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19 September 2020Clamorous reversal, always 'made in Slovenia', at the penultimate stage of the Tour de France, a decisive and equally demanding 36.2 kilometer hill climb from Lure to La Planche des Belles Filles.
An amazing Tadej Pogacar takes off in the race against time and triumphs in 49'15 ", trimming 1'56" to the leader and compatriot Primoz Roglic (fifth), a gap that is enough and advances to fill the 57 "behind in the general classification before this fraction.
The Grande Boucle therefore changes masters at the last breath and the yellow jersey ends up on the shoulders of the 21-year-old from Komenda, at the first great success in his career, and who will arrive in Paris as the king of the race.
In fact, the last stage, from Mantes la Jolie to the French capital (122km), is a walkway that can no longer change the destinies of the Tour. On the Champs-Elysées, on the top step of the podium, there will be him, a Tadej Pogacar protagonist of a fantastic enterprise.
Time trial that saw in second place, but very far away (+ 1'21 "at the finish), the Dutch Tom Dumoulin, third the Australian Richie Porte, fourth Van Aert and fifth as Roglic said.
Vertical collapse also for Miguel Angel Lopez, forty-fifth at the finish with 6'17 "delay from the winner: the Colombian thus sees the third step of the podium in the general vanish, overtaken by Porte (but also by Landa and Mas), and closes the Tour in sixth position.
And Damiano Caruso also ends up with a very high head, the only one to try to keep the colors of Italy high, dry from victories in this edition: the rider from Ragusa hits a splendid seventh place at 2'29 "from Pogacar and greets the Grande Boucle from tenth.