Tadej Pogachar (UAE Team Emirates) has made his mark on Tour de France history.

After holding the lead for nearly two weeks, Primoš Roglic (Jumbo Visma) was unable to defend his 57-second advantage in the stage 20 time trial.

In contrast, Pogachar rode comfortably throughout the 36.2 km course, gaining 13 seconds on Roglic in the first 12 km and passing Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) with 17.3 km to go in 2 minutes.

At the finish, Pogachar was an astounding 1:21 ahead of second-place finisher Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo Visma).

In one stroke, he took his third stage win of the Tour, the yellow jersey, kept the white jersey, and reclaimed the polka-dot jersey. The latter was won by mountain leader Ineos Richard Karapas, who climbed La Planche des Belle Filles in 16:10, 1:12 under Pogachar's time, which was seventh fastest.

"For me, I wasn't thinking about the yellow jersey.

"But the team trusted me. They believed in me and I believed in them. It was a great day."

Of all the preparation and training that went on behind the sense, he said, "It was done over a long period of time and they planned it really well.

And in the race, with teammate Davide de la Cruz injured almost the entire way, "Unfortunately, we lost Davide Formolo and Fabio Aru. It was disappointing to lose Davide Formolo and Fabio Aru, but I didn't give up.

Asked about the moment at the end of the final stage in the Alps when Roglic put his arm around his shoulder, Pogachar replied: "After the Col de la Rose I was thinking about second place in Paris, I was sure of second place and today was an incredible day."

It was a spectacular upset that allowed Pogachar to become the youngest postwar Tour de France winner heading into Paris on Sunday. Curiously, it also fulfilled a recent tradition at La Planche des Belles Fils that each time a Tour de France stage climbs the Vosges Mountains (for the fifth time since 2012), the race leader changes on that day.

Pogachar said that although it was he who won the time trial, his team played a major role in his victory.

"We scouted together and knew every corner, every hole, where to accelerate.

He added that after catching up to Lopez, the time difference didn't bother him as much, but that when he was listening to the radio on the flatter part of the course, he couldn't hear anything on his limbs because the fans were lining the road.

"I just climbed deeper and deeper. My dream was to be in the Tour de France.

"I had my white bike ready for tomorrow.

Thinking back to the 2019 Vuelta a España, where he also won a stage on the final Saturday, he recognized that resilience is one of the keys to doing well in the Grand Tours

"It's genetic. I have my parents to thank for that," he grinned. This is because the phones are not working.

"The signal here in La Planche de Belle Fille was really bad and I still couldn't talk to them. But I have to thank my parents. They are the best parents in the world," he concluded.

There are no limits for the 21-year-old Pogachar, and as a testament to his versatility and willingness to race all kinds of races, he has participated in the World Championships, followed by the Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and then, with Geraint Thomas, the Tour de France He said he would be one of the few winners of the Tour de Flanders.

Pogachar, the second youngest winner of the Tour de France, when asked about his first memories of the Tour de France, replied: "I was cheering for Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck and others. It was great to watch them on TV. But now I'm here." I'm really happy to wear 'yellow'."

Pogachar was told by one journalist that nothing is ever the same for him: "Keep being the same man. Keep racing and see what happens."

So far, anyway, Pogachar has won the biggest prize in cycling.