegaard, Van der Poel and Pogacar himself are great. I am happy I got to share peloton with them.”

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Tour de france route 2021: stage profiles, previews, start times, dates, distances.

A stage-by-stage look at the 2021 Tour de France route with profiles, previews, distances, dates and estimated start times (all times Eastern). Check out extended highlights here.

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Stage 1: BREST→LANDERNEAU

• Date : Saturday, June 26
• Start time : 6:00 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 197.8 km (122.9 miles) - Hilly
• Preview : The 1st stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers approximately 198 km. The race starts in Brest and ends in Landerneau in what should be an exciting finish to see who can claim the first yellow jersey of the Tour. It includes 6 categorized climbs, though none tougher than a Category 3, and an intermediate sprint at 135.1 km.
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Stage 2: PERROS-GUIREC→MUR-DE-BRETAGNE

• Date : Sunday, June 27
• Start time : 7:00 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 183.5 km (114 miles) – Hilly
• Preview : The 2nd stage of the 2021 Tour de France is a 183.5-kilometer hilly stage that starts in Perros-Guirec and ends on the Mur-de-Bretagne in Guerledan. It features another 6 categorized climbs, all Category 3 or 4, including two climbs of the Mur-de-Bretagne. Between bonus seconds behind awarded atop the first Mur-de-Bretagne ascent and an uphill sprint to the finish line on the last climb, there could be an early swap of the yellow jersey.

Stage 3: LORIENT→PONTIVY

• Date : Monday, June 28
• Distance : 182.9 km (113.6 miles) – Flat
• Preview : The 3rd stage of the 2021 Tour de France is simpler flat stage, covering approximately 182.9 km and only featuring a pair of Category 4 climbs. In between those two climbs on the route from Lorient to Pontivy is an intermediate sprint at 118.3 km. With a flat road to the finish line, this stage should see the “pure” sprinters compete head-to-head for the first time in this year’s Tour.

Stage 4: REDON→FOUGERES

• Date : Tuesday, June 29
• Start time : 7:15 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 150.4 km (93.5 miles) – Flat
• Preview : The 4th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 150.4 km, as the best sprinters in the world will be on display for a second straight flat stage. The race from Redon to Fougeres is the only non-time trial stage in this year’s Tour without a single categorized climb. The stage features an intermediate sprint in the 2nd half of the stage at 114.4 km before another bunch sprint is expected at the finish line.

Stage 5: CHANGE→LAVAL

• Date : Wednesday, June 30
• Start time : 6:05 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 27.2 km (16.9 miles) – Individual Time Trial
• Preview : The 5th stage of the 2021 Tour de France is the first of two individual time trials, this one starting in Change and ending in Laval. It’s the first year since 2017 that the Tour has featured multiple individual time trials, which suggests the yellow jersey could be decided by which of the GC riders are the best time trialists. The rider who finishes the 27.2 km route on Stage 5 could very well be the new leader until at least the second week of racing.

Stage 6: TOURS→CHATEAUROUX

• Date : Thursday, July 1
• Start time : 7:45 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 160.6 km (99.8 miles) – Flat
• Preview : The 6th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 160.6 km from Tours to Chateauroux and is another stage designed for a finish-line showdown between the sprinters. One Category 4 climb comes at 72.6 km before the green jersey race takes over. An intermediate sprint at 104.3 km precedes what should be another exciting bunch sprint to end the day.

Stage 7: VIERZON→LE CREUSOT

• Date : Friday, July 2
• Start time : 4:50 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 249.1 km (154.8 miles) – Hilly
• Preview : The 7th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 249.1 km, the longest stage since 2000. The race starts in Vierzon and ends in Le Creusot. The intermediate sprint comes before five categorized climbs, including the first Category 2 climb of the Tour, which will award bonus seconds atop the Signal d’Uchon. The course suggests it could be a successful day for the breakaway or a small group of all-rounders contending to wear yellow at the end of the first week.

Stage 8: OYONNAX→LE GRAND-BORNAND

• Date : Saturday, July 3
• Distance : 150.8 km (93.7 miles) – Mountain
• Preview : The 8th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 150.8 km and is the first mountain stage of the race. After a first week without a lot of difficult climbing, the stage from Oyonnax to Le Grand-Bornand features three Category 1 climbs. With bonus seconds being awarded at the top of the Col de la Colombiere, the final climb of the day, the attention turns to the best climbers in the peloton.

Stage 9: CLUSES→TIGNES

• Date : Sunday, July 4
• Start time : 6:50 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 144.9 km (90 miles) – Mountain
• Preview : The 9th stage of the 2021 Tour de France from Cluses to Tignes covers approximately 144.9 km and will be the most grueling stage of the Tour to this point. There’s five categorized climbs, all of which are Category 2 or higher, including the first HC climb of the Tour on the Col du Pre. Plus, the finish line marks the first of three summit finishes of the Tour, following a 21 km ascent up the Montee de Tignes.

Stage 10: ALBERTVILLE→VALENCE

• Date : Tuesday, July 6
• Start time : 6:55 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 190.7 km (118.5 miles) – Flat
• Preview : The 10th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 190.7 km following the first of two rest days. Unless there’s extreme crosswinds, expect a simple day on the course from Albertville to Valence. Just a single Category 1 climb and the intermediate sprint come in the first half of the stage before the peloton sets itself up for a probable bunch sprint at the finish line in a day suited for the green jersey contenders.

Stage 11: SORGUES→MALAUCENE

• Date : Wednesday, July 7
• Start time : 5:50 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 198.9 km (123.6 miles) – Mountain
• Preview : The 11th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers approximately 198.9 km and features two different climbs up the same mountain. After leaving Sorgues, riders will encounter five categorized climbs in total, the last two a Category 1 climb and an HC ascent both up Mount Ventoux. Bonus seconds will be awarded atop the final climb before the majority of the final 22 km are downhill to the finish line in Malaucene.

