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3: Girmay leads the way
With a 3rd stage win, Biniam Girmay:
- brings Eritrea’s tally in the Tour one step ahead of South Africa as the African nation with most victories (3 vs 2)
- consolidates Intermarché-Wanty’s position as the best scoring team in this Tour. They hadn’t won a stage before this edition but they are the only ones with multiple victories in the Tour 2024!
- moves one victory shy of Jasper Philipsen’s 4 stage wins in 2023.
74,8: A super fast sprint
Hitting a top speed of 74.8km/h with 260m to go according to the NTT Data trackers, Wout van Aert showed his power in the sprint. But it wasn’t enough to contain Biniam Girmay, who went up to 71.7km/h moments later and managed to sustain a higher speed all the way to the line.
2'27": Roglic loses big with another crash
As the peloton were travelling at 52km/h with 12.4km to go, Alexey Lutsenko hit the deck and some 50 riders were caught up in the crash, including Primoz Roglic. The Slovenian star, who was 4th overall at the start of the stage, struggled to follow his teammates’ pace in the finale. He was 5.6km/h slower than Tadej Pogacar in the final 10km, eventually losing 2’27’’ on the line and dropping to the 6th position in the overall standings.
24: Another top-3 Van Aert
Participating in his 6th Tour de France, Wout van Aert finished in the top-3 of a stage for the 24th time after the race passed through Rocamadour, where he took his last win to date, in 2022. Since then, Van Aert has finished 3 times 2nd (including today in Villeneuve-sur-Lot) and 3 times 3rd (the last time in Rimini, on day 1 of the Tour 2024).
Only two riders participating in this edition have finished more often in the top-3 of Tour stages: Mark Cavendish (44) and Tadej Pogacar (26).
47,3: Seasoned baroudeurs to lead the break
Jonas Abrahamsen, Valentin Madouas and Quentin Pacher were already the three riders who had spent most kilometres at the front of the race in this Tour ahead of stage 12. And they made the break together with Anthony Turgis (the 5th rider in this ranking) to add 143km to their tally, with an average speed of 47.3km/h when they led the way towards Villeneuve-sur-Lot. Here are the riders with most kilometres in the break in the Tour 2024, based on group compositions reported during the race:
- Jonas Abrahamsen, 764km
- Valentin Madouas, 497km
- Quentin Pacher, 457km
- Anthony Turgis, 375km
- Cristian Rodriguez, 271km
71: Turgis targets the intermediate sprints
As he went first in Gourdon (km 110), Anthony Turgis won the intermediate sprint for the third time, after he did so on days 9 (en route to the stage win in Troyes) and 11.
The Frenchman is up to the 3rd position in the points standings. Intermediate sprints account for more than half of his tally: 71 points out of 141.
No rider has won more intermediate sprints (Abrahamsen and Pedersen follow with 2) but three riders took more points than Turgis: Jasper Philipsen (96), Biniam Girmay (91) and Jonas Abrahamsen (77).
10+20: Pogacar makes it to 30 (again)
After he was distinguished as the race leader for the 30th of his career yesterday in Le Lioran, Tadej Pogacar joined René Vietto at the 12th spot in the all-time ranking for most Yellow Jersey (31). Pogacar is also up to 30 Grand Tour leader jerseys in 2024: 10 Yellow Jersey and 20 Maglia Rosa. That’s the 5th highest tally in a season. Eddy Merckx leads the way with 37 jerseys in 1970 (23 in the Tour, 14 in the Giro).
3 Belgians in the wake of Girmay
Biniam Girmay has won 3 stages of the Tour de France and 3 different Belgian sprinters have joined him in the top-3 on these occasions:
- Arnaud De Lie, 3rd in Turin
- Jasper Philipsen, 2nd in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
- Wout van Aert, 2nd in Villeneuve-sur-Lot
