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1972: Pogacar rules like Merckx
As a stage winner in the Giro with the Maglia Rosa on his shoulders and in the Tour with the Maillot Jaune, Tadej Pogacar already achieved a feat not seen in the 21st century. And now that he’s won multiple stages as the race leader both in the Giro (5 times) and in the Tour (2 times), Tadej Pogacar emulates Eddy Merckx, when he won 4 times as the leader of the Giro and 3 times as the leader of the Tour.
14: Pogacar sprints to the summits
With a 14th stage win in the Tour, on a 14th of July, Tadej Pogacar joins Marcel Kittel as the 13th best scorer in the history of the race. The German giant was a pure sprinter… The Slovenian rules over the high summits, with 11 mountain stage wins (+ a victory in the uphill ITT at La Planche-des-Belles-Filles in 2020).
8-2: Pogacar has the edge on Vingegaard
For the 10th time in a Tour de France stage, Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard finished 1st and 2nd. And the Slovenian has now claimed 8 of these duels, opening on the way to Plateau de Beille the biggest margin he ever gained on Vingegaard on a summit finish (1’08’’, surpassing the 39’’ on stage 14). When it comes to the 1-2s in the overall standings, Vingegaard still has the edge, winning the 2022 and 2023 editions ahead of Pogacar, while the Slovenian won in 2021 ahead of Vingegaard (who wasn’t there in 2020).
53'22": A massive battle for the time-cut
As Tadej Pogacar claimed a triumphant victory, the last riders on the road still had 14.4km to go. They needed to average 16.2km/h to survive a time-cut of 53’22’’ while Pogacar did 24.6km/h over that segment.
In the end, Mark Cavendish and his Astana Qazaqstan teammates made the cut with a small margin of 1’47’’, ahead of Fernando Gaviria (1’20’’) and Arnaud Démare (45’’). But Bram Welten finished 4 minutes too late.
17: Pogacar can’t stop winning
Tadej Pogacar is now up to 17 wins in 2024, matching his best record in a single season, with 17 wins last year. He has now 80 victories as a professional, claiming 50 of them in the last 3 seasons.
1-2-3x2: Follow the leaders
The two Pyrenean summit finishes saw the same 3 riders take the first 3 places, in the same order: Tadej Pogacar ahead of Jonas Vingegaard, with Remco Evenepoel in 3rd.
The same situation happened on the 14th and 15th of July 2021, already in the Pyrenees, when Tadej Pogacar won in Saint-Lary-Soulan and Luz Ardiden ahead of Jonas Vingegaard and Richard Carapaz.
