Tour de France 2024

Stage 21 – Monaco > Nice (33.7km)

Sun 21st July | Scheduled start: 14:40 CET

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Where: Monaco to Nice on the French Riviera.

Stage Type: Individual Time Trial.

Weather: Touching 30˚ again. Very small chance of rain. Looks to be pretty consistent throughout the day.

Climbs: The third-category La Turbie (8.1km at 5.6%) followed by the short, sharp Col d’Eze (1.9km at 6.8%).

Stage suits: The route includes two significant climbs, so general classification riders are favoured over time trial specialists.

Stage 21 Contenders

Tadej Pogačar (8/11; 1.73) has won five stages of this year’s Tour de France and who would bet against him winning another? Said he’s likely to play it safe on the descents but looks on another planet and should take a lot of time out of the others up the climbs and on the flat.

Remco Evenepoel (2/1; 3.0) won the individual time trial on stage 7 and would ordinarily have Pogačar’s number against the clock. After three weeks of hard racing though, maybe not. Soudal-QuickStep can’t be faulted for the brave attempt to put pressure on Vingegaard on stage 20 even though it ultimately Evenepoel came up short.  

Jonas Vingegaard (7/1; 8.0) has had an incredible race given the circumstances and, like Pogačar, and Evenepoel for that matter, is unlikely to want to have a prang on one of the tricky descents. Saw last year what an excellent time triallist he can be though clearly not quite on that form here.

João Almeida (33/1; 34.0) is riding strongly and is a talented time triallist so it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him hit the frame.

Matteo Jorgenson (50/1; 51.0) is only 24secs ahead of Derek Gee (150/1; 151.0) in eighth place which no doubt he’ll want to defend. Has shown great shape in the final week of the Tour.  

Stage 21 Bets

It’s difficult to see past the top two in the betting and you have to side with Tadej Pogačar given his form.

With positions secure and a stage win unlikely, many don’t really have anything to ride for. Matteo Jorgenson does, however, and this may motivate him to a career-high time trial performance.

Matteo Jorgenson 2pts Top 3 @4/1 - 4th

Posted 20:53 BST Sat 20th July 2024

Prices quoted are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change

Stage 21 Result

1st Tadej Pogačar (8/11F)

2nd Jonas Vingegaard (7/1)

3rd Remco Evenepoel (2/1)

[Tour de France stage profiles reproduced by kind permission of Ben Lowe at Veloviewer.com]