Stage 12: SAINT-PAUL-TROIS-CHATEAUX

• Date : Thursday, July 8
• Start time : 7:20 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 159.4 km (99 miles) – Flat
• Preview : The 12th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 159.4 km. The route from Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux to Nimes is another flat stage that suits the sprinters, with no obstacles until a Category 3 climb at 83.7 km, just after the halfway point in the stage. With a late intermediate sprint in play, the green jersey race will be the highlight of the day.

Stage 13: NIMES→CARCASSONNE

• Date : Friday, July 9
• Start time : 5:55 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 219.9 km (136.6 miles) – Flat
• Preview : The 13th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers a lengthy 219.9 km on the second straight day with a flat stage, starting where the previous day finished in Nimes. Once an early Category 4 climb is out of the way, the attention turns to the sprinters. While it does look like a straightforward day for the green jersey race, the finish town of Carcassonne has never seen a bunch sprint when it has hosted a finish line in the Tour.

Stage 14: CARCASSONNE→QUILLAN

• Date : Saturday, July 10
• Start time : 6:15 a.m. on Peacock , NBC
• Distance : 183.7 km (114.1 miles) – Hilly
• Preview : The 14th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 183.7 km. The race starts where it finished Stage 13 in Carcassonne and finishes in Quillan. The hilly stage features five categorized climbs, three of which are Category 2. The final climb of the day will award bonus seconds atop the Col de Saint-Louis. On paper, this looks like a day for the breakaway, with the heavier mountain stages still to come in the third week of the race .

Stage 15: CERET→ANDORRE-LA-VIEILLE

• Date : Sunday, July 11
• Start time : 6:10 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 191.3 km (118.9 miles) – Mountain
• Preview : The 15th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 191.3 km, a long mountain stage starting in Ceret and finishing in Andorre-la-Vieille. Let the third week of the Tour begin with four categorized climbs, including three Category 1 climbs, and bonus seconds up for grabs atop the Col de Beixalis. The riders will also endure the highest point of the Tour at over 2,400 meters on the Port d’Envalira.

Stage 16: PAS DE LA CASE→SAINT-GAUDENS

• Date : Tuesday, July 13
• Distance : 169 km (105 miles) – Hilly
• Preview : The 16th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 169 km following the final rest day of the race. Now that they’ve gotten another quick rest ahead of the most pivotal racing, the yellow jersey contenders might let the breakaway succeed on this hilly stage from Pas de la Case to Saint-Gaudens. Four spread-out categorized climbs make this an exciting opportunity for a strong breakaway specialist.

Stage 17: MURET→SAINT-LARY-SOULAN

• Date : Wednesday, July 14
• Start time : 5:45 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 178.4 km (110.9 miles) – Mountain
• Preview : The 17th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 178.4 km, kicking off the first of the final two mountain stages of the Tour, both of which are summit finishes. The GC battle heats up starting in Muret, where a flat lead-up to three tough categorized climbs will put the yellow jersey contenders to the test. The stage ends in Saint-Lary-Soulan on the Col du Portet - the HC summit finish taking riders to an elevation of over 2,200 meters.

Stage 18: PAU→LUZ ARDIDEN

• Date : Thursday, July 15
• Start time : 7:25 a.m. on Peacock , NBCSN
• Distance : 129.7 km (80.6 miles) – Mountain
• Preview : The 18th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 129.7 km, with the short-distance mountain stage a good indicator of a challenging day of climbing. After leaving Pau, the peloton will tackle two small Category 4 climbs in the first half of the day before two HC climbs in the second half. It’s the only stage in the Tour with multiple HC climbs, the latter a summit finish at Luz Ardiden. It’s the last opportunity for the GC riders to put themselves in good position ahead of the Stage 20 time trial two days later.

Stage 19: MOURENX→LIBOURNE

• Date : Friday, July 16
• Distance : 207 km (128.6 miles) – Flat
• Preview : The 19th stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 207 km. Expect a casual day from the peloton on this flat stage following the last of the mountains the day earlier and the need for strong legs the next day in the time trial. If a courageous breakaway doesn’t take advantage of this, we should see another sprint finish in Libourne.

Stage 20: LIBOURNE→SAINT-EMILION

• Date : Saturday, July 17
• Distance : 30.8 km (19.1 miles) – Individual Time Trial
• Preview : The 20th stage of the 2021 Tour de France is the second individual time trial that covers 30.8 km. The stage starts in Libourne, where the previous stage finished, and ends in Saint-Emilion. After what happened on last year’s Stage 20 individual time trial, when the yellow jersey amazingly switched hands, brace for another exciting day that could decide the winner of the Tour for the second straight year.

Stage 21: CHATOU→PARIS - CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES

• Date : Sunday, July 18
• Start time : 10:05 a.m. on Peacock , NBC
• Distance : 108.5 km (67.4 miles) – Flat
• Preview : The 21st stage of the 2021 Tour de France covers 108.4 km. The race starts in Chatou and includes a Category 4 climb at 7.4 km and an intermediate sprint at 68.3 km. The Yellow Jersey is traditionally often solidly settled on the shoulders of the final winner at the start of this last stage, but for the sprinters who dream of triumphing on the Champs-Élysées, it’s the opportunity to take on one of the toughest challenges of the year.

Tour de France: Unchained – Second series offers more emotions but also more crashes

The eight new episodes look back at the Vingegaard-Pogačar duel of the 2023 Tour

The second series of ‘Tour de France: Unchained’ will be released on June 11, and the Netflix documentary offers another intense, emotional and dramatic insider view of the biggest race in professional cycling.

