Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements

[ashhutch1997]

Damm 2022 was such a good Tour.

 

[Keldergoat]

Haha this first week has 'a perfect job description for Mathieu van der Poel' all over it.

 

[Netserk]

Both 2008 and 2021 had the early ITT under 30 km, so 33 km next year is a positive surprise.

(we're just missing the second flat ITT)

 

[Samamba]

Not a lot of flat boring sprint stages it seems. Puncher fest mainly.

 

[Netserk]

Modulo no climbs, no cobbles, no gravel, barely any echelon bait, just hills, the first week is not as terrible as it could have been.

 

[Samamba]

First week will be a crash fest

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Wow, this is uninspired!

 

[ashhutch1997]

Wow stage 20 is tragic

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Last half:
- rest day -
Stage 11: Hilly, but probably one for the sprinters. Reduced bunch?
Stage 12: Hautacam MTF. Solour before, but all about the MTF.
Stage 13: MTT to Peyragudes. 11 km, 650m climb.
Stage 14: Superbagneres MTF. Tourmalet-Aspin-Peyresourde before. 5000m of climbing in 183 km. Almost a "proper" mountain stage.
Stage 15: Carcassone. Sprint or break?
-rest day-
Stage 16: Ventoux MTF unipuerto.
Stage 17: Sprint stage. Possible wind?
Stage 18: Col de la Loze MTF from Courchevel. Glandon and Madeleine before. 5500m of climb, 171 km. The "Queen stage"
Stage 19: La Plagne MTF. 130 km, 4600m of climbing.
Stage 20: Looks like a sprint stage, but almost 3000m of climbing, so possibly a good stage for the strong roleurs like Asgreen, Mohoric, Abrahamsen etc.
Stage 21: Champs-Elysees.

 

[Samamba]

That penultimate stage is the weirdest *** ever. Why end the Tour with 2 sprint stages? Ok sure, doubt stage 20 will be a sprint with every sprinter and domestique tired, but still.

 

[Ricco']

So, where's the innovative stage?

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

I am counting 9 possible sprint stages (stage 1,3,8,9,11,15,17,20,21)

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Idek anything about the route but I'm grateful for an end to the woke nonsense, keeping the race in France instead of a Mickey mouse depart

 

[rghysens]

Huh?

It was a discussion about the womens tdf, so no, no tt.

 

[Offline]

Looks like TdF want Vingegaard to win.

 

[ashhutch1997]

Don't have the energy to make a legendary whine tbh. It's completely uninspired, it all looks like poorly AI designed mountain stages, but it's not worse than 2023 and 2024.

This route is far worse than 2023/24 IMO. Atleast 2023 although unbalanced, had some fun stages and a fabulous grand depepart. 2024 although a MTF fest still had some awesome medium mountain stages.

 

[rghysens]

3500 vertical meters in the Normandie?

Yeah, that´s possible when you cross a subregion that´s called Norman Switzerland.

 

[nightowl]

Pontarlier stage not going into Switzerland means it’s unlikely to be hard enough to be anything other than a break stage.

 

[Netserk]

I hope we'll see Padun again.

 

[ashhutch1997]

I hope we'll see Padun again.

The man, the myth, the legend.

 

[Samamba]

I guess we will have to wait some weeks or even months before we see all the stage profiles?

 

[yaco]

No TT in the women's route is such a horrible decision, the road stages are a clear upgrade over 2024 but the lack of TT makes the odds of the Madeleine MTF singlehandedly deciding everything far too high.

An ITT is not needed. Vollering will dominate the ITT and the race will be over.

 

[ashhutch1997]

Honestly the first week isn't too bad until stage 8, but 2 sprints on the first weekend is awful, unless there's wind.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

This is tailor made for Roglic. Maybe the forget it's not 2020 anymore

 

[Peyroteo94]

Looks like TdF want Vingegaard to win.

Why? I can see Pogacar in yellow after stage 5 and Vingegaard will have to drop Pogacar