OFFICIAL: 2025 Tour de France route revealed with Mont Ventoux, mountain time-trial and Col de la Loze return

Tuesday, 29 October 2024 at 12:26

The 2025 Tour de France is on! This Tuesday morning the route of the upcoming Grand Boucle has been fully revealed and it features a route with an explosive start and a second half with plenty high mountain stages featuring the Mont Ventoux, a mountain time-trial and plenty other classics!

The race starts off with a flat stage in the Hauts-de-France region, the far northwest. It will be an unusually 'easy' first week to the race which should not feature any mountain stage but instead a set of flat and hilly stages that will suit the sprinters and provide more opportunities for the classics specialists to thrive - something which has not been on the map much over the past few years, as Grand Tours lean more and more into the climber-oriented stages early in the race. We have hilltop finishes at Boulogne-sur-Mer and Mur-de-Bretagne which are well known in the race, but also the Puy Sancy climb on the Massif Central to finish off the first week of racing.

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Week 2 will only have five days of racing, short but with a lot of difficulties in the Pyrenees. We have the return of the mythical Mountain Time-Trial at the Tour de France which will be on stage 13 up the Col de Peyresourde and Peyragudes climbs. Stages 12 and 14 will have summit finishes in Hautacam and Superbagneres where some big differences should be created.

The final week of racing features the queen stages. On stage 16 we have the return of the mythical Mont Ventoux as the summit finish of the first stage of the final week. The race finally heads into the Alps for two high mountain stages which will features a finale in Courchevel after tackling the Col de la Loze on stage 18; whilst stage 19 will be another massive day in the mountains with a finale on La Plagne. An explosive hilly stage 20 is an interesting change for the Tour, which then ends in Paris once again after it's absence from the 2024 edition.

We will analyze the route's profiles and climbs more in-depth in upcoming articles.