Last year, we compared the slick editing and constant showing of crashes and suffering to eating too much Haribo on a hot day . The second series offers more of the same, with the eight 45-minute episodes packed with best moments of racing, the crashes, the heartache and joy that the Tour always produces.

Tadej Pogačar and his UAE Team Emirates teams struck a deal to be filmed alongside the eight official teams, and so this year’s series tells a more complete story of his battle with Vingegaard and how Pogačar lost out in the time trial and then cracked on stage 17 over the  Col de la Loze.

Mark Cavendish also features across several episodes that highlight the dangers of sprinting, including the moment when he crashed out on stage 8 after going close to victory on stage 7 in Bordeaux.

The tragic death of Gino Mäder at the Tour de Suisse is weaved into the narrative Tour de France Unchained, with a tearful interview with Pello Bilbao highlighting the fears and emotions in the peloton after the loss of the Swiss rider.

One of the most moving moments of series 2 captures the moment Ben O'Connor is told of Mäder’s death during a training ride. Julian Alaphilippe also reflects on the dangers of pro racing. "We are nothing on earth and even less on a bike. Just to evoke Gino gives me chills everywhere," he said.

Yet 'Tour de France: Unchained' also dramatizes numerous crashes in a jarring contradiction that could perhaps have been avoided. At the very least, the crashes could have been treated with more respect.

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The crashes and serious injuries of the 2024 season have confirmed that the riders’ pain and suffering should never be used to ‘sell’ the sport, even to a broader audience on Netflix.

Despite that, the documentary is addictive and entertaining to watch, whatever your level of understanding of the sport, showing moments that are rarely seen on television or video. 

The Netflix camera crews again had all-area access to the eight teams and captured rarely-seen moments on team buses and even intimate moments between directeur sportif and riders on the massage table.

Each of the eight episodes combines different storylines covering the AG2R Citroën, Alpecin-Deceuninck, EF Education-EasyPost, Groupama-FDJ, Ineos Grenadiers, Bora-Hansgrohe, Jumbo-Visma and Soudal-QuickStep teams.

Their race tactics are studied in detail, with race commentary and scripted comments and considerations from French commentator Steve Chainel and Ireland’s Orla Chennaoui of Eurosport. Interviews at home, often done by their partners, reveal a more human face of the leading riders.

"Some of the eight episodes look like a dive into a pack of mixed feelings. Almost like being on a psychiatrist's couch, it's about grief, fear, anger, betrayal and pride," Christophe Bérard suggested in the French newspaper Le Parisien in one of the early reviews.

Team managers Jonathan Vaughters, Patrick Lefevere, Marc Madiot and Richard Plugge also feature, as they fight with each other and try to guide their riders to victory. Madiot’s disdain for Plugge after he accuses his riders and staff of drinking beer is ‘peak Madiot,’ packed with venom and pride.

Jumbo-Visma directeur sportif Grischa Niermann and his many exclamations of ‘Fuck!” in the team car again star, as does Pogačar’s foul-mouthed acceptance that he was done and his Tour de France challenge over. Not surprisingly Tour de France Unchained is rated 13+. 

The official trailer included a question to Thibaut Pinot about Vingegaard’s crushing time trial performance but did not reveal his answer.

It turns out the Frenchman preferred to enjoy his final Tour.

“Phew… I don’t want to answer that question. I’m not interested in that,” Pinot said. 

Madiot was not so diplomatic.

“There’s always a moment when the truth comes out, so we’ll see,” he said.

Vingegaard has always insisted he races clean and spoke directly to the Netflix camera about the 2023 allegations. 

“There’s no reason to be speculating. The past (history of cycling) is the only reason to speculate,” Vingegaard said.

“I know I don’t take anything. I’m not doing anything that I'm not allowed to do. I’m clean and even when they test these samples in 100 years, they won't find anything.”

Eight carefully scripted episodes

The eight episodes are an excellent way to look back at the 2023 Tour de France and prepare for this year’s race.

Episode one sets up the series and the Vinggaard-Pogačar battle with interviews with both riders from their homes and training camps, recalling Pogačar’s return from his scaphoid fracture at Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

It also captures the riders during a minute’s silence to remember Gino Mäder in their pre-race meeting with race organisers ASO in Bilbao, to introduce the crash narrative and reveal riders’ fears but also their determination to win.

Richard Carapaz crashed on stage one and the episode focuses on his subsequent abandon and how it wrecked EF Education-Easypost’s ambitions at the 2023 Tour de France.   

Episode two recalls Ben O’Connor emotional and physical struggles in the early stages in the Basque Country, while fellow Perth native and natural rival Jai Hindley won stage 5 and pulled on the yellow jersey.

The first sprint battles, Jasper Philipsen’s dominance and the many crashes fill episode two.

Fabio Jakobsen’s Tour de Pologne crash is shown again, while his high-speed crash on stage 4 is dissected and analysed in all its gory detail. Jakobsen accuses Philipsen of sparking the crash but he says: “We're not here to make friends with other teams.”

Cavendish’s crash and abandon is covered in the same episode, but the series ends with him promising to return to the 2024 Tour. 

Stage 4 is simply titled ‘For Gino’ and tells how the Bahrain Victorious riders try to win a stage to honour his memory, with Bilbao taking stage 10. 

The struggles at Ineos Grenadiers fills episode five, as Tom Pidcock fails to fight for GC and Carlos Rodriguez steps up and confirms his Grand Tour potential, winning stage 14 just 24 hours after Michał Kwiatkowski won stage 13. 

