Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard celebrated on the second-to-last day of the Tour de France. Pogacar pipped the defending champion to take the penultimate stage on Saturday but it won't be enough to stop his great rival from winning the race again.
Vingegaard maintained his huge lead over two-time champion Pogacar and will surely be crowned the Tour winner after Sunday's largely ceremonial stage ends on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. "We have to be careful not to do anything stupid but, yeah, it's amazing to take my second victory in the Tour de France and I almost cannot believe it," Vingegaard said.
Pogacar, who won in 2020 and 2021, claimed his second stage win in the 110th edition of cycling's most famous race but was unable to make up for Vingegaard's huge advantage built in the Alps.
The Danish rider leads by seven minutes 29 seconds. "I really appreciate the battle I had with Tadej," Vingegaard said. Pogacar had been in outstanding form this year, winning nearly everywhere he raced.