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Dutch riders who received most yellow jerseys in Tour de France history. Van der Poel at position 3 after Tour de France 2025 stage 4.

🔮💛9th 'maillot jaune' for 🇳🇱Mathieu van der Poel.

📊🏆Most GT stage-wins ≥ 2016, by nationality:
64: 🇧🇪Belgium (18 winners)
63: 🇮🇹Italy (28)
55: 🇸🇮Slovenia (5)
53: 🇫🇷France (25)
41: 🇦🇺Australia (11), 🇬🇧Great Britain (11)
38: 🇳🇱Netherlands (15)
35: 🇪🇸Spain (21)
31: 🇩🇪Germany (11), 🇩🇰Denmark (7), 🇨🇴Colombia (12)
16: 🇮🇪Ireland (4)

📊🏆Most GrandTour stage-wins by teams, since 2021:
35: 🇦🇪UAE Team Emirates
33: 🇳🇱Team Visma | Lease a Bike
29: 🇧🇪Alpecin-Deceuninck
25: 🇧🇪Soudal Quick-Step
17: 🇺🇸Lidl-Trek
16: 🇩🇪Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
14: 🇦🇺Team Jayco AlUla, 🇬🇧INEOS Grenadiers
13: 🇧🇭Bahrain - Victorious

📊🔝2 riders won the GC of a stage-race when both 🇩🇰Vingegaard and 🇸🇮Pogačar participated.

✅10 competed stage races:
🏆6 victories: 🇸🇮Pogačar
🏆2 victories: 🇩🇰Vingegaard

🏆🇪🇸Itzulia Basque Country 2021: 🇸🇮Primož Roglič
🏆🇪🇸Itzulia Basque Country 2019: 🇪🇸Ion Izagirre

🧮*including time bonuses:

🔝Advantage of 1:25 by 🇸🇮Pogačar.

▪️111 seconds gained by 🇩🇰Vingegaard.
▪️199 seconds gained by 🇸🇮Pogačar.

Cycling Oracle rider cards compared of Pogacar and Vingegaard.

📊⚔️🇸🇮Pogačar vs. 🇩🇰Vingegaard: 🇫🇷Tour de France 2021-2024.

➕Total racing time (excl. bonus seconds*):
3️⃣2️⃣8️⃣:2️⃣8️⃣:0️⃣2️⃣ - 🇩🇰Vingegaard
3️⃣2️⃣8️⃣:2️⃣8️⃣:0️⃣5️⃣ - 🇸🇮Pogačar

🚨3 seconds difference after 84 stages and 13,667 km of racing.

🔗 stats by @procyclingstats.com

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📊Final day before the start of 🇮🇹Giro d’Italia 2025.

⭕️Who is the best rider?
💨Who is the fastest sprinter?
📏How tall is the tallest participant?
🎯Who will be at start in great shape?

✅Model gives the answers.

🔗stat-blog by @statsoncycling.bsky.social: www.cyclingoracle.com/nl/blog/giro...

📊🇸🇮Tadej Pogačar is the first rider EVER to finish on the podium in 6 consecutive Monuments.

🥇- 🇧🇪Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2024
🥇- 🇮🇹Il Lombardia 2024
🥉- 🇮🇹Milano-Sanremo 2025
🥇- 🇧🇪Ronde van Vlaanderen 2025
🥈- 🇫🇷Paris-Roubaix 2025
🥇- 🇧🇪Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2025

📊🏆2025 is the third season EVER 2 riders both win 2 Monuments in a single season:

✅2023: 🇳🇱van der Poel (MSR+PR) & 🇸🇮Pogačar (RVV+LOM)
✅2024: 🇳🇱van der Poel (RVV+PR) & 🇸🇮Pogačar (LBL+LOM)
✅2025: 🇳🇱van der Poel (MSR+PR) & 🇸🇮Pogačar (RVB+LBL)

🤯This is a special era.

📊After 🇧🇪Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2025, 🇸🇮Tadej Pogačar is, at 26 years and 218 days, 3rd most successful rider of all time (@prestigelisten).

0️⃣1️⃣🇧🇪Eddy Merckx (3995 pts)
0️⃣2️⃣🇫🇷Bernard Hinault (2244)
0️⃣3️⃣🇸🇮Tadej Pogačar (1930)
0️⃣4️⃣🇮🇹Fausto Coppi (1885)
0️⃣5️⃣🇮🇹Gino Bartali (1794)

📊Last male riders with top-3 in 🇳🇱AGR/🇧🇪LFW/🇧🇪LBL in same season:
2025: 🇸🇮Pogačar (🥈/🥇/🥇)
2019: 🇩🇰Fuglsang (🥉/🥈/🥇)
2015: 🇪🇸Valverde (🥈/🥇/🥇)
2011: 🇧🇪Gilbert (🥇/🥇/🥇)
2007: 🇮🇹Rebellin (🥈/🥇/🥇)
2004:🇮🇹Rebellin (🥇/🥇/🥇)
1976: 🇧🇪Maertens (🥇/🥉/🥈)
1975: 🇧🇪Merckx (🥇/🥉/🥇)

CyclingOracle rider-card of Tibor Del Grosso, Alpecin-Deceuninck

📊🏆First pro-win ánd leader-jersey for 🇳🇱Tibor Del Grosso in 🇹🇷Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkiye stage 2.

