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In cycling, Tadej Pogačar wins the Tour de France. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer in cycling Taday
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  Pogatchar wins the Tour de France. The twenty twenty six
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  Tour de France was the one hundred thirteenth edition of
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  the Tour de France. The race began with a stage
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  in Barcelona, Spain, on the fourth of July, and finished
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  with the final stage at the Chanzo lyse Paris on
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  the twenty sixth of July. Today. Pogatchar of UAE Team
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  Emirates XRG won the general classification for the fifth time
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  and the third year running. His attack on stage six
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  at the Col du Tourmalae in the Pyrenees established a
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  lead over his main rival, Jonas Vingegarde of Vizmalise a Bike.
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  Pogatchar extended his lead with victories on three mountain stages,
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  Stage ten in the Massif Central, Stage fourteen in Voge,
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  and Stage nineteen to alpay Duets in the French Alps.
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  Pogatchar's final margin of victory was almost six and a
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  half minutes. It was the fastest race on record, with
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  Pogatchar having an average speed of forty one three point
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  two two seven kilometers per hour over the three weeks
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  of racing. Second place overall went to Remco Evanapool of
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  Red Bulbora Hansgrow after Vinguard withdrew from the race following
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  a crash on stage fifteen. Evanapool took his first mountain
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  stage victory at Plateau de Solezon on stage fifteen, and
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  then won the individual time trial to Tonon le Bon
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  in stage sixteen. Third place went to Isaac del Toro,
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  a tour debutante. On stage twenty, Pogachar assisted his teammate
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  del Toro to ensure that del Toro held off fellow
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  tour debutante Paul Sixis of Decathlon CMACGM for third place
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  overall and the Young Rider classification as the best rider
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  under the age of twenty six. The race was affected
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  by a heat wave, with two stages shortened and rules
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  relaxed to allow for riders to stay hydrated. Prior to
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  stage fifteen, both Pogachar and vinga Guard were woken in
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  the middle of the night to take doping tests, which
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  generated substantial debate. The points classification was won by Madz
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  Peterson of Little Trek. Petterson won only one stage but
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  consistently placed highly in the intermediate sprints and secured points
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  in other sprint finishes. The mountain's classification went to Richard
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  Carapaz of e F Education Easy Post, who won two
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  mountain stages in the French Alps in the final week.
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  Carapaz also won the award for the race's most combative rider.
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  The team's classification was won by Little Trek Today. Pogatchar,
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  nicknamed Poggie, is a Slovenian professional cyclist who rides for
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  UCI World Team, UAE Team Emirates x RG. His victories
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  include five Tour de France, the twenty twenty four Girodtalia
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  and thirteen one day monuments, as well as the World
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  Championship Road Race twice. Comfortable in time trialing, one day
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  classic riding and Grand Tour climbing, he has been compared
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  to all round cyclists such as Eddie Murks and Bernard Hinault.
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  Despite his youth, he he is considered one of the
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  greatest cyclists of all time. Pogatchar was successful as a
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  junior rider, winning the twenty eighteen Tour de Laviner. In
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  twenty nineteen, he became the youngest cyclist at twenty to
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  win a UCI World Tour race at the Tour of California.
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  In both his twenty twenty debut at the Tour de
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  France and the next year, he won three stages and
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  the General, Mountains and Young Rider classifications, becoming the only
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  rider to win these three classifications simultaneously. Twenty twenty one
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  also saw Pogatchar's first successes in the monument one day
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  races at the Giro di Lombardia and Liege Bastonia Liege.
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  Subsequent seasons saw further wins in these, with the Tour
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  of Flanders also added in twenty twenty three. Meanwhile, in
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  the Grand Tours, Pogachar had consecutive second place finishes in
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  the Tour de France to Jonas Vingegarde, with whom his
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  rivalry is considered to be one of the greatest of
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  all time. This run ended in twenty twenty four, when
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  he completed the first Girodetalia and Tour de France double
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  since nineteen ninety eight eight, winning twelve stages across both races,
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  adding the World Championship to become only the third to
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  achieve the triple crown of cycling. In twenty twenty five,
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  he became the first rider to retain both the Tour
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  de France and the World Championship. In twenty twenty six,
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  Pogachar became the fifth person to win the Tour de
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  France five times. Pogachar has been praised for his attacking
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  riding style, an approach which Pogachar himself has jokingly referred
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  to as a quote instinct during a time when many
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  others have ridden more conservatively to manage energy levels. His
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  aim to be competitive across both the Monuments and Grand
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  Tours has been labeled as a return to classic bike
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  racing of the nineteen sixties minus one thousand, nine hundred eighties,
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  and this success across multiple fronts has led to him
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  being the UCI Road Racing World Number one for a
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  record total number of weeks and record number of consecutive weeks.
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  That's it for now. See the episode notes for Wikipedia
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  sources and licensing. Thank you.