Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates wins the Tour de France for the second time

Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates wins his second straight Tour de France after a mostly ceremonial final stage to the Champs-Elysees.

Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates put up with the yellow jersey to Paris earns his second straight Tour de France on Sunday.

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Pogacar with his redundant achievement at cycling’s biggest tournament has been a saga of a whole dominion and incentive query that how many more Tours can the 22-year-old win at this age having earned his first record previous September, the time he became the Tour’s youngest proponent in 116 years. The Slovenian is now the youngest double winner of the race.

The UAE Team Emirates leader maintained his massive dominance of 5 minutes, 20 seconds over Jonas Vingegaard who was in second place, in the mostly ceremonial final stage to the Champs-Elysees. Richard Carapaz ended up positioned third overall, 7:03 off the pace.

The only riders to complete within 10 minutes of the two-time champion were Vingegaard and Carapaz. “I did my best, maximum like I always do, and that was sufficient,” said the newly crowned Tour de France champion, Pogacar.

The time Tour de France winner Merckx widely considered as the greatest-ever champion, was impressed and said: “I see in him the Cannibal”.

” He can clearly win Tour de France more than five times,” he added.

Pogacar will be presiding at the Japanese capital for the Olympics, being among the favourites for the gold medal in the road race.