8: PUY DE CANADA
Canada is the 8th nation to conquer Puy de Dôme. Spaniards remain the most dominant with 5 wins.
Then, Italians and Dutch riders took two wins each, and Puy de Dôme crowned riders from Belgium, Denmark, France, Switzerland and Canada once.

23.7 KM/H: POGACAR FLIES ON THE PUY DE DÔME
According to NTT Data, Tadej Pogacar was the strongest rider up the 13.3km of ascent up Puy de Dôme (average gradient: 7.7%) with a speed of 23.7km/h, much faster than Michael Woods’ winning average of 19.8km/h to cap off his efforts at the front of the race all day long.
The Slovenian 2-time winner of the Tour unleashed his power on the steeper sections of the ascent, with a speed of 18.2km/h in the last 5km (11% gradient on average). His closest rival, Jonas Vingegaard, did 17.8km/h on the same segment.

17: THEY ARE SO CLOSE!
17” seconds between Maillot Jaune Jonas Vingegaard and 2nd Tadej Pogacar: the smallest gap at the 9th stage since 2016, when Chris Froome led with 16” on Adam Yates (after the Andorre stage).
Last year, after the 9th stage (Châtel), Pogacar led with 39” over Vingegaard.
These 17” are the smallest gap ever between this Tour’s duellers when they have occupied the first and second spot in the GC.

50%: HALF OF THE YELLOWS
72 stages since the start of the 2020 edition, which marked the debut for Tadej Pogacar, with Jonas Vingegaard joining one year later.
Since then, half of the yellow jerseys went to these two, 36 out of 72: 21 for Tadej Pogacar, 15 for Jonas Vingegaard. Primoz Roglic wore the yellow jersey 11 times in 2020.

15: HEY GERAINT!
15th stage in the lead for Jonas Vingegaard: he joins at the 39th all-time spot Lucien Van Impe (winner in 1976), Pedro Delgado (1988) and Geraint Thomas (2018).
36: OLD? WHO?
Michael Woods is the first 36 year-old to conquer a summit finish at the Tour since 2015 (Joaquim Rodriguez at Plateau de Beille).

3: FEELING AT HOME IN FRANCE
Michael Woods obtained all his 3 wins this year in France: before this stage, the 3rd stage and final classification of the Route d’Occitanie, last June.
Curiously also last year he had won the 3rd stage and final classification of the Route d’Occitanie.

3: CANADIAN WINNERS
Michael Woods becomes the 3rd Canadian to win at the Tour after Steve Bauer (Machecoul 1988) and Hugo Houle (Foix 2022).

16,000: AMATEURS OVERCOME THE MOUNTAINS OF THE TOUR
A peloton of 16,000 riders, amateurs and cycling lovers, participated today in L’Étape du Tour de France. They had the privilege to ride on roads closed to the traffic, like the professional peloton, as they took on 157 kilometres from Annemasse to Morzine, with 4,100m of elevation. The riders of the Tour de France 2023 will face the same challenges on July 15th, as they take on stage 14. Head to the official website of the event for more info.