Tour de France 2020, stage 21: Bennett wins, Pogacar party

Sam Bennett won the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France arriving in Paris, on the Champs Elysees. The Irishman was thus able to celebrate with a prestigious victory the conquest of the green jersey, already mathematically his after the intermediate sprint in which the great rival Peter Sagan did not participate. The 21-year-old Tadej Pogacar from Slovenia triumphs at the Grande Boucle 2020 thanks to the time trial comeback to La Planche des Belles Filles, a feat that will remain in the annals of the French race.

The race

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122 km from Mantes la Jolie to the Champs Elysees, stage with only a fourth category GPM in the initial part. Long embrace before the start between Pogacar and the great defeated Roglic, joined at the head of the group by the other Slovenians Mezgec, Mohoric and Polanc. After the usual group photo of the winning team, the United Arab Emirates, the stage begins. Low pace in the initial part, the pace increases as soon as we reach the final circuit of Paris. The first attacks are unsuccessful, then a quartet consisting of Van Avermaet, Perichon, Schachmann and Swift manages to gain a margin of 20 “over their pursuers. It is not enough, the sprinter teams go to work and the fugitives are trapped in four kilometers from the finish, in a Sam Bennett masterpiece sprint beating Pedersen, Sagan, Kristoff and Viviani, Pogacar faces the yellow jersey, white jersey and polka dot jersey, compatriot Roglic and Australian Porte on the podium .

The classification

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1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) 87h 20 ’05’ ‘2. Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) +59 “3. Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) + 3’30” 4. Mikel Landa + 5’58 “5 . Enric Mas + 6’07 “6. Miguel Angel Lopez + 6’47” 7. Tom Dumoulin + 7’48 “8. Rigoberto Uran + 8’02” 9. Adam Yates + 9’25 “10. Damiano Caruso + 14’03 “