And the daisy fell off its leaves. The first three stages of 112th edition of the Tour de Francebut this Tuesday the complete route of ‘Grande Boucle’ of 2025, in a solemn ceremony and over four hours in a Palace of Congresses in Paris. The order of the event is the presentation of the first Women’s Tour de Francewhich will be held from July 23 to August 3 and for the first time in its history will reach nine stages, and then the men’s event, with the stage presence of Marion Rousse and Christian Prudhommedirectors of both trials.
Many expect to know what the career route will be. ‘Big Boucle’ next year, to find out what new things will be presented, what mountain giants will be promoted and to see which runner is most favored, if a Remco Evenepoel who said this year at the end of the trial that he already knows where he needs to improve in order to beat Pogacarif in a Jonas Vingeggard who finished 2nd this year after winning the two previous editions after competing ‘exhausted’ as a result of his serious fall in Itzulia or the runner everyone fears, Tadej Pogacar, who is seeking his fourth victory. They all checked the route from their homes, because none of them, like Roglic either Van der Poelwill be present at the event.
Entering the matter, after three first editions outside its borders, Copenhagen, Bilbao and Florence, and a year before it started in the city of Barcelonathe Tour will be held entirely in France for the first time since 2020, as the event director highlighted at the outset, Christian Prudhomme“not one millimeter of the 2025 Tour will take place outside France”, in an edition of the cycling mother of all races that will start rolling in Lille on July 5, which will almost certainly see a sprinter wearing the first yellow jersey leader , which presents several stages on the flat, reducing the mileage of the stages, which ‘punishes’ the sprinters and presents many hard mountains, for a total of 3,320 kilometers of the route, with a total of 51,550 meters of unevenness , a total of 26 climbs, 5 high finishes, 7 flat finishes, 6 mountain finishes, 65 high mountain finishes, two time trial stages, one of which is a time trial climb, and the finish in the classic result in Champs Elyséesafter last year the last action was moved to It’s beautiful on the occasion of Olympicshalf a century after the first arrival on this classic avenue of the French capital, which in 1975 saw the first success of Bernard Thevenet.
It’s not just the French tango, because the race will pay tribute to Jacques Anquetil on arrival at Rouen; in bernard hinault by passing through his Yffiniac, or Lousion Bobetthe first rider to win three editions of the Tour, starting the day in his hometown of Saint-Méen-le-Grand.
There are many mountains
A Tour without mountains and epic climbs is not a Tour. In recovery of Brittany Wallwhere the last one wins Mathieu Van der Poel; We must add the passage to the Pyrenees, the Central Massif and the Alps and the long-awaited ascent to Hautacam (13.6 km at 7.8% average), the time trial climb Peyragudes (11 km with percentages reaching 16%), Superbagneres (recovered from the fame of Perico Delgado in 1989) after a day of dizziness on the climbs before the Tourmalet, Aspin and Peyresourde; the puzzle Mont-Ventoux (always remembered for the walking race Froome in 2016), the graduation in Col de la Loze (the ceiling of the race with its 2,304 meters), to be climbed a third time on another slope, after climbing the Gland and the Madeleine or the farewell to the high mountains in La Plagne (19.1 km at 7.2%), at an altitude of 2,502 meters and has not been reached since the victory of Armstrong in 2002.
And after a final week of vertigo that will destroy the little energy left by the survivors of the races, the 2025 Tour will say goodbye with another predictable one. sprint down the Champs Elysees.
Now, just to find out which riders will include the Tour de France in their racing program next year. The countdown to the expected rivalry between Pogacar and Vingegaardand which can join Evenepoel, it has already begun.
Source: La Verdad
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