The Vingegaard-Pogačar battle takes centre stage on episode six as the Dane dominates the time trial and then Pogačar cracks.

The episode covers the suspicions created by Vingegaard’s performance and reveals how team manager Richard Plugge accused Groupama-FDJ of drinking beers on the rest day as a dead cat distraction to take the media spotlight and pressure off Vingegaard.

Patrick Lefevere and his spats with Julian Alaphilippe about his salary and poor results fill episode seven. The French rider jokes that he is paid “a bit too much for Patrick….” but went on the attack on seven stages to try to win a stage. Kasper Asgreen eventually saves the team’s Tour de France.

Marc Madiot responds to Plugge’s beer accusations during episode eight, which also recalls Pinot’s ‘Last Dance’ solo attack on his home roads during stage 20. The Virage Pinot was packed with screaming fans but following a perfect Netflix script, Pinot did not win the stage.

Episode eight and the second series of Tour de France: Unchained ends in Paris with the Champs Elysees sprint, the final podium and Vingegaard’s second victory ahead of Pogačar.

In the final moments, Madiot raises a sarcastic glass of beer as Pinot ends his Tour de France career, emotional but happy that it is all over. 

It leaves us wishing for more. Fortunately, the start of the 2024 Tour de France is only a few weeks away. 

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The Greatest Comeback in Cycling History: The Greg LeMond Story

Whenever you ask someone about thrilling moments in sport, they always miss including cycling in their list for some unknown reason. Even avid cyclists will probably quote some football game rather than Mathieu van der Poel’s mind-altering win at the 2019 Amstel Gold or Tadej Pogačar’s brutal dismembering of the competition at this year’s Stage 8 of the Tour de France. Yet, for anyone who follows the World Cycling Championship or even just the Tour de France, it’s pretty obvious that thrills are the standard in any race.

No other sport has produced so much drama as cycling has done over the past century. For any devastating attack that exalted the public, a dozen nuclear counterattacks left the spectators screaming for more. For any monster climb, there are just as many heart-stopping descends. For any epic breakaway, there are five era-defining comebacks. And while many of these moments are filled with anger, disappointment and tears, there are just as many empowering stories that are a symbol of overcoming difficulties, odds and even fate. However, only one such moment has been dubbed “the greatest comeback in cycling history”.

A game of cat and mouse

July 23, 1989. The 76th edition of the Tour de France was ready for its conclusion. Only one stage remained – a 24.5-km individual time trial from Versailles to the iconic Champs-Élysées. The whole Tour was one continuous thriller in which Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon constantly took the spotlight. It was a glorious dance between these two powerhouses, and it was the American who first took the lead after a fantastic time trial at stage 5. However, Fignon was only 5 seconds back, waiting for his chance to take the yellow jersey.

The cat and mouse game between the two continued for the following five stages, as LeMond took advantage of the yellow jersey and rode defensively, always on Fignon’s wheel. On the toughest Pyrenees climb, though, the Frenchman had enough. He attacked LeMond with 1 km to go and took a twelve-second lead on the American. The yellow jersey was Fignon’s for the first time during this Tour, with a 7-second advantage over LeMond.

Another five stages later on the Alpe’s slopes, LeMond took the yellow jersey once again, only to lose it two stages later at the legendary Alpe d’Huez climb. The Frenchman had a 26-second advantage but he almost doubled it to 50 seconds in the following three stages.

On July 23, 1989, there was only one stage left. Fignon had 50 seconds on LeMond and was pretty sure that they were quite enough for the 24.5-km individual time trial.

Two years earlier

Greg LeMond was no stranger to winning. He had one UCI World Championship in 1983 and one Tour de France victory in 1986 under his belt. However, in April 1987, while recovering from a wrist injury, LeMond went on a turkey hunt on his uncle’s ranch in California. The cyclist got separated from his companions, and when his brother-in-law saw a movement behind a bush nearby, he shot. Unfortunately, on the other end was Greg. Approximately 60 pellets plunged into LeMond’s back and right side. The cyclist was rushed to the hospital where he arrived with 65% of his blood already drained. Twenty minutes separated Greg from certain death. After a lengthy life-saving operation, LeMond was brought back to life, although 35 pellets were forever left in his body.

A year later, Greg was ready to come back to racing but his dedication took a turn on him. Due to over-training, he developed tendonitis in his right shin, which resulted in another surgery. Everything pointed out that Greg’s best days on two wheels were far gone.

A ride to remember

Being 50 seconds behind in the final stage of Tour de France nearly two years after almost dying is a remarkable achievement on its own, especially when you are racing a god-like cyclist like Laurent Fignon. However, as it had become evident with the battle for his life, LeMond was never the one to shy away from a fight. Furthermore, with his custom-made handlebars giving him better aerodynamics, the American was confident the race was far from over. He needed to gain 50 seconds in 24.5 km. With this in mind, LeMond climbed the starting stage.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1… and LeMond was on his way.

Two minutes later, Fignon took his place on the starting stage. The Parisian looked confident – no aero helmet and no aero handlebars. The crowd is ecstatic. Fignon was on the way to bringing back the Tour de France victory to France after three long years of waiting.

LeMond was like a locomotive. He reached 64 kph on the first part of the course. The American never lost his rhythm, and by the finish on Champs-Élysées, he was just a few seconds away from Delgado who was third in the overall standings and started 2 minutes before LeMond. The impossible was already looking quite achievable. Greg crossed the finish line under the roaring crowd with a stunning 26:57 and a record speed of 54.5 kph. He stepped away from his bike as if he hadn’t just ridden 24 km at a record pace. However, there was time for collapsing, and it wasn’t now. Fignon was just a couple of minutes behind him, and Greg wanted to witness his triumph on his feet.

