Tour de France 2022: 10 best riders as Jonas Vingegaard misses out on top spot - Blazin’ Saddles

A Tour de France of high intensity where each stage was passionately fought from the gun concluded on Sunday with Jasper Philipsen winning the showpiece finale on the Champs-Elysees while Jumbo-Visma rolled home all smiles to celebrate their yellow, green and polka dot jersey haul. With an average speed of 42.03kph, the 2022 Tour was the fastest edition in history and the first Tour since 1989 where each of the three podium finishers – Jonas Vingegaard, Tadej Pogacar and Geraint Thomas – had all made the podium on a previous occasion.

Ad/> A Tour affected by climate change protests as well as a forty-degree heatwave conspired to produce the fewest finishers since 2000 largely due to widespread withdrawals following positive tests for Covid-19. Jumbo-Visma emerged as the most dominant team with six stage wins as well as taking home the yellow, green and polka dot jerseys for the first time since 1969.

Tour de FranceDaredevil descending and THAT handshake – 13 best moments of the Tour28 MINUTES AGO In retrospect, the tears that appeared in Vingegaard’s eyes as the Dane became overwhelmed at the Copenhagen presentation acted as the perfect precursor for what unfurled over the three weeks that followed. And without any more ado, let’s take a look at the top 10 riders of the Tour – in reverse order… 10.

Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) The Slovenian’s bad luck at the Tour continued for a third year running with the unlikely cause being a rogue haybale knocked into the path of Caleb Ewan by a TV motorcycle during the cobblestone stage to Arenberg. If Roglic had to put his own dislocated shoulder back in joint on the side of the road, it would later emerge that those injuries were the least of his worries.