Duncan Steer
In pictures: the story of the 2022 Tour de France
Victorious! Following a gripping, three-week battle with last year’s champion Tadej Pogačar, Dane Jonas Vingegaard claims his maiden Tour de France title. (Getty Images)
Sunday 24th July 2022
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Pogacar and Vingegaard ahead of Stage 18: an intense but always sporting rivalry. (Getty Images)
The ubiquitous Wout van Aert helped define this all-action, unpredictable Tour: three stage wins, lone breakaways, ready to do anything for the team and Jonas Vingegaard. (Getty Images)
Massive crowds turned out to see the Tour during the first three stages in Denmark. (Getty Images)
Designed to add an element of unpredictability, the crossing of the 18km Great Belt Bridge on Stage 2 passed off uneventfully and the day ended in a bunch sprint. (Getty Images)
A hugely popular win for Fabio Jakobsen on Stage 2, a little over two years since his life-threatening crash at the Tour of Poland. (Getty Images)
Stage 5 Arenberg stage, along the Belgian border. (Getty Images)
Stage 10 grinds to a halt as the road is blocked by climate protestors. According to the ASO's own figures the Tour's carbon footprint is equal to the annual output of 68,000 French people. (Getty Images)
The peloton on Stage 11. (Getty Images)
Jonas Vingegaard on his way to taking yellow on Stage 11.
Pogacar lost the yellow jersey on an epic, attack-filled Stage 11, working himself to exhaustion with his UAE team depleted by Covid. (Getty Images)
Bastille Day on Alpe d'Huez. (Getty Images)
Stage 12, Bastille Day: Britain's Tom Pidcock, 22, on his way to becoming the youngest-ever winner of an Alpe d'Huez stage in the Tour.
Four times champion Chris Froome, now 37, came third on Alpe d'Huez, his best result since his career-threating crash in 2019. (Getty Images)
Jasper Philipsen edges Stage 15 victory from green jersey Woot Van Aert, in Carcassonne. Only three stages of the first 15 have ended in bunch sprints. (Getty Images)
Lourdes, Stage 18: Huge roadside crowds returned to the Tour after the Covid-damaged years of 2020 and 2021. (Getty Images)
Stage 18, Hautacam: After an epic battle, Jonas Vingegaard leaves Pogacar trailing by more than a minute to effectively wrap up victory in the 2022 Tour. (Getty Images)
Jonas Vingegaard and Woot van Aert after taking 1-2 on the Stage 20 time trial. (Getty Images)
Geraint Thomas took third place (to go with his 2018 win and his 2nd in 2019), without ever threatening the dominant Vingegaard and Pogacar.
Shirin Van Anrooij of Netherlands and Team Trek-Segafredo compete during the first stage of the revived Tour de France Femmes. The prolific sprinter Lorena Wiebes of Team comfortably took the yellow jersey. (Getty Images)
Victorious! Following a gripping, three-week battle with last year’s champion Tadej Pogačar, Dane Jonas Vingegaard claims his maiden Tour de France title. (Getty Images)
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