Tour de France : Pogacar wins his fifth mountain stage
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00:00The world's biggest cycling race, the Tour de France, wraps up this Sunday in Nice.
00:05Yesterday, Taddei Pogacar continued his domination, winning his fifth stage and becoming the first
00:12rider to accomplish that feat since 2017.
00:16He's expected to coast to victory today, and that would make him the first man in over
00:21a quarter of a century to win the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in the same year.
00:27James Essina reports.
00:29Well, it's the last of 21 stages as the Tour de France finishes here this Sunday in Nice,
00:36finishing in Nice for the first time ever, and for the first time, of course, outside
00:40of Paris as normally the Tour de France ends on the Champs-Élysées, but owing to the
00:45Olympic Games, that is not possible this year.
00:47So the riders will be taking off from the east of here over in Monaco for an individual
00:52time trial.
00:53All their way to Nice to wrap things up in this edition.
00:56Now, this Sunday might be a chance for the likes of Remco Evenpool to try and catch up
01:01a bit on those three minutes that he needs to be able to jump ahead of second place Jonas
01:05Finnegaard.
01:06That's a big feat that he does need to pull off.
01:08Taddei Pogacar, after winning yet another stage this Saturday, will be looking to keep
01:14that lead, that solid five minutes and seven second leads.
01:18So if all goes to plan, well, this Sunday is going to be a matter of all of those
01:23ahead in their respective categories of cashing in their winnings.
01:27If you like, Taddei Pogacar taking the tour with the yellow jersey, Richard Carapaz being
01:31crowned king of the mountains and Binyam Girmay taking the green jersey as the best sprinter
01:38from this edition.
01:39All of this happening then this Sunday, then for a final race here on the southeastern
01:46coast and an exceptional finish to that then for the first time outside of Paris.