
The eulogies can start being written. Tadej Pogačar is on the cusp of winning a historic Giro-Tour double, becoming the first man since Marco Pantani in 1998 to win both Grand Tours back-to-back.
Two stages remain in the Tour de France, a final summit finish in the Alps and a mountainous time trial that finishes in Nice, but with a time gap of 5:03 to Visma-Lease a Bike’s defending champion Jonas Vingegaard, the UAE Team Emirates rider is all but certain to win his third Tour.