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
"It's been a journey, most of you know the dramas on the way," the 35-year-old Tasmanian, who broke into the limelight when he won the young riders classification at the Giro d'Italia in 2010, told reporters.
Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar wins and takes the overall leader's yellow jersey as he crosses the finish line of stage 20 of the Tour de France.A dramatic high-speed crash in the Alps in 2017 left him battered, bruised and out of the Tour and one year later, again on stage 9, he sustained a broken collarbone on a cobbled section.
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