Pogacar is the first cyclist to win the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year since 1998
Tour de France winner Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar , wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, celebrates on the podium after the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time trial over 33.7 kilometers with start in Monaco and finish in Nice , France, on July 21.Tadej Pogacar won the Tour de France for the third time and celebrated in style with a victory in Sunday’s final stage – a time trial ending in Nice .
Pogacar won the 34-kilometre time trial on the French Riviera’s roads from Monaco to Nice in 45 minutes, 24 seconds. Vingegaard was 1 minute, 3 seconds behind him and Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel 1:14 back in third spot. From early Sunday morning, fans camped along the popular Promenade des Anglais in Nice to guard a spot that would offer the best glimpse of cyclists.They may have been surprised to see Pogacar going flat out.
But the lure of another stage win proved too strong and he flew down the winding roads past picturesque Èze and Villefranche-sur-Mer on the approach to Nice, where the route flattened out again.
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