Porte finally breaks Tour jinx with expected podium finish


  • Cycling
  • Sunday, 20 Sep 2020

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 20 - Lure to La Planche des Belles Filles - France - September 19, 2020. Trek-Segafredo rider Richie Porte of Australia in action. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

RONCHAMP, France (Reuters) - Richie Porte has not been the luckiest man on the Tour de France, to say the least, but on Saturday the Australian was relieved to finally break his jinx at the world's greatest cycling race as he looked set to savour a podium place.

The Trek-Segafredo rider moved up to third in the general classification when he took third place in the final time trial, leapfrogging Colombian Miguel Angel Lopez in the 36.2-km solo effort against the clock.

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