Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)

[Dorset Boy]

Hope they tweak the Kom jersey competition. Simply excluding final climb would make things more interesting.

It should be the best climber over the whole race, not just the best climber up to the final climb on each mountain stage. Maybe have a KOM point 2 kms from the top on the final climb, but the final climb has to count or it is a joke competition

 

[ddraver]

Jonathan MIlan really does have the hot sprinter man look down...

Not sure we've seen that since Kittel...

 

[Dogtrousers]

Ben Healy stage win.

Overall I thought it was quite a boring TDF, Pog and Vin being so far ahead of everyone else made the GC "battle" a bit dull.

Tends to happen which is why the other competitions and the breakaways and other positions are so important.
Green didn't work out too well this year what with Jasper the Disaster crashing out, no one else really stepping up, and Jonny's main competition being Pog.

 

[ddraver]

Even multiscreen wathcing, Pog looks absoloutely destroyed...

 

[ddraver]

ITV Crew very much in f**k it all mode...

 

[Webbo2]

If you want to watch the finish again, it’s worth watching the Italian highlights. It’s hard to believe that someone can get that excited but it’s great that they can.

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[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

And just like that, itv coverage ends with a montage through the years...

So many big crashes shown!😱🫣

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

 

[ddraver]

Might be the end of me watching. Without a highlights package I am going to struggle...

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

Might be the end of me watching. Without a highlights package I am going to struggle...

You watch ITV4's hour of highlights, and it feels comprehensive. Like they've covered all the necessary points. Watch the similar highlights show on Quest (Giro/Vuelta) and it doesn't feel as thorough or comprehensive. A lot of chaff and wasted chat. Mostly involving Adam Blythe.

 

[mididoctors]

Not very trump to get engaged in Paris...
https://bsky.app/profile/letourfr.bsky.social/post/3luxpgy36rk2b

Happy for them .hope he learns to not be a jack ass

 

[ddraver]

Wout victory - tick
England victory - ???

Spolier

Caling this a win

 

[gsk82]

Good job the timings were stopped. Great win by Wout and Pog lighting it all up with panache. Didn't have to, could have sat back with Jonas.
Cavendish can look back at his wins on there and think at least I don't have to do that route. But VdP will be all over that next year if he gets round.

HTC Cavendish would've still won on there.

 

[ddraver]

The photos of the back end of the peloton on Montmatre are fun...
https://bsky.app/profile/letourfr.bsky.social/post/3luxt4rx3fs2a

 

[Blazing Saddles]

It should be the best climber over the whole race, not just the best climber up to the final climb on each mountain stage. Maybe have a KOM point 2 kms from the top on the final climb, but the final climb has to count or it is a joke competition

That’s like saying the green jersey should go to the guy who wins the most intermediate sprints.
Still, I imagine the French would agree with you.