TdF Stage 21 2025

[Dorset Boy]

ASO have announced the detail for the final stage of this year's Tour. 4 laps of the traditional Champs circuit and then 3 times up a Montmartre loop that takes them back to the Champs each time.
Sprinters might not be overjoyed!

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Wout van Aert seems unimpressed - he thinks it will be too hectic and dangerous - and he's exactly the rider it should benefit.
I know a lot of people complain about the standard sprint stage to finish the Tour, but I quite like it.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Assuming that the jerseys are pretty much decided then it will still just be a procession

so making it a procession with hills does seem a bit pointless

If the climbers jersey is not decided then....
but at the end of the day it pretty much always goes to one of the top 3 in GC so what is the point??

which is another point - why not make the climber's jersey more for climbers and change it so the GC riders are not always winning it?
maybe remove summit finishes or something??

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Pog will be licking his lips, Cav will be shouting at clouds!

 

[T4tomo]

Assuming that the jerseys are pretty much decided then it will still just be a procession

so making it a procession with hills does seem a bit pointless

If the climbers jersey is not decided then....
but at the end of the day it pretty much always goes to one of the top 3 in GC so what is the point??

which is another point - why not make the climber's jersey more for climbers and change it so the GC riders are not always winning it?
maybe remove summit finishes or something??

nothing to do with the climbers jersey, its likely to make it less of a pure sprinters sprint as classic specialists etc will attack the sprinters up the small climbs.

All the pure sprinters want to win on the Champs and this makes it less likely. Recent tradition dictates its a procession / celebration for the yellow jersey team, with a properly contested sprint at the end, of course it wasn't always that way.

 

[TakeTheHighRoad]

Is there a link to the full route and roadbook yet?

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Is there a link to the full route and roadbook yet?

Not seen a roadbook yet but there's a press kit knocking about
https://mega.nz/folder/jUsnHa5a#Pwq8Rkwq7_OKBnKNXty4Sw

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

nothing to do with the climbers jersey, its likely to make it less of a pure sprinters sprint as classic specialists etc will attack the sprinters up the small climbs.

All the pure sprinters want to win on the Champs and this makes it less likely. Recent tradition dictates its a procession / celebration for the yellow jersey team, with a properly contested sprint at the end, of course it wasn't always that way.

WHen I first started watching it there was always a sprint to be the first onto the Champs

that seems to have stopped

 

[No Ta Doctor]

WHen I first started watching it there was always a sprint to be the first onto the Champs

that seems to have stopped

Leading the peloton onto the Champs now seems to be reserved for a senior rider that's retiring, as an "honour"