The Tour de France ended on Sunday with the success of the Belgian Jasper Philipsen on the 21st stage and the final victory of the Dane Jonas Vingegaard.
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Vingegaard first got his name on the charts at age 25, a year after his second-place finish behind Tadej Pogacar.
This time the Dane beat the Slovenian, doubles champion, who lost three and a half minutes at the end of the approximately 3,350-kilometer route.
Welshman Geraint Thomas, winner of 2018 and runner-up the following year, took his third podium at 36. The first Frenchman, David Gaudu, was fourth.
On the 115.6 kilometers of the last stage, which as usual turned into a parade up to the end of the final lap, the Jumbo team celebrated its almost complete triumph.
Vingegaard donned the yellow polka dot jersey of the best climber, van Aert the green of the points classification.
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The Dutch team, which suffered an unexpected setback in 2020 when Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic lost to Pogacar, took on six stages. Including three for van Aert, his boss on the road.
“We will remember these three weeks as we ran and greeted the Belgian before the start at La Défense. It was a lot of stress, but we made it. The team was so strong!”
On the Champs-Élysées, van Aert gave up the sprint he won last year.
Philipsen, who had already won the fifteenth stage in Carcassonne, was well ahead of Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen and Norwegian Alexander Kristoff.
The 24-year-old Belgian from the Alpecin team won the Tour for the second time, a year after finishing second on the capital’s avenue.