Fignon, on the other hand, looked as if he had lost his rhythm at the start, standing from his seat for power surges. During the first 10 km, he lost 18 seconds off of his advantage. Even at this rate, though, the Parisian would win with a 5-second lead, although the stage win would go to the American with a whopping 45 seconds margin.

Things weren’t looking good for LeMond, especially when Fignon entered the second half of the stage and found his rhythm. At this point, the Frenchman was riding at a pace he had never achieved previously. Fignon was giving his best. He needed a 27.47, and the title was his.

The 10 seconds of truth

At 27:37, just 10 seconds before losing the title, Fignon dashed through the 250-m line. His head was down, his legs were burning, and the crowd was cheering their champion.

27:38 Fignong glanced at the finish line, which was so close, yet so far.

27:40. The 200-m sign was left behind as the Frenchman prepared for his final sprint.

27:41 Fignon’s bike curved to the left as if emphasizing the Parisian’s helplessness.

27:45 Fignion was giving his all. His muscles were aching, his heart was screaming, his legs were dying.

27:46 One second and it’s all over. The crowd was overjoyed, but they didn’t have the result yet.

27:47. The end was here. Fignon was less than 130 meters away but his time was up. Greg LeMond burst with joy. The impossible had become a reality.

Fignon finished only 8 seconds later. Eight seconds that cost him the Tour de France title. Eight seconds that created the legend of Greg LeMond. The most amazing thing about this finish is that Fignon wasn’t relaxing or being overconfident. On the contrary. His average speed was nearly 53 kph, which was the fastest time-trial pace he had ever done. But LeMond was simply a titan.

This 8-second win remains to this day the smallest margin by which the Tour de France winner has been decided.

Anything but fluke

Many attribute LeMond’s victory to the superior bike model made possible by the, at the time, innovative aero handlebars. However, Greg’s return was far from a one-time event. Just a few months later, the American won the UCI World Championship. Then, he made a return to the Tour de France the following year, only to win it again, this time with a much higher margin.

Lemond went on to become an inspiration to many. He became a sensation, a personification of the fighting spirit, of the undying desire to win, of the relentless obsession with cycling, which many of us know far too well. And while most of us will never know the joy of winning the Tour de France firsthand, we can still take Greg LeMond’s lesson never to give up, never to say never, and to always fight for our dreams.

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Many cycling fans consider the 1989 Tour not just the most competitive edition of the race, but also the greatest. Never before, and never since, had the world’s premier bike event been decided in its final moments. However, I think LeMond’s achievement is bigger than that—bigger, even, than cycling. To me, LeMond and his eight seconds represent the greatest comeback in the modern history of American sports.

Pulling off the quintessential victory in a world-class race would guarantee LeMond immortality in any circumstances. But consider this: Not two years before his win, LeMond had hovered 20 minutes from death.

In April 1987, at age 25, LeMond joined a turkey hunt on his uncle’s California ranch. A companion mistook him for game and fired, spraying LeMond with buckshot. He lost perhaps one-third of his blood before rescuers arrived. His massive heart and lungs, once rated at a VO2 max of 93, probably saved him.

Most Americans today know little of LeMond or his comeback. While writing my book—titled, naturally, The Comeback —and traveling on the subsequent speaking tour, I asked dozens of non-cyclists what they knew of LeMond (not much) and the ’89 Tour (even less). One reason: Competitive cycling, an obsession in Europe, barely registers as a sport in the States.

LeMond changed that, for a while, in 1986, when he won his and his nation’s first Tour de France. On his way to becoming a household name, he then suddenly seemed to disappear. The hunting accident took LeMond out of circulation for two crucial years, time he might have spent winning more Tours and building a legend. American news outlets barely covered the accident, which LeMond and his doctors downplayed, fearing his PDM cycling team would fire him (it did so anyway).

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Doctors wondered whether LeMond would live, let alone ride, let alone compete, ever again. That he might reclaim a career in professional cycling, among the most grueling of sports, seemed absurd.

But once LeMond began to recover, he never really stopped. First he rode around his garage, then up and down his street and on little excursions around his neighborhood. His daily outings stretched to 10 miles, then to 20, and soon LeMond was training again. He returned to competition in the fall of 1987, entering races he couldn’t finish, then finishing races he couldn’t win. He lagged at the rear of the peloton through the 1988 season and into 1989.

A few weeks before the ’89 Tour, riding in the Giro d’Italia , LeMond finally showed signs of life. Even so, no one rated him a serious contender for the Tour de France title. Then the race began, and on Stage 5 LeMond seized the overall leader’s yellow jersey .

Over three weeks of competition, the maillot jaun e passed back and forth between LeMond and Laurent Fignon, the last great French cyclist of his generation. It was a contest of slender leads, and the Tour approached Paris with Fignon holding a 50-second advantage over LeMond.

The final stage was a time trial, a race against the clock, just 25K long. Pundits thought it impossible that LeMond could regain enough time to win. Journalists had already written their stories, presuming Fignon’s victory, before the battle began.

LeMond’s triumph threw France into disarray. Fignon was shattered. LeMond drew another round of global celebrity and won a third Tour de France in 1990 before fading amid a surge of EPO , a wonder drug he refused to take. Fans love to debate how many Tours he might have claimed in a world without EPO or hunting accidents.

And that was LeMond’s comeback. Is there a greater one? Tiger Woods, the golf legend, recently won his first major tournament in a decade. But from what, exactly, did he come back? A better nominee is golfer Ben Hogan, who returned to the top after a ghastly car crash in 1949. But that’s golf, a far less active sport.

