Success could rarely taste sweeter than it did for Valentin Paret-Peintre in the Tour de France on Tuesday as the Soudal-QuickStep climber fended off Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) in a dramatic duel to win stage 16 on the summit of the Mont Ventoux.
In one fell swoop, Paret-Peintre managed to claim his country’s first win of the 2025 Tour de France, his first WorldTour victory since a stage of the 2024 Giro d’Italia and the biggest triumph of his career.
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