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500: BELGIUM AND THE TOUR, A HISTORY OF VICTORIES
A symbolic milestone! Thanks to Remco Evenepoel, winner on Sunday on the Solaison Plateau, and also thanks to Tim Merlier's hat-trick, Belgium has won the 500th stage in its history at the Grande Boucle. The second most prolific nation on the roads of the Tour after France, the "Flat Country" opened its harvest in 1909, when Cyrille Van Hauwaert won at Roubaix. Among the 166 Belgians who have won at least once, Eddy Merckx made the greatest contribution with 34 victories. Behind the "Cannibal," Freddy Maertens (15 victories) and Philippe Thys (13) complete the podium.

3: NOT JUST A ROLLER
Winner yesterday ahead of Tadej Pogacar in the final meters covered at over 40 km/h, Remco Evenepoel has won his third stage of his Tour de France career. The Belgian also won his first road stage of the Grande Boucle, as the Red Bull – Bora – Hansgrohe rider had previously won only in his preferred discipline, the individual time trial, at Gevrey-Chambertin in 2024 and at Caen in 2025.

75: A QUALITY PALMARES
With this success, 26-year-old Remco Evenepoel has signed his 75th professional victory. The former world champion has returned to the same level as his compatriot Tim Merlier, the sprinter who had surpassed him in this Tour with three consecutive victories in mass finishes.

2021: THE "FLAT COUNTRY" AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAINS
Raising his arms at the top of Solaison, Remco Evenepoel has ended a five-year drought in mountain stages for Belgium, which had not achieved success since 2021. That year, Wout van Aert won alone at Malaucène after taming the double climb of Mont Ventoux. Three stages earlier, his compatriot Dylan Teuns had won in the rain at Grand-Bornand, at the foot of the Col de la Colombière. The same Dylan Teuns was the last Belgian to win at a hilltop finish: he had beaten Giulio Ciccone on the steep slopes of Super Planche des Belles Filles in 2019.

46: POGACAR ALONGSIDE HINAULT
Second on the Solaison Plateau, which he climbed at an average speed of 21.2 km/h, Tadej Pogacar has stepped on the Tour stage podium for the 46th time in his career, matching five-time winner Bernard Hinault, who last stepped on the podium when he won the time trial at Saint-Étienne in 1986. The two riders, who remain at a good distance from the record holder for podiums Eddy Merckx (63), are in sixth place in this ranking, just one point behind Peter Sagan.

180: A WELL-STOCKED WARDROBE
Combining the yellow jersey and the polka dot jersey on Sunday evening, Tadej Pogacar has won the 179th and 180th distinctive jersey of his Tour de France career. And this in 141 stages! After his first white jersey as leader of the young riders' classification obtained at the end of the fourth stage of the 2020 edition, the Slovenian has obtained 74 more jerseys of the same color (including four final victories). He also has 65 yellow jerseys (four final victories), 3 green jerseys and 37 polka dot jerseys (three final victories) in his wardrobe.

1: AN UNPRECEDENTED WITHDRAWAL
Second in the general classification at the start in Champagnole, Jonas Vingegaard was forced to retire 24 kilometers from the finish after crashing in a roundabout. The Dane, two-time winner of the Tour de France (2022 and 2023), thus leaves the roads of the Grande Boucle for the first time in six participations. It was his first withdrawal from a Grand Tour (3 participations at the Vuelta, 1 at the Giro)! In the last twelve editions of the Tour, only five other riders have had to abandon the race while occupying one of the top three places in the general classification. This was the case in 2015 for Dutchman Tom Dumoulin (3rd, stage 3), German Tony Martin (1st, stage 7) and American Tejay Van Garderen (3rd, stage 17), in 2017 for Briton Geraint Thomas (2nd, stage 9), and in 2025 for Remco Evenepoel (3rd, stage 14). Since 2021, Vingegaard has always finished on one of the two highest podium steps every year, each time preceded or followed by Tadej Pogacar. This year there will therefore be a new couple at the top of the Tour.

2023: ON THE ATTACK
Leading the race for 92 kilometers and the last survivor of the breakaway on the slopes of the Solaison Plateau, Quinn Simmons was awarded the super combative prize. The Lidl-Trek rider is the first from the United States to win this award since Neilson Powless (second stage) and Matteo Jorgenson (ninth stage) in 2023. To date, no American rider has yet been elected "Super-Combative" at the end of the Tour de France.