Tour de France gallery: One final battle on the Champs-Elysees
In some ways it’s surprising the Tour de France even started this year, let alone made it all the way to Paris. And yet, on Sunday evening, the Tour peloton thundered down the Champs-Elysees to conclude the race’s 107th edition. Sam Bennett won the sprint — his second stage win of the Tour — while Tadej Pogacar was crowned the winner of the world’s biggest race at just 21 years old.
For the final time this year, here’s your daily Tour de France photo gallery, with images courtesy of Ashley and Jered Gruber, Kristof Ramon and Cor Vos.
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- There was a small gesture of solidarity for the Black Lives Matter campaign at the stage start with a bunch of riders writing words of support on their masks.
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- Four riders led for several laps of the Champs-Elysees finishing circuit. From the front: Pierre-Luc Perichon, Greg Van Avermaet, Max Schachmann, and Connor Swift.
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- The Patrouille de France, the precision aerobatics demonstration unit of the French Air Force, did its traditional flyover during the final stage.
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- A couple days ago, Primoz Roglic would have been imagining himself in a different yellow jersey on the Champs-Elysees.
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- Elia Viviani has been completely anonymous in the year’s Tour. His best results: a fourth, fifth and a sixth.
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- With the break all caught just before the final lap, the sprint trains started to form.
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- Sam Bennett hit out with 250 m to go …
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- … and no one was able to come around.
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- That’s two stage wins for the Irishman …
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- … who couldn’t believe he’d won the Champs-Elysees, even while watching the replay.
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- Roglic congratulates compatriot Tadej Pogacar after the latter secured the overall victory.
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- Marc Hirschi was a deserving recipient of the most combative rider prize. He won a stage and came close on two other occasions. Not bad for a 22 year old in his first Grand Tour.
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- In the end Sam Bennett won the green jersey comfortably. Winning on the Champs-Elysees certainly didn’t hurt.
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- Movistar took out the teams classification.
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- Pogacar won the KOM jersey, the best young rider prize …
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- The all-jersey-winners photo is a little different when one guy wins three of them.
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- Tadej Pogacar is the second youngest Tour de France winner in history. Only 1904 winner Henri Cornet was younger (19 years, 352 days). Chapeau, Tadej.
