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Tour de France: Christophe Laporte washes the honor of France

7/23/2022, 4:42:00 AM


By winning the 19th stage in force, the Jumbo-Visma rider prevents France from finishing the Tour empty-handed. At 29, the southerner offers himself

Cycling France will not have a fever of 40 this Saturday.

Thanks to the amazing and unexpected success of Christophe Laporte on the Léon-Gambetta boulevard in Cahors, the Tour stage counter without a French victory stops at 39. The exact total of the worst tricolor drought in the history of the Tour , between 1998 and 2000. This long silence on the podiums ends paradoxically with one of the most silent of the peloton.

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