Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2025 (Tour de France)

[Grassmarket 4,026]

Dried out now so looking like a big sprint.  Don't think the roads here lend themselves to echelons like yesterday but maybe.....

[Grassmarket 4,026]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Dried out now so looking like a big sprint.  Don't think the roads here lend themselves to echelons like yesterday but maybe.....

What do I know, the late 4 cat climbs have broken things up......

 

GC battle!

 

MvdP!

Edited July 6 by Grassmarket

[Federer91 3,020]

Pfff, again MvdP, Tadej can't catch a break from that guy.

[avlar 453]

This TDF has a very unusual configuration.

GC will be decided at the stage 19 - no high mountains at the stage 20.
And no high mountains during the first half of the race. Real face-to-face GC battle may start at the stage 12.
 

[Olympian1010 8,228]

3 hours ago, avlar said:

This TDF has a very unusual configuration.

GC will be decided at the stage 19 - no high mountains at the stage 20.
 

Depends how riders decide to race the Montmartre climb (and how close the GC battle is) on stage 21...

[heywoodu 15,997]

16 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Pfff, again MvdP, Tadej can't catch a break from that guy.

Yeah, when will Pogacar finally win anything?  

 

 

[avlar 453]

Philipsen withdrew

 

That is a clear eveidence - why breakawat brings safe to peloton.

No breakaway - and one of the favourites is lost at the intermediate sprint (

[heywoodu 15,997]

And the expected hard crash at the finish, plus Meeus shortly before that. I mean, it's not like we didn't see this coming for the past 40km...

[Grassmarket 4,026]

More messy sprinting & crashes, but Merlier just gets Milan on the line.

[heywoodu 15,997]

To think we could have had an amazing cobblestone stage if they'd gone the exact opposite way, or simply stay around Valenciennes and get some Roubaix sectors. But no, they want mass crashes.