Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)

[mididoctors]

HTC Cavendish would've still won on there.

Maybe that one year

 

[Pblakeney]

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

Put the HC climbs and points in the middle of a stage?

 

[ddraver]

Roglic

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[Mike_P]

Montmatre will now surely see sprinters abandoning the race early bar those with a chance of the green jersey.

 

[M.R.M]

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

They should just make it the lowest overall time on all the categorized climbs. So pure climbing GC without TT's and hilly stages.

 

[mididoctors]

Very sad seeing ITV crew go ..... Tnt with ads ....you kidding me

 

[Pross]

Enjoyed that, I’m not sure I’d want it every year but imagine it at the end of a tight GC without the GC neutralisation. The biggest issue if there simply no way for team cars to get through so a puncture could cause a GC change. I felt like the tight bends in the early part of the climb hampered Pog a bit as they stopped him going for the sustained seated attack but from the first lap I never felt he could get enough on the climb to hold them off on the wet descent. We also now know that VLAB’s masterplan since week 2 was to tire out Pog so Wout could beat him on the final stage.

 

[mididoctors]

They should just make it the lowest overall time on all the categorized climbs. So pure climbing GC without TT's and hilly stages.

I like the idea of climb multiplier in the stage ...further you go into stage scoring points you get a multiplying effect of number of climbs you scored on ....

 

[matticus]

Maybe alternate stage 21 each year ... Sprint year Montmartre year

Just what I was thinking!

I 'king loved today, but the "Sprinters World Championship" is a worthy tradition.
(And I think someone already said: why would the Sprinters bother slogging thru the mountains for this?)

 

[mididoctors]

I make it 43.4kph winners speed for the tour

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

So I think I’m right in saying that Hinault remains the last rider to win the final road stage of the Tour whilst wearing yellow. Here’s the result from Pro Cycling Stats, he beat Matthieu’s dad into second with that year’s green jersey King Kelly in 11th. The late Paul Sherwen up in 8th.

 

[Gweeds]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUzzYvk3GaM


You can see what it means to the team

 

[wakemalcolm]

What was going on with the (lack of) crowds on the Champs Elysée? Was like the Puy de Dome at the finish line.

 

[Pblakeney]

Very sad seeing ITV crew go ..... Tnt with ads ....you kidding me

Quite. I got an excellent deal for £10/month including a free TV. I thought this was a superb service while ad free.
Then they forced ads onto us. Even at £10/month it is annoying. At £32+/month? Forget it!

 

[misforturob]

What was going on with the (lack of) crowds on the Champs Elysée? Was like the Puy de Dome at the finish line.

The crowds on the Champs are kept well back from the road so you don't really see them (even if they are there)