The last stage ended on the Champs-Elysées on Sunday with the sprint victory of the Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen.
Chris Froome (Sky) won the Tour de France for the fourth time, Sunday July 23 in Paris, after a 21st stage won on the Champs-Elysées by the Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen (Lotto NL). The Briton, who is only one victory away from the record, was ahead of the Colombian Rigoberto Uran and the Frenchman Romain Bardet in the final ranking.
Froome won for the fourth time in five editions. Since 2013, he has lost only once in the Tour (retirement from a fall in 2014). This year, the Englishman, born in Kenya 32 years ago, has won no stage, for the first time since taking power.
His margin (54 seconds) on the second is also the narrowest of his four wins. But Froome was superior to his rivals in the two time trials on the program. With the support of his team, the most powerful of the peloton, he controlled his opponents in the mountains by weakening only once, on July 13, at the top of the Peyragudes altiport, in the Pyrenees .
This 104th edition also smiled on the Sunweb team who won two distinctive jerseys: the red polka dots for the best climber for Warren Barguil, who became the darling of the French public after his two stage victories, and the green for the Australian Michael Matthews, who took over from the world champion, the Slovakian Peter Sagan, excluded from the race on the fourth day (dangerous sprint). _AF
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