Tour Tidbit du Jour - 7/2/2012

Young Peter Sagan rode his first Tour de France road stage yesterday, and won his first Tour de France road stage, and became the youngest rider to win a Tour stage in almost 20 years.

It turns out that Sagan is the youngest rider – he is 22 years and 157 days old – to win a stage in the Tour de France since Lance Armstrong won the stage in Verdun at the tender age of 21 and 296 days back in 1993. There are some within the Liquigas set-up who believe Sagan can follow in the American’s footsteps. “Did they say that? I would love to but I’m still at the beginning of my career. It’s too early to tell what’s possible and we’ll see if I can get a career like him.”

The youngest rider to win the Tour overall was Henri Comet at 19 years old in 1904 at the second cheating-marred Tour, where the first 4 finishers were thrown out for getting caught riding trains.