Tour de France 23, Stage 21: Toasting the Team

While this Tour has been anything put normal, still some traditions must be upheld.  One of the classics on the final day of the Tour, long before reaching Paris, is for the team of the Yellow Jersey to sip some champagne as they pose for the press.  Jumbo-Visma brought all of their team through the Tour except for one.  Wout Van Aert had left just after his team leader, Jonas Vingegaard, had opened up a seven minute lead on the man sitting in second.  Of course, that was not why he went home, it was to get there in time for the birth of his son.  So it was seven who toasted towards the camera on each side of Vingegaard.  To his left was Sepp Kuss, who's crash almost took him out of the Tour yesterday, then Wilco Kelderman, and Dylan Van Baarle, going the other way are Nathan Van Hooydonck and Christophe Laporte.  Vingegaard may have won the Tour but he couldn't have done it without the entire team.  To prove it, the team also was the winning team in this Tour, and unusual feet for the team of the Maillot Jaune.

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Tour '22, Stage 21: Cheers!

Wout Van Aert and Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) clink glasses as they team celebrates their victories.  Tiesj Benoot waits for his turn as the sports directors and mechanics celebrate in the team cars behind.  Vingegaard has won both the Maillot Jaune and the Maillot a Pois and Van Aert has broken the record for the highest number of points earned towards the Maillot Vert.  All in all a great result for the team and the five members who made it all of the way to Paris.  Actually, right after this, Sepp Kuss almost ran into Vingegaard as he struggle to balance both his bike and his champagne.

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Tour, Stage 21: Salute!

The senior manager of Team Ineos, Sir Dave Brailsford, leans out of the team car to toast his Maillot Jaune, Egan Bernal.  One tradition of the Tour is the winner's team will toast with champagne as they ride towards Paris on the final stage.  Starting with Lance Armstrong and US Postal team, the team of the Maillot Jaune will trick out their kit with pops of yellow.  Starting with Team Sky (now Ineos) adds a yellow strip to the team car and have added yellow on there racing kit as well.  The only tell of his age (22 years) was watching Bernal actually down his full glass of champagne.  Fortunately for him, the other traditon is not to attack the yellow jersey on the final stage of the Tour.  It is highly unlikely that anyone could gain time on such a flat stage anyway, but this stage is for the sprinters.

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Tour, Final Stage: Cheers!

The final stage of the Tour de France is broken into two distinct parts.  First the riders amble along on the way to Paris, chatting, visiting each other, and celebrating the fact that they have finished the incredible effort of racing the Tour de France.  Another tradition is the toast by the winning team, or the team of the winner toasting each other over a fight well fought.  Team Sky has been doing the arm and arm riding across the finish line for a while now, but today they road together toasting the horde of press motorcycles and photographers and each other.  Only one of the team didn't make it to Paris.  Gainni Moscon lost his temper and punched another contestant forcing his ejection from the race.  On Geraint Thomas's right are Michal Kwiatkowski and Chris Froome (who was the one in Yellow for four previous Tours de France) and on his left are Wout Poels and Luke Rowe.  Sadly, Egan Bernal and Jonathan Castroviejo were just out of frame.  Froome's work on behalf of his teammate and friend have forced me to re-evalutate my opinion of him.  He was kind, generous and did all he could once it was clear that Thomas was going to be the best place in the team, and that he would carry the Maillot Jaune to Paris.

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