Vingegaard first won the tour de France
The last stage of Tour de France 2022 has a 116 km long route from Paris La Defense Arena to the traditional destination, the Champs-Elysees Boulevard. Journey through the Effel Tower and the most famous landmarks and roads in Paris witnessed fierce competition before the finish line.
Here, Jasper Philipsen sprinted to overcome Dylan Groenewegen and Alexander Kristoff, the first finish with a period of 2 hours and 58 minutes 32 seconds. This is the second philipen victory at Tour de France 2022, after the first stage 15 with a 202.5 km long route from Rodez to Carcassonne.
Not belonging to the first target group, Vingegaard still won the final yellow shirt with a total period of 79 hours 33 minutes 20 seconds. After three weeks of tired competition, Vingegaard officially deposed Pogacar as the leader Slovenia for 2 minutes 43 seconds. The gap may be larger, because Vingegaard has slowed down at the end of the 21st stage to celebrate the victory with his Jumbo - Visma teammates. The tour de France 2018 Geraint Thomas is ranked third, when Vingegaard is 7 minutes 22 seconds.
"It is unbelievable. I won the tour de France and nothing could stop joy anymore," Vingegaard said after finishing in Paris and carrying his daughter Frida on her lap. "This is the biggest bicycle race of the year and the biggest race you can win. Now no one can deprive my victory."
The first Denmark Vingegaard won the tour after Bjarne Riis in 1996, at the time of the banned substances were used to spill in the bicycle racing. In 2007, after retiring, Riis admitted to using EPO blood enhancement in the period 1993-1993, even when winning the 1996 Tour De France.
When asked about the honesty of Jumbo-Vismma, Vingegaard affirmed: "I and my teammates are completely clean. No one uses anything illegally. Mesopotamia ".
The fact that Vingegaard overthrowed the heavy candidate Pogacar surprised many people because he still did the packaging work in a Danish factory five years ago. At that time, he went to the factory to work in the morning and went to the evening to cycle.
After setting the collection of Colles climbing in Spain while in the old team of Coloquick, Vingegaard joined Jumbo-Vismma in 2019 and made great progress. The first time he attended the tour de France last year, he shone and returned second after Pogacar himself, when his teammate Primoz Roglic - the last three -year champion of Vuelta A Espana - a cycling racing around Spain, belonging to the system The three Grand tours next to Tour de France and Giro D'Italia - were eliminated from the race. Vingegaard, thanks to that, became the first male racer to return to the first and first in two consecutive tournaments, after the German Jan Ullrich in 1996 and 1997.
The new champion of the tour de France has a busy week, when attending a celebration at the headquarters of Jumbo - Visma in the Netherlands on July 26, a welcome reception at Copenhagen on July 27 and A similar ceremony in Hillerslev's hometown one day later. "By Friday, I will lie on the bench for a week," Vingegaard joked.
In addition to the yellow Tour de France 2022, Vingegaard also won a red shirt for the climbing king with 72 points, while teammate Wout Van Aert won blue shirt with 480 points.