✨ Nice reward after an impressive spring-campaign in his first season with the World Team of 🇧🇪Alpecin-Deceuninck.

📊💡This is AI-analysis about how much each of the 5 Monuments suits 🇳🇱Van der Poel and 🇸🇮Pogačar.

🎯Actually, my table would look a little different:
▪️🇮🇹MSR: 35 / 65
▪️🇧🇪RVV: 60 / 40
▪️🇫🇷PR: 30 / 70
▪️🇧🇪LBL: 85 / 15
▪️🇮🇹LOM: 95 / 5

❓Thoughts?

CyclingOracle rider-card of Mathieu van der Poel

📊🪨Best cobbled specialists after 🇫🇷Paris-Roubaix 2025:
0️⃣1️⃣🇳🇱van der Poel
0️⃣2️⃣🇩🇰Pedersen
0️⃣3️⃣🇸🇮Pogačar
0️⃣4️⃣🇧🇪van Aert
0️⃣5️⃣🇧🇪Philipsen
0️⃣6️⃣🇧🇪Benoot
0️⃣7️⃣🇨🇭Küng
0️⃣8️⃣🇧🇪Vermeersch F.
0️⃣9️⃣🇮🇹Ganna
1️⃣0️⃣🇧🇪Vermeersch G.
1️⃣1️⃣🇺🇸Jorgenson
1️⃣2️⃣🇧🇪Wellens
1️⃣3️⃣🇺🇸Powless
1️⃣4️⃣🇩🇪Politt
1️⃣5️⃣🇳🇱Teunissen

🔗 www.cyclingoracle.com/en/riders

📊🇸🇮Tadej Pogačar is the 9th rider ever who finished on the podium of all 5 Monuments in his career:

✅🇸🇮Tadej Pogačar
✅🇧🇪Philippe Gilbert
✅🇮🇪Sean Kelly
✅🇮🇹Francesco Moser
✅🇳🇱Hennie Kuiper
✅🇧🇪Rober De Vlaeminck
✅🇧🇪Eddy Merckx
✅🇧🇪Rik Van Looy
✅🇧🇪Alfred De Bruyne

📊🏆🇳🇱Mathieu van der Poel is the first male rider EVER who won a Cobbled Monument for 4 consecutive seasons:

🏆🇧🇪Ronde van Vlaanderen 2022
🏆🇫🇷Paris-Roubaix 2023
🏆🇧🇪Ronde van Vlaanderen 2024
🏆🇫🇷Paris-Roubaix 2024
🏆🇫🇷Paris-Roubaix 2025

📊Riders finishing on podium of 5 consecutive Monuments:

🇸🇮Pogačar: LBL’24>PR’25 (🥇🥇🥉🥇🥈)
🇮🇪Kelly: LOM’83>LBL’84 (🥇🥈🥈🥇🥇)
🇧🇪Merckx: LOM’74>LBL’75 (🥈🥇🥇🥈🥇)
🇧🇪Merckx: LOM’68>LBL’69 (🥉🥇🥇🥈🥇)

🔗recap with @velostatistics.bsky.social: velostatistics.substack.com/p/recap-a-historic-clash-on-the-cobbles

📊Most podiums in the 5 Monuments:
30 | 🇧🇪Merckx
21 | 🇧🇪De Vlaeminck
16 | 🇨🇭Cancellara
15 | 🇮🇹Girardengo, 🇮🇪Kelly, 🇮🇹Moser, 🇧🇪Museeuw
14 | 🇮🇹Coppi, 🇳🇱van der Poel
13 | 🇮🇹Bartali, 🇧🇪Boonen, 🇧🇪Van Looy
12 | 🇧🇪Godefroot, 🇸🇮Pogačar
11 | 🇪🇸Valverde, 🇮🇹Belloni, 🇧🇪Gilbert
10 | 🇮🇹Gimondi, 🇮🇹Binda, 🇳🇱Raas

No one did it in a single season.

9 riders did it in their career (Gilbert, Pogacar, Kelly last ones).

3 riders did ‘5 in a row’ across 2 seasons: Kelly, Merckx, Pogacar.

Recap: A Historic Clash on the Cobbles
Unpacking a Monumental Edition of the "Hell of the North"

velostatistics.substack.com/p/recap-a-hi...

