PREVIEW | Tour de France 2025 stage 14 - Can Tadej Pogacar make it a hat-trick of stage wins in the Pyrenees?

The 2025 Tour de France will be the biggest and most important race of the season and will be taking place between the 5th and 27th of July. This is the sport's climax of the season and every year it delivers memorable action. We preview stage 14.

Before the riders leave the Pyrenees they tackle a day with 5000 meters of climbing. Four long and constant climbs, the final of which is is Superbagneres. The fact that the first third of the day is flat - classic Tour route - but we still reach such numbers is a good indicator of how difficult the final two will be.

As is the case virtually every year, the riders will be going up the Col du Tourmalet, which will be 19 kilometers at 7.4%. 93 kilometers to go however, this will be a warm-up for what's to come later. But most likely all three climbs before the final one will be serving for fatigue and will not be attacked hard.

The Col d'Aspin (5Km at 7.4%) will end with 63Km to go and later on the Col de Peyresourde (7Km at 8.1%) will end with 32 to go. Both are hard, relatively steep, and will shred the peloton to low numbers before the final ascent. But the true differences will only be made then in Superbagneres.

The climb is 12.6 kilometers at 7.4%, quite constant and difficult. With 1800 meters of altitude and quite a lot of switchbacks, it's a climb with several challenges. The gradients are never truly brutal but the hardest kilometer is the last, and so we could see some meaningful differences emerge even if the attacks only come late in the day.

*** Tadej Pogacar
** Jonas Vingegaard, Florian Lipowitz
* Oscar Onley, Primoz Roglic, Kevin Vauquelin, Tobias Johannessen, Remco Evenepoel, Thymen Arensman, Michael Storer

Pick: Tadej Pogacar

How: It's quite simple. If Tadej Pogacar wants to win this stage, he will. And even if he doesn't, if the GC group is anywhere near the lead heading into the final climb it's Pogacar's to lose. If not, the breakaway might have a chance.