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Remco Evenepoel will be replaced on the podium and as the white jersey winner by Florian Lipowitz, who is making his Tour debut for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe.

Primoz Roglic came in to the Tour as the team leader for Red Bull, with Lipowitz seen as a back-up option for GC having finished third behind Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard at last month's Criterium du Dauphine.

The 24-year-old German gradually improved in the GC standings and edged ahead of veteran Roglic before holding off a challenge from Scotland's Oscar Onley for the final GC podium spot on stage 18.

Red Bull are the only team with two riders in the top 10 of the GC standings yet over the past few days there have been several reports that Evenepoel, who is under contract with Soudal Quick-Step for 2025, has agreed a deal to join the German team. So, at the moment, who knows who will be Red Bull's leader at next year's Tour?!

There are some beautiful TV shots now coming in with the peloton having reached the centre of Paris.

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Tadej Pogacar's UAE team-mate Pavel Sivakov takes the second mountain point on offer today on the Cote du Pave des Gardes climb.

Remco Evenepoel won the time trial on stage five but was forced to abandon the Tour during stage 14 and the double Olympic champion revealed two days ago that he had been racing with a broken rib, which he suffered during the Belgian championships right before the Tour.

The 25-year-old, who finished third on his Tour debut last year, suffered a crash on a training ride in December and although he seemed to regain full fitness in time for the Tour, he said "I never quite felt like myself". He added: "I always felt like I was playing catch-up."

in a lengthy, emotional statement on Instagram,, external he also had a message to any young riders watching the Tour: "It's OK to stop. It's OK to feel tired. It's OK to be human.

"Sometimes stepping back is the strongest thing you can do. Now, I'm taking time to rest and recover for a while."

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Soudal Quick-Step have just been on the team radio, reminding their riders that this is a real stage and telling them to focus.

They have already had three stage wins from four riders, namely Tim Merlier (two), Remco Evenepoel and Valentin Paret-Peintre. Clearly they want to go out with a bang.

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The pace has picked up, with the peloton now just 20km from Paris, where huge crowds are already gathered on the Montmartre climb.

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Besides Tadej Pogacar's brilliance and some thrilling breakaway wins, two of my personal favourite moments were Ben Healy waiting to see if he'd done enough to claim the yellow jersey after finishing third as Simon Yates won stage 10.

And also Mathieu van der Poel's gutsy effort to claim a solo win on stage nine, only to be caught less than a kilometre from the line. Was a gripping watch. I mean, who wasn't screaming at the TV for the Dutch star to get the job done?!

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Ben Healy and Quinn Simmons have perhaps animated this year's race more than any other riders.

And for me, Simmons' hair and jersey combo have been one of the highlights of this year's Tour.

Wearing a stars and stripes jersey as the American road champion, he looks more like Captain America.

And then there's that handlebar moustache and his long strawberry blonde hair.

Generally speaking, when his hair has been tied up, he's meant business in the breakaway. But today it's flowing in the breeze so maybe the Lidl-Trek rider isn't planning on battling it out for the stage win later.

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There's a maximum 50 sprint points available on today's stage, so Jonathan Milan is set to add a Tour green jersey to the two he's already won on the Giro d'Italia:

1. Jonathan Milan (Ita/Lidl-Trek) - 352 points
2. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Emirates-XRG) - 272 pts
3. Biniam Girmay (Eri/Intermarche-Wanty) - 213 pts
4. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) - 182 pts
5. Anthony Turgis (Fra/TotalEnergies) - 169 pts

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And here's which riders are set to go home with this year's coloured jerseys:

• Yellow jersey (general classification) - Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Emirates-XRG)
• Polka-dot jersey (mountain classification) - Tadej Pogacar
• Green jersey (points classification) - Jonathan Milan (Ita/Lidl-Trek)
• White jersey (best young rider) - Florian Lipowitz (Ger/Red Bull-Bora-Hangrohe)

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Tadej Pogacar needn't worry. The race leader was assured of his third King of the Mountains title during yesterday's stage.

But since the yellow jersey takes precedence, Jonas Vingegaard is wearing the polka-dot jersey today.

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There are five categorised climbs on the final stage of the Tour, although three of those will be up the same hill in Paris.

We've just had the first of those climbs and Matteo Vercher, Benjamin Thomas and Mathis le Berre have a playful sprint to the summit, with Vercher taking the one mountain point on offer on the Cote de Bazemont.

That was in stark contrast to Vercher's mountain sprint with Thomas on the first stage, when Thomas edged out Vercher as he lunged for the line but slid to the deck and wiped out his fellow Frenchman.

Vercher wasn't too happy, I can tell you.

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Ben Healy is also set for a top-10 GC finish, which was beyond the expectations of EF Education-EasyPost and their breakaway specialist.

They had targeted stage six for a potential breakaway win and the 24-year-old did indeed manage to claim his first Tour victory.

And Healy's second Tour got even better as, on stage 10, he became the first Irish rider to claim the yellow jersey since Stephen Roche won the race in 1987.

He's certainly enjoyed being in the spotlight and mixing it with cycling's big guns.

Jordan Jegat snatched a spot in the top 10 of the general classification standings yesterday after getting into the breakaway, from which Kaden Groves claimed his first Tour win.

And on just his second Tour appearance, 22-year-old Scot Oscar Onley is set to finish in fourth place for Dutch team Picnic PostNL.

"We never really had the plan to go for GC in the beginning," he said earlier. "It was more just see how it goes.

"There was no pressure from the team, They've handled that really well because I think as soon as you say you are going for GC, there's a lot more attention on you. The Tour is already stressful enough, just to ride and compete.

"I'm excited for the future," Onley added. "It gives me a lot of confidence for the upcoming races as well, as these are the top guys and in top shape in the biggest race, so if I can do it here then why not in other races?"

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Out at the back of the peloton, the Australian contingent are catching up with each other.

It's been a great year for the Aussies, with Ben O'Connor and Kaden Groves both claiming stage wins over the past three days.

O'Connor was unable to prevent French rider Jordan Jegat snatching a top-10 GC spot from him yesterday but the Jayco AlUla rider will still be pleased to have ended his four-year wait for a second Tour stage win.

After three weeks of thrilling action, the first Tour to be held entirely in France since 2020 will conclude in the capital later.

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The riders have pretty much gone full gas from the start of each and every stage of this year's Tour, treating many of the flatter stages like one-day classics.

But there's none of that today.

The stage is under way and Tadej Pogacar is rolling along at the front of the peloton, posing for pictures with his UAE Emirates-XRG team-mates.

Back in the bunch, team-mates and rivals are nattering away, having a chuckle as they begin their leisurely ride into Paris.

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The Tour returns to it's traditional Paris finish after relocating to Nice last year due to the Olympics.

However, it does so with a twist, given the cobbled climb up to the Sacre-Coeur Basilica on the Montmartre hill features three times in a throwback to the road race in the 2024 Paris Games.

It's a 1.1km ascent at a gradient of 5.9% added to the original finishing circuit in the French capital, designed to whittle down the field before a high-speed finish, albeit possibly without some of the pure sprinters.