Tour de France Tour de France 2025 Stage 21: Mantes-la-Ville – Paris (132.3k)

[Rou]

What the hell?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Simmons goes!
I would be especially happy with any of the following winning this stage: Vingo, Simmons, Van Aert, Narvaez.

 

[Salvarani]

Bora will be fun next year

 

[Charlyghoul]

Paris is just stunning.

Someone told me who had been to a lot of countries and cities that Paris was the smelliest city they ever went to. Is there any truth of this?

 

[Red Rick]

Primoz Roglic could do the funniest thing

 

[D. Pecher]

What the hell?

His parents are sitting somewhere along the CE.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Free Bird!

 

[Rou]

Bora will be fun next year

Lipo and Remco - two boys with big balls.
What could go wrong?

 

[Sciatic]

Not good for Gregoire to have to chase back from after a flat, I thought he would be intent on trying to be in the mix at the end.

 

[Charlyghoul]

The American national champ can not be more American if he tried, the mullet, the style, the old school jersey. I hope he wins

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Someone told me who had been to a lot of countries and cities that Paris was the smelliest city they ever went to. Is there any truth of this?

My own personal observations differ here. I haven't noticed this to be true.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Lipowitz taking back some seconds, Genius statpadding

 

[Didinho]

50km to go. Tour is done.

 

[Sciatic]

Someone told me who had been to a lot of countries and cities that Paris was the smelliest city they ever went to. Is there any truth of this?

Do you not like the smell of flowers? Sometimes in late summer the Seine can get a bit stagnant.

 

[memyselfandI]

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I like it when the Tour tries some different things like this.

Yea, me too loving it when they do, aaaaand then back of when weather tiny changes.

 

[Charlyghoul]

Do you not like the smell of flowers? Sometimes in late summer the Seine can get a bit stagnant.

I don’t know, that’s just what they said, and that Naples was the dirtiest , which is quite common knowledge that it’s untidy and a bit dodgy, so wondered if it’s true about Paris. I’ve only been to Pyrenees region.

 

[proffate]

CVV thinks this has been the most incredible Tour de France to date. Well that settles that.

 

[Unchained]

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I like it when the Tour tries some different things like this.

I feel like the rear outsider.. Being told until I am near dead already that things have been improved!! I liked regular old pizza, didn't need or lust after stuffed crust made in 3 minutes in a conveyor belt blow dry oven!! I know how to grocery shop..I want the unimproved Toyota trucks that last @300,000 and you sell them because you get sick of looking at them not from lack of reliability!! I don't need better, improved Ultegra, miss the old stuff that needed me to check my bank statement to when I bought a chain, cassette and got last tune up!! We don't need to improve final stage of TDF..it's heartbreaking sad that we are going to abandon the world wide truth.. If it ain't broke don't fix it!!
These slobbering fools had 20 other stages to shake it up, be innovative, cutting edge, leave a couple of stages alone!!
If UCI and ASO wanted interesting, safer races, imo do like all other races at low level, announce a day of prize, @30 seconds, 1 minute, 90-120 seconds.. Watch people think on the fly, come up with an on the spot ( starting line) strategy to go after a suddenly discovered opportunity..
Announce a pop up prime sprint for something, money, time, vacation, car..Golf and tennis routinely give away stuff.. Cars and vacations as part of the prize list..

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

CVV thinks this has been the most incredible Tour de France to date. Well that settles that.

Yep, it's settled that CVV is a *** idiot.

 

[proffate]

Nice 3 rider breakaway here

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Nice 3 rider breakaway here

Do you mean the moto or something else?

 

[peterfin]

50km to go. Tour is done.

Pogi see you in 2 hours.

With the tour done he can now focus on ending the stage as quickly as possible. An attack is to be expected.

 

[Charlyghoul]

I think this tour hasn’t been the best. Also miss sprinters with a bit more panache, I really don’t care who wins sprints these days.

 

[Unchained]

And none of that would nullify the parade portion of the stage which is what I thought folks were complaining about?

I think people are a little put off by @9-11 teams not drilling it from the gun, trying to forge a breakaway and have non stop, fast racing from first few hundred meters of the race.. Many people want, wanted that..

 

[Heston]

Meeus puncture. Could ruin his chances today but also many km to make it back via the cars