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Tour de France 2019: Egan Bernal wins, Geraint Thomas second, Caleb Ewan wins in Paris

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Egan Bernal became the youngest rider in 110 years to win the Tour de France after Caleb Ewan won the traditional sprint finish in Paris.With the race leader not challenged on the final stage, 22-year-old Bernal became the first Colombian winner.He crossed the line in the peloton, hand-in-hand with his Ineos team-mate and last year's winner Geraint Thomas, who finished second this time. "To finish second behind a team-mate makes it OK," said Welshman Thomas."Two years ago I had my arm in a sling with a broken collarbone watching Chris Froome win, wishing I was riding and I would've taken second then, but it just shows how time and expectations have moved on."Egan is the future and when I'm 45...

Tour de France 2019: Egan Bernal set to win from Geraint Thomas

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Egan Bernal is poised to become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France after finishing Saturday's penultimate stage in the yellow jersey.Tradition dictates that the race leader is not challenged on Sunday's largely processional final stage to Paris.Bernal, 22, will become the youngest Tour winner for 110 years, with Ineos team-mate Geraint Thomas in second. Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk moved up to third as Julian Alaphilippe faded on an Alpine stage won by Vincenzo Nibali.Italian Nibali, winner of the Tour de France in 2014, was in the day's break and attacked again on the climb to the finish at Val Thorens, winning by 10 seconds from Spain's Alejandro Valverde.Bernal and Thomas, who wo...

Famous birthdays for Nov. 30: Gael Garcia Bernal, Kaley Cuoco

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Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. They include: -- Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1508 -- Irish satirist Jonathan Swift in 1667 -- Novelist Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in 1835 -- British statesman Winston Churchill in 1874 -- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, in 1924 UPI File Photo -- Actor Robert Guillaume in 1927 -- Producer/TV music show host Dick Clark in 1929 -- Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy in 1930 (age 88) -- 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman in 1936 -- Filmmaker Ridley Scott in 1937 (age 81) -- Playwright David Mamet in 1947 (age 71) -- Singer/actor Mandy Patinkin in 1952 (age...