Since 2012 In 2014, Italian rider Vincenzo Nibali won in one of the most convincing fashions seen in years, making him only the second Italian rider to win the race since the 1960s. Beginning in 2012, and only being interrupted by Nibali's performance in 2014, Team Sky would dominate the peloton for years in an extended manner not seen since Armstrong at US Postal. Froome would win three tours in a row, followed by the first person born in the British Isles to win in Geraint Thomas (Wiggins was born in Belgium and Froome was born in Kenya) followed by the first Colombian to win the Tour in Egan Bernal. It wasn't until 2020 that it became clear that this streak would be broken when the pace set by Team Jumbo-Visma riders Van Aert, Kuss, Roglič and Tom Dumoulin broke their GC favourite in defending champ Egan Bernal on stage 15, he would quit the race soon thereafter. Their string of victories was officially broken by Tadej Pogačar of UAE Team Emirates after an impressive effort on the final Individual Time Trial that made him the second rider from Slovenia to wear the Yellow Jersey after Primož Roglič that same year, and the first to win it. Pogačar also became the first rider since Eddy Merckx in 1972 to win three jerseys in a single Tour, and the second youngest rider to ever win the race (21 year-old) after Henri Cornet in 1904. The 2020 Tour was postponed to commence on 29 August, following the French government's extension of a ban on mass gatherings after the COVID-19 outbreak. This was the first time since the end of World War II that the Tour de France was not held in the month of July. Pogačar repeated his overall victory in 2021. He also won the mountains and young rider classifications again; thus winning three distinctive jerseys in consecutive years. This victory made him the youngest rider to achieve two Tour victories. On stage 13 of this Tour, sprinter Mark Cavendish tied the record of Eddy Merckx for all time stage wins with 34. In 2022, Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard won the general classification, while Pogačar secured second place and Thomas secured third place. Wout van Aert won the points classification with 480 points. The race was affected by climate-change protests as well as a heat wave. 17 riders were forced to