Jonas Vingegaard

Tour de France 2022: 'My best should be enough,' says Jonas Vingegaard as he edges closer to title

Meanwhile, despite trailing by over three minutes going into the deciding weekend, Pogacar said "you never know" as he plotted the unlikely downfall of Vingegaard.

Tour de France 2022: Christophe Laporte wins stage 19 as Jonas Vingegaard maintains overall lead

Laporte, of Jumbo Visma, managed to close a gap from the main peloton to a stubborn escape group around 1km from the line before edging ahead to easily win this largely flat stage.

Tour de France 2022: Jonas Vingegaard beats Tadej Pogacar to put one hand on title

The stage win leaves Denmark's Vingegaard with an advantage that, barring disaster or a bad fall, should see him ride up the Champs Elysees to win the 2022 title on Sunday.

Tour de France 2022: Jonas Vingegaard retains lead as Hugo Houle wins stage 16

Jonas Vingegaard of Jumbo retained the overall lead from defending champion Tadej Pogacar and Geraint Thomas of Ineos as the Tour entered the Pyrenees

Tour de France 2022: Jasper Philipsen wins stage 15, Jonas Vingegaard keeps lead

Philipsen beat points leader Wout van Aert and Mads Pedersen on the line to win a Tour stage for the first time.

Tour de France 2022: Leader Jonas Vingegaard loses key ally Primoz Roglic ahead of Stage 15

Jonas Vingegaard's co-captain Roglic was injured in a fall on the cobbles of the northern French mining roads on stage five, but was fundamental in causing Pogacar's meltdown on the Col du Granon on the second of three Alpine stages this week

Tour de France 2022: Mads Pedersen posts maiden stage win, Jonas Vingegaard keeps lead

Fred Wright of Britain was second and Hugo Houle of Canada completed the stage podium.

Tour de France 2022: Jonas Vingegaard seizes lead with soaring mountain triumph of Stage 11

An exhausted Pogacar looked broken as he crossed the line seventh, 2min 51sec adrift at the summit of the 9.2 percent, 11.5km ascent of the Col du Granon in the southern Alps

Tour de France 2021: UAE Team Emirates' Tadej Pogacar claims second successive title in dominant fashion

Pogacar stole in at the 11th hour to win the 2020 edition, but this year he stamped his authority in the first week and will pull on the yellow jersey beneath the Arc de Triomphe as the undisputed champion aged just 22.

Tour de France 2021: Wout van Aert wins stage 20, Tadej Pogacar edges closer to victory with excellent performance

Wout van Aert won the time trial, but defending champion Pogacar's solid ride means he need only cross the Champs-Elysees finish line with the peloton in Sunday's 21st, and final, stage to retain the fabled yellow jersey as winner of the world's greatest bike race.