Tour de France 2023 Stage 21 LIVE: Jonas Vingegaard set to be crowned champion in Paris, as Jasper Philipsen targets victory number five

1. Jonas Vingegaard 82'05'42"
2. Tadej Pogacar +7'29"
3. Adam Yates +10'56"
4. Simon Yates +12'23"
5. Carlos Rodriguez +13'17

JORDI MEEUS: AN INDESCRIBABLE FEELING

I knew in previous sprints this was more possible than the results I've showed so far. Today everything went perfect. I felt good all day - the beginning was easy, obviously - but from the moment we went full gas my legs felt incredibly good. Then Marco Haller did a perfect job with positioning, and he was also there. I had the wheel of Pedersen and came out of the slipstream, and I could catch it on the line. To take the win today is an indescribable feeling.

Where on earth did he come from? It looked like a textbook lead-out from Mathieu van der Poel who moved aside 250m from the line, which was where it began to get messy. Groenewegen took the bait and Philipsen lept on his wheel, moving to his left and creeping ahead at what looked like the perfect moment. Even better, though, was the timing of the Bora-Hangrohe sprinter, who came out of nowhere, followed all the wheels, came down the left and threw for the win. It was a four-way photo in the end, with Dylan Greunewegen just pipping Pedersen for third.

And Pogacar is present at the front, again!

Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Alberto Bettiol (EF Education EasyPost) and Remi Cavagna (Soudal-QuickStep) but it's downhill at this point and it's much too fast, especially as Izagirre is replaced by an Alpecin-Deceuninck rider. Onto the Place de la Concorde for the final time, and it's all about positioning.

And with the peloton all together, there's a slight lull that Victor Campenaerts and Omar Fraile look to take advantage of. It's not happening, though, as the bell tolls.

A few spots of rain begin to show themselves on the course, that could cause the odd problem here and there if the riders aren't careful. No-one wants to crash out today, and positioning begins to become all-important. The breakaway is done, and there's maybe one last opportunity for someone to take a flyer. Better go quick, though.

And it's looking reasonably calm in the bunch, as Alpecin-Deceuninck and Jayco Alula (for Dylan Groenewegen) manage this gap, holding the three on an eighteen second leash.

They've really wound it up over the last couple of laps, hitting speeds well into the 50s, as the peloton sweeps around the famous turn and onto the finish straight. At three laps to go, the trio out front have around 18 seconds, which is well within the abilities of the riders behind. Driest Devenyns (Soudal-QuickStep) in his last Tour de France, pulls away for a final moment of excitement, showing the bunch is not at max velocity just yet.

Nelson Oliveira (Movistar), Simon Clarke (Israel PremierTech) and Frederik Frison (Lotto-Dstny) again. The sprinters' teams are very much in control of this race, and taking their duties very seriously.

The gap to the bunch is practically non-existent. Briefly a few more riders are able to come across, but Fred Wright can only contribute so much, and the group is soon picked up and reabsorbed by a marauding peloton. Soudal-QuickStep are picking up the pace, as Kasper Asgreen stretches things out and helps another small group off the front.

As Tadej Pogacar takes the intermediate sprint, a sextet led by Alberto Bettiol, and including Michal Kwiatkowski, Nils Politt, Harold Tejada, Alex Edmondson and Mattias Skjelmose make their way up to them. Pogacar will be relieved that someone (if not all of them) will be willing to help him out. Just past the Arc de Triomphe he was seen to give a big shake of the head as Van Hooydonck again refused to come through. The maillot blanc really wants this move to work.

Not much of one, but not nothing, either. Fifteen seconds as the pair pushes on. One of them, anyway.

The Lotto-Dstny rider kicks out, because why not? He gets a few moments in the sun, a gap of a few seconds, before a certain T. Pogacar draws the attention with a little dash off the front. Jumo Visma aren't having any of it, though, and Nathan van Hooydonck is on the Slovenian's tail. The Belgian anchor is not going to work with him, though. Meanie. He's not going to get 7 minutes, lads.

This is one of the most magnificent scenes in sport, the maillot jaune leading the peloton around the famous Pyramide du Louvre, before emerging onto the Place de la Concorde and passing onto the finish straight for the first time today. The peloton is greeted by two planes from the Patrouille acrobatique de France trailing smoke and the race is on.

Jumbo Visma take to the front of the bunch, and things have taken a turn for the serious. As they go past the Dome de Paris, and onto the cobbles, the real racing is about to begin. Time to watch one final interview with the maillot jaune, who gets one relaxing week before preparations for the Vuelta will begin.