Poga\u010dar<\/a> safely rolled over the line on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris to ensure that he would win the yellow jersey for the second consecutive year.\n <\/p>\n\n He even tried to win the final stage and made it into the decisive move of the day but ultimately Belgium\u2019s Wout van Aert proved too strong and rode away from him on the steep, cobbled slopes of Montmartre.\n <\/p>\n
\n In the general classification, Poga\u010dar eventually finished four minutes and 24 seconds ahead of his great rival Jonas Vingegaard, himself a two-time Tour de France winner who attacked and attacked throughout this race, especially in its third week, but was never able to dislodge Poga\u010dar from his back wheel.\n <\/p>\n
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\n Aside from a split second on the slopes of the famous Mont Ventoux when a millimeter of daylight opened up between them, Poga\u010dar has easily matched everything Vingegaard has thrown at him.\n <\/p>\n
\n And even in full flight, Vingegaard\u2019s attacks seemed in vain because when Poga\u010dar attacked at the foot of the Hautacam on Stage 12, no one \u2013 not even Vingegaard \u2013 could match his blistering acceleration. He gained more than two minutes on the Dane on that day. Coupled with his gains in both the race\u2019s individual time trials, that effectively gave Poga\u010dar an unassailable lead with a week still to race.\n <\/p>\n
\n He proved dominant on every terrain in those first two weeks, winning four stages and tightening his grip on the yellow jersey. But just when he seemed able to win stages and threaten every classification almost at will, he eased off, appearing mentally, if not quite physically, exhausted.\n <\/p>\n
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\n Still, he coasted through the rest of the race and secured the yellow jersey, becoming the first reigning world champion to win the Tour de France since 1990 when the USA\u2019s Greg LeMond completed that feat.\n <\/p>\n
\n And Poga\u010dar\u2019s fourth Tour de France title means that only Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indur\u00e1in, who have all won the race five times, sit ahead of him on the all-time list. Lance Armstrong won seven titles but was stripped of them in 2012 after admitting using performance-enhancing drugs.\n <\/p>\n
\n No one apart from Vingegaard finished within 10 minutes of Poga\u010dar on the general classification. Germany\u2019s Florian Lipowitz rounded out the podium in third place, 11 minutes behind Poga\u010dar, and also won the white jersey for the best young rider. Meanwhile, Italy\u2019s Jonathan Milan won the green jersey often worn by the best sprinter in the race. Poga\u010dar won the polka-dot jersey worn by the race\u2019s best climber.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Tadej Poga\u010dar underlined his status as one of cycling\u2019s greats by winning his fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-28317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}