After days of knocking on the door, Biniam Girmay is now a Grand Tour stage winner – and in quite some style. The 22-year-old Eritrean fought back after riding the wrong way at the business end of an absorbing 196km Stage 10 through the hills of Le Marche before outlasting his big Dutch rival Mathieu van der Poel in an epic sprint for the ages.
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Spain’s Juan Pedro Lopez put in a brave fight to defend the pink jersey on the fearsome Blockhaus as Australia’s Jai Hindley upset Romain Bardet and Richard Carapaz to win a scintillating Stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia. But Simon Yates’s hopes of a high GC finish are all but over after the Briton cracked on the gruelling ascent.
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Wout van Aert won the final stage 21 sprint of the Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées, denying Mark Cavendish a record-breaking 35th stage victory, as Tadej Pogačar retained the Yellow Jersey following a sensational three weeks of cycling.
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Tadej Pogacar navigated the 30.8km time trial to Saint-Emilion with ease to put himself on the cusp of a successive Tour de France overall win. The Slovenian held an insurmountable-looking 5’45” lead over second-placed Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) ahead of the penultimate day of riding and took a risk-free approach to the ITT, finishing eighth on a stage won by Wout van Aert.
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Slovenia national champion Matej Mohoric doubled up on the Tour de France after riding clear of a 20-man break to solo to glory in Stage 19 at Libourne. Mohoric celebrated with a controversial finger to his mouth and a zip-shut signal one day after his Bahrain Victorious team hotel was raided by the police in Pau.
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