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Le Tour 2022 – Stage 21 et fini — Why Now?
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Le Tour 2022 – Stage 21 et fini

by Bryan

Tour de France Paris La Défense Arena > Paris Champs-Élysées

Distance: 115.6 kilometers.

A Flat stage with one Category climb It ends with a mass sprint of eight laps of an oval course on the Champs-Élysées. Winning the sprint in Paris is a separate race and prestige event for sprinters.

  • Côte du Pavé des Gardes 43.3 km (Cat 4: 1.3km @ 6.5%)

The intermediate sprint is at 75.6 km at Paris – Haut des Champs-Élysées (3rd lap).

Yellow Jersey Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) [Yellow] 79h 33′ 20″
Green Jersey Wout Van Aert (TJV – 016) [Green] 480 Points
Polka Dot Jersey Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) [Polka Dot] 72 points
White Jersey Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001) [White] 2

Stage winner: Jasper Philipsen (AFC – 105)
Super Combative: Wout Van Aert (TJV – 016 ) [Red numbers]
La Lanterne Rouge: Caleb Ewan (LTS – 161) + 05h 40′ 42″ Φ
Team: Ineos Grenadiers ( IGD – 021-028 ) [Yellow numbers]

Three more riders missed the start on the final stage: Gorka Izagirre Insausti (MOV – 063), Guillaume Boivin (ISN – 192), and Michael Woods (ISN – 198). . Covid has taken a toll on this Tour. Jasper Philipsen (AFC – 105) has to be very happy with his race: two stage wins that include Paris.

Jonas takes Yellow and Polka Dots. Wout takes Green and Super Combative. Jumbo-Visma team did very well for itself.

Top 10 below the fold

1 Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) 79h 33′ 20″
2 Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001) + 00h 02′ 43″
3 Geraint Thomas (IGD – 021) + 00h 07′ 22″
4 David Gaudu (GFC – 091) + 00h 13′ 39″
5 Aleksandr Vlasov (BOH – 041) +00h 15′ 46″
6 Nairo Quintana (ARK – 151) + 00h 16′ 33″
7 Romain Bardet (DSM – 111) + 00h 18′ 11″
8 Louis Meintjes (IWG – 124) + 00h 18′ 44″
9 Alexey Lutsenko (APT – 131) + 00h 22′ 56″
10 Adam Yates (IGD – 028) + 00h 24′ 52″

Did not start:
Gorka Izagirre Insausti (MOV – 063)
Guillaume Boivin (ISN – 192)
Michael Woods (ISN – 198)

Note: Wikipedia has a simple article on the Mountain classification used on the Tour. The basic fact is that climbs fall into five types, with the four numbered types decreasing in difficulty as the numbers get larger, and then there is the Hors Catégorie, literally “without category”, which generally makes you look for an elevator or Sherpas.

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2 comments

1 Shirt { 08.18.22 at 12:43 pm }

You still There? After long silence we worry.

2 Bryan { 08.18.22 at 11:49 pm }

Oh, yes. I’m dealing with computer issues, apartment management problems, COVID isolation after my housemate picked it up somewhere (a woman involved, no doubt), and an infected arm, but I’m still around. I can’t manage the site from my phone or my pad, so I been installing Ubuntu/Linux on my Raspberry Pi and installing software while working on the problems on the Win10 machine. It’s great to be retired 😉