Who else is there? Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan returned to the top of their respective sports after lengthy absences that had nothing to do with injury or illness. Tennis legend Monica Seles survived a freak stabbing, a wound that healed in a few weeks. Baseball legend Tommy John survived, um, Tommy John surgery.

I’ve searched far and wide for another athlete who returned from near-death to the top of an aerobic sport, and I know of one: Lance Armstrong . Diagnosed with metastatic testicular cancer in 1996, Armstrong was given 50-50 odds for survival. But he didn’t merely recover. Before cancer, he was America’s best cyclist and a middling Tour competitor. After cancer, he became the greatest men’s cyclist in the world.

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Armstrong’s comeback eclipsed LeMond’s, enshrining the former as his country’s greatest cycling celebrity—yet another reason so few Americans remember their first Tour champion. (Let’s pause to consider the sheer oddity that two great American comebacks played out in the same, tiny sport.)

We all know what happened next. Armstrong’s legend collapsed, and his Tour victories evaporated.

And that leaves LeMond.

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Daniel de Visé is author of The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France (Atlantic Monthly Press), released in paperback on May 21.

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Sous un beau soleil parisien, les deux présidents ont déposé à l'Arc de Triomphe une gerbe et ravivé la flamme du Soldat inconnu. Des avions de chasse ont défilé au-dessus de leurs têtes. Puis, ils ont descendu en voiture la plus célèbre avenue du monde, pavoisée aux couleurs de leurs deux pays, encadrés par 140 chevaux et 38 motards.

La suite de la journée s’est poursuivie à l’Élysée, où les deux présidents ont participé à un déjeuner de travail, qui s’est terminé par des déclarations à la presse.

Les deux chefs d’Etat ont affiché leur unité de vues. Ils se sont d’abord félicités de la libération des quatre otages israéliens.  «Nous ne cesserons d'œuvrer jusqu'à ce que tous les otages soient rentrés chez eux» , a déclaré Joe Biden.

Sur le dossier ukrainien, les Etats-Unis «se tiennent fermement aux côtés de l'Ukraine» et ne manqueront pas de la soutenir avec leurs alliés, a assuré le président américain Joe Biden. «Nous ne nous déroberons pas» , a-t-il dit lors de cette déclaration au côté du président français Emmanuel Macron.

Emmanuel Macron a salué la «loyauté» du président américain. «Je vous remercie d'être le président de la première puissance mondiale» et «de le faire avec la clarté et la loyauté d'un partenaire qui aime et qui respecte les Européens» , a déclaré le président français, en vantant la volonté de M. Biden, qui concourt à sa réélection face à Donald Trump, d'être «celui qui veut justement bâtir ces accords, de l'Ukraine au Proche-Orient» .

Un dîner d’État a eu lieu en début de soirée : Pharrell Williams, Salma Hayek et François-Henri Pinault, Nicolas et Carla Sarkozy ou encore Thomas Pesquet étaient présents.

Tout est fait, d'un côté comme de l'autre, pour bien montrer que «nous sommes plus proches que nous n'avons jamais été» , comme l'a dit vendredi un porte-parole de la Maison Blanche, John Kirby.

Côté français, l'on se félicite d'avoir droit à la plus longue visite à l'étranger du président démocrate de 81 ans, et ce en pleine campagne pour l'élection présidentielle américaine de novembre, qui le verra affronter Donald Trump .

Joe Biden était arrivé à Paris mercredi matin - il n'a toutefois pas eu d'événement public à son agenda ce jour-là - et a participé jeudi, avec Emmanuel Macron, aux commémorations du débarquement allié de 1944. Il repartira dimanche après la visite d'un cimetière américain.

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La relation entre les deux hommes s'est grandement améliorée depuis qu'en septembre 2021, les États-Unis ont enlevé, au nez et à la barbe de la France, un gros contrat de sous-marins avec l'Australie. La crise diplomatique qui s'ensuivit reste comme l'un des plus vifs épisodes de tension entre les États-Unis et leur «plus ancienne alliée» , comme ils aiment à appeler la France.

«L'une des choses que (le président américain) respecte et admire autant chez le président Macron est sa capacité à être aussi honnête et direct que lui-même l'est. Voilà ce qu'il veut voir chez un ami et un allié : une capacité à aller droit au but et à dire ce que l'on pense» , a assuré John Kirby. Pour surmonter la brouille, le président américain avait d'ailleurs réservé au chef d'État français la première visite d'État à la Maison-Blanche de son mandat, en décembre 2022. Les deux hommes semblent désormais réconciliés.

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When is the Tour de France 2024? How to watch and the latest odds with Tadej Pogacar the bookies' favourite

W ith five weeks to go until the 2024 Tour de France , Tadej Pogacar is the bookies’ favourite to win the yellow jersey — having won the Giro d’Italia emphatically.  

The Slovenian is looking to add to his 2020 and 2021 Tour titles, which will be easier if rival Jonas Vingegaard fails to recover from crash injuries sustained in the Itzulia Basque Country tour earlier this year.

Danish rider Vingegaard, the 2022 and 2023 Tour winner, is facing a race against time to be fit and is not on the start list for next week's Critérium du Dauphiné — a warm-up race. 

Other yellow jersey contenders Remco Evenepoel and Primož Roglič, who also both crashed on the Basque tour, have recovered to make the Critérium .

It could make for an interesting 111th edition of the race with or without its biggest names when the racing gets under way next month. 

Here is all you need to know about the 2024 Tour de France.

When is the Tour de France 2024? 

The Tour will begin with a hilly stage from Florence to Rimini in Italy on Saturday, June 29. 

From there, riders will race for 21 days and have two rest days, culminating in a time trial in Nice on Sunday, July 21. 

