The Slovenian falls poker to the Grande Boucle, the Belgian wins the last fraction. And Milan takes the green jersey
The youngest in the story to arrive at 4 Tour de France Vinti, even more than Eddy Merckx: Tadej Pogacar is now used to putting a record together one after the other and today, on the evening of Paris over the arch of the triumphal in the background that saw the success of Wout Van Aert in the last stage, was crowned king of the tour for the fourth time after the success 2020, 2021, at 26 months, 10 months. days. Another edition dominated by the 26-year-old Slovenian world champion of the UAE-XRG: on the podium with him the Danish Jonas Vingegaard (Visma), the rival of all time, and the German Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull), revelation with a past in Biathlon. Pogi – winner of 4 stages, and first of all on the podium of the tour for six consecutive editions – has also brought home the polka dot shirt of best climber. The latest reigning world champion, among other things, won the tour was Greg Lemond in 1990. Lipowitz was the best of young people, while Italy also exulted thanks to Jonathan Milan: the 24-year-old from the Lidl-Trek won 2 stages, Laval and Valence, and conquered the prestigious green shirt of the points ranking, third blue of always to succeed after Franco Bitossi (1968) and Alessandro Petacchi.
The last stage
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Show in the show, the grand finale: the tour returned to end on the Elisi fields – first in 1975 – after the ‘pause’ of 2024 in Nice (due to the concomitance with the Olympic games) but did not propose the traditional flat catwalk, but a circuit that provided for 3 times the tear of Montmartre. Yes, precisely the symbol of the path in line of Paris 2024, which put its wings to Remco Evenepel leading him to conquer the second Olympic gold after that of the time trial. Although due to the weather, the time for the final ranking was taken in the fourth step on the finish line of the Elisi camps, before the three passages in Montmartre. But despite the rain Tadej Pogacar also gave a show in the last stage, bringing out a group with Davide Ballerini, Matteo Trentin, Wout Van Aert, Matteo Jornson and Matej Mohoric. But it was Wout Van Aert who made a difference on the last passage to Montmartre, detaching the escape companions and going to triumph for detachment on the Elisi fields. The Belgian, Jonas Vingegaard’s teammate, thus caught the 10th stage of his career stage at the Tour: he had already won the last stage in Paris in 2021, on that occasion in the sprint. Van Aert, back number 17, this year already winner at the Giro of the Siena stage, arrived on the finish line alone having all the time to enjoy the triumph: behind him, Davide Ballerini and Matej Mohoric, with Tadej Pogacar in fourth place of the day. Then Jornson and Matteo Trentin, before the big Tadej Pogacar party began. And, in a blue key, by Jonathan Milan.