🚴‍♂️🔥 The final week of the Tour is here. Colossal climbs and GC fireworks. 📊 Dive into the stats, history & key battles of #TDF2025’s week 3 stages: 👉 velostatistics.substack.com/p/preview-tour… #TDF2025

📊🥇🥈Most 1+2 results in same GrandTour stage (🇮🇹/🇫🇷/🇪🇸) by 2 riders: 17 stages | 🇮🇹Binda & 🇮🇹Piemontesi 15 | 🇸🇮Pogačar & 🇩🇰Vingegaard 14 | 🇮🇹Petacchi & 🇩🇪Zabel 11 | 🇮🇹Coppi & 🇮🇹Bartali 🤝 VeloStatistics

📊🏆Last 🇳🇱Dutch winners of a mountain stage (finish at top) in 🇫🇷Tour de France: 🇫🇷’25 s14: 🇳🇱Arensman 🇫🇷’23 s15: 🇳🇱Poels 🇫🇷’16 s9: 🇳🇱Dumoulin 🇫🇷’02 s16: 🇳🇱Boogerd 🇫🇷’89 s17: 🇳🇱Theunisse 🇫🇷’88 s12: 🇳🇱Rooks 🇫🇷’83 s17: 🇳🇱Winnen 🇫🇷’81 s17: 🇳🇱Winnen 🇫🇷’79 s18: 🇳🇱Zoetemelk

📊 Longest winning solo 🏆 by a Belgian 🇧🇪 rider in #TourdeFrance in last 30 years #TDF2025 - 43 km - Tim Wellens (in Belgian 🇧🇪 champion jersey)❓ 2021 - 33,1 km - Wout van Aert (in Belgian 🇧🇪 champion jersey) 1999 - 32 km - Ludo Dierckxsens (in Belgian 🇧🇪 champion jersey)

🔥 Week 2 of #TourDeFrance 2025 was packed with drama, history, and breathtaking rides — from Ben Healy’s Irish yellow to Pogačar’s Pyrenean domination. 🚴‍♂️ Dive into the stats, stories & surprises in the latest VeloStatistics deep dive! 🏆velostatistics.substack.com/p/recap-tour-d… #TDF2025

📊💛⏱️ 14 riders within 1 hour in GC after Stage 18/21. Last time there were fewer than 14 riders within 1 hour in final GC was in 1969 Tour de France. 🇫🇷 #TDF2025

Before the twilight parade on the Champs-Élysées, two final battles remain. Stage 20: one last ambush in the Jura. Stage 21: the most coveted sprint in cycling. For the sprinters, immortality. For the yellow jersey, legacy. 📖 Read preview: velostatistics.substack.com/p/preview-tour… #TDF2025

📊🏆 Thymen Arensman is the first 🇳🇱🚴‍♂️ to win at least 2 MTFs in a single edition Tour de France in 49 years. Joop Zoetemelk triumphed 3 times on MTFs in 1976 Tour de France. 🇫🇷 #TDF2025

🏁 Density, not just dominance. Tadej Pogačar wins his 4th Tour — and makes history across classifications, rivalries, and records. Week 3 of #TDF2025 delivered myth, milestones, and Milan in green. 🧠📊 Full recap, stats & storytelling: 🔗 velostatistics.substack.com/p/recap-tour-d… #TDF2025

🗝️ New: From The Vault — a monthly series for cycling historians, archivists & nostalgists. Each edition, I revisit a forgotten magazine, book or clipping. No order. No agenda. Just a moment, reframed. #1: Pantani & Zarrabeitia 👇velostatistics.substack.com/p/from-the-vau…

🇪🇸 No Remco. No script. With Evenepoel out, the 2025 Clásica San Sebastián becomes a race of shifting sands — redemption for Hirschi, a last stand for Alaphilippe, a rising star in Del Toro. History meets chaos in the Basque Country. 🔗velostatistics.substack.com/p/preview-san-… #CSS2025

Julian Alaphilippe will not start, this has been adjusted in the message below. Thanks to gobra

🇮🇹 Ciccone joins Italian legends in Donostia 🇲🇽 Del Toro rewrites Mexico’s cycling history 🇫🇷 Ferrand-Prévot completes a yellow arc 🇵🇱 Majka lines up for one last Tour de Pologne 🌀 Weekly recap + expanded Poland preview: 📊velostatistics.substack.com/p/recap-del-to…

🚴‍♂️ Cycling Pantheon 031: Primož Roglič Born to fall. Born to rise again. From ski jumper to Grand Tour legend—this is The Jumper. 🟡 4 Vueltas 🔵 1 Giro 🥇 Olympic gold 💥 Countless crashes And still he rises. 📖 Read: velostatistics.substack.com/p/cycling-pant…

⏱ Preview: The Hour & The Blink of an Eye No road stages. No finish lines. Just 2 riders vs. time. 🚴‍♂️ Charlie Tanfield vs. 56.792 km 🚀 Matthew Richardson vs. 9.088 s One week. Two records. Because sometimes cycling’s biggest moments happen in silence. 📖 velostatistics.substack.com/p/preview-the-…

From 🇺🇸 McNulty’s 20th unique UAE win to 🇲🇨 Langellotti’s Monaco first, 🇳🇿 Strong’s Kiwi double, 🇧🇪 Uijtdebroeks’ breakthrough, and 🇲🇽 Del Toro’s Mexican milestone — this week in pro cycling was all about history in the making. 📜velostatistics.substack.com/p/recap-uaes-2…