Triumphal walk for Jonas Vingegaard. Toast of the leader with his companions. Photo of the yellow jersey with the wearers of the jerseys of the other classifications. The Paris stage is the final culmination of the Tour, although the last 30 kilometers have hardly been disputed for years. The day, which will end after 7:00 p.m., and in which Philipsen can win his fifth stage.
And that is that this is already the shortest online stage of this edition, with only 115 kilometers. For the 49th edition, the Tour will end on the Champs-Élysées. Note that for the 50th we will have to wait. It will not arrive in 2024, but in 2025. Next year, in order not to coincide with the Paris Games, the organization has chosen to move its historic final to Nice.
There will be eight steps along the Champs-Elysées circuit, already well known to all cyclists: climb up rue de Rivoli, pass through Place de la Concorde, Champs-Elysées, turn around the Arc de Triomphe roundabout and go down the other lane towards the obelisk, skirt the Seine River, the tunnel and again in Rivoli.
The start of the stage will have clear reminiscences of next summer’s Games as it starts from the Saint Quentin en Yvelines national velodrome, which will host all the track events.
In 1955, the Catalan Miguel Poblet won the last stage of the Tour. He is the only Spaniard who has achieved it. That year the Montcada cyclist had already won the first stage. A year later, in La Rochelle, Poblet added his third and last stage in the French round.
