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Grafana FDJ is on everyone's lips.

Thibaut Pinot is fighting to reach the top of the Puy de Dome.

He's in all sorts of trouble.

We weren't very good.

Grafana FDJ have struggled since the start of this Tour de France.

At the start, that's enough.

No, turn it off.

No stage win.

No podium.

And now there's a storm coming.

There's a news just in that Richard Plugga, the manager of Jumbo Visma,

gave an interview.

It says that he was quoted in the keep.

He said that on their rest day, he saw riders

in Team Groupama FDJ downing some beer.

And that's not the best way to improve their performance.

That was very smart of Plugga.

Instead of wondering if Jonas is doping, everyone's

talking about Groupama's lack of professionalism.

For me, what Mr. Plugga said is way off the mark.

This is my last Tour de France.

I don't need someone telling me whether I should have a beer or not.

Don't attack my riders.

I get nasty if you attack my riders.

Are you going to the Ferds?

You're an animal.

I'm stuffed.

I read stuff online.

In the media and on Twitter and all that.

That displeased me no end.

It's deplorable.

Pathetic.

Pitiful.

I don't like anyone questioning your honor and your integrity.

For me, our motivation is crystal clear.

You show them who you are.

Agreed?

And show them on the bike.

So when your legs start to hurt, they'll hurt

even more when you think of those assholes.

What they said about you.

What he said about you.

Here's to Richard.

Huh?

You said it.

Richard.

Nice one.

Fuck's sake, my balls hurt.

Yep.

Not a pretty sight in my shorts.

Really not.

I can tell you.

Yep.

Mr. Plugga said that all us Groupama riders were getting drunk on beer.

On rest days.

And that's why they're stronger than us.

Hysterical.

It's just provocation.

I think he was taking a pop at Mark, you know?

A cheap shot.

We have to put up with it for a bit.

But it's just to get tongues wagging.

That's all.

Isn't it annoying to fall out with one of the biggest teams on a day like today?

They can take it out on me if they want.

But questioning my rider's honor, it's that that really hurts.

They're taking the piss.

I would not take it too personally if I was Mark Mario.

And the funny thing I thought was that it was denied that they drank beer.

So I want to reassure him, the management drinks beer, but the riders don't.

I'm not happy.

I'm not happy.

Because it makes us look stupid.

And our work is sloppy.

They were clowns.

If it touches a nerve, then maybe that's something to think about for yourself.

I'm upset for my boys.

Because I know they are working very hard and they make sacrifices.

And I know they're committed.

That's enough.

Why are you making such a fuss about this?

It's okay, because you can drink beer.

We also drink beer.

In Paris.

After the race.

Year after year, the big foreign teams always use the same tactics.

It's pretty clear that the French don't take it too seriously, right?

Yeah, maybe.

We're not at the same level as last year, that's true.

But when you have teams that have two or three times

your budget, I do the best I can with what I've got.

And it's difficult for the French teams to compete at a top level without resources.

Because we don't have the capacity to have two...

too many top-tier riders.

We're in a place where we have good riders.

Very good riders.

But at the same time, if you wanted to compare it to

football, our reserves aren't as strong as other teams.

I have a lot of respect for Marc Marleau because of what

he did in the many years that he's running this team.

There was more coincidence that it was a French team.

What I did from the beginning when we had the smallest budget of the World Tour,

we put a lot of energy, time and money into the trainers, nutritionists,

science to become faster.

It's up to the others to take an example of that and look towards the future.

They're meticulous at jumbo.

Very Germanic.

Thought out, analyzed, dissected, engineered, whatever you want to call it.

Organized.

That's jumbo.

When you look at Gripalma FDJ and Marc Marleau and how he runs that team,

they rely on that French Republic fighting spirit.

It's a complete contrast to the likes of Jumbo Visma, which is run on data,

which is run on science, on cold, hard fact.

And I'm so grateful that both teams are there because

that is what makes the Tour de France the Tour de France.

