00:00It's been 90 years since the first individual time trial on the Tour de France.
00:11In 1934, Antonin Meunier clocked the fastest time on a course of 83km between La Roche-sur-Yon
00:18and Nantes on the way to his second Tour de France victory.
00:22Since then, the individual time trial has often been decisive in the fight for yellow.
00:31Second on a brutal time trial in 1947, Jean Robic snatched yellow on the very last stage.
00:37Jan Janssen did the same in 1968 with victory on the final day.
00:43The most famous time trial of them all came in 1989, as Greg LeMond looked to make up
00:47his 50-second deficit to the race leader Laurent Fignon on the final stage into Paris.
00:52It was the tightest finish in Tour de France history, with LeMond coming out on top by
00:57just eight seconds.
01:02The American winning the second of his three Tour de France titles, but it was heartbreak
01:07for Fignon.
01:10In 2011, the yellow jersey changed hands on the penultimate stage, as Cadel Evans ripped
01:15through the course fully two and a half minutes quicker than the race leader Andy Schleck.
01:21And finally, in 2020, Tadej Pogacar destroyed his rivals on La Planche de Belfie, the Slovenian
01:27sensation taking yellow from his compatriot Primoz Roglic, and 24 hours later he was celebrating
01:33his first Tour win in Paris.
01:36Never underestimate the time trial.
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