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=== Since 2012 === [[File:Tour de France, 2014 02.jpg|thumb|Tour de France, Yorkshire (England), 2014]] [[Ineos Grenadiers|Team Sky]] dominated the event for several years, with wins for [[Bradley Wiggins]], [[Chris Froome]] (four times) and [[Geraint Thomas]] before [[Egan Bernal]] became the first Colombian winner in 2019. The streak was interrupted only by [[Vincenzo Nibali]]'s [[2014 Tour de France|2014]] win. [[File:TDF3033 pogacar vingegaard (52243724489).jpg|thumb|left|[[Tadej Pogačar]] (''right'') and [[Jonas Vingegaard]] (left) during the [[2022 Tour de France]]]] Due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in France|COVID-19]] outbreak, the [[2020 Tour de France|2020 Tour]] started in late August,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/52275648|title=Tour de France to go ahead at end of August after coronavirus delay|date=15 April 2020|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=15 April 2020}}</ref> the first time since the end of World War II that the Tour was not held in July.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lindsey |first1=Joe |title=The Tour de France Goes Virtual |date=29 June 2020 |url=https://www.outsideonline.com/2415248/tour-de-france-virtual-online-coronavirus |publisher=Outside |access-date=30 June 2020}}</ref> This saw the first of two successive victories for [[Tadej Pogačar]] of [[UAE Team Emirates]], who was the first Slovenian winner, and the second youngest (at 21) after Henri Cornet in 1904. He also won the mountain and youth classifications, becoming the first rider since Eddy Merckx in [[1972 Tour de France|1972]] to win three jerseys in a single Tour.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tadej Pogačar: Shark in Sheeps Clothing|author=Patrick Fletcher |date=20 September 2020 |url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/tadej-pogacar-shark-in-sheeps-clothing-tour-de-france-champion/}}</ref> Pogačar repeated this triple in [[2021 Tour de France|2021]]. On stage 13 of this Tour, sprinter [[Mark Cavendish]] tied the record of [[Eddy Merckx]] for all time stage wins with 34.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mark Cavendish ties Eddy Merckx's record 34 Tour de France stage wins |publisher=NBC Sports by Associated Press |date=9 July 2021 |url=https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/07/09/mark-cavendish-tour-de-france-stage-wins-merckx/ }}</ref> Danish rider [[Jonas Vingegaard]], second in 2021, won in both [[2022 Tour de France|2022]] and [[2023 Tour de France|2023]], with Pogačar coming second both times. The 2022 race was followed by the [[2022 Tour de France Femmes|Tour de France Femmes]], the first official Tour de France for women since 1989.<ref name=":3" /> In [[2024 Tour de France|2024]], Pogačar took back the Tour title, winning by more than six minutes over Vingegaard while Tour debutant, [[Remco Evenepoel]], rounded out the podium. Pogačar won six stages, including five of the last eight stages. With his win, he became only the eighth rider, and the first since [[Marco Pantani]] in [[1998 Tour de France|1998]], to win the [[Giro d'Italia]] and the Tour de France in the same calendar year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tadej Pogacar wraps up Tour de France victory to seal historic double|author=Jeremy Whittle|publisher=The Guardian|date=21 July 2024|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/21/tadej-pogacar-wraps-up-tour-de-france-victory-to-seal-historic-double}}</ref> On stage 5 of the race, sprinter [[Mark Cavendish]] won his 35th overall Tour stage win, breaking the tie between him and [[Eddy Merckx]], who held the record for 49 years, for the all-time stage wins record in the Tour.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tour de France: Cavendish breaks Merckx's record with 35th stage win |publisher=Le Monde |date=3 July 2024 |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sports/article/2024/07/03/tour-de-france-cavendish-breaks-merckx-s-record-with-35th-stage-win_6676578_9.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A tribute to Cavendish |publisher=Le Tour |date=3 July 2024 |url=https://www.letour.fr/es/video/8749/a-tribute-to-cavendish-etapa-5-tour-de-france-2024 }}</ref>
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