I do the best with what I've got.

Right now, I'm the team manager.

I want my team to perform well.

I want to show Richard Ploeger that real cycling is about the men.

The effort.

Goosebumps.

And connecting with your team.

A rider like Pino, say.

There.

There she goes.

There are so many.

It's my treasure.

They're beautiful.

Doug, go on.

No, gently.

Oh, shit.

It broke.

Beautiful.

Yeah, good job.

World record for the biggest cat.

Yeah, right.

Since I announced in January to the public that I was retiring, I feel so much freer.

This will be my life from now on.

My animals, my garden.

It will be a great way to keep myself occupied.

I enjoy it.

I love it.

The atmosphere in cycling has changed.

It's stricter now.

More rigorous.

More meticulous.

Our careers are short and they're over before you know it.

I've had a lot of highs.

A lot of lows.

Timo Pino.

You've got to give him up.

Come on.

Pino is flying.

Pino is flying.

Pino is flying.

He's down.

I'm not the world's best cyclist, but I'm pretty popular in France.

I think I've touched people's hearts during my career.

I'm someone that they can identify with.

Timo Pino is a hero to the French.

He races with guts.

He attacks when he wants.

And even if it doesn't work, we still applaud him.

Timo!

Timo!

Timo!

This is my last Tour de France.

And I want to finish my career at the top.

We're looking forward to this final mountain stage.

133 kilometers today.

A very short stage.

It's going to be explosive, nerve-wracking, and hard to control.

Guys, yeah.

Just eight minutes.

Eight minutes.

You have time to go.

I'm thinking about myself.

It's my last race and my last Tour, so...

I'll ride the best race I can.

I'm under the most pressure of my whole career.

I know this stage by heart.

I'm at home, on my training routes.

I don't want to let people down.

Today, Timo Pino says, goodbye to the Tour de France.

Can he win this last mountain stage?

He's got his very own corner today.

Timo Pino!

There's been a social media appeal to get all Timo Pino's fans to gather here.

Timo!

Timo Pino!

Timo Pino!

We've been here two and a half hours now.

It's incredible.

We came all this way to enjoy it, yeah.

Nice one.

You do that.

All right.

We have a collective responsibility here.

We can't hinder the race.

Here we go, my friends.

So, plan for today.

The absolute main goal is, of course, to keep the yellow jersey.

But, yeah, it would be nice that we are able to go for the stage as well.

Yeah.

And really have the confidence that we are still the strongest team.

And we are by far the strongest leader.

There is nobody stronger after 20 days of Tour de France than you are.

Also, yeah, possible that URE takes over to go for the stage with Pogacar.

I don't know if Pogacar is strong enough anymore to do it.

But, yeah, they will have that idea, maybe.

The battle for general classification is pretty much over.

We know that Jonas Vingegaard is going to win this Tour de France.

Tadej Pogacar is going to be hurting.

But can he come back fighting?

Yeah.

And relax.

Pain here on the right side?

A little bit close.

OK.

I wanted to win the yellow jersey, but it was ruined by my failure on stage 17.

Such a bad day on the bike.

You try to restore yourself.

Getting better every day.

Mm-hm.

Breathing.

Because I want to fight to finish strong.

For us, the big goal is to win the stage.

It's better to stay in front so you can control and say, OK, go, go, go.

Do close.

Before this final kilometer, for sure will not be big group.

And if go jumbo, we need to be there still.

Of course the goal was to win the Tour.

There's no self-approach.

We know that if Tadej has the opportunity out there, then he's the strongest rider.

If I have a really good day, I can win.

I am planning to go all in.

It's a big chance to go for the stage victory.

In front of me, I don't want nobody.

Both Tadej Pogacar and Thibaut Pinot have an enemy to fight, and that is Jumbo Visma.

For Tadej Pogacar, this is a matter of pride.

