The Week Junior UK – 03 August 2019

18 The Week Junior•3August 2019

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n28July,Egan Bernal cycled into therecordbooks

by winning theTour de France. The 22-year-old is the

youngest winner of the world’smost famous bikeracefor

110 years. He is also the first cyclist fromColombia,acountry

in South America, to takethe top prize.“I’m the happiest guy

in the world.Ihave just won theTour de Franceand Ican’t

believe it,”hesaid.

The race takes placefor three weeksevery July onroads

around France. Bernal rides forTeam Ineos,aBritish team

that wascalledTeam Skyuntil earlier this year.Bernal’s

Welsh teammate, Geraint Thomas,came second. Thomas

wasthe 2018Tour champion but Bernal proved to

be the strongest rider overall during the 21 different

race stages.

France’sJulian Alaphilippe worethe yellow

jersey,given each day to the rider with the quickest

overall time aftereach stage, for 14 days.

Alaphilippe lost the jersey to Bernal on stage 19,

and Bernalkept it until the finish inParis two days

later.French cyclingfans had hoped to have a

FrenchTour champion for the first time since1985,

but in the end itwasBernal who triumphed.

Harvey Elliott

The 16-year-old joined Premier

League team Liverpool from

Championship clubFulham. Elliott

is the youngest everfootballer

to play in the PremierLeague.

AustraliaWomen’s

cricket team

They won the T20 series against

England on 28 July.Australia have

already taken the Ashes trophy.

THE WEEK’S WINNERS... Caeleb Dressel

t theWorldSwimming

Championships, the

US swimmer won six

old medals and set a

worldrecordin the

100-metrebutterfly.

MaxVerstappen

he Red Bull driver won

the German Grand Prix

at the Hockenheimring.

British driverLewis

Hamilton finished ninth.

●Egan Bernal’stotal time to

complete thecoursewas

82 hours and 57 minutes.

●Bernal pockets £450,000 in

prizemoney as the winner

of theTour de France.

●Therewere176 riders at the

start of theraceon6July

and 155 finished on 28 July.

●This year therace covered a

total distanceof2,150 miles.

Fanscelebrated

in Colombia.

Egan Bernal

(left) and

Geraint Thomas.

Numbers to know...

TOUR

TRADITION

Thewinner sips

asmall

glassofc

hampagne

while riding the last

stage in

Paris.