8 memorable moments from the 2020 Tour de France

Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) and UAE Team Emirates’ Tadej Pogacar are all smiles on the final stage of the 2020 Tour de France
Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) and UAE Team Emirates’ Tadej Pogacar are all smiles on the final stage of the 2020 Tour de France (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

The 2020 Tour de France will always be remembered for a concluding time trial that blew apart the race's entire preceding narrative and which, over 36.2 kilometres, converted this year's Tour into one of the most dramatic editions in its recent history. And, lest it be forgotten in the wave of interest that Tadej Pogačar's stunning sporting heist has produced – at least since the turbulent edition of 1998 – this Tour was also one of the most uncertain to take place at all.

Pogačar's victory will doubtless reverberate down the years, even if it remains to be seen whether the young Slovenian's propulsion into the ranks of Tour stars at the age of 21 – now, on Monday, 22 – endures into the years to come. That might sound a shade far-fetched given the strength of his victory on Saturday, but then it should be remembered how widely Egan Bernal was predicted to be the rider who would dominate cycling 12 months ago. As we've seen, even the most implacable grandees of the sport can see their authority crumble overnight.

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Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.