TIM MERLIER HONORS WOUTER WEYLANDT

A great Tour de France we just finished. The mastery of Tadej Pogačar was great, very great even, and it raises the question in the minds of many by whom and when he will ever be able to be restrained in the Tour again.

Mark Cavendish has become the only record holder in terms of stage wins in the Tour de France, 35 he now has. He thus broke the official record of Eddy Merckx who had 34 in the books.

It's rest day in the Tour. For nine stages we were captivated by a promising battle between the world's best riders. Before the start, we hoped that after the horror crash in the Basque Country, it would still be - and for the first time - an open battle with these four big favorites for one supreme jay.