What is the route for the Tour?

After the four days in Italy, the Tour will cross the border to Valloire France on Tuesday, July 2 — the first high mountain stage.

It is the first time the race has had its Grand Depart in Italy. In another first, the riders will cross into San Marino on an early stage. 

The Tour will finish outside Paris for the first time as the French capital is preparing to host the Olympic Games and the Paralympics this summer.

The final stage in Nice will be a time trial, meaning the general classification order will go down to the last day. 

While usually the last day is something of a ceremony before a sprint, in 2024 it will be the second of two long time trials. 

The tough route will take in summit finishes in the French Alps, featured earlier than usual, Massif Central and the Pyrenees. Stage nine will also feature 32 kilometres (20 miles) of gravel roads. 

The severity of the stages and lack of flat finishes is bad news for sprinters including Britain's Mark Cavendish — who is seeking a record-breaking 35th Tour stage win. 

Eight stages identified as ‘flat’ could give sprinters such as Cavendish reasons to hope — but only if they can stay in the race over the mountains and make time cuts. 

The Manx rider told the Guardian : “There’s a few [sprint stages] but you’ve got to get to them — that’s the problem. 

“It’s so hard. I’m in a bit of shock, actually.”

How can I watch the Tour de France? 

ITV 4 and ITV X will be showing the Tour de France live from June 29 to July 21 with highlights shows every evening — usually at 7pm. 

In previous years, the shows have been presented by Gary Imlach with input and commentary from David Millar and Ned Boulting. 

ITV will also broadcast Critérium du Dauphiné highlights from June 4 to 11. 

Who are the bookmakers’ favourites for the 2024 Tour de France? 

Bookmakers are in an unusual position and taking bets on a race scenario with and without defending champion Jonas Vingegaard taking part. 

Oddschecker does not have the option of betting on the Dane winning the yellow jersey.

However, the odds of other contenders do shorten if he does not make the start line. 

The full list of riders will be confirmed nearer the start of the race. 

These are the Oddschecker odds as of May 30 .

Tadej Pogacar: Odds to win with Vingegaard in race (4/11) without Vingegaard (1/2)

The Slovenian is in red-hot form and could add to his two yellow jerseys. 

Primož Roglič: Both with and without Vingegaard (9/2)

Another Slovenian who has won the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana in the past but never the Tour de France, despite coming second in 2020. 

Remco Evenepoel: With and without Vingegaard (10/1)

The Belgian has previously won the Giro and is an all-rounder. 

Juan Ayuso: With and without Vingegaard (16/1)

The Spanish youngster is a teammate of Pogacar at UAE Team Emirates and could step up should misfortune strike the Slovenian but is otherwise on domestique duty.

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Best Tour de France Finish Ever: Why LeMond’s ’89 Win Reigns Supreme

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A lot can go right and wrong in a race that traverses thousands of miles.

Even the best athletes who compete in the Tour de France fall victim to mechanical errors, illness, crashes, or other weird hiccups. Any misfortune can easily shatter their hopes and leave them hopelessly out of reach of the coveted yellow jersey.

Usually, those factors stack up throughout the tour to create gaps of several minutes in the overall general classification time between the race’s winner and the chasers. Riders often cement their victories before they even arrive in Paris for the final stage of the race, barring a cataclysmic crash or mechanical issue.

In 1989, nothing could be further from the truth. After weeks of racing and an epic battle that saw the yellow jersey handed back and forth throughout the entire race, just seconds separated the winner from the second-place finisher.

An Epic Tour de France Battle Brews

Even before the Tour de France began in 1989, cyclists knew a showdown was fast approaching among three of the top riders in the world: American Greg LeMond , France’s Laurent Fignon , and Spaniard Pedro Delgado .

Delgado won the Tour de France the year before, so he was a key contender straight out of the gate.

Fignon won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 but had since fallen ill or suffered injuries that kept him out of the hunt for the yellow jersey. He’d recently proved he was on form to take a third title with a win at the 1989 Giro d’Italia just months before.

Greg LeMond found himself more of a question mark ahead of the race. LeMond took the yellow jersey at the Tour de France in 1986. He was the first American to do so and was on track to become a U.S. cycling superstar, the likes of which had never been seen.

However, in 1987, LeMond suffered a horrific hunting injury that nearly ended his career and life. LeMond was shot in the back with a shotgun, leaving him peppered with lead. He slowly built back his strength to enter competitive cycling again, but the impacts of his injuries were noticeable.

LeMond struggled in stages of the Giro d’Italia, and reportedly told confidants and relatives that he was all but ready to give up cycling.

Whether LeMond would be ready for the challenges of the Tour de France, if Delgado could repeat the success of the year before, and whether Fignon could claim a third yellow jersey all remained to be seen.

Flurries of speculation and conjecture erupted in the days leading up to the tour. But when it finally began, the picture rapidly sharpened.

1989 Tour de France Day One

The 1989 Tour de France began with a 5-mile prologue time trial in which riders set out alone to race for position against the clock.

Of the three men in the spotlight, LeMond hit the road first. He made a statement on the opening stage with a time of just more than 10 minutes, putting him in second place. At the end of LeMond’s run, he was behind only Erik Breukink, who edged him out by about 6 seconds.

However, Fignon also put down a scorcher of a time trial shortly after and bumped LeMond into third place by a fraction of a second. Ireland’s Sean Kelly also barely beat LeMond in a later run, pushing him to fourth place.

Still, at the end of the first day, it was clear that both LeMond and Fignon came to race. But the real drama encircled Delgado. Delgado had the final start time of the day as the previous tour winner. As his start time approached, however, he was nowhere to be found.

Whether racers begin at their assigned time or not, the clock starts ticking.

