By Dave Campbell
Q1. Mathieu van der Poel wore the yellow race leader’s jersey for four days this year. Earlier, this versatile rider had triumphed on the cobbles of “The Queen of the Classics,” Paris-Roubaix. When did a Roubaix winner last wear the Tour’s yellow leader’s jersey in the same season? It doesn’t happen that often!
Q2. Irishman Ben Healy had a marvelous Tour and wore the yellow leader’s jersey on stages ten and eleven, becoming the first Irish Tour leader since 1987. That Irishman, Stephen Roche, went on to win the Tour, however. Who was the last Irish rider to wear the maillot jaune and, like Healy, not go on to final victory?
Q3. Jonas Abrahamsen of Team Uno-X was an ecstatic winner of stage 11 and became only the sixth Norwegian to win a stage in the world’s biggest bicycle race. Can you name the five who came before?
Q4. (a) Italian Jonathan Milan claimed stages eight and seventeen of the Tour, ending a victory drought for his country going back to 2019. Who was that previous Italian who won a Tour stage? (b) Who was the last Italian to win the final green points jersey in Paris?
Q5. Tadej Pogačar, just 26, has now won his fourth Tour de France and seems clearly on a path to become the greatest cyclist ever. Did any of the other four-time Tour winners accomplish their victories by age 26? Hint: They are Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault, Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spaniard Miguel Indurain, and Brit Chris Froome.
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