2025 Tour de France Stage 21 Report: Tadej Pogaar (UAE Emirates XRG) has won the 2025 Tour de France. The Slovenian World champion knew he had won 50 kilometres before the finish in Paris, when the times were neutralised due to wet, slippery conditions. Pogaar joined Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) and Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) on the final podium. The final stage, with three climbs up Montmartre, finish on a wet Champs-lyses and proved to be a spectacle with the stage victory going to a solo Wout van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike). The final Tour kilometre of 2025Race director, Christian Prudhomme: “A return to both tradition and to the Champs-lyses… after Nice stepped in for the capital during the Olympics last summer, the Tour will return to Paris. And well be celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of both the first finish on the Champs-lyses and Bernard Thvenets first overall victory. That was in 1975. Happy anniversary!”Stage 21 profileThe inclusion of the Cte de la Butte Montmartre in the finale of stage 21 delivered exhilarating racing in the rain. Clad in the Maillot Jaune, Tadej Pogaar (UAE Emirates-XRG) attacked on all three ascents but he couldnt respond when Wout van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike) countered at the top of the final climb. Already a winner on the Champs-lyses in 2021, the Belgian all-rounder took his 10th Tour stage victory – the first since the time trial at Rocamadour in 2022, exactly 1,100 days ago. Pogaar…
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