A flurry of numbers, statistics, and points of reflection from the twenty-first and final stage of the Tour de France.

1100x10: VAN AERT IS BACK!
Winner after attacking during the 3rd climb of the Côte de la Butte Montmartre, Wout van Aert raises his arms for the 10th time at the Tour, 1,100 days after his last victory in Rocamadour 2022 (stage 20). Since then, he had finished in the top-3 eight times without winning. Van Aert is the 37th rider to reach 10 victories. He equals, among others, his compatriot Jasper Philipsen, who achieved his 10th success in stage 1.

6: THE BELGIAN FINISHES AS HE STARTED
After Jasper Philipsen (1st stage), Tim Merlier (3rd and 9th stage), Remco Evenepoel (5th stage), and Tim Wellens (15th stage), Wout van Aert wins the 6th Belgian victory of this edition. As many as in 1985 and 2022. One must go back to the 7 victories of 1984, 41 years ago, to find a better record. Belgium is the most victorious nation of the 2025 Tour, ahead of Slovenia (4), Netherlands (3), Italy (2), Australia (2), Ireland (1), Great Britain (1), Norway (1), and France (1). Van Aert is the first Belgian to win the final Champs-Élysées stage twice, which 12 Belgians have won. Freddy Maertens did it twice, but once (1976) in a morning time trial, before the final stage.

4: POGACAR RISES AGAIN
Tadej Pogacar wins his 4th Tour de France and equals Chris Froome. The Slovenian is now one victory away from the 5 won by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Indurain. He is the youngest cyclist to win 4 titles at 26 years, 10 months, and 6 days. Merckx achieved this goal at 27 years, 1 month, and 6 days. His 54 yellow jerseys place him 5th in this ranking (record: Merckx, 111). Pogacar is the first rider to podium in his first 8 Grand Tours and the first to reach 6 consecutive Tour de France podiums.

1971: THE POWER OF YOUTH
Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Florian Lipowitz, Oscar Onley, and Félix Gall have a combined average age of 26 years and 37 days. This is the youngest top-5 in the general classification since 1971, when Eddy Merckx, Joop Zoetemelk, Lucien Van Impe, Bernard Thevenet, and Joaquim Agostinho had an average age of 25 years and 236 days.

100%: A "NEO" GREEN
Winner of two stages, Jonathan Milan becomes the 3rd Italian to win the points classification after Franco Bitossi (1968) and Alessandro Petacchi (2010). He is the first "neo" to win the green jersey since Peter Sagan in 2012. Milan has a 100% success rate in Grand Tours: he won the points classification in both his Giros (2023-2024), and in his first Tour de France. He is the 7th different winner in the last 7 editions, something that hadn't happened since 2006-2012.

6: LIPOWITZ, A YOUNG STAR
Florian Lipowitz (3rd) won the best young rider classification in his first Tour, like Tadej Pogacar (2020) and Remco Evenepoel (2024) in recent years. This is the seventh consecutive time the white jersey finishes on the Tour podium. The German is the 6th "neo" to finish in the top-3 in the 21st century. The last three were Tadej Pogacar (1st in 2020), Jonas Vingegaard (2nd in 2021), and Remco Evenepoel (3rd in 2024).

4/9: THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT
With Florian Lipowitz (3rd), Oscar Onley (4th), Kévin Vauquelin (7th), and Ben Healy (9th), 4 best young rider contenders are in the top-9 of the general classification. This is a slightly better result compared to last year (4 in the top-10) and is unprecedented since the classification was introduced in 1975! At the top, 1'12" separates Lipowitz and Onley, the smallest gap since the 2011 Tour (46" between Pierre Rolland and Rein Taaramäe).

3: THE POLKA DOT JERSEY IS ALSO TADEJ'S
Tadej Pogacar wins the mountain classification for the 3rd time after 2020 and 2021. The Slovenian equals Julio Jimenez as the 4th rider with the most polka dot jerseys. Only Richard Virenque (7), Federico Bahamontes (6), and Lucien Van Impe (6) are now ahead of him.

2: HEALY AFTER MARTIN
Winner at Vire-Normandie (6th stage), 9th overall and multiple times in yellow, Ben Healy won his first Tour combativity award. He succeeds Richard Carapaz and becomes the second Irishman to receive this recognition after Dan Martin in 2018. Like him, his compatriot also won stage 6, finishing 8th overall.

1-2: WHO CAN STOP THEM?
Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard occupy the top-2 of the general classification for the 5th time (and consecutively), an unprecedented feat. Before them, the duo with the most doubles was Bernard Hinault and Joop Zoetemelk (three times in 1978, 1979, and 1982). Pogacar and Vingegaard have been ranked 1st and 2nd in no less than 15 stages, 12 of which were won by the Slovenian.

5: GRAND TOUR SPECIALISTS
Wout van Aert's last 5 victories have all come in the last three Grand Tours, where he has won each time: three stages at the 2024 Vuelta, one at the Giro last May, and one at the Tour de France today. This performance is identical to that of Kaden Groves, winner of the 2024 Vuelta (three times), the 2025 Giro (once), and yesterday's Tour de France in Pontarlier.

12: FEW RIDERS IN THE SAME HOUR AS THE WINNER
12 riders finished within an hour of Tadej Pogacar (Thymen Arensman 12th at 52'41", Jhonathan Narvaez 13th at 1h04'36"). It's the first time in 56 years that only 12 riders have finished in the same hour as the winner: one must go back to 1969 (Lucien Van Impe 12th at 56'17" from Eddy Merckx, Jean-Claude Theillière 13th at 1h04'58"). Something that shows the enormous pace kept by the winner!