2023-07-22 17:14:57
Par Ethan Daudel
Posted 4 minutes ago, Updated 3 minutes ago
Tadej Pogacar. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP
Tadej Pogacar won in the sprint against the other favorites in the general classification. Thibaut Pinot finished in seventh place.
Before the parade on the Champs-Elysées this Sunday, the riders visited the mountain one last time during this Tour de France 2023. 133.5 kilometers in the Vosges between Belfort and Le Markstein Fellering and a passage on the lands of Thibaut Pinot.
Highly anticipated for his last Tour de France, the country child made “his public” dream in his “Pinot turn”. Leaving in the breakaway, the Groupama-FDJ climber left alone 30 kilometers from the finish. Carried by a crowd that only had eyes and voices for him, the 33-year-old Frenchman rode alone for many kilometers and perhaps believed in the stage victory before being overtaken by the inevitable Vingegaard-Pogacar duo.
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In the lead about ten kilometers from the finish, and accompanied by Felix Gall, the two leaders of the general classification were then playing for the stage victory.
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