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Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements

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Does that mean Superbagneres is gone or they're doing 3 MTF's in a row in the Pyrenees?

I guess they are thinking "well with so few mountains in the 1st week, we have to do a lot of mountain stages in the second half" but apparently hard MTF is the only way they can design mountain stages...
 
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Does that mean Superbagneres is gone or they're doing 3 MTF's in a row in the Pyrenees?

I guess they are thinking "well with so few mountains in the 1st week, we have to do a lot of mountain stages in the second half" but apparently hard MTF is the only way they can design mountain stages...
I guess there will be 6 mountain stages + MTT.

Normally the Tour have 6/7 mountain stages, but this time will be backloaded in the last week and half.
 
It's probably got something to do with Pogacar's dominance this year. A week of him dominating is probably better for the race than 3 weeks of dominance like this year.

I'd say it doesn't have anything to do with Pogacar.. They had to go through the North and West sooner rather than later and you simply don't have the terrain to do a lot of GC stages in these parts of France. I just wish they didn't only do MTFs for their mountain stages.

Besides next year's Tour should be much closer than this one. Vingegaard will probably be stronger and Visma won't have half of their team shattered.
 
Hautacam after Aubisque and Spandelles.
Peyragudes MTT
Superbagneres after Port de Bales

Ventoux after bunch of flat and Madeleinen't
La Plagne after some random climbs nobody gives *** about like Loze 2023
Alpe d'Huez after Croix de Fer

Book it.
Doesn't sound bad to me. Hautacam-stage was great in 2022, will be good again. If you are using Peyragudes, might as well make it into a MTT. Always liked that discipline anyways, especially if you are gonna use climbs which arent that well suited for a MTF anyways. Never seen Superbagneres and I liked Bales, so those Pyrenees i'd like.

Ventoux is Ventoux, who cares. Will always be about the last ascent and long time since we have seen a proper ascent of the climb. La Plagne I havent seen either, its a great climb. Alpe d' Huez is kinda boring, but you can pretty much only toy with going over multiple times to spice that stage up
 
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13 km? My take on it was ~11 km.
I'm betting on a Peyragudes uphill TTT with individual times. Same last 11 km as the 2022 stage.


You'd love to see it, @Red Rick!

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I guess this means a short mountain stage with (at best) something like Peyresourde, Aspin, Tourmalet, Hautacam. More probably only Aspin, Tourmalet and Hautacam or even just Tourmalet and Hautacam.
I think it's:

[Toulouse] > Superbagnères
Auch > Hautacam
Loudenvielle > Peyragudes

PS: as a public service announcement, be aware that as most international papers make their articles available for crawlers, the full article in question is also available: https://archive.ph/KjyNh
 
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So what is the “unprecedented format” going to be? Peyragudes MTT in the morning plus a <100k mountain stage in the afternoon?

Not sure what else it can be unless it’s a TTT which would be terrible
 
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So what is the “unprecedented format” going to be? Peyragudes MTT in the morning plus a <100k mountain stage in the afternoon?

Not sure what else it can be unless it’s a TTT which would be terrible
I really wonder if everyone has the two time trialing formats wrong. I wonder if this is a team time trial and the Caen one is a basic 20 k individual time trial. Because there’s not much unique about a mountain individual time trial but a team one would be fascinating.
 
I really wonder if everyone has the two time trialing formats wrong. I wonder if this is a team time trial and the Caen one is a basic 20 k individual time trial. Because there’s not much unique about a mountain individual time trial but a team one would be fascinating.
It would be interesting if the best climbers didn’t have the best teams and vice-versa, but given that Pogacar and Vingegaard’s have the best mountain trains anyway, it’d just makes the gaps to the rest bigger imo
 
I really wonder if everyone has the two time trialing formats wrong. I wonder if this is a team time trial and the Caen one is a basic 20 k individual time trial. Because there’s not much unique about a mountain individual time trial but a team one would be fascinating.
Surley it's way to late in the race to be a team time trail. They had issues with having a TTT on stage 9 in 2015 if I remember correctly.
 
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