"To finish second behind a team-mate makes it OK," said Welshman Thomas. He won the 2019 Tour de France, becoming the first Latin American winner of the race. Anything else you want to moan about? The youngest is France's Henri Cornet, who was 19 when he was controversially awarded victory in the second edition of the race in 1904, while Luxembourg's Francois Faber was a few days younger than Bernal when he took the 1909 title.3. "Thomas went into the three-week race as joint leader with Bernal but his preparations had been disrupted when he crashed while travelling at around 50mph in the Tour de Suisse in June. Pro cycling has seriously cleaned it's act up since the Armstrong era....the evidence is in the times up the big climbs. Nairo Quintana won the 2014 Giro d'Italia and 2016 Vuelta a Espana, while Luis Herera won the Vuelta in 1987.A largely pedestrian 60km ride from Rambouillet to Paris saw Bernal and his Ineos team-mates sipping a celebratory glass of champagne.As the riders entered the capital city, the race crossed the river Seine via Le Pont Neuf, close to the medieval cathedral of Notre-Dame - French television chose not to show the building that was ravaged by fire in April - before the riders swept through the grounds of the Louvre.Last year's champion Thomas was given the honour of leading the peloton through the Place de la Concorde and up the cobbles of the Champs-Elysees for the first time.The pace increased with the passing of each 7km lap, which saw the riders swing round the Arc de Triomphe before hurtling back down the Champs-Elysees at speeds approaching 50mph before heading off back towards the Louvre.Julian Alaphilippe, who led the race for 14 days, giving French fans hope of first home win since 1985, led the peloton on to the Champs-Elysees for the final time, trying to set up a victory for his Deceuninck Quick Step team-mate Elia Viviani, however, the Italian was nowhere as Lotto Soudal rider Ewan proved quickest in Paris.The Australian, who timed his charge to the line to perfection, edging out Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen to win his third stage on his debut Tour, said: "It was quite messy I went down the right, I'd been told to avoid there and it is quite bumpy but luckily I had enough speed to come through at the end. It's great having him on the team and he brings a lot of young, new energy to the group. On the last two climbs we rode a really hard pace, in the final kilometres we were going full gas. "I'm the happiest guy in the world. Stage 1's bunch sprint finish was won by Team Jumbo–Visma's Mike Teunissen. Done of these comments are quite bizarre. "He joined Team Sky for the 2018 season, after winning the prestigious Tour de l'Avenir - a stage race for under-23 riders that has seen many of its winners go on to Tour de France success.He won the Tour Colombia and Tour of California last year before making his Tour de France debut as a domestique to Thomas and four-time winner Froome.This year, three crashes helped Bernal arrive at the Tour as joint leader of the Ineos team, formerly Team Sky.The first was his own, on a training ride in Andorra, and it ruled him out of May's Giro d'Italia, where he had been due to lead the team for the first time in a Grand Tour. at June's Criterium du Dauphine then pushed Bernal up the Ineos pecking order for the Tour de France, while Thomas' spill at the Tour de Suisse later that month saw Bernal take over as the sole leader of that team and he went on to win the race.After riding away from Thomas on the Tourmalet on stage 14 in the Pyrenees, he did so twice again in the Alps in the final week to position himself as Ineos' strongest rider at the Tour and secure his first Grand Tour win in only his second attempt.Bernal is the third youngest winner of the Tour. If I am going full gas at some point in the race for sure I will talk with him.“We need to win the race for Team INEOS, it’s not about Geraint or Egan, it is always about the team.” Tellingly, he's also the only rider to put his hand up for both the Tour and the Vuelta. Maybe if I follow Pinot and the other guys and if I am in their wheel, maybe they can’t continue [at the same pace].
"Two years ago I had my arm in a sling with a broken collarbone watching Chris Froome win, wishing I was riding and I would've taken second then, but it just shows how time and expectations have moved on. Egan Bernal se consagró campeón del Tour de Francia el 28 de julio del 2019. Make sure you make the most of your warm-up with this 20-minute guide. Toda Colombia celebró ese acontecimiento, el triunfo más importante del ciclismo colombiano en … Before, G told me I could follow the moves and said ‘you can do your own race’.“He said it’s better for us if we have two cards to play. This season has seen the Colombian add overall victories at Paris-Nice and the Tour de Suisse to an already impressive palmarès. You would have thought by now, 25 years on that someone would have beaten the Pirate's time up Alpe D'Huez for example, but no, despite all the science and incremental gains, times are slower, now that should tell the doubters something.114. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger/Bora-Hansgrohe) +1min 56secs5. "For Alaphilippe, who finished fifth overall, there was the consolation of being named the race's most combatitive rider, while his compatriot Romain Bardet claimed the polka dot King of the Mountains jersey.Slovakia's three-time world champion Peter Sagan won the green points jersey for a record seventh time.The climbing specialist, who was born on 13 January, 1997 in Zipaquira in central Colombia at an altitude of 2,650m, showed his potential at last year's Tour, when he rode as a domestique to Thomas and four-time champion Chris Froome. Egan Arley Bernal Gómez (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Ineos.