Le Tour 2025
Today is route presentation day. Main rumours have been Ventoux and Alpe d'Huez, plus 3 summit finishes in the Pyrenees
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May as well give the YJ to Pogacar and tell him to do something else then leave the rest to race.
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Not sure JV will agree!
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I don't think even Vaughters genuinely believes Carapaz is a serious contender.
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Too many JVs in pro cycling!
Bit like being a Bath fan, having JC1, JC2, JC3 and JC4 over the years!
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It's not as if nobody's trying to help: the team became VLAB and the rider took his wife's surname but neither change seems to have been universally recognised.
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Tdf Femmes Route. Also a new Etape du Tour Femmes on the Chambery to Madeleine stage
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Men's route, no Alpe d'Huez
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Was hoping to rent my mate's place in Font Romeu but the Pyreneean stages are the wrong side (minimum of 4.5 hours drive). Might Channel hop for a day or two but I can see those stages being a bit boring although the Boulogne stage is listed as hilly and I guess there may be some pave on Stage 1 and / or 3? Mur De Bretagne finish yet again, it feels like that gets included a lot now.
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Stage 18 to the Loze is brutal - Glandon, Madeleine, Loze - 5,500 m climbing in 177 kms
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Stage 19, Albertville to La Plagne is the etape, on Sunday 20th July
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My first impression is that it’s a rather uninspired route. Nothing new or novel about it, rather it’s more traditional than we have seen for a number of years.
Meh.
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No pave included.
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It has the feel of a Jean-Marie Leblanc era route.
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It's a proper route. Not reliant on gimmicks for once.
"Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago2 -
I don’t think the route has ever been reliant upon gimmicks, not that they are all bad.
For instance, one recent gimmick was the return of the Puy de Dome.
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The (re) introduction of pave and strade bianche seemed like gimmicks to me.
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And the grid start on the already gimmickly short stage to col de portes (i think).
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I'd say that's the only truly gimmicky stage and was a complete failure
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Yet the Troyes-Troyes stage during this past Tour was extremely well received around here at the time…
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Successful gimmick then. 😉
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I had no idea Jeremy Corbyn even played rugby
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Riders make the race, surely. If Pog, Vingo, Roglic and Remco are all there and in form it will likely be a good race. If it's a one-man demonstration then it probably won't be.
And many a supposedly "good" stage route leads to a less than exciting viewing experience so it's hard to predict with much confidence in advance anyway.
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As usual, Inrng has a good overview and picks out some route choices that many have missed:
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A pretty bland route; not enough TT-ing, and far too much climbing........GTs should be more than just another watts/kg contest.
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Girmay in yellow on Stage 2 I reckon.
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Stage 10 might be worth visiting - I've cycled up the Col de la Croix Morand and stayed near lac Chambon - scenic and good cycling
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The Massif Central is definitely worth a visit. I stayed a Lac Chambon a few years back, and we road bits of the route, including the climbs , and visited le Mont Dore, which is where the Dordogne starts.
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are they going to the Madeleine or just St Francois Longchamps?
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