Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates, who celebrated his 22nd birthday on September 21, became the first champion from Slovenia and the youngest Tour de France winner since 1904 on Sunday in Paris.
Throughout the pandemic-hit cycling race, which began on August 29, Pogacar won four stages, two mountain rides in the 9th and 15th stages, an individual time trial in the 20th and the final flat ride in the 21st.
Here are selected photos – including Pogacar and other stage winners, landscapes and health and safety measures against COVID-19 – to help you review the 107th Tour de France.
Stage winners
Fifteen riders became stage winners.
Besides the overall leader Pogacar, cyclists such as Caleb Ewan, Wout van Aert and Soren Kragh Andersen conquered multiple stages – all of them flat rides.
Other riders, such as Michal Kwiatkowski of Poland, mainly dominated the mountain and hilly stages.
Cyclists hang under the Grenoble Bastille cable cars during Stage 17, a 175km mountain ride between Grenoble and Meribel in France, September 16, 2020. /CFP
Amazing landscapes along the route of Tour de France 2020
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From Nice to Paris, this year's race course never left French territory.
The Tour had a total of 21 stages plus two rest days between traveling through the nation's six regions and 32 departments. It included nine flat stages, three hilly stages, eight mountain stages and one individual time-trial.
The longest journey was Stage 12, a 218-kilometer hilly ride from Chauvigny to Sarran Corrèze on September 10.
The shortest one was the 36.2-kilometer individual time-trial in the 20th stage on September 19.
Spectators
Spectators always found a way to watch the race, even though the Tour de France had been forced to limit the number of spectators amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Staging the cycling race amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Teams would be expelled from the Tour de France if at least two members, including staff, tested positive for the coronavirus, organizers said on August 26.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) on August 28 proposed that such an exclusion from the race would apply only to the riders.
In the final stage, no more than 5,000 spectators were allowed in the event.
Bicycles
On and off the course, bicycles were a theme along the race route, as various bike-related projects decorated the countryside.
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