WATCH: Tour de France winner greets family with the Sign of the Cross

WATCH: Tour de France winner greets family with the Sign of the Cross July 30, 2019

Beautiful and humbling:

After he finished the final leg of the Tour de France on Sunday, and winning the celebrated bicycle race, Egan Bernal, a Columbian, slowly hugged his younger brother, held his face, and then the two of them made the sign of the cross, a traditional Catholic gesture.

Bernal then did the same with his mother, who was standing there.

Bernal, 22, is the youngest cyclist in 110 years to win the Tour de France. He is also the first Latin American to ever win the race.

Read more. And watch the moment below.


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