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Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements

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Red Rick said:
Also wasn't Govenou talking how they were gonna do fewer flat stages?

I am already ready for "Jeez Red Rick why are you so negative about this route you're always negative"

Also, 2012 had more than a few punchy stages at the beginning, the main problem was that the main mountain stages were just god tier awful.
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If there really are 7 flat non-TT, non-cobble, non-gravel stages in the first 9 days, I promise I won't say that.

But that's not going to be the case, we all know that.

But yeah, better to be prepared with the negativity, I guess.
 
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Okay guys, we all have to be very strong. The newest update in the almighty velowire article suggests, that Carcassonne we be the finish of stage 14. This would mean that the Pyrenees would see two stages.

If one of those Pyrenees stages ends up to be the mentioned MTT, that would be horrible for racing and Ciclismo. We just could hope that the special thing about stage 13 is that it would be a sub 100 km stage. Options would be:

Bagners de Luchon - Port de Bales - Peyresourde - Peyragudes
Or
Bagners de Luchon - Portillon - Peyresourde - Peyragudes

Depends on what they plan to use/not use the day before.
 
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ChiefMasterPro said:
Okay guys, we all have to be very strong. The newest update in the almighty velowire article suggests, that Carcassonne we be the finish of stage 14. This would mean that the Pyrenees would see two stages.

If one of those Pyrenees stages ends up to be the mentioned MTT, that would be horrible for racing and Ciclismo. We just could hope that the special thing about stage 13 is that it would be a sub 100 km stage. Options would be:

Bagners de Luchon - Port de Bales - Peyresourde - Peyragudes
Or
Bagners de Luchon - Portillon - Peyresourde - Peyragudes

Depends on what they plan to use/not use the day before.
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The route will be trash again.
 
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The first week seems to be more clear now:

From grupetto and velowire:

"https://www.ouest-france.fr/tour-de-fra ... 3a2eb2c9d7
Les étapes du Tour de France 2025 dans l'Ouest :
Amiens - Rouen le mardi 8 juillet
Caen - Caen (contre-la-montre) le mercredi 9 juillet
Bayeux - Vire le jeudi 10 juillet
Saint-Malo - Mûr de Bretagne le vendredi 11 juillet
Saint-Méen-le-Grand - Laval le samedi 12 juillet"

So the first 10 days till the restday are almost complete:

1/ Lille - Lille (sprint)
2/ Lauwin Planque - Boulogne/Mer (puncheurs)
3/ Valenciennes - Dunkerque (sprint)
4/ Amiens - Rouen (sprint or puncheur (there are a lot of hills around Rouen))
5/ CLM Caen - Caen (TT specialst)
6/ Bayeux - Vire (most likely sprint or baroudeurs or puncheurs (the distance between both city is not that big, so if ASO want they can spice the middle part of the stage with AGR kind of hills))
7/ St-Malo - Mûr-de-Bretagne (puncheur)
8/ St-Méen-le-Grand - Laval (sprint)
9/ Chinon - Châteauroux (sprint)
10/ Ennezat- Le Mont-Dore/Massif du Sancy (medium mountain stage (puncheur/baroudeurs/GC maybe))
Restday/ Toulouse
 
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gavia88 said:
The first week seems to be more clear now:

From grupetto and velowire:

"https://www.ouest-france.fr/tour-de-fra ... 3a2eb2c9d7
Les étapes du Tour de France 2025 dans l'Ouest :
Amiens - Rouen le mardi 8 juillet
Caen - Caen (contre-la-montre) le mercredi 9 juillet
Bayeux - Vire le jeudi 10 juillet
Saint-Malo - Mûr de Bretagne le vendredi 11 juillet
Saint-Méen-le-Grand - Laval le samedi 12 juillet"

So the first 10 days till the restday are almost complete:

1/ Lille - Lille (sprint)
2/ Lauwin Planque - Boulogne/Mer (puncheurs)
3/ Valenciennes - Dunkerque (sprint)
4/ Amiens - Rouen (sprint or puncheur (there are a lot of hills around Rouen))
5/ CLM Caen - Caen (TT specialst)
6/ Bayeux - Vire (most likely sprint or baroudeurs or puncheurs (the distance between both city is not that big, so if ASO want they can spice the middle part of the stage with AGR kind of hills))
7/ St-Malo - Mûr-de-Bretagne (puncheur)
8/ St-Méen-le-Grand - Laval (sprint)
9/ Chinon - Châteauroux (sprint)
10/ Ennezat- Le Mont-Dore/Massif du Sancy (medium mountain stage (puncheur/baroudeurs/GC maybe))
Restday/ Toulouse
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2002/2004 level dreck of a first half (stage 11 will be flat too).
 
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Netserk said:
2002/2004 level dreck of a first half (stage 11 will be flat too).
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Especially the Toulouse finish after the rest day is strange. Probably it's about money/change for having the rest day as well.
Worse latest news predict a finish in Carcassonne on Saterday and Montpellier on Sunday. I actually can't believe that we get only flat stages in all the weekends.

If the ASO really wants they can spice things up. Very hilly final in Rouen. Double/Triple Mûr-de-Bretagne. Uphil finish in Vire with a demanding hilly mid stage part. And in stage 8 or 9 some gravel (after last years success). But that's a lot of if. Probably not all of the above is realistic to expect.
 
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The highest hopes I have for the flat stages is something similar to stage 8 this year. Gravel would be a nice surprise, but I'm sceptical of what kind of gravel they would include. There's usually awfully many punctures in Paris-Tours, unlike in the stage to Troyes this year.
 
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The worse thing is that mountain stages don't look all that inspiring as well. Just a block of MTF's where the last climb is the most important of the day.
I can live with a bad 1st half. I know, it's the Tour de France and 60-70% of France is pretty much flat with nothing much to offer so sometimes we'll get damp squib in the first half but at least they can make the mountain stages good.
 
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ice&fire said:
Guillén is the antidote to the long range attacks that are boring all of us to death. His time has come.
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Got you brother
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Froome said:
TTT is probably the most stupid and wasted stage.

If they want to do time trials, how about doing decent time trials, instead of doing waisting stages by doing individual time trials of 20 km or TTT of 20/25 km?


If they want to do proper time trials, they should do a proper ITT of 50/60 km where the differences can be high, and benefit the specialists riders on that area.

If they want to do a MTT, peyragudes is a really stupid idea, because is a short climb of 20 minutes.

They should do a MTT of 40 min effort like Alpe d'huez in 2004.
It would be better doing a MTT to superbagneres.
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Peyragudes is a stupid idea whether it’s a TT or not.

I guess it would be ok as TTT but that’s it. It’s a worthless climb.
 
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