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 16.
The first day of the final week has a mostly flat profile and then a brutal finish at Mont Ventoux. The Geant de Provence averages almost 9% over almost 16 kilometers, but this is already after a few false-flat kilometers. A mountain for the pure climbers, where the weather conditions often also make a key difference, this could be a tremendous bomb dropped on the GC fight.
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Stage 16: Montpellier - Mont Ventoux
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- Well now the UCI wants to treat all riders as juniors and regulate them as far as gears go? Stop interfering with the actual races and do your job which is to officiate and do the results. So much hated intrusion in track cycling now they want to do same to road?
MrCampy19-04-2025 - One benefit of not subscribing to TNT Discovery + for my cycling coverage is not having to listen to Adam Blythe twittering on.Cyclingsbestfan19-04-2025
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