A flurry of numbers, statistics, and points of reflection from the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France.

1: ARENSMAN, THE NEW WINNER
After finishing 2nd at Puy de Sancy five days earlier, Thymen Arensman finally triumphed at Superbagnères, claiming his first Tour victory and his 4th professional win. He is the 68th Dutch rider to win and has given the Netherlands its 169th victory, the second this year after Mathieu van der Poel's win in Boulogne-sur-Mer.

41: INEOS ENDS ITS LONGEST DROUGHT!
By winning for the 22nd time, the Ineos Grenadiers team ended a Tour drought that lasted since July 15, 2023, when Carlos Rodriguez won stage 14 in Morzine. Two years and 41 stages, the longest period without a win for the British squad. Before that, the previous "record" was 35 stages without winning: from stage 17 of the 2020 Tour to stage 11 of the 2022 Tour, before Tom Pidcock's success at L'Alpe d'Huez.

5: LIPOWITZ DOESN'T STOP
Finishing 3rd at Hautacam, 4th at Peyragudes and 5th today, Florian Lipowitz has secured three consecutive top-5 finishes. He is the first German to do so since sprinter André Greipel in 2012, 13 years ago! At 24, Lipowitz is also the first German to lead the young rider classification since Marcel Kittel in 2013 (first stage).

3: TOP-3 GENERAL CLASSIFICATION RIDERS RETIRED
Leading the young rider classification before the start, Remco Evenepoel is the first white jersey to abandon the race since Tom Dumoulin in 2015 (stage 3). The Belgian was also 3rd in the general classification, and this is the first time a podium rider has had to leave the Tour since 2017. At that time, Geraint Thomas, who was second, crashed and abandoned on the road to Chambéry (9th stage).

22: THE "GIANT" FOR A YOUNG CLIMBER
At 22 years and 8 days, Lenny Martinez is the second youngest rider in history to conquer the Col du Tourmalet, after René Vietto in 1934 (20 years, 5 months and 6 days). This result helped him reclaim the polka dot jersey, which he wore for the third time.

8: COMBATIVE FRENCH RIDERS
Leading the race for over 70 kilometers, Lenny Martinez received the combativity award for the second time after winning it in stage 4. This is the eighth time a French cyclist has been awarded this year (Mattéo Vercher x2, Bruno Armirail x2, Lenny Martinez x2, Ewen Costiou, Mathieu Burgaudeau). The last time this happened was in 2013 (Jérôme Cousin x2, Blel Kadri, Romain Bardet, Julien Simon, Sylvain Chavanel, Christophe Riblon, Pierre Rolland).

88: LEGENDARY PEAKS
Three peaks from yesterday's stage are among the four most climbed in Tour history: Col du Tourmalet (1st, 88 times), Col d'Aspin (2nd, 77 times) and Col de Peyresourde (4th, 72 times). Frenchman Lenny Martinez dominated the first two, before Thymen Arensman became the second Dutchman to conquer Peyresourde. The first was Steven Rooks in 1988, 11 years before the winner of the day was born.

10: THE GREENEST OF ITALIANS
Still leading the points classification after winning the intermediate sprint at Esquièze-Sère, Jonathan Milan has claimed his 10th green jersey. This is a new record for an Italian rider, although Italians have already won this classification: Franco Bitossi in 1968, Alessandro Petacchi in 2010.

1-2: THAT AVENIR PODIUM
This is not the first time Thymen Arensman and Tadej Pogacar have shared the top 2 positions in a classification. They also finished 1st and 2nd at the Tour de l'Avenir 2018. A name quite representative of the race, since "Avenir" means "Future"!

163: UP TO THIS DAY
Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Florian Lipowitz, Oscar Onley, Kévin Vauquelin: the top-5 of the general classification has an average age of 25 years and 163 days. Last year, the top-5 of the general classification after stage 14 had... exactly the same average age! The five riders were Pogacar, Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, Joao Almeida and Carlos Rodriguez. Lipowitz, Onley and Vauquelin are also the three men on the podium for the best young riders.