Last year’s Tour concluded outside Paris for the first time since 1905 because of a scheduling conflict with the Olympics, with the final stage held in Nice. The Champs-Élysées returned this year for the conclusion of the 3,320-kilometer (2,060-mile) race.

This year's Tour de France ends on Sunday with the finish line on Paris’s Champs-Élysées - but in a new twist this year, cyclists will loop through the cobbled streets of Montmartre, in an echo of last year's Olympic races.

Police clash with rioters in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, France, on June 28, 2023, a day after an officer shot and killed a 17-year-old driver during a traffic check.

On Paris Streets, Anti-Macron Protests Take On a Hint of Menace Peaceful solidarity alternates with the threat of violence, and all of France waits to see which way the standoff will turn.

France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, has been holding crisis talks amid concerns that the country could see a replay of violence in 2005 that led to a state of emergency.

Like Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) last year in Nice, Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) was able to claim the third spot on the Paris podium behind Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) as well as the white jersey in his first-ever Tour de France participation.

Route, standings and updates as race enters Paris with Tadej Pogacar set to be crowned - The Tour de France reaches its conclusion with the final stage set to finish on the Champs-Elysees - but there’