Tag: TOUR’25
TOUR’25 Final Stage 21: Wonderful Wout & Terrific Tadej
2025 Tour de France Stage 21 Report: Tadej Pogaar (UAE Emirates XRG) has won the 2025 Tour de France. The Slovenian World champion knew he had won 50 kilometres before the finish in Paris, when the times were neutralised due to wet, slippery conditions. Pogaar joined Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) and Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) on the final podium. The final stage, with three climbs up Montmartre, finish on a wet Champs-lyses and proved to be a spectacle with the stage victory going to a solo Wout van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike). The final Tour kilometre of 2025Race director, Christian Prudhomme: “A return to both tradition and to the Champs-lyses… after Nice stepped in for…
TOUR’25 Stage 14: Arensman From The Break!
Stage 14 – 182km and 4,950m of vertical gain. Brutal.170 riders would take the start today but the same number wouldn’t make it to the finish in Superbagnres. With almost 5000m of elevation gain, four categorized climbs, on and off rain and misty conditions this stage was always going to be difficult.Despite the difficulties there was still a large number of riders who wanted to be in the break of the day and the pace was on from kilomter zero. No groups could get more than a few seconds lead though and for a number of minutes it was only the big green clad figure of Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) who could create any sort of gap over the peloton.Milan wanted…
TOUR’25 Stage 7: Pogačar Pounces Again
2025 Tour de France Stage 7 Report: Tadej Pogaar (UAE Emirates XRG) took his second 2025 Tour de France stage victory on the summit of the Mur-de-Bretagne. The Slovenian beat Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) and took the leader’s yellow jersey from Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who was dropped early on the final climb. Four years after Mathieu van der Poel’s legendary victory, the Tour peloton returned to the Mur-de-Bretagne. Van der Poel said it was a “special stage,” but he wasn’t sure whether he could compete for the stage win again, like in 2021. On stage 6, the Dutchman had worked all day in the break to earn him the yellow jersey by just 1 second….
TOUR’25 Stage 3: Merlier In The Madness!
No breakaways and no action is the best way to sum up the first 110km of stage 3…Despite the lack of action the crowds were out in force to see the peloton with many villages decorated for the occasion.After an action packed first two stages of Le Tour the riders weren’t keen on making an exciting race with the weather and parcours certainly playing a big part.Today’s stage – 178km almost completely flat and a block headwind for the last 50km. Not an encouraging day for a breakaway!The riders did set a record though – the least active stage in history! The race jury who nominates the combativity award every day took the extraordinary decision of not awarding a winner…