The 2024 Tour de France could have drawn to an in depth within the unfamiliar climes and format of a time trial in Nice. However, the race’s ultimate stage winner was something however, with Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) sealing his third total Tour victory together with his sixth triumph of this version.
The Slovenian, the final man down the beginning ramp in Monaco, blitzed the hilly course at a mean pace of 44.521 kph to report a closing time of 45:25, 1:02 up on second-placed man Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease A Bike).
In line with the GC results of this 12 months’s Tour, the rostrum was rounded out by world time trial champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep). The Belgian was quickest at every checkpoint alongside the way in which earlier than Vingegaard and Pogačar every went faster. He’d finish his day with a time of 46:38, 1:14 down on the yellow jersey.
Pogačar flew out of the gates to begin the 33.7km check, setting the quickest instances at each the primary and second checkpoints atop the climbs of La Turbie and the Col d’Eze, the latter at 24 seconds up on Vingegaard. His tempo didn’t let up on the downhill run in the direction of Nice, the place he stretched his lead over his nice rival to a yawning 1:04 earlier than capping a dominant three weeks in France with the ultimate run into Nice and his seventeenth profession Tour stage win.
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