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6+5: POGACAR BREAKS A NEW BARRIER
With a 5th stage win in the Tour de France, after he won 6 in the Giro d’Italia, Tadej Pogacar is the first rider ever to win at least 5 times in each of these races the same year. Pogacar’s tally of 11 wins across the Giro and the Tour 2024 matches that of Eddy Merckx in 1970, when he won 8 stages in the Tour and 3 in the Giro.
129: POGACAR’S HUGE COLLECTION OF JERSEYS
With his 39th Maillot Jaune - matching Antonin Magne at the 7th spot in the all-time ranking - to go along with his 15 polka-dot jerseys and 75 white jerseys, Tadej Pogacar has now claimed 129 distinctive jerseys in the Tour (out of 104 stages he’s raced). That’s one less than Bernard Hinault (79 Maillot Jaune, 28 green jerseys, 23 polka-dot jerseys), who’s currently the rider with the 3rd highest number of distinctive jerseys in the Tour. Only Eddy Merckx and Peter Sagan are ahead of them.
1979: 4 WINS WITH THE MAILLOT JAUNE
With a 4th win with the Maillot Jaune on his shoulders in a single edition, Tadej Pogacar is now up to Bernard Hinault’s achievements from the Tour de France 1979. The French icon won 7 stages that year, but “only” 4 of them as the leader of the overall standings, in Pau (stage 3), Dijon (stage 21), Nogent-sur-Marne (stage 23) and Paris (stage 24). Pogacar’s yellow successes in the Tour 2024 were claimed at Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet (stage 14), Plateau de Beille (stage 15), Isola 2000 (stage 19) and Col de la Couillole (stage 20), after he claimed the Maillot Jaune in Valloire (stage 4).
50/96: SLOVENIA’S RULE IN THE TOUR
Slovenia waited until stage 9 of the Tour 2020 to lead the overall standings of the Tour de France for the first time ever, with Primoz Roglic rising to power in Laruns. Since then, Roglic and his countryman Pogacar collected 52% (50/96) of the Maillot Jaune:
- 50 for Slovenia
- 27 for Denmark
- 6 for the Netherlands
- 5 for Belgium
- 4 for Great Britain
- 2 for France
- 1 for Australia and Ecuador
12: Carapaz all but seals the polka dots for Ecuador
With a tally up to 127 points, Richard Carapaz has all but sealed victory in the KOM standings, as there are only 5 points up for grabs on Sunday, at La Turbie, and Tadej Pogacar trails by 30 points. After he brought his nation a first Maillot Jaune (stage 3) and a first stage win (stage 17), he is set to be the first Ecuadorian rider to bring home a distinctive jersey. 11 nations had won the KOM standings so far in the history of the race. French climbers lead the way with 20 victories, while Slovenia was the latest edition, with Tadej Pogacar’s successes in 2020 and 2021.
19: POGACAR’S BEST YEAR
With his 19th win of the season, Tadej Pogacar matches the scores of Jasper Philipsen in 2023 and Mark Cavendish in 2013. With the overall triumph on the line in Nice, a 20th victory would be a first since Alexander Kristoff did it in 2015. What makes it even more impressive is that Pogacar took all his successes in UCI WorldTour races.
16: HARDER, FASTER, YOUNGER
With a 16th Tour stage win, Tadej Pogacar enters the all-time top-10, matching Jacques Anquetil, René Le Grevès and Charles Pélissier at the 9th spot. Jean Alavoine is just ahead of them with 17 victories. But no rider had ever won that many stages before turning 26 years old. Mark Cavendish and François Faber had 15 wins, Eddy Merckx followed with 14 and Bernard Hinault had taken 13.
38: POGACAR’S UNPRECEDENTED LEADER’S JERSEYS TALLY
With a 38th leader’s jersey in Grand Tours in 2024 (18 in the Tour, 20 in the Giro), Tadej Pogacar moves past Eddy Merckx (37 in 1970) as the rider with the biggest tally in a single season. Chris Froome follows with the 34 leader’s jerseys he claimed in the Tour and La Vuelta in 2017.
1-2-3: BACK IN 2021
As they took the first 3 spots at Col de la Couillole, Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Richard Carapaz revived their battles from the Tour 2021. That year, Pogacar had won the last 2 mountain stages, at Saint-Lary-Soulan col du Portet (stage 17) and Luz-Ardiden (stage 18), with Vingegaard in 2nd position and Carapaz in 3rd.
