PARIS (AP) — Using excessive on a efficiency for the ages, 21-year-old Tour de France rookie Tadej Pogacar was cruising into Paris with the race chief’s iconic yellow jersey Sunday, on his approach to turning into the youngest post-war winner of the showpiece occasion that braved, and overcame, France’s worsening coronavirus epidemic.
On the 21st and remaining stage, a conventional procession the place solely riders not within the working for the rostrum chase the status of the stage victory within the ending dash to the road, the Tour was celebrating a number of victories.
Firstly, for Pogacar, who left the race breathless by snatching away the general lead from Slovenian countryman Primoz Roglic on the final potential alternative, in a high-drama time trial on Saturday, the penultimate stage with the final actual racing for the title.
However the Tour was celebrating a victory, too – over the coronavirus. It left the beginning city of Good on the Mediterranean three weeks in the past not sure that it will be capable to negotiate unscathed by the epidemic to Sunday’s end on Paris’ tree-lined Champs-Elysees boulevard.
However not one of the 176 riders who began, or the 146 finishers who have been using into Paris, examined optimistic in a number of batteries of exams, validating the bubble of measures put in place by Tour organizers to protect them from an infection. Roadside followers nonetheless cheered them on, principally by face masks, however have been stored properly away at stage begins and finishes.
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