3 : HAT-TRICK
Winner in the streets of Foix this Tuesday, Mads Pedersen claimed the third Tour de France victory of his career, following wins in Saint-Étienne in 2022 and Limoges in 2023. Doing so, the Lidl - Trek rider secured his country's 30th victory in the race, the first since Jonas Vingegaard’s win at Le Lioran in 2024. This success also allows him to wear the green points classification jersey for the first time.
26 : IN A CLOSED CIRCLE
Among the 116 stage winners across the three Grand Tours, Mads Pedersen joins an elite group. In addition to this third victory in the Tour de France, the Dane also claimed five stage wins in the Giro and four in La Vuelta. Until now, only 26 riders had achieved this feat of securing at least three stage wins in each of the three Grand Tours. Besides Pedersen, four of them are still active : Michael Matthews, Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic, and Jonas Vingegaard.
6/6 : A BREAKAWAY PARADISE
Foix smiles upon the bold. Thanks to his win at the foot of the Foix Castle this Tuesday, Mads Pedersen perpetuates the town's tradition of breakaway winners. Indeed, the five previous finishes in the Ariège prefecture have all seen riders from the breakaway take the win. The Lidl - Trek rider follows the footsteps of Norwegian Kurt-Asle Arvesen (2008), Spanish Luis Leon Sanchez (2012), French Warren Barguil (2017), Britain Simon Yates (2019), and Canadian Hugo Houle (2022).
2x2 : A NEW DOUBLE FOR LIDL - TREK
Behind the untouchable Pedersen, American rider Quinn Simmons, who finished second on the day, enabled his Lidl - Trek team to secure its first 1-2 finish under its current name at the Tour de France. However, this is not a first for the squad, since back in 2011, brothers Andy and Frank Schleck also took the top two spots on the legendary stage finishing at the Col du Galibier.
50 : A FIRST IN HALF A CENTURY
By securing two 1-2 finishes in the span of four days, UAE Team Emirates-XRG, with Isaac del Toro and Tadej Pogacar in Barcelona (stage 2), and Lidl – Trek, with Mads Pedersen and Quinn Simmons (stage 4), these teams have equaled a 50-year-old record. 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) occupied the top two spots the following day in Le Touquet.
3 : YELLOW VIKING
A Norwegian leads the Tour ! Arriving in Foix nearly thirteen minutes ahead of the peloton, thanks to the blessing of Tadej Pogacar, Torstein Træen claimed the Yellow Jersey that the two-time world champion was wearing today. He thus becomes the third Norwegian to wear the Tour’s leader’s jersey, following Thor Hushovd – now his general manager at Uno-X Mobility – (who wore it for ten days across 2004, 2006, and 2011), and Alexander Kristoff (one day in 2020). Træen is also back in a Grand Tour leader’s jersey, having previously worn the red jersey for four days at La Vuelta last year, likewise thanks to a massive breakaway.
1990 : A COMFORTABLE MARGIN
The breakaway’s substantial lead on the stage to Foix created significant gaps in the general classification. After stage four, Torstein Traeen leads Tadej Pogacar (4th) by 7 minutes 53 seconds but, more notably, Paul Seixas (10th) by 8 minutes 41 seconds. At this stage of the race, it is the largest gap between the leader and the rider in 10th place since... 1990 ! That year, Steve Bauer, wearing the Yellow Jersey, held a 10-minute-14-second advantage over Allan Peiper, the rider in 10th place.
5 : NOT A FIRST FOR POGACAR
Having barely donned the Yellow Jersey, Tadej Pogacar is already handing it over ! The Slovenian, who had led the general classification since his victory at Les Angles on Monday, has decided to concede it, marking the fifth time in his career he has done so. In 2024, the four-time Tour winner ceded it for a single day to Richard Carapaz (stage 4), while in 2025, he traded the jersey back and forth with Mathieu van der Poel (stages 6 and 8) and Ben Healy (stages 10 and 11). On those occasions, he always reclaimed it to go on and win the race. Except in 2022, when Jonas Vingegaard definitively wrested it from him at the summit of the Col du Granon (stage 11).
2 : A CZECH IN WHITE
Also in the breakaway, Mathias Vacek (Lidl - Trek) is the new leader of the young rider classification in this Tour. He becomes the second Czech rider, after Roman Kreuziger in 2009, to wear the white jersey. Vacek had previously worn the equivalent in La Vuelta (2024) and the Giro (2025).
