1989 Tour de France Stage 21 Time Trial - LeMond Wins Overall By 8 Seconds

Throwback to Stage 21 of the 1989 Tour de France, as described by the Wikipedia entry: "In the closest Tour in history, LeMond was trailing Fignon by fifty seconds at the start of the final stage, an individual time trial into Paris. LeMond was not expected to be able to make up this deficit, but he completed the 24.5 km (15.2 mi) stage at an average speed of 54.545 km/h (33.893 mph), the fastest individual time trial ever ridden in the Tour de France up to that point, and won the stage. Fignon's time was fifty-eight seconds slower than LeMond's, costing him the victory and giving LeMond his second Tour title by a margin of only eight seconds."

The last time the Tour concluded with a time trial was in 1968, when Jan Janssen came from behind to win overall by 38 seconds, the smallest margin up to 1989. The Tour has not held another time trial on the final stage in Paris since 1989. For 2024, the Tour will conclude with a time trial, but it will be from Monaco to Nice, the first time it will finish outside of Paris.

Transferred from a VHS recording of the 1989 Tour de France coverage. The recording was made on July 23, 1989.