For the first time in history, the Tour de France will conclude outside of Paris due to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The usual Champs Elysées sprint has been replaced by a time trial in the French Riviera, a finale that could have provided a suspenseful last chance in the battle for the yellow jersey had Tadej Pogačar not already played such a dominant hand.
The last occasion the Tour finished with a time trial, in 1989, Greg LeMond stripped the yellow Jersey from the shoulders of Laurent Fignon on the Champs-Elysées by just eight seconds. LeMond, however, went into that 24.5km stage 35 years ago with a deficit of just 50 seconds.
Pogačar, on the other hand, is entering Sunday's 33.7km hilly time trial from Monaco to Nice that ends the 111th edition with a 5:14 margin on the overall to second-placed Jonas Vingegaard.
