4 : EVENEPOEL STRIKES AGAIN
Delivering a commanding performance this Tuesday between Évian-les-Bains and Thonon-les-Bains, Remco Evenepoel claimed his fourth Tour de France stage victory by riding the 26.1 km time trial at an average speed of 48.458 km/h. The Belgian, who had already won on Sunday at Plateau de Solaison during stage 15, also secured his third time trial victory in the Grande Boucle, following wins at Gevrey-Chambertin in 2024 and Caen in 2025. In doing so, he matches compatriots Lucien Van Impe and Freddy Maertens, who each have three time trial wins to their names. However, the Olympic champion remains a long way behind Eddy Merckx (16) and, above all, Bernard Hinault, the most prolific rider in Tour time trials, who holds the record with 20 victories.
3 : MASTER OF TIME
By winning the 223rd individual time trial in the history of the Tour this Tuesday, Remco Evenepoel has secured a win against the clock for the third consecutive edition of the Grande Boucle. Having won at Gevrey-Chambertin in 2024 and Caen in 2025, the Belgian rider imitates Fabian Cancellara, the last one to achieve this feat over at least three consecutive years. The Swiss rider actually won in this discipline in four straight editions, from 2007 to 2010. Before him, six other riders had 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
With his victory on the shores of Lake Geneva, Remco Evenepoel became the tenth Belgian to win a stage on July 21, Belgium's National Day. He follows in the footsteps of Rudy Matthijs, the last Belgian rider to achieve this feat in Paris in 1985. Marcel Buysse was the first to do it in 1913 in Belfort, followed by Philippe Thys (1920), Félix Sellier (1922), Jean Aerts (1933), Roger Lambrecht (1948), Alfred De Bruyne (1954), Eddy Merckx (1974), a day that also saw him secure overall victory in the Tour de France, and Lucien Van Impe (1983).
7 : DOUBLE DOUBLE
Having already won stage 15 on Sunday at Plateau de Solaison, Remco Evenepoel achieved his first double victory on the Tour, imitating his compatriot Tim Merlier, who also won two consecutive stages this year in Bordeaux and Bergerac. Thanks to this Merlier-Evenepoel duo, it marks the seventh time since 1920 that the "Flat Country" has seen two of its riders win back-to-back stages. Firmin Lambot and Philippe Thys achieved this feat that year, followed by the duos of Philippe Thys and Émile Masson (1922), Lucien Buysse and Hector Martin (1925), Eloi Meulenbergh and Marcel Kint (1938), Walter Godefroot and Eddy Merckx (1974), and Patrick Sercu and Eddy Merckx (1974).
24 : A SENSE OF DÉJÀ-VU
Having already claimed the top two spots on stage 15 at Plateau de Solaison, Remco Evenepoel and Tadej Pogacar, who have been the fastest riders on the Côte de Larringes (averaging 37 km/h and 36.5 km/h respectively), repeated the feat in the same order this Tuesday. This marks the 24th time in Tour history that the same two riders have finished one-two in consecutive stages. We only need to look back last year to find a similar instance, when Pogacar beat Jonas Vingegaard on stages 12 and 13 in the Pyrenees, at Hautacam and Peyragudes, also including an individual time trial.
47 : POGACAR JOINS SAGAN
By securing his 47th career stage podium at the Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar has drawn level with Peter Sagan. The Slovenian and the Slovakian now share fifth place in this ranking. Of these 47 podium stages, the four-time Tour winner has claimed 25 victories, 14 second-place finishes and 8 third-place finishes. The three-time world champion, meanwhile, has amassed 12 wins, 22 runner-up finishes, and 13 third-place results.
1983 : A YOUTH RECORD AGAINST THE CLOCK
By finishing fourth in Thonon-les-Bains this Tuesday, Paul Seixas became the youngest rider to place in the top five of a Tour de France time trial. At 19 years, 9 months and 27 days old, the Frenchman surpassed the record held by Belgian rider Eric Vanderaerden, who won at Fontenay-sous-Bois in 1983 at the age of 21 years, 4 months and 20 days. He also naturally displaces Thierry Marie, who, at 22 years and 16 days old, had previously been the youngest French rider to finish in the top five of a time trial, placing third at Villard-de-Lans in 1985.
