I went looking for Egan Bernal's age and found this
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...doping-at-tour
I had remembered incorrectly that Quintana is a former winner. He's finished as high as second but not first. Anyway, doping aside, I'm worried that the Tour de France might become like the women's Olympic figure skating gold medal, repeatedly won by an upstart youngster who never does much of anything again in the sport. We'll need a few more years of data to see if this is really becoming a trend. Two in a row white/yellow combo winners could just be a fluke.
Women's Olympic figure skating gold medals have been won by teenagers since 1996 with the lone exception of 2006 when long time competitor Shizuka Arakawa (25 at the time) won and then retired from the sport. For the rest of them, only Kim Yuna, the 2010 champion, has ever made it back to the Olympics to defend her title. She won the silver in her second Olympics (in Sochi behind a 17 year old Russian whose name I do not remember and I'm a huge fan of figure skating, she was that obscure.) Zagitova, the 2018 champion, didn't win the World title in 2018 but did manage to win the World title in 2019. Just prior to the pandemic, she announced that she had lost her motivation to compete and was not planning to participate in the 2020 World Championships (which wound up being cancelled.) It is unlikely she would have made the Russian team anyway although they might have given her a courtesy spot since she was (still is) the reigning world champ. So, she managed to make it in the sport one more year after winning gold. Only Yuna and Zagitova have ever managed to even medal at the Worlds or Olympics post their gold medal performances. The sport is suffering for it.