{"id":25649,"date":"2025-07-27T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25649\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:30:10","slug":"tour-de-france-2025-kaden-groves-wins-stage-20-interview-tadej-pogacar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25649\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2025 | Kaden Groves wins stage 20, interview; Tadej Poga\u010dar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Poga\u010dar closed in on a fourth Tour de France<\/a> title after safely finishing Sunday morning’s (AEST) penultimate stage and maintaining his big lead over arch-rival Jonas Vingegaard.<\/p>\n

Australian rider Kaden Groves won stage 20 with a late solo breakaway, while Poga\u010dar rolled over the line about seven minutes later in the same time as Vingegaard.<\/p>\n

Groves surged ahead 16 kilometres out and held on for his first Tour stage win and 10th at major races. The 26-year-old has two at the Giro d\u2019Italia and seven at the Spanish Vuelta.<\/p>\n

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The Australian was highly emotional post-race.<\/p>\n

“There’s so many emotions to win here … having won in the Giro and the Vuelta, all I ever get asked is am I good enough to win in the Tour, and now I have shown them,” he said.<\/p>\n

Groves was 54 seconds ahead of Frank van den Broek and 59 clear of Pascal Eenkhoorn.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar leads the two-time Tour winner Vingegaard by four minutes, 24 seconds, with German rider Florian Lipowitz 11:03 behind Poga\u010dar in third overall.<\/p>\n

Barring a heavy crash or illness, Poga\u010dar was expected to celebrate Sunday and move level with British rider Chris Froome on four Tour titles. Victory would also give Poga\u010dar a fifth Grand Tour after winning the Giro d\u2019Italia in dominant fashion last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am more or less sure of my overall victory, but I still don’t want to say anything about it. I want to stay focused until I have crossed the finish line in Paris,\u201d Poga\u010dar said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s one of the most beautiful parts of this sport. We are 180 guys who spend weeks riding in the mountains and in the end, all of a sudden, we come to the streets of one of the biggest cities in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Sunday’s final stage of this edition is not a largely processional one, as is usually the case, and could potentially prove somewhat problematic toward the end with three consecutive climbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am unsure of how the final stage will pan out,\u201d Poga\u010dar said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe course is relatively short, and that will make for a rather punchy effort.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar closed in on a fourth Tour de France title after safely finishing Sunday morning’s (AEST) penultimate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-25649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}