Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)

[DeadCalm]

Light on rouleurs, no? Not sure they're going to be able to control the break, so Visma could make things difficult for them by getting van Aert away (see the Giro this year)

On any stage where it really matters having a rider in the break, Soler is worth more than Van Alert.

 

[mididoctors]

He was going pretty well again in 2023, third in Tirreno-Adriatico is nothing to be sniffed at, then won Tour of The Alps convincingly, including two stages. He was sitting in third place after ten stages of the Giro, 5" behind G and 2" behind Roglic, when he was wiped out.*


*No, I don't remember all this stuff, I looked it up

He would have won that giro

 

[mididoctors]

You say this, but the parcour this year is much more traditional, with a lot of flat and rolling terrain.
I know that I have missed a lot of racing recently, so excuse me if there’s a reason for Mikkel Berg’s omission, it baffles me.

Been invisible

 

[Jameshow]

On any stage where it really matters having a rider in the break, Soler is worth more than Van Alert.

Whose he?!🤣

 

[Animo]

The Van Alert is the klaxon that sounds when WVA tries to get in the break.

 

[stage hunter]

I think we'll see next season. He's got another year to show he can make it back, but even if he does get to 2020 Giro winning levels the peloton level has gone up massively in 5 years. When he won his Giro, neither Pog nor Vingegaard had won a Tour, Ayuso and Del Toro hadn't raced a pro race and Seixas was barely out of his dad's urethra.

Slight correction. Pog HAD already won a TDF as he won in 2020, which was before TGH’s Giro win.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Slight correction. Pog HAD already won a TDF as he won in 2020, which was before TGH’s Giro win.

D'Oh. Stupid covid year. September and October and the other way round.

 

[gsk82]

Ineos have named a team capable of challenging for to 10s in stages and the general classification.

 

[Mike_P]

Just in case people are doing Velogames and have not seen the related thread the years Cyclechatting league code is 546123713.
Also there is now for those not picking Pog a Cyclechatters Pogless league whose code is 845690921, a potential sort of best of the rest if Pog is himself in TdF

 

[T4tomo]

Also there is now for those not picking Pog a Cyclechatters Pogless league whose code is 845690921, a potential sort of best of the rest if Pog is himself in TdF

I have to say I think that part is a silly idea...

 

[gavroche]

Does anyone know how to get French TV as it is free for the TdF . Ok for this year on ITV4 but asking for 2026.

 

[misforturob]

Does anyone know how to get French TV as it is free for the TdF . Ok for this year on ITV4 but asking for 2026.

www.cyclingfans.com has links to streams from multiple countries for most races

 

[T4tomo]

Does anyone know how to get French TV as it is free for the TdF . Ok for this year on ITV4 but asking for 2026.

On france TV. create a free account, log in with VPN from france and Bob is your mothers brother

 

[matticus]

Is their coverage in French? :-/

 

[Dogtrousers]

Is their coverage in French? :-/

Yes but they secretly speak English behind our backs