XRG stormed up the “Bald Mountain,” initiated by rival Jonas Vingegaard’s attack, and still managed to sprint two seconds clear of the Dane at the summit. With this blistering climb, Pogacar smashed the long-standing record of Iban Mayo.

The only word that really works to describe what that's like is chaos, and Ventoux was no different. Firstly, there was the usual level of craziness, but because this is the Tour and it's Ventoux, there was of course, extra chaos.

The most iconic stage of the Tour de France, number 16, which ended on the terrible Mont Ventoux, nicknamed Bald by the Italians, saw Valentin Paret-Peintre of Soudal Quick Step, in the final

Valentin Paret-Peintre kept his cool in a furnace of pressure and heat, delivering a thunderous victory atop the legendary Mont Ventoux to give France its first win in this year's Tour de France during a breathtaking Stage 16 on Tuesday.

and maybe even a bigger one than Simon Yates had of winning the Giro d’Italia, which he did. On Mont Ventoux, we saw Pogacar grimace for the first time while following Vingegaard’s wheel. “It wasn’t just the grimace, it was also the fact that ...