Tour de France Unveils 2025 Route

Date: 30 October 2024 - 22:10

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PARIS (AP) - The Tour de France will have a more traditional look next year.
After a rare finish outside Paris this past July, cycling’s biggest race is getting back to basics for the 2025 route that was unveiled. A mostly flat first week is followed by a lot of climbing in the last 10 stages that will pave the way for another duel between defending champion Tadej Pogacar and his best rival Jonas Vingegaard.
“Jonas Vingegaard couldn’t be here today, but I imagine he’ll be pleased with the route,” said Grischa Niermann, the head of racing for Vingegaard’s Team Visma-Lease a Bike. “But the same likely goes for riders like Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic, and Remco Evenepoel.”
Following three consecutive starts from abroad, the 2025 Tour will be 100% French as riders won’t make any excursions beyond France’s borders.
The race starts from the city of Lille on July 5 and stays in cycling-mad northern France for three stages. The peloton will then head south, via Brittany and the Massif Central.
Riders will tackle a second individual time trial in the Pyrenees mountains, and the final week of the race will feature three mountain-top finishes at the Mont Ventoux, the Col de la Loze — the highest point of the race at 2,304 meters — and the ski resort of La Plagne in the Alps.