He wants to show to himself as much as anyone else

that he can still win against Younes Vingegault.

And for Thibaut Pinot, it's his final Tour de France.

It's the final mountain stage, and these are his home roads.

He's got to show these big guns that we mean business.

This is our race.

We're the French team at the Tour de France.

We're going to show them how we do it.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CHEERING

AND APPLAUSE Well, the Tour de France is underway.

Is this the end of an era?

Yeah, it most certainly is, mate.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Already, some attacks at the front of the peloton.

Riders are asking themselves, how can they hold on to a good position?

A

group of five has just made its way out to the front.

I could feel the stage getting away from me.

I was feeling a lot of pressure.

That's it, that's it!

Go, go, go!

The gap to the peloton is now 27 seconds.

As the kilometres went by, I had to get back

into the swing of things, back in the race.

My goal was to get into the breakaway.

So I had to stay calm, stay focused.

Pinot pushing hard to get back to the front.

To get into the breakaway, you've got to have strong legs and a feel for the race.

Good knowledge of the terrain really helped me out there.

Pinot accelerates to get to the front of the race.

It's

made up a 30-second gap at incredible speed.

That's it, well done.

Pinot now joins the group there at the front.

The lead group.

Perfect.

No,

no one's got signal up here.

No idea at all, so it's going to be a surprise.

The kilometres fell away and I wanted to go it alone.

My goal was to win this stage.

And here goes Thibaut Pinot.

Attack of the Frenchman on his home territory.

This is great for Thibaut.

I've always been a bit old school, as they say.

I ride on instinct.

And I think that it's reasonable to suggest

that today, that instinct to take risks is gone.

Alone at the front, Thibaut Pinot, Groupama FDJ.

Here

we are, Thibaut Pinot reaches his corner.

Welcome home, Thibaut.

It was just a wall of sound.

Such an incredible noise.

I'll remember it for the rest of my life.

I could just make out my brother.

And I knew my whole family was there too.

Thibaut Pinot flies high, carried by the wind.

I know the crowd.

I think people came to celebrate the rider that I used to be.

The rider that they grew up with.

They wanted to say thank you and goodbye.

It's giving me goosebumps.

What a great sporting moment.

Quite exceptional.

Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Suddenly, 14 years of cycling with Pinot have culminated here.

Thibaut Pinot is a throwback to the days of old.

When everyone's riding to numbers, Thibaut Pinot is riding to his heart,

to his soul.

He gives us a reason to dare to dream.

The energy at that corner was intense.

It gave me a surge of strength.

And I got to the summit.

And on the descent, there was no one else.

It was just me and my bike.

My ears were still ringing from all the noise.

And I didn't really know where I was.

Pinot keeps pushing with a stage victory in his sights.

There's a 1 minute 27 gap to the peloton.

It's going well.

Yeah!

Gj だ, ersten beat in 12 seconds.

Thanks to Luis!!!

That makes sense!

They're just trying to make Jonas for fun.

It's true.

Thank you so much, Ruben Harris!!!

You killed it!

Of course it's not nice that there's all this fight between two teams.

They were not very nice to watch me or my teammates.

Well, a lot of fun in the Thibaut Pinot corner soon.

I'm not going to open the window to put a mirror in front of it.

Some people were taking it a little bit too seriously.

And were maybe angry even, which I understand.

But it was not against the French at all.

I love the French because they gave us the most beautiful race in the world.

This is the final mountain of this year's Tour de France.

These are the eight most important kilometers of Thibaut Pinot's career.

The yellow jersey peloton led by UAE.

One minute.

I had to win.

We tried to bring him back as much as possible.

Just keep fighting.

Just keep fighting.

And here comes the attack.

Pogacar accelerates.

He wants this stage.

He messes up the pace.

But the car is always in the lead.

30 seconds, Thibaut.

30 seconds.

Out front it's Pinot.

Four kilometers to the summit.

Wengergaard and Pogacar.

10 seconds behind you.

