Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme hints that Grande Boucle could visit Brittany in 2025: "We will soon return to Brittany"
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Tour de France could return to Bretagne in 2025. Race director Christian Prudhomme inidicated this on the set of Thierry Adam, while visiting the local stage race Tour de Bretagne (2.2) to surprise local hero and five time Tour de France champion Bernard Hinault, who is turning 70 this year.
Since 2021, Brittany with it's iconic Mur de Bretagne was waiting to return to the Grande Boucle. This 'hunger' should not continue beyond 2025, it seems. "We will soon return to Brittany. You will know all this on October 29, but if I were in your place, I would sleep peacefully," he suggested, referring to the official route presentation at the end of 2024 season.
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The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2025 in Lille (Northern France) gives a very good opportunity to make a trip to Brittany, which could organize two stages as already indicated by Ouest-France and Le Télégramme.
"The reason for my presence in Brittany? Besides Bernard Hinault, it is to say thank you to all the volunteers who make the race exist. They devote their lives to cycling and must fight constantly, because it is more and more more complicated to organize. And if there are no more of these races, very quickly there will be no more Tour de France, you have to see that it is really a pyramid..."
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Ondřej Zhasil is a cycling journalist at CyclingUpToDate and has been part of the team since 2023. He is based in Ostrava, the third-largest city in the Czech Republic, and covers professional cycling across the main UCI competitions, including the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, and La Vuelta a España. A key focus of his work is startlist analysis and pre-race coverage, where he examines team selections, rider line-ups, and tactical scenarios ahead of major events.
Alongside WorldTour coverage, Ondřej has developed specific expertise in junior cycling and in racing across East Asia, including competitions in China and Japan. He also maintains a broad working knowledge of other disciplines and levels, including cyclocross, while continuing to expand his understanding of mountain bike racing.
Ondřej holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Physics, which supports his analytical, data-driven approach to performance and race analysis. In his reporting, he regularly uses ProCyclingStats for results, statistics, and historical context. He places strong emphasis on careful sourcing, editorial accuracy, and updating articles promptly when new, verified information becomes available.
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😅 Do you remember them wearing those jerseys? 😅 Vous vous souveniez qu’ils avaient porté ces maillots ?
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