After missing his start time by 2 minutes and 42 seconds, Delgado finally took to the course. The error marked yet another dramatic episode for Delgado, who had battled allegations of doping in the 1988 Tour de France and bribing another rider in the Tour of Spain.

Still, Delgado, who asserted his innocence, ground out his run to finish in last place.

The Early Lead

With Fignon and LeMond opening their tours with solid performances, Delgado faced a tremendous challenge from the outset. Pulling back enough time would take multiple stages of the race, and nobody intended to just give it to him. He would have to stay on his game the entire race if he hoped to make a comeback.

He did himself no favors in the first several stages, including another individual time trial and a team time trial inside the first five stages, in which Delgado lost more time. By the beginning of Stage 5, Delgado was 10 minutes off the pace of the race leader Acacio Da Silva.

Meanwhile, both Fignon and LeMond continued to grind out efforts that kept them at the top of the standings.

At Stage 5, another time trial, LeMond appeared at the start of the race using aero bars that had never been seen at the tour before. Now ubiquitous, the bars were controversial at the time. Judges, however, ruled that they were allowed. In the aerodynamic position the bars allowed, LeMond pushed to the front to win the stage and the yellow jersey for the first time. It would not be the last.

Stages 7 and 8 pushed the riders through heavy rain, followed by a dash through the hilly Armagnac at the foothills of the Pyrenees.

Stage 9 marked a serious test for LeMond. He had excelled in time trials and held fast to the yellow jersey since stage five. However, how he would perform in the mountains remained unknown. Delgado, a renowned climber, planned to use mountainous stages as the key venues where he could creep back toward the front of the pack from his last-place position at the prologue.

Delgado powered through the day’s climbs to finish second, but LeMond also showcased a solid performance that allowed him to keep the yellow jersey for the fourth consecutive stage of the race.

Trading Blows

Stage 10, another romp through the mountains, proved to be hectic. Fignon struggled, while Delgado appeared to remain on form to clinch another second-place stage finish. LeMond, who had 5 seconds on Fignon, also seemed to be in difficulty but hung with Fignon for most of the stage,

Near the end of the stage, Fignon attacked and dropped LeMond, finding the 5 seconds he needed to close the gap and then some. Fignon took the yellow jersey for the first time in the race.

By the Stage 15 mountain time trial, Delgado pulled back to just 2 minutes and 53 seconds behind the yellow jersey. It proved he’d made good use of his time in the mountains. LeMond found himself 7 seconds behind Fignon ahead of the stage. On top of his aerodynamic bike, he put down another impressive time trial performance in which he beat Fignon by 47 seconds. LeMond once again snagged the yellow jersey.

LeMond extended his overall lead to 53 seconds over Fignon during Stage 16, while Delgado still struggled to find the nearly 3 minutes he needed to close the gap between himself and the race leaders.

But LeMond couldn’t hold Fignon off forever. Fignon staged an attack in the closing miles of Stage 17 that sent him across the finish line third.

LeMond, however, finished in fifth place at nearly a minute and a half behind Fignon. The gap yet again saw the yellow jersey change hands to Fignon. At the end of the stage, Fignon had a 26-second lead on LeMond in the general classification.

He had no intention of letting it go.

The Battle to the Bitter End of the 1989 Tour de France

Fignon attacked again on Stage 18. He showed confidence and power deep into the 3-week race. He won the stage and pulled another 24 seconds ahead, leaving him with a total cumulative time of 50 seconds over LeMond.

The day led almost everyone to count LeMond out. The large deficit was not impossible to overcome, but with only three stages left, it would take something just shy of a miracle.

LeMond won Stage 19, but Fignon was right behind, leading to no change in the time gap. After a flat course built for sprinters for the penultimate day of racing, Fignon and LeMond squared up in Versailles for the final time-trial dash to Paris for Stage 21.

The final time trial was just over 15 miles long, leaving an extremely short distance for LeMond to close the gap to Fignon. The odds were not at all in his favor. He needed to be perfect to beat Fignon, who was confident in the lead he had built before the final day.

At this point, Delgado had worked his way back to third place. Still down by more than 2 minutes, he had no hope of winning but showed that despite his early deficit, he was still as strong as ever.

As Fignon held the yellow jersey, LeMond left the start gates toward Paris. Fignon followed 2 minutes later. LeMond had to find more than 50 seconds to claim the yellow jersey. Fignon had only to hold on.

Once again gripping his unique aero bars, LeMond flew through the course. He hit record-breaking speeds that sometimes reached up to 40 mph. LeMond nearly caught Delgado, who started 2 minutes ahead. When he crossed the finish line at 26 minutes and 57 seconds, all he could do was look back and wait for the silhouette of Fignon to appear.

Fignon hammered the pedals, pouring everything he had into the final sprint on the Champs-Élysées, but it wasn’t enough.

Fignon crossed the line at 27 minutes and 55 seconds, losing his lead in the general classification to LeMond by just 8 seconds. It was the smallest margin for victory the tour had ever seen.

Fignon collapsed to the ground in despair after the finish line, and LeMond celebrated one of the greatest comebacks in the history of cycling.

Mark Wilson is a freelance journalist for GearJunkie and BikeRumor. Mark has been writing about cycling, climbing, outdoor events and gear for more than a year. Before that, he spent more than a decade as a journalist at major daily newspapers in Texas covering crime, public safety and local government. Mark spent every free moment during that time carving up singletrack and gravel, or climbing with friends and family in Texas, Colorado and Mexico. Based in Texas, Mark is always looking for new trails, crags and gear to help navigate the outdoors. As a new dad, he is particularly interested in learning how to share his love of the outdoors with his son.

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