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4: REMCO'S FOUR-TIMER
Imperious yesterday between Evian-les-Bains and Thonon-les-Bains, Remco Evenepoel claimed his fourth stage victory at the Tour de France, completing the 26.1 km time trial at an average speed of 48.458 km/h. The Belgian, who had already won at Plateau de Solaison on Sunday in the 15th stage, also secured a time trial victory for the third time at the Grande Boucle, after Gevrey-Chambertin in 2024 and Caen in 2025. In this discipline, he has equaled his fellow countrymen Lucien Van Impe and Freddy Maerten, but the Olympic champion remains at a considerable distance from Eddy Merckx (16) and especially from Bernard Hinault, the most prolific rider in the time trial on the roads of the Tour, with 20 victories.

3: MASTER OF TIME
By winning the 223rd individual time trial stage in Tour history, Remco Evenepoel dominated his third consecutive time trial at the Grande Boucle. Winner at Gevrey-Chambertin in 2024 and Caen in 2025, the Belgian follows in the footsteps of Fabian Cancellara, the last rider to achieve this feat for at least three consecutive years. The Swiss rider even won four consecutive editions in the discipline, from 2007 to 2010. Before him, six other riders accomplished this, including Jacques Anquetil (1961-1964), Eddy Merckx (1969-1972), Bernard Hinault (1978-1982 and 1984-1986) and Miguel Indurain (1991-1995).

10: BELGIUM CELEBRATES
Thanks to his success on the shores of Lake Geneva, Remco Evenepoel became the tenth Belgian to win a stage on July 21st, Belgium's National Day. He follows Rudy Matthijs, the last rider from the other side of the Quiévrain to reach this milestone in Paris in 1985. Marcel Buysse opened the dance in 1913 at Belfort, followed by Philippe Thys in 1920, Félix Sellier in 1922, Jean Aerts in 1933, Roger Lambrecht in 1948, Alfred De Bruyne in 1954, Eddy Merckx in 1974 (to which we must add his overall Tour de France victory on the same July 21st) and Lucien Van Impe in 1983.

7: DOUBLE DOUBLES
Already winner of the fifteenth stage on Sunday at Plateau de Solaison, Remco Evenepoel achieved his first back-to-back double at the Tour, imitating his fellow countryman Tim Merlier, who also won twice in a row this year at Bordeaux and Bergerac. Thanks to this double double by Merlier-Evenepoel, it is the seventh time that Belgium has seen two of its riders win two consecutive stages since 1920. That year Firmin Lambot and Philippe Thys had achieved it, before the duos Philippe Thys-Émile Masson in 1922, Lucien Buysse-Hector Martin in 1925, Eloi Meulenbergh-Marcel Kint in 1938, Walter Godefroot-Eddy Merckx in 1974 and Patrick Sercu-Eddy Merckx in 1974.

24: A SENSE OF DÉJÀ VU
Already masters of the first two places in the fifteenth stage on the Plateau de Solaison, Remco Evenepoel and Tadej Pogacar were the two fastest riders on the Côte de Larringes (respectively 37 and 36.5 km/h on average). This is the twenty-fourth time in Tour history that we have seen an identical one-two finish in two consecutive stages. We only need to go back to last year to find this event, when Pogacar had already dominated Jonas Vingegaard during the twelfth and thirteenth stages in the Pyrenees, at Hautacam and then at Peyragudes, also during an individual time trial.

47: POGACAR REACHES SAGAN
Author of his 47th stage podium in his Tour de France career, Tadej Pogacar reaches Peter Sagan: the Slovenian and the Slovak share 5th place in this ranking. Among these 47 podiums, the four-time Grande Boucle winner has achieved 25 victories, 14 second places and 8 third places. The three-time world champion has 12 victories, 22 second places and 13 third places.

1983: A RECORD FOR YOUTH IN THE TIME TRIAL
Fourth at Thonon-les-Bains on Tuesday, Paul Seixas became the youngest to finish in the top 5 of a Tour de France time trial. At 19 years, 9 months and 27 days old, the Frenchman improved on the result of Belgian Eric Vanderaerden, winner at Fontenay-sous-Bois in 1983, at the age of 21 years, 4 months and 20 days. Logically he also dethroned Thierry Marie, who at 22 years and 16 days held the record for the youngest French rider in the top five of a time trial (third at Villard-de-Lans in 1985).