Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)

[Dogtrousers]

I feel about the tour a bit like Pog looks. I've had enough. It's all over now, so let's just call it a day.

 

[mididoctors]

Got second. Was the best possible result for him and invaluable for the team. He can't just ride with 2 faster sprinters to the line and not do anything. His only mistake was not calling Stewart "Remco". Then Stewart would have dragged him to the line regardless the distance. Trentin and Viviani should have told him. 😉

If it came to a sprint he had 3rd written all over him ... But if he clipped off and Jake looked at kaden etc...... who can say

 

[mididoctors]

I feel about the tour a bit like Pog looks. I've had enough. It's all over now, so let's just call it a day.

Tiring . I watched pretty much the whole thing ...in the background. There was very little down time Kms ....oh break formed I'll come back in a 100 k ... Those stages are a different era now ... All this holding the break at 2 mins keeps opening the racing. Conversely oh giving the break 3 mins is sometimes enough for the break to stay away now! .,.,the window of controlling to being to close is narrowing

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Tiring . I watched pretty much the whole thing ...in the background. There was very little down time Kms ....oh break firmed I'll come back in a 100 k ... Those stages are a different era now ... All this holding the break at 2 mins keeps opening the racing. Conversely oh giving the break 3 mins is sometimes enough for the break to stay away now! .,.,the window of controlling to being to close is narrowing

It was really noticeable today how Jayco holding the break at around a minute for so long to keep Jegat from nicking 10th opened the race for a load of teams that wanted to get into the break. Feels like that sort of thing has been going on for the full three weeks

 

[red.rider]

Will G get the honour of rolling into Paris first, as a former winner on his last visit to the Champs?

 

[MasterDabber]

I watched the first half of the tour whilst I was in France on France TV, missed a couple of days travelling back then watched on ITV 4. I don't know if it's just me but I've found this years edition very uninvolving but whether that's just a combination effect from a number of things like....
generally drifting away from road racing holding my attention, my personal riding having moved nearly 100% to mtb, no Eurosport, no doubt as to who would win GC etc.
The whole thing has just felt very flat (not the gradients) apart from the occasional nice stage win. The sprints have been dull, Pog now looks like he would rather be anywhere else than at the tour and would like to go home. No yo-yoing on the GC lead. Nah.... all rather boring for me. But that's my two penneth.