🤝 @statsoncycling.bsky.social

Recap: A Statistical Dive into Flanders' 2025 Epic
From Rainbow Jerseys to Record Speeds: Analyzing a Monumental Race

velostatistics.substack.com/p/recap-a-st...

🤝 @statsoncycling.bsky.social

📊✨Expected battle in 🇫🇷Paris-Roubaix is getting more interesting day by day:

🇳🇱M. van der Poel - at his best
🇩🇰M. Pedersen - stronger than ever
🇮🇹F. Ganna - big watts bigger engine
🇧🇪W. van Aert - if any race suits him
🇧🇪J. Philipsen - great cobbled form
🇸🇮T. Pogacar - …

📊🏆9 consecutive (!) seasons with 3+ victories at highest level: 🇸🇮Primož Roglič.

10 | 🇧🇪Merckx, 🇫🇷Hinault, 🇫🇷Jalabert, 🇸🇰Sagan
9 | 🇮🇪Kelly, 🇮🇹Cipollini, 🇩🇪Greipel, 🇸🇮Roglič
8 | 🇫🇷Anquetil
7 | 🇧🇪Van Looy, 🇧🇪De Vlaeminck, 🇦🇺McEwen, 🇬🇧Cavendish, 🇸🇮Pogačar

🤝 @velostatistics.bsky.social

Since ProTour/WorldTour was invented in 2005.

Races in which a single rider has won all three main jerseys:

2021 Basque Country - Primoz Roglic
2023 Tirreno Adriatico - Primoz Roglic
2024 Volta a Catalunya - Tadej Pogacar
2024 Tour de Suisse - Adam Yates
2025 Volta a Catalunya - Primoz Roglic

Mathieu van der Poel en Wout van Aert samen op het podium van de klassiekers: hoe hun rivaliteit zich verhoudt tot Eddy Merckx en co Van der Poel, Pogacar en Van Aert domineren het klassieke voorjaar. Maar wie stond het vaakst samen op het podium in monumenten en WK’s?

Mathieu van der Poel tegen Tadej Pogacar én Wout van Aert:

worden zij de grootste rivalen uit de geschiedenis van de wielerklassiekers?

Ik dook, samen met @velostatistics.bsky.social en @statsoncycling.bsky.social, in alle resultaten.

Het opmerkelijke resultaat 👇

www.knack.be/sport/wielre...

📊🏆Most consecutive seasons with big victory:
..
8 | 🇦🇺Ewan ('15-22), 🇦🇺Matthews ('13-20), 🇩🇪Kittel 011-18), 🇬🇧Froome (11-18), 🇫🇷Alaphilippe (17-24*), 🇬🇧Yates S. (16-23)
7 | 🇳🇱van der Poel (19-25*), 🇮🇹Ganna (19-25*), 🇧🇪Gilbert (09-15), 🇧🇪Wellens (14-20), 🇸🇮Pogacar (19-25*), 🇩🇰Cort (18-24*), Lutsenko (15-21)

📊🏆Most consecutive seasons with victory at 🌍WT-level (recently active):
13 | 🇸🇰Sagan (2010-22)
11 | 🇩🇪Greipel (2008-18), 🇬🇧Cavendish (2007-17)
10 | 🇸🇮Roglic (2016-25*), 🇮🇹Nibali (2010-19)
9 | 🇨🇴Quintana (2012-20), 🇦🇺Porte (2013-21)

🤝 @velostatistics.bsky.social

📊🏆2 riders have multiple wins in all of the first 3 monuments of the season:

🏆🇳🇱Mathieu van der Poel:
✅2x 🇮🇹Milano-Sanremo
✅3x 🇧🇪Ronde van Vlaanderen
✅2x 🇫🇷Paris-Roubaix

🏆🇧🇪Eddy Merckx
✅7x 🇮🇹Milano-Sanremo
✅2x 🇧🇪Ronde van Vlaanderen
✅3x 🇫🇷Paris-Roubaix

📊🏆Last riders winning 🇮🇹Milano-Sanremo after attack before Poggio:

2025: 🇳🇱van der Poel (escaped group)
1996: 🇮🇹Colombo (solo > escaped group)
1991: 🇮🇹Chiapucci (solo > duo)
1990:🇮🇹Bugno (solo)
1987: 🇨🇭Mächler (solo > duo)
1985: 🇳🇱Kuiper (solo > group)

🤝 @jonascreteur.bsky.social

📊⚔️When 🇳🇱Mathieu van der Poel and 🇸🇮Tadej Pogacar both compete in the same one-day race since 2022:

🏁11 clashes
🔝Better result: 🇳🇱6 /🇸🇮5
🏆Victory: 🇳🇱4 /🇸🇮3
🥉Podium: 🇳🇱9 / 🇸🇮6
✅10/11 one of both top-3
✅8/11 both top-5

📅🇮🇹MSR'25 will be clash #19 in their career.