{"id":26232,"date":"2025-07-28T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26232\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:44:09","slug":"tour-de-france-finale-rides-through-montmartre-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26232\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France finale rides through Montmartre Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLa, la, la, la, la, la, la Kevin Vauquelin!\u201d chanted some spectators in polka-dot T-shirts winding up Rue Lepic, cheering the French rider best placed in the general classification. Meanwhile, others took to the street on their alpine skis for a moment of fun, having put their winter sports equipment out.<\/p>\n

Riders ascended the hill three times and passed beneath the Sacr\u00e9-Coeur basilica before heading to the finish on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. Despite the rain making the roads slippery and dangerous, Poga\u010dar attacked on all three ascents but he couldn\u2019t respond when stage winner Wout van Aert countered him.<\/p>\n

\"Hours<\/p>\n

Hours before the peloton was due to arrive, spectators had already packed the Parisian neighbourhood.Credit: AP<\/p>\n

The peloton passed the Moulin Rouge before climbing to the Butte Montmartre. To mark the occasion, dancers in tricolor costumes performed a French Cancan outside the cabaret.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, the final stage is largely processional until a sprint decides the day\u2019s winner on the Champs-Elys\u00e9es. But on Sunday, the final climb came about 7 kilometres from the finish and sprinters could not contend for the stage win. Only five riders were left with Poga\u010dar on the third ascension of the 1.1-kilometre hill.<\/p>\n

During the Olympics, the road races drew more than 500,000 spectators in Paris.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Tour concluded outside Paris for the first time since 1905 because of a scheduling conflict with the Olympics, with the final stage held in Nice. The Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es returned this year for the conclusion of the 3,320-kilometre race.<\/p>\n

AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLa, la, la, la, la, la, la Kevin Vauquelin!\u201d chanted some spectators in polka-dot T-shirts winding up Rue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-26232","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\/26232","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=26232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}