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Cyclist Tadej Pogacar wins Tour de France for the third time

Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar winning the second stage of the three-week 2024 Giro d'Italia professional cycling race. Santuario di Oropa^ Biella^ Italy - May 5^ 2024

25-year-old Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar won the Tour de France for the third time with a victory in Sunday’s final stage, ending in Nice. The race did not finish in Paris due to the upcoming Olympic Games.

Two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark was second overall, and also finished the stage in second place.

Pogacar won the 34-kilometer (21-mile) time trial on the French Riviera’s roads from Monaco to Nice in 45 minutes, 24 seconds. Vingegaard was 1 minute, 3 seconds behind him and Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel 1:14 back in third spot. In the overall standings, Vingegaard finished 6:17 behind Pogacar and Evenepoel was third overall, 9:18 behind Pogacar — whose other Tour wins came in 2020 and 2021.

Pogacar now becomes the first cyclist to secure the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year since the late Marco Pantani in 1998.

Editorial credit: Bob Cullinan / Shutterstock.com

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