Paris: Egan Bernal will clinch victory in the Tour de France as long as he avoids any last minute disaster on the parade into the Paris sunset to become the first Colombian winner of cycling's greatest prize and its youngest in more than a century.

Bernal, 22, champion-in-waiting along with the other 155 men left after the gruelling three week 3,480 kilometre cycling odyssey will set off from Rambouillet on the largely ceremonial closing 21st stage at 1805 GMT.