Plans for the Tour de France have been announced. Image: trapezoid
Next year's Tour de France will be held 100% at French venues. For the first time in several years, Mont Ventoux will also be included in the course again.
Organizers of the 2025 tour have decided to return to some kind of normalcy, as announced at a route launch on Tuesday at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. Lille marks the start of a three-week Grand Départs overseas tour (Florence, Copenhagen, Bilbao) that takes place again in France on 5 July.
According to tradition, the Grand Tour also ends on the Champs Elysées after a one-year hiatus. Due to the Olympics, this is not possible in 2024, which is why Slovenian Tadej Pogacar achieved a huge victory this year not in Paris but in Nice.
This year's final was held in Nice.Image: trapezoid
Seven mountain finishes and two time trials
The 112th Tour de France covers a total distance of 3320 kilometers, including 7 mountain races and 2 time trials. The start of the journey is on fairly flat terrain. The sprinter category will have the opportunity to wear the yellow mailbox for the first time since Norwegian Alexander Kristoff won stage one in Nice in 2020.
Then the difficulties and climbs quickly started to pile up on the way from Lille in northern France to Brittany. The first time trial is scheduled for day five on a 33-kilometer flat track in and around Caen. Two days later they reached Mire de Brittany and continued south towards the Pyrenees.
The 2025 Tour de France will only pass through France.Image: trapezoid
Then we arrive in the Hautacam mountains, and then start a mountain time trial, covering only 11 kilometers, from Loudenvielle to the mountain airport in Peyragudes. The next big difficulty came on the second day: July 19, the stage ended at Luchon-Superbagnères for the first time since 1989, having to overcome Tourmalet, A Aspin and Peyresourde climbs. For logistical reasons, the Pyrenees ski resort has never been a stage venue for 35 years.
Mont Ventoux becomes a destination again
After resting on the second day, you will immediately arrive at Mont Ventoux. Provence's mysterious peaks are once again a tourist destination for the first time since 2013. The Queen's Stage is planned for July 24, the final fourth day of the tour: starting from Veve, passing the Glendon Pass and the Madeleine Pass, and finally reaching the Lozer Pass. A total of 171 kilometers of climbing and 5,500 meters of climbing. A day later the final Alpine stage from Albertville to La Plagne begins. (Riz/Syrian Democratic Alliance/AFP)
The Tour de France returns to Mont Ventoux.Image source: Associated Press
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The first stage from Vannes to Plumelec on July 26 is only 79 kilometers long, so it is the shortest stage. This tour will take place for the fourth time in 2025, following the new edition, which will end on August 3 at the Châtel mountain stage in Haute-Savoie. The day before, on stage eight, the riders completed the final climb to the Madeleine Pass. They had to overcome an altitude of about 1500 meters over a distance of nearly 19 kilometers.
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