{"id":752682,"date":"2026-06-22T01:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752682\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T01:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:42:14","slug":"tadej-pogacar-wins-the-tour-de-suisse-in-style-by-taking-the-final-stage-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752682\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar wins the Tour de Suisse in style by taking the final stage \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

VILLARS-SUR-OLLON, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Tadej Pogacar warmed up for next month\u2019s Tour de France with a dominant victory in the Tour de Suisse on Sunday, and the cycling star did so in flamboyant style by winning the fifth and final stage.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Slovenian is in ominous form heading into the July 4-26 Tour, where he\u2019ll try to win the showcase race for the fifth time.<\/p>\n

Pogacar won the opening stage of the Tour de Suisse, secured a 1-second victory over rival Mathieu van der Poel in the time trial on Saturday and won stage 5 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe winner of the stage Tadej Pogacar, of Slovenia, celebrates as he crosses the finish of the fifth and final stage, a 151 km race with start and finish in Villars-sur-Ollon, at the 89th Tour de Suisse UCI World Tour cycling race, Sunday, June 21, 2026. (Gian Ehrenzeller\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n

Pogacar caught Frenchman Lenny Martinez about 800 meters near the end of the final climb of the 151.1-kilometer (94-mile) trek to Villars-sur-Ollon.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a super hard day,\u201d Pogacar said. \u201cThe parcours (route) was really tough, and with the team we did a super good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the overall standings, Pogacar finished 6 minutes, 32 seconds ahead of Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz and 6:53 clear of Czech rider Mathias Vacek.<\/p>\n

Stellar season<\/p>\n

Pogacar secured a dominant win at the six-day Tour de Romandie last month, after strong performances in the one-day classics. In April, he clinched a third straight victory at Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar also won Milan-San Remo and the Tour of Flanders \u2014 winning that race for a third time \u2014 and was narrowly beaten at Paris-Roubaix by Wout van Aert.<\/p>\n

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AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VILLARS-SUR-OLLON, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Tadej Pogacar warmed up for next month\u2019s Tour de France with a dominant victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-752682","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\/752682","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=752682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}