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Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements

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New possible rumors. No Alpe d'Huez but Col de la Loze MTF. If that's the case, it's waiting game again until the final four steep kilometers. Pogi would surely want to exorcise the demons of 2023 and go for revenge on that stage.

Also, ITT on penultimate day (hoping for 50+ km. Unlikely but hey, I can dream).
This route is actually sounding horrible. Also the closest Nantua is to Pontarlier is 130km if I'm not mistaken?
 
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New possible rumors. No Alpe d'Huez but Col de la Loze MTF. If that's the case, it's waiting game again until the final four steep kilometers. Pogi would surely want to exorcise the demons of 2023 and go for revenge on that stage.

Also, ITT on penultimate day (hoping for 50+ km. Unlikely but hey, I can dream).

probably not the extended Courchervel version from 2023 but the big climb we saw in 2020
 
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Col de la Loze is a better climb than alpe d'huez, and for clinical reasons is better not going to the alpe.
I disagree, at least with Alpe d'Huez there is a history of riders attacking early, Col de La Loze is basically a tempo fest until the last few. It's basically just a hyped up Cuitu Negru.
If they were worried about climbing records being smashed then they would have to stop using any climb, as all the records are bring obliterated.
 
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New possible rumors. No Alpe d'Huez but Col de la Loze MTF. If that's the case, it's waiting game again until the final four steep kilometers. Pogi would surely want to exorcise the demons of 2023 and go for revenge on that stage.

Also, ITT on penultimate day (hoping for 50+ km. Unlikely but hey, I can dream).
Last 3 weekends, 5 sprint stages... oh Lord, WTH are they doing?
 
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New possible rumors. No Alpe d'Huez but Col de la Loze MTF. If that's the case, it's waiting game again until the final four steep kilometers. Pogi would surely want to exorcise the demons of 2023 and go for revenge on that stage.

Also, ITT on penultimate day (hoping for 50+ km. Unlikely but hey, I can dream).
There’s just a ton on this map that goes against what velowire has been reporting and I am inclined to believe velowire is more accurate. In particular that stage 20 individual time trial doest’t pass the smell test. Plus what about the “ground breaking” time trial to Peyragudes? This map doesn’t have it.
 
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I only count two time trials in the map posted by La Flamme Rouge. Caen and the 150 k time trial on stage 20, lol.

With that said, it does seem like this route could be friendly to Jonas, Pog and Remco. It might be so soft it tempts the top two into trying the double while making Remco think he has a shot against a tired pog and Jonas, especially if that last time trial happens and is long. It’s just that a 50 k time trial goes against everything the powers that run these things seem to believe in..
 
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I only count two time trials in the map posted by La Flamme Rouge. Caen and the 150 k time trial on stage 20, lol.

With that said, it does seem like this route could be friendly to Jonas, Pog and Remco. It might be so soft it tempts the top two into trying the double while making Remco think he has a shot against a tired pog and Jonas, especially if that last time trial happens and is long. It’s just that a 50 k time trial goes against everything the powers that run these things seem to believe in..
They said Peyragudes was a 13 km MTT
 
probably not the extended Courchervel version from 2023 but the big climb we saw in 2020
That or we can also see the 28 km big climb. Just finishing at the top this time instead of going to the altiport. I’m not aware if there’s a difference with the final four km though.
Last 3 weekends, 5 sprint stages... oh Lord, WTH are they doing?
I know. It’s a freaking crime.
There’s just a ton on this map that goes against what velowire has been reporting and I am inclined to believe velowire is more accurate. In particular that stage 20 individual time trial doest’t pass the smell test. Plus what about the “ground breaking” time trial to Peyragudes? This map doesn’t have it.
Also wondered about that. Especially with the stage 20 TT. It’s just rumors though. Also, I think they just forgot to put that the Peyragudes stage is a MTT.
 
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