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Jonas Vingegaard won his second Tour this past July with a blistering average speed of 41.408km/h (over a 3 405km distance). His win in 2022 had the fastest-ever speed, recorded at 42.102km/h (over 3 350km). Any guesses when the third-fastest average speed was? I’ll save you the suspense: it was in 2005, and the winner averaged 41.654km/h (for 3 550km). That year’s top-10 results saw three racers disqualified, and the race officially had no winner.
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THE RACES ARE FASTER. ARE THEY CLEANER? AND DOES IT MATTER?
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