And just like that, the Tour de France is over for another year. It's always a bit of a whirlwind three weeks – so much pre-race anticipation, and a slow gathering of pace in the early days before, then just like that, we're congratulating the winner in Paris.
This year, more than ever, it's been a case of 'blink and you'll miss it', because this 113th edition was the fastest ever. The peloton, or more accurately Tadej Pogačar, covered the 3,245km at a blistering average of 43.227kph (26.86mph). That's a whole half a kilometre per hour quicker (give or take a thousandth) than the previous record, which was set – wait for it – last year, by Tadej Pogačar.