I know that I was ahead of the others.

Thibaut Pinot and London in front.

He's not stopping.

We were in a good place.

But I would not say we were overconfident that we got this, you know.

You almost already catch Pinoa.

You're going for the stage victory, yeah?

They've caught up with Thibaut Piedot.

Six riders now in the lead group.

Come on, Thibaut.

Come on.

Concentrate.

Felix Galle goes for it.

Wengergaard follows right behind.

Astus Pogacar.

Fuck's sake.

Crank it up.

Thibaut Piedot is dropped.

After an incredible solo performance, he kisses victory goodbye.

Well, it's over.

It's over.

Cycling's pretty straightforward.

It's just a battle between your legs and a slope.

And you can't always come out on top.

We're only human.

And that's all there is to it.

Come on, Jonas.

Those walls are still possible to win the stage.

Come on.

I said, OK, I'll prove to everybody that I can win again.

It's full gas to the finish line.

Come on, you're almost there.

Come on now.

Come on.

Come on, come on.

Go, go, go.

300 meters to go.

Come on, Jonas.

You showed them again who's the strongest.

I'm not going to sit back thinking, what can I do to win this race?

I want to give everything and take the win away from him.

And Wengergaard attacks on the right.

Pogacar is in his wheel.

Go on, go on.

This inseparable duo.

A knack and knack right to the finish.

Tadej Pogacar wins.

I was relieved that I have still good legs.

I was satisfied also with the small sprint finish.

It was one of the nicest stages I won.

To win stage 20 gives a lot of confidence that I can do Grand

Tour and finish it good, even if I have bad days in between.

Is there a part of you that thought you'd win?

A little bit, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thibaut can always...

He's always capable.

UAE wanting the stage win.

Well, that was what screwed us up.

There were no excuses that day.

We were outclassed.

But my fear for many years was ending up as a nobody or out of shape.

What a day for Thibaut Pinot, voted the most combative rider of stage 20.

Today the people on the side of the road saw something special.

It's a beautiful ending for me.

That's something to be proud of.

Good evening, sir.

Evening.

Is this for your room?

Yeah.

Oh shit!

What's up, man?

Well done.

Yeah, you should be proud.

Nice one, man.

Well played.

Proud of you.

You're a pain in the arse right to the end.

It wasn't just me.

You're a pain in the arse and made me cry.

This stage says it all.

He was in position to win, but he didn't.

And I think that it's poetic that he didn't win.

It fits with everything else.

So let's drink to...

Richard.

To Richard.

To Richard.

To Richard.

Victory is important.

Yes, we want to go for the win, but at the same time, we also need the passion.

Good night.

Sleep well then, guys.

Well done, dude.

I never thought that I'd end my career like this

on my old training routes with all these people.

It was beautiful, really.

And of course I wanted to win, but...

That's the sport and I had a really good send-off.

20 days of racing.

20 days of racing.

And more than 3,000 kilometers, we've reached the last stage of the Tour now.

The battle for the general classification is over.

And Jonas just has to get over the line.

Today, it's the sprinters charging down the Champs-Élysées.

I'm excited to go to Paris again.

It's been a long three weeks, for sure.

It will be super cool to win on the Champs-Élysées.

I won last year there.

And I will have a good beer tonight.

And we will celebrate together with the team.

And I think I proved that I'm the best sprinter in the world.

So I can only be happy with the win.

Winning in Paris is always special.

It's the last one.

Of course, it's important for Jasper to win.

He takes it all.

What's there to say?

Jasper Philipsen is the out-and-out favorite for the Champs-Élysées.

Mark Cavendish has gone home.

Fabio Jakobsen has gone home.

Wout van Aert has gone home.

But this is the last chance for all the other teams to be able to win a stage.

They're not going to go down without a fight.

The last day.

The last dance.

So, boys.

Last meeting.

Then we go home.

I think it's not a secret we don't want to have a bunch sprint.

