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Vingegaard celebrates the Tour and Philipsen wins on the Champs-Elysées

BARCELONA, July 24.

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Vingegaard celebrates the Tour and Philipsen wins on the Champs-Elysées

BARCELONA, July 24. (EUROPEAN PRESS) -

The Belgian cyclist Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) has won this Sunday the prize and honor of winning the 21st and last stage of the Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, on a day where beyond the final sprint the celebration took place Jumbo-Visma for the general victory of Jonas Vingegaard.

Philipsen won his second stage with a powerful final blow to the massive finish that secured Paris with 3km to go, as the peloton hunted down the small breakaway. Vingegaard fulfilled his dream, after 116 kilometers that began at La Défense Arena, of climbing to the top of the podium.

The last lap of the historic circuit through the streets of the French capital was passed by the massive peloton, neutralizing the quartet formed by Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Antoine Duchesne, Olivier Le Gac (Groupama-FDJ) and Jonas Rutsch (EF Education -Easy Post).

On the last pass through the Arc de Triomphe, Pogacar put on a show until the last kilometer by attacking alongside Geraint Thomas and Filippo Ganna, both from INEOS-Grenadiers, the best squad on the Tour. But the peloton headed off and the day was decided by sprinting. Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) did not fight it, who entered the finish line accompanied by his teammates to celebrate the great Tour of the Dutch team.

A majestic end to the party for a Tour that has had everything, in a more innovative route with the return of the dreaded pavés on the fifth day and with 'La Super Planche des Belles Filles' as the first hilltop finish. You fight for practically all the jerseys until the last day, although with a clear dominance of two men from the Jumbo.

The triumphant ride without incident went to Jonas Vingegaard, the overall champion, at 25 years old, on a podium at sunset in Paris that he shared with the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), who saw his dream of achieving his third consecutive tour. Together with them, the British Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) finished third.

The 2022 Tour elevated the Jumbo-Visma by achieving six stage victories and which encouraged an outstanding Tour, for many the best of recent times. Among the Spanish, the best was Luis León Sánchez (Bahrain Victorious) in fourteenth position. The leader of the Movistar team, Enric Mas, lost the rope with respect to the best from the initial time trial, where he dropped from the favourites, to give in later and move away from the 'Top 10'.

An "internal fear" in the descents, according to the Balearic after his hard falls this season, which hindered his participation in a round that could not finish, by testing positive for coronavirus in the antepenultimate stage. In this way, no Spaniard is part of the top ten classified for the first time in 24 editions.

Thus, the prestigious farewell in the French capital had as bastions a super combative Van Aert, who postulated his ambition in all the stages to take the green jersey of the points classification, with the additional prize of partial victory in three of them. .

VINGEGAARD, THE NEW KING OF THE TOUR

Even so, the Jumbo managed to dethrone the young Slovenian talent, something unimaginable after his recital in the last two French rounds. The person in charge was not his compatriot Primoz Roglic, who showed his frustration for yet another year by leaving, but his teammate Vingegaard, who took command of the race on the eleventh day. Thus, the yellow jersey did not change from the Dane's hands, without limit right now.

Pogacar himself, this time resigned only to the white jersey as best youngster, made his rival suffer in the Pyrenees, where he won one of the three mountainous stages of the last week, but his fight completely broke down in Hautacam, when he stayed more than three minutes from the general.

An exemplary battle between both riders, which left an image to remember due to the 'fair play' of the leader Vingegaard, -also winner of the red polka dot jersey as king of the mountain- who waited for his rival after suffering a fall in one of his successive attacks.

Last year, Vingegaard had to settle for second place and in this edition he ended the hegemony of his 23-year-old opponent. An open fight for the next Grand Tours, although with a resentful Pogacar after this Tour de France 2022.

In addition, the Dane repeats the milestone of Miguel Indurain in 1992, by winning the 'Grande Boucle' that started from his country, beyond the French themselves. Precisely, the gala round will start next season from Bilbao, in the heart of the Basque Country, on Saturday, July 1, 2023.

--CLASSIFICATIONS.- Stage.

.1. Jasper Philipsen(BEL/Alpecin-Deceuninck) 2:58:32.

.two. Dylan Groenewegen (NED/BikeExchange-Jayco) same time.

.3. Alexander Kristoff (NOR/Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materials) m.t.

.4. Jasper Stuyven (BEL/Trek-Segafredo) m.t.

.5. Peter Sagan (SVK/Bora-Hansgrohe) m.t.

- General.

.1. Jonas Vingegaard (DIN/Jumbo-Visma) 79h33:20.

.2. Tadej Pogacar (SLO/UAE Team Emirates) at 2:43.

.3. Geraint Thomas (GBR/INEOS Grenadiers) 7:22.

.4. David Gaudu (FRA/Groupama FDJ) 13:39.

.5. Aleksandr Vlasov (RUS/Bora-Hansgrohe) 15:46.

.../...14. LUIS LEÓN SÁNCHEZ (ESP/Bahrain Victorious) 49:18.