Tour de France: Race for green could come down to Paris

The race for the green jersey at this year's Tour de France had been unilaterally billed as a one-horse race. Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) had dominated the points classification for the five previous years, but his disqualification on stage 4 threw things wide open, and it could now go down to the wire on the Champs Elysées.

Patrick Fletcher

Patrick is a freelance sports writer and editor. He’s an NCTJ-accredited journalist with a bachelor’s degree in modern languages (French and Spanish). Patrick worked full-time at Cyclingnews for eight years between 2015 and 2023, latterly as Deputy Editor.