It's not a secret also we have the manpower on board to

make it tough for the guys who want to go for the sprint.

So if you get in the breakaway, just floor it.

So Alidl is out.

Fabio is out of the race.

But I managed to win a stage.

So I will try to get out there to give it everything for another one.

So you think you had a shot today?

When you're at the start, then you have the numbers pinned.

There's always a shot.

Now we have a spectacular Paris stage here.

Don't pee in the crowds.

And don't send flying kisses to your wife, girlfriends while racing.

You know, it's one of the most prestigious stages to grab.

And I think we all want to show what we have done in three weeks.

We would like to win that stage.

We started with a so-called two-way strategy.

We wanted to win the tour, you could say.

Because we wanted to reach the podium with Jai Hindley.

And also wanted to win at least one stage with our sprinter, Jordi Meijers.

And now the podium's not possible.

So Jordi is the last chance.

If you see the crowds, Jordi, of course, you know, it's massive.

It's really like one of the biggest events you can do.

Sprinters will certainly put their elbows out and say, willing to kill.

I cannot say I'm overjoyed with the results I had.

So far sixth was the best.

The team expected at least one victory.

And I know I'm not the top favorite for Champs-Élysées, that's for sure.

But I will give it 100% to win the stage.

No matter how it looks on paper as a mission

impossible, you still have to keep on trying.

Quick step one to be in the break.

But we want to sprint.

That's our goal.

Bora, I don't think.

But there are teams with different objectives, for sure.

Hey, but I'm stressed.

I can't handle this.

You have no idea what the word means, you know.

Jasper is making jokes about it.

But he forgets one thing, that it changes his attitude and his cycling career.

This day, last year.

Changed?

Yes.

As a person, he became a bit more arrogant, yes.

That's correct.

But for us... Thank you.

Performance-wise, it was better since then.

It was better, thank you.

But we buy us a good rope to bring him back down.

I'm arrogant.

Don't give a shit.

We all get one.

Have a lasser, Zinzi.

Difference with last year?

Yeah, it was the yellow jersey mainly.

Well, I got four this time.

But of course, today we could put the cherry on top.

That really would be an incredible win.

It was a way for me to end the tour.

Bum, bum, bum.

La vlam, vlam, ham!

Bum, bum, bum.

La vlam, vlam, ham!

Nice to see you, Jasper.

I'm getting a gut.

Can you sprint like that?

Look at this.

Don't go like this.

Yeah, the zipper's broken.

You're good, Jasper.

Yeah.

Bad egg.

We aim for the victory today with Jasper, of course.

And in the end, maybe it's the perfect picture.

The Champs-Élysées, five-stage win in Tour de France,

I think it's for every team, would be enormous.

Good luck.

Thank you.

Will today be the day that Jasper Philipsen takes his fifth win in this Tour de France?

As is traditional on the final stage of the

Tour, the first few kilometres are taken slow.

Once

the riders reach the Champs-Élysées, the race will really begin.

If you see an opportunity, you feel your legs, just take it, eh?

Niels, Marco, Danny and Jordi, you get together.

Try to find each other slowly now, eh, guys?

Everybody knows where he has to be.

You don't lose concentration and then you are there when you have to be.

Yeah, try to attack, try to go, try to go.

Soudal, quick step at the front.

Go, go, go, he's gone, he's out of there.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

Soudal, quick step at over 64 kilometres an hour.

We show no stress.

The Ampersand de Koenig team will try to

control the attacks right to the finish line.

Fuck, what's going on?

Fuck, that was a drop.

And they're on the last lap.

Wait at the back of the bunch, wait at the back of the bunch.

We don't need to talk to understand what we have to do.

I know what my job is.

Good situation for us, eh?

Good situation.

And now all the sprinters are in front.

The pace is very high.

Come on, eh, guys, five to go.

We bring this one home, eh?

The poorer Hansgrohe riders are all at the front of the peloton.

