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Colombian Egan Bernal (Ineos) is the winner of the Tour de France 2019. Christian Hartmann / Reuters

The 21st and final stage of this crazy 2019 Tour de France was won by Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal). And the yellow jersey is Egan Bernal, the first Colombian to win the Great Loop and youngest winner of the race in the post-war period. The climber of Ineos reaches the peaks at only 22 years old, and it's about to last.

Clap end for this vintage 2019 Tour de France. After three intense and sometimes crazy weeks, the 155 riders still in the running (against 176 at the kick-off given on July 6) started on Sunday, July 28, on the 21st and final stage, between Rambouillet and the Champs-Elysées. Elysees of Paris, as custom dictates. A final race that ended in the evening and not in the late afternoon, to celebrate the 100 years of the yellow jersey, the leader's tunic.

No surprise this Sunday in the pack. Well protected by his teammates Ineos (ex-Sky), the leader Egan Bernal was not worried and kept pace while savoring his coronation to come. The final victory of this prestigious stage was played in the sprint, as usual. And the last word came back to the Australian Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal), first to cross the finish line on the famous Parisian avenue.

Bernal wasted no time

This 2019 Tour will remain as the first major victory of a young man that is expected to swallow podiums and titles in the coming years. A phenomenon of precocity, Egan Bernal was already presented as the future terror of the circuit in 2018, when he joined the team Sky / Ineos and won, at 21, the Tour of California. The youngest rider on the 2018 Tour de France, he helped rally his team-mate Geraint Thomas and made an appointment.

The appointment was honored very beautifully and without delay. After having let the Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe perform for 14 stages, Egan Bernal emerged during the second of three stages in the Alps. The Habs, exhausted and exhausted, did not resist. Nobody, in fact, was able to respond to the Colombian coup during this 19th stage interrupted by the elements. At the right moment, Bernal made the difference, arousing the admiration of his teammate and predecessor Geraint Thomas, although forced to admit the superiority of the young South American.

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