Remco Evenepoel took a sensational gold in the men’s individual time trial for Belgium, charging around the Paris parcours to beat Italy’s Filippo Ganna and countryman Wout van Aert to the top step of the Olympic podium. Ganna was second with Van Aert third, as Team GB’s Josh Tarling missed out to finish fourth.
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Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar has pulled out of the Olympic Games because of “extreme fatigue”, the Slovenian Olympic Committee has said. Pogacar completed victory in this year’s Tour by taking Sunday’s final stage, which was a time trial, to win the illustrious 3,498km race for a third time. Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz will not be defending his Gold Medal after winning the King of the Mountains category at the Tour this year.
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The final day of the 2024 Tour de France bucked the trend with a time trial between Monaco and Nice instead of a processional parade in Paris – but the result was the same, with the relentless Tadej Pogacar wrapping up the overall win with a sixth stage victory. Pogacar beat rivals Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel in the race of truth as an emotional Mark Cavendish rode off into the sunset.
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One of the most picturesque days of the 2024 Tour de France saw the riders head up into the South Alps above Nice, but it took until the final climb for the GC tussle to kick off. Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard were the initial instigators, but the peerless Tadej Pogacar had the last laugh, soaring across the line for his fifth win of this edition.
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Tadej Pogacar – who else? Some thought the Slovenian would suffer in the high-mountain territory of closest GC rival Jonas Vingegaard on Friday’s Stage 19, but it was the total opposite as Pogacar, aided by his UAE Team Emirates team-mates, rode on the front of the main bunch for most of the day before detonating a late attack that left everyone in the dust, to all but secure his third Tour title.
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