Bob, Conny, just pick him up, move him to the middle.

One kilometre from the finish line, the last kilometre of the Tour de France.

When you have the position, just try to jump

again to hurt the guys who have the control.

The sprinters are getting ready.

They can see the finish line.

The Alpecin de Koenig riders are at the front.

Mathieu van der Poel with Jasper Philipsen in his wheel.

Jasper Philipsen pushes Dylan Groenewegen.

You hesitate until the orange goes.

You want to wait as long as possible.

Jordi Meijer sprints on the left.

Wow, four of them on the same line.

Who will win?

Philipsen was there.

So was Jordi Meijers.

I've lost so much.

And?

I didn't see either.

Groenewegen, Philipsen.

Jordi Meijers.

Photo finish.

Meijers or Philipsen?

Photo finish.

Photo finish.

Jordi, was it your man?

No, No, I didn't see anything.

Sure?

Jordi Meijers wins.

Oh, that was super special.

Um, it was the only sprinter

It's nice to win a stage, but it's even nicer if you can beat the unbeatable.

There are no gifts for nobody.

You can win by a small margin, but that makes a huge difference.

We could have won that one easily.

It was important for us to win and it would have been nice

for Jasper to finish it off in Paris, but it didn't happen.

The 2023 Tour de France for Bora Hansgrohe.

Two stage wins, one day in the yellow jersey.

And when you win the unofficial World Championship

for sprinters, that's really something special.

Could be worse, no?

Winning the green jersey is a great accomplishment, but definitely as a

sprinter you're only as good as your last race.

If you won a few races in a row, then you're the

hero, and if you then lose, you're nothing anymore.

I'm a happy man.

It's finished.

For me, the Tour is special.

Though honestly, this year I was so shit, I'm telling you.

It was hard.

Three weeks.

Yes, it was.

Yeah, but there's a fourth one for you.

My dream still is to finish on the podium, but

I still race for the best every single day.

I got beaten up by the best as well every single day.

Ha!

Ha!

Being able to compete with the best cyclists on the planet.

You are very close to their success, and you are very close

to witnessing when their dreams are shredded up in pieces.

And it brings compassion out in you.

Of course, if you wrote it, you wouldn't want it to end like that.

Yeah, ultimately, I don't want to share it with the record.

So I spent a long time thinking, fuck, can I do another year?

And, yeah, let's just do it.

Fuck it.

And there he is, ladies and gentlemen, walking away

with the yellow jersey for the second year in a row.

The one and only Yonatan.

Jonas Vingegaard.

Yes, that's right.

He's congratulated by the mayor of Paris.

Something special.

The Tour de France is the biggest race in the world.

And, yeah, now I have it two times.

Cycling is very simple.

It is always the best one who wins.

I hope I can do it again.

It's sports, you know.

You want to be the best.

I don't want to have the popularity prize.

I don't care what people think.

Because there's only one thing that counts for me.

Winning the yellow jersey.

In the end, we took second, third GC.

Yeah, we missed the cherry on the top of the cake.

And we go for that next year.

Are you happy now?

Yeah, well, I'm content.

And it's a relief that it's all over.

And that it ended well.

Thank you.

No, thank you.

I had dreamed as a kid about doing the Tour de France.

And they all came true.

And the winner of the Tour, Jonas Vengergaard, holding up his yellow bike.

Richard Plugger and I are cut from different cloths.

I'm part of the older generation.

We don't necessarily agree, but I can have a beer

with people that I don't agree with, can't I?

Yeah, having a drink with them is no problem.

Hey, why are you late getting here?

Now we switch to champagne.

He won it.

Yes, he won.

But winning isn't necessarily the most important part.

And Pino, unintentionally, achieved something different.

He won the love of the whole public.

Pino always brought his truth to cycling.

And he connected with everyone that way.

He is a man, a man to follow.

He is a man to be loved.

Thanks, Dimon!