Tour de France 2026: Pogacar seals fifth title as Van der Poel wins incredible sprint on the Champs-Élysées – as it happened

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And that’s it from me for this blog and this Tour. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. Thank you for all your emails, your correspondence has lit up these pages. Adieu. Relentless Pogacar wins fifth Tour de France to equal record Tadej Pogacar took a record-equalling fifth win in the Tour de France on Sunday, joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain in the canon of the Tour’s most successful cyclists. In a thrilling finale to the Tour, Mathieu van der Poel took his second stage win of the race on the Champs-Élysees, fending off the pursuing pack of sprinters by a tyre’s…

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