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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
A star is born at the Tour: 22-year-old champion Egan Bernal
By JOHN LEICESTER
AND SAMUEL
PETREQUIN
AP Sports Writers
PARIS — The skies over
Paris were yellow, ignited
by a glorious golden sunset.
The partying fans’ shirts
were yellow, Colombians
making themselves at home
on the Champs-Elysees.
But the yellow that
counted most was the iconic
jersey that fi t so snugly on
the slim shoulders of Egan
Bernal.
His crowning Sunday as
the Tour de France’s young-
est post-World War II cham-
pion, and its fi rst from South
America, heralded the birth
of a new supernova in the
cycling universe.
Winning a Tour for the
ages at the unusually young
age of 22 immediately
prompted the question: How
many more might he win?
Get this: He’s younger
than the Tour’s greatest
champions — fi ve-time
winners Jacques Anquetil,
Eddy Merckx, Bernard
Hinault and Miguel Indurain
— all were when they were
fi rst crowned. Pity those in
the peloton who also hope
to win future editions of
cycling’s greatest race: They
could be in for quite a wait.
“I am the most happy guy
AP Photo/Christophe Ena
Tour de France winner Egan Bernal, of Columbia, celebrates on the podium after the 21st
stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 79.53 miles with start in Rambouillet and fi nish
in Paris, France, on Sunday.
in the world. I just won the
Tour de France, and, yeah,
I can’t believe it,” Bernal
said, looking bemused on
the podium in the race win-
ner’s jersey and silhouetted
by the splendid sunset.
The slightly built Colom-
bian with a killer instinct
on the road proved to be the
strongest of the 176 strong
men who roared off from
the start in Brussels, Bel-
gium, on July 6 on their
2,092-mile odyssey that
delivered the most absorb-
ing, drama-packed Tour in
decades and confi rmation
that the prodigy Bernal is
the real deal.
Riding a yellow bike,
and cheered by Colom-
bian fans who were par-
tying even before he rat-
tled up the cobblestones of
the Champs-Elysees, Ber-
nal crossed the line with his
teammate Geraint Thomas,
the 2018 champion who this
year fi nished second. Ste-
ven Kruijswijk completed
what Tour organizers said
was the tightest podium in
the 116-year history of the
race, with just 1 minute,
31 seconds separating fi rst
and third places after three
weeks of racing.
The 21st and fi nal stage
was won in a sprint fi nish
on the famous avenue by
Australian Caleb Ewan, the
dominant sprinter of his fi rst
Tour with three stage wins.
Keeping with race tradition
on its fi nal day, the 155 riders
who survived the Tour rode
at a pedestrian pace and in
a joyful atmosphere before
hitting the Champs-Elysees.
Bernal chatted with French
rival Julian Alaphilippe and
raised a glass of champagne
as he rode.
At the fi nish, Bernal fell
into the arms of his family.
“I cannot believe it. It’s
just incredible. I am sorry.
I have no words,” he said
through a translator. “I still
can’t understand what is
happening to me.”
Tearful Colombians cel-
ebrated their new hero.
“When I saw that he
won, I said, ‘I need to go
with my music to support
him,’” said clarinet-play-
ing Colombian fan Sebas-
tian Cortes, who traveled
from Strasbourg in eastern
France for the celebration.
But millions of French
fans who had lined the
roads through east, cen-
tral and southern France,
and up into the thinning air
of the Pyrenees and Alps,
were ruing a bittersweet
Tour.
First, their hearts soared
with fabulous racing from
French riders Alaphilippe,
who held the iconic yellow
jersey for 14 days, and Thi-
baut Pinot, who won on the
fi rst of seven 6,500-foot-
plus peaks scaled by the
highest Tour in history.
But joy turned to sor-
row when Alaphilippe and
Pinot’s prospects of becom-
ing France’s fi rst winner
since Hinault in 1985 were
cruelly dashed just two
days before the grand fi nale
in Paris, on an epic Stage
19 where Mother Nature
became a party-pooping
guest. An almighty dump
of torrential rain and hail
severed the Tour route just
as Bernal was succeeding
in ripping the race lead off
Alaphilippe, who’d clung to
it like a kid with a favorite
toy.
“Julian
Alaphilippe
made us dream,” said Celes-
tin Simon, a Parisian who
cheered his hero on the
Champs-Elysees in a pointy
hat of French red, white and
blue. “Unfortunately, there’s
no victory at the end.”
Alaphilippe, more than
anyone, fi rst ignited and
then stoked what will long
be remembered as a Tour of
fi reworks. With his goatee
beard and can’t-catch-me
attacks that rivals couldn’t
match, Alaphilippe embod-
ied “panache,” the old-
school class so cherished by
Tour fans.
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