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7: A LUCKY NUMBER
On the 7th day of the 7th month of the year that sees him participate for the 7th time in the Tour, Anthony Turgis takes his maiden stage win!
There are now 7 French stage winners in the peloton of the Tour 2024: Romain Bardet, Warren Barguil, Arnaud Démare, Christophe Laporte, Nans Peters, Anthony Turgis and Kévin Vauquelin.
This is also the first stage win for Team TotalEnergies since Lilian Calmejane won 7 years ago, on 8 July 2017, to celebrate in style their manager Jean-René Bernaudeau’s birthday. This time, the 8th of July is a rest day, so the gift was delivered one day in advance.
3: FRENCHMEN ARE ON A ROLL
After Romain Bardet (stage 1) and Kévin Vauquelin (stage 2), Anthony Turgis delivers a third French victory in this edition, matching the record of Julian Alaphilippe and Thibaut Pinot in 2019.
In order to find (at least) three different French stage winners, we need to go back to 2017, with successes for Romain Bardet, Warren Barguil, Lilian Calmejane and Arnaud Démare.
As for the last time France claimed three victories in the first 9 days, it happened in 2009, with Thomas Voeckler (stage 5), Brice Feillu (stage 7) and Pierrick Fedrigo (stage 9).
37,0: TURGIS TAMES THE WHITE ROADS
The relentless action of the day saw Anthony Turgis maintain an average of 37.0 km/h over the 32.2 km of white roads (14 sections). With a fierce attack on sector 10, Remco Evenepoel even did 38.9km/h according to the NTT Data trackers.
But the battle for the stage win unfolded at the front… As Jasper Stuyven was caught after the “flamme rouge”, Anthony Turgis averaged 52.4km/h in the final kilometre, with a spike at 67.5 to fly past his breakaway rivals.
27-28: MORE AND MORE JERSEYS FOR POGACAR
Making the most of his Classics skills to tame the white roads, Tadej Pogacar is now up to 28 Maillot Jaune in his career, one more than Jonas Vingegaard, as many as Romain Maes, and one less than Fabian Cancellara.
Pogacar has also collected 27 Grand Tour leader jerseys in 2024 (20 Maglia Rosa, 7 Maillot Jaune), the 8th highest figure ever in a single year. He matches the records of Romain Maes (27 Maillot Jaune in the Tour 1935), Freddy Maertens (1977 - 21 jerseys in La Vuelta, 6 in the Giro) and Bernard Hinault (1982 - 12 in the Tour, 15 in the Giro).
93%: 14 WHITE ROADS, 13 STRAVA KOMS BEATEN
With an all-out battle all day long, the likes of Tadej Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel, Tim Wellens, Jan Tratnik, Axel Zingle et al smashed the references set on Strava in 13 of the 14 white roads section of the day - a ratio of 93%. They only came short on sector 7, with Mathieu van der Poel being 1 second slower than the KOM!
1-3: PIDCOCK RETURNS TO THE TOP-3
With a place of 3rd in Troyes, Tom Pidcock finishes for the second time in the top-3 of a Tour de France stage, two years after his victory at L’Alpe d’Huez. On both occasions, he attacked from the bunch to bridge the gap to a breakaway established earlier. But this time, he couldn’t drop his rivals.
26: GEE, CANADA’S YOUTH
At 26 years 11 months and 4 days, Derek Gee is the youngest Canadian with a stage top-3 result in the Tour, beating Steve Bauer (28 years 1 month 14 days, 2nd in Paris, 1987).
He is also the first rider from Canada to finish inside the top-3 since Michael Woods won at the Puy-de-Dôme last year… at 36 years, 8 months and 27 days, which made him at the time the 3rd oldest rider ever to take a maiden stage win!
