Tour de France 2022 stage 21 LIVE: Jonas Vingegaard set to win forward of ultimate Champs-Elysees dash at this time

• Jasper Philipsen 9/4
• Fabio Jakobsen 7/2
• Wout van Aert 7/2
• Dylan Groenewegen 5/1
• Caleb Ewan 8/1
• Mads Pedersen 10/1
• Alberto Dainese 25/1
• Peter Sagan 28/1
• Christophe Laporte 33/1
• Jasper Stuyven 50/1

lpe d’Huez is brutal. No, it’s not the longest climb on the planet, neither is it the steepest, however it’s relentless. It’s 14.4km lengthy and 1100m excessive and has a mean gradient (or steepness) of round 7.9 per cent – a flat street being 0 per cent.

Jonas Vingegaard maintains each member of Jumbo-Visma is “completely clear” and no one is “taking something unlawful” after clinching the Yellow Jersey on the Tour de France.

The Dane’s victory caps a dominant race for the Dutch crew, who’ve picked off six stage victories, together with three for Wout van Aert, who triumphed in Saturday’s Stage 20 time-trial to Rocamadour.

Vingegaard, who has two wins, whereas Christophe Laporte additionally has a stage victory, was requested following the Stage 20 whether or not Jumbo-Visma ought to be trusted, a query posed to every Tour winner because the Lance Armstrong scandal, which has contributed to a lot of biking’s murky previous.

And regardless of no implication or proof of any wrongdoing, from both Vingegaard or his crew, the rider answered candidly, explaining the crew set-up and coaching philosophy.

Race favorite Annemiek van Vleuten has declared herself “prepared” for Sunday’s begin of inaugural version of the Tour de France Femmes.

The previous world champion shall be one in all 144 riders who will race down the Champs-Elysees when this long-awaited ‘correct’ girls’s version of the Tour will get underneath means.

The 82km dash round Paris shall be merely an hors d’oeuvres for the eight-day race, which can cowl 1,029km on its method to a climax on La Tremendous des Planche des Belles Filles on July 31.

Van Vleuten, the 2019 world champion who’s in her penultimate season on the age of 39, goes into the race stuffed with confidence after securing her third Giro Donne crown earlier this month.

One of many beauties of the Tour de France is the myriad methods wherein it may be gained. Generally a rider bullies from begin to end, like Bernard Hinault, who intimidated rivals together with his presence and crushed them at each alternative en path to Paris in 1981. Time-trial specialists mark rivals on the climbs and harm them on the clock, as Miguel Indurain did so emphatically in 1992, and once more in 1994. Chris Froome used Staff Sky’s stranglehold on the peloton to suffocate his opponents, whereas Tadej Pogacar’s back-to-back wins in 2020 and 2021 displayed his particular person, unpredictable brilliance.

Jonas Vingegaard is the newest man to win the Tour, and for all his unerring energy and resilience throughout these previous three weeks, the race was gained in a decisive hour within the Alps, when Jumbo-Visma’s crew techniques remoted and outwitted Pogacar and stripped the yellow jersey from his again.

Face to face, there has not been a lot to decide on between the 2 main protagonists of this 12 months’s compelling story. Each are succesful time-triallists, each sturdy climbers, each clearly in a position to deal with the distinctive pressures that include main a crew in a grand tour. Pogacar had a slight burst of flat pace that helped him edge phases seven and 17, and the punchier legs that noticed him surge to victory on stage 6, again when it appeared his race to lose. Vingegaard had the sting within the highest mountains, the place he by no means cracked regardless of Pogacar’s finest efforts.

After years of failed makes an attempt and half-hearted gimmicks, girls’s biking will lastly have a Tour de France worthy of the title when it begins in Paris on Sunday. The model new Tour de France Femmes is probably the most profitable ever girls’s biking race, bursting with expertise on a diversified and difficult eight-stage parcours constructed to entertain, and organiser ASO has maybe lastly planted the seeds of a race which can develop and blossom for a lot of summers to return.

There have been a number of totally different incarnations of a girls’s Tour de France stretching again to 1955. The race peaked in the course of the Nineteen Eighties however pale away, and when it returned underneath the guise of the one-day La Course in 2014, due to sustained strain and campaigning, it all the time felt like a token gesture, an afterthought tacked on to the boys’s race. ASO’s declare that it was unfeasible to have each a males’s and ladies’s Tour solely ever appeared like an excuse.

Now the Tour de France Femmes stands alone as a a number of stage race in its personal proper, with the sources and the momentum to flourish. Digital biking big Zwift is the lead sponsor, signing a four-year deal and serving to fund a prize pot of greater than £200,000, with round £40,000 for the winner. Extra important is that TV protection of the race shall be wide-reaching, even when it’s a disgrace ITV is not going to be displaying the motion free-to-air because it has accomplished for the boys’s version. UK followers can watch through Eurosport, Discovery+ or World Biking Community.

The 2022 Tour de France involves a detailed on Sunday with a 116km jaunt to the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

The standard stage 21 truce means Jonas Vingegaard will get to benefit from the procession to the French capital alongside his Jumbo-Visma teammates on the finish of a protracted, onerous month, and fashionable custom dictates the profitable crew drink champagne as they journey.

They might nicely have sore heads from Saturday’s celebrations after sealing the yellow jersey in model, incomes a one-two on the stage 20 particular person time trial with the inexperienced jersey of Wout van Aert pipping teammate Vingegaard to the victory.

It has been a sensational Tour for each riders and Van Aert will attempt to decide up his fourth stage win of the race when the pack arrive on the Champs-Elysees on Sunday afternoon for what is usually a bunch dash.

The celebrity Belgian often is the favorite for this one however he’ll face competitors from these sprinters who struggled via the Alps and Pyrenees to get thus far, all determined to win the distinguished Paris stage. Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal), Fabio Jakobsen (QuickStep), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin) and Dylan Groenewegen (BikeEchange) are amongst those that will hope to problem.

Geraint Thomas will journey to Paris to substantiate the third podium place of his Tour de France profession, the dethroned Tadej Pogacar will win the younger rider’s white jersey, and Vingegaard will acquire the polka dot jersey to associate with yellow, after his efforts within the Pyrenees noticed him rise to the highest of the King of the Mountains classification.