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3: TRIPLE CROWN
Winner on the roads of Foix, Mads Pedersen signs his third victory of his Tour de France career, after winning in Saint-Étienne in 2022 and in Limoges in 2023. The Danish rider from Lidl-Trek also provides the thirtieth stage victory on the roads of the Tour for his country, the first since Jonas Vingegaard at Lioran in 2024. This success also allows him to wear the green jersey of the points classification for the first time.

26: IN A CLOSED CIRCLE
Among the 116 stage winners across the three Grand Tours, Mads Pedersen joins a new elite. Because in addition to this third success on the Grande Boucle, the Dane also has five victories at the Giro and four at the Vuelta. Until then, only 26 riders had managed to achieve this feat, winning at least three of the three Grand Tours. Among these, besides Pedersen, four are still active: Michael Matthews, Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard.

6/6: THE ADVENTURERS FOUND THEIR WAY
Foix smiled upon those with courage. Thanks to his success at the foot of the Castle of the Counts of Foix on Tuesday, Mads Pedersen continues the tradition of adventurers in the Pyrenean city. Because the five previous arrivals in the prefecture of Ariège have all crowned breakaway riders. The Dane follows in the footsteps of Norwegian Kurt-Asle Arvesen (2008), Spaniard Luis Leon Sanchez (2012), Frenchman Warren Barguil (2017), Briton Simon Yates (2019) and Canadian Hugo Houle (2022).

2x2: ANOTHER DOUBLE FOR LIDL-TREK
Behind the untouchable Pedersen, American Quinn Simmons, second of the day, allowed his Lidl-Trek team to achieve its first one-two finish under its current name at the Tour de France. But this is not new for the now German squad, as in 2011 brothers Andy and Frank Schleck placed first and second on the legendary Col du Galibier stage.

50: A FIRST TIME IN HALF A CENTURY
By achieving two one-two finishes in four days, UAE Team Emirates-XRG, thanks to Isaac del Toro and Tadej Pogacar in Barcelona (stage 2), and Lidl-Trek, with Mads Pedersen and Quinn Simmons (stage 4), have equaled a record that is 50 years old. In 1976, Italians Giovanni Battaglin and Pierino Gavazzi of the Jollj Ceramica team dominated the second stage in Caen, before Belgians Freddy Maertens and Michel Pollentier (Velda–Flandria) monopolized the top two positions the next day, at Le Touquet.

3: VIKING YELLOW
A Norwegian leading the Tour! Arriving with an advantage of almost thirteen minutes over the main group at Foix, thanks to the blessing of Tadej Pogacar, Torstein Traeen took the yellow jersey that the Slovenian was wearing. He thus becomes the third Norwegian to wear the leader's jersey at the Tour after Thor Hushovd, who is now his general manager at Uno-X Mobility (ten days between 2004, 2006 and 2011) and Alexander Kristoff (one day in 2020). Traeen also finds himself wearing a leader's jersey in a Grand Tour again, as he had already worn the red jersey for four days at the Vuelta last year, once again thanks to a long breakaway.

1990: A COMFORTABLE MARGIN
The large advantage of the breakaway toward Foix created significant changes in the general classification. After the fourth stage, Torstein Traeen leads Tadej Pogacar (4th) by 7'53'', but especially Paul Seixas (10th) by 8'41''. At this point in the race, this is the largest gap between the leader and tenth place since 1990! That year, Steve Bauer, in yellow, had a margin of 10'14'' over Allan Peiper, the last member of the top 10.

5: NOT A FIRST FOR POGACAR
Barely wearing yellow, Tadej Pogacar has already given up his jersey! Leader of the general classification since his victory at Les Angles on Monday, the Slovenian decided to abandon the yellow jersey for the fifth time in his career. In 2024, the four-time Tour winner conceded one day to Richard Carapaz (stage 4), while in 2025 he faced Mathieu Van der Poel (stages 6 and 8) and Ben Healy (stages 10 and 11) for the jersey. He had always reclaimed it to win the race. He only failed to do so in 2022, when Jonas Vingegaard definitively deprived him of the symbol of leadership at the top of Col du Granon (stage 11).

2: VACEK IN WHITE
Mathias Vacek (Lidl-Trek) is the new best young rider of this Tour. In this way, he becomes the second Czech, after Roman Kreuziger in 2009, to wear the white jersey. Vacek had already worn this jersey at the Giro (2025) and at the Vuelta (2024).