Terrifying Mont Ventoux ready to create the unexpected again in Tour de France

Terrifying Mont Ventoux ready to create the unexpected again in Tour de France

The legendary Mont Ventoux—“the Giant of Provence” and one of the Tour’s most feared climbs—makes a dramatic return in stage 16 of the 2025 Tour de France. With a summit finish atop its bald, moonscape summit, this brutal 15–16 km ascent at ~8.7–8.8% average gradient can—and will—produce heartbreak, heroism, and the unpredictable. Expect crosswinds, scorching heat, and psychological warfare as riders like Pogacar, Vingegaard, and Rodríguez face the mountain’s haunting legacy (including Tom Simpson’s 1967 tragedy). Will the breakaways survive or GC contenders shake the race?

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Tempora Mut Hunter, but not the Vento 2. Partly reflects one of the key features of the tour. The way it constantly revisits and rewrites its past in places that have barely changed since the first visit. Go around the partly banked corner at St. Estive and on to the virtually straight hall through the oak wooded lower slopes. And it’s essentially the same brutal experience that the stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s might have undergone perhaps. with better tarmac as you go up with barely a hairpin to break the gradient until the final hall across the scree slopes to the top. He decades pass generations of tour to France cyclists come and go. But some gruesome things never change. On Tuesday, the survivors of one of the craziest, fastest tours ever, a race with even less respit than usual, will do as their predecessors have done every few years since 1951. They will crust a rise in the road and see Mont Ventu on the horizon. A sinking in the heart will accompany the dull ache in the legs. We’re off to the bald mountain once again. The men of the tour probably won’t be thankful for small mercies, but they should be. Last time the tour visited in 2021, although the background scenario was the same. Today, Pogar had smashed the race to bits on the first serious climb and was set fair for victory. The organizers cruy made them go over the 1,910 m summit twice in two different ways. W Vanard might recall that with a rise smile. The Belgian was in his prime back then and he won out of a breakaway. The time before that in 2016, the chaos on the mountain was such that the man who was pifying the race that year, Chris Froom, ran part of the way to the finish, which had been moved off the summit due to high winds. Froom might recall that utterly freakish episode with a ry smile from his home in Monaco, but it will be tinged with regret that at 40 he probably won’t be racing up the giant of province again. Temper mutant, but not the venu partly reflects one of the key features of the tour. The way it constantly revisits and rewrites its past in places that have barely changed since the first visit. Go around the partly banked corner at St. festive and onto the virtually straight hall through the oak wooded lower slopes. And it’s essentially the same brutal experience that the stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s might have undergone perhaps with better tarmac as you go up with barely a hairpin to break the gradient until the final hall across the scree slopes to the top. He decades pass. Generations of tour to France cyclists come and go, but some gruesome things never change. On Tuesday, the survivors of one of the craziest, fastest tours ever, a race with even less respit than usual, will do as their predecessors have done every few years since 1951. They will crest a rise in the road and see Mont Ventu on the horizon. A sinking in the heart will accompany the dull ache in the legs. We’re off to the bald mountain once again. The men of the tour probably won’t be thankful for small mercies, but they should be. Last time the tour visited in 2021, although the background scenario was the same. Today, Pogar had smashed the race to bits on the first serious climb and was set fair for victory. The organizers cruy made them go over the 1,910 m summit twice in two different ways. Watt Vanard might recall that with a rise smile. The Belgian was in his prime back then and he won out of a breakaway. The time before that in 2016, the chaos on the mountain was such that the man who was podgeifying the race that year, Chris Froom, ran part of the way to the finish, which had been moved off the summit due to high winds. Froom might recall that utterly freakish episode with a ry smile from his home in Monaco, but it will be tinged with regret that at 40 he probably won’t be racing up the giant of province again. Temporter, but not the Venu. Partly reflects one of the key features of the tour, the way it constantly revisits and rewrites its past in places that have barely changed since the first visit. Go around the partly banked corner at St. festive and on to the virtually straight hall through the oak wooded lower slopes. And it’s essentially the same brutal experience that the stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s might have undergone perhaps with better tarmac as you go up with barely a hairpin to break the gradient until the final hall across the scree slopes to the top. He decades pass. Generations of tour to France cyclists come and go, but some gruesome things never change. On Tuesday, the survivors of one of the craziest, fastest tours ever, a race with even less respit than usual, will do, as their predecessors, have done every few years since 1951. They will crust a rise in the road and see Mont Ventu on the horizon. A sinking in the heart will accompany the dull ache in the legs. We’re off to the bald mountain once again. The men of the tour probably won’t be thankful for small mercies, but they should be. Last time the tour visited in 2021, although the background scenario was the same. Today, Pogar had smashed the race to bits on the first serious climb and was set fair for victory. The organizers cruy made them go over the 1,910 m summit twice in two different ways. W Vanard might recall that with a rise smile. The Belgian was in his prime back then and he won out of a breakaway. The time before that in 2016, the chaos on the mountain was such that the man who was pifying the race that year, Chris Froom, ran part of the way to the finish, which had been moved off the summit due to high winds. Froom might recall that utterly freakish episode with a ry smile from his home in Monaco, but it will be tinged with regret that at 40 he probably won’t be racing up the giant of province again. Temper mutant, but not the venu partly reflects one of the key features of the tour. The way it constantly revisits and rewrites its past in places that have barely changed since the first visit. Go around the partly banked corner at St. testive and on to the virtually straight hall through the oak wooded lower slopes. And it’s essentially the same brutal experience that the stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s might have undergone perhaps with better tarmac as you go up with barely a hairpin to break the gradient until the final hall across the scree slopes to the top. He decades pass. Generations of tour to France cyclists come and go, but some gruesome things never change. On Tuesday, the survivors of one of the craziest, fastest tours ever, a race with even less respit than usual, will do as their predecessors have done every few years since 1951. They will crest a rise in the road and see Mont Ventu on the horizon. A sinking in the heart will accompany the dull ache in the legs. We’re off to the bald mountain once again. The men of the tour probably won’t be thankful for small mercies, but they should be. Last time the tour visited in 2021, although the background scenario was the same. Today, Pogar had smashed the race to bits on the first serious climb and was set fair for victory. The organizers cruy made them go over the 1,910 m summit twice in two different ways. W Vanard might recall that with a rise smile. The Belgian was in his prime back then and he won out of a breakaway. The time before that in 2016, the chaos on the mountain was such that the man who was pifying the race that year, Chris Froom, ran part of the way to the finish, which had been moved off the summit due to high winds. Froom might recall that utterly freakish episode with a ry smile from his home in Monaco, but it will be tinged with regret that at 40 he probably won’t be racing up the giant of province again. Temper mutant, but not the venu partly reflects one of the key features of the tour. The way it constantly revisits and rewrites its past in places that have barely changed since the first visit. Go around the partly banked corner at St. festive and onto the virtually straight hall through the oak wooded lower slopes. And it’s essentially the same brutal experience that the stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s might have undergone perhaps with better tarmac as you go up with barely a hairpin to break the gradient until the final hall across the scree slopes to the top. He decades pass. Generations of tour to France cyclists come and go, but some gruesome things never change. On Tuesday, the survivors of one of the craziest, fastest tours ever, a race with even less respit than usual, will do as their predecessors have done every few years since 1951. They will crest a rise in the road and see Mont Ventu on the horizon. A sinking in the heart will accompany the dull ache in the legs. We’re off to the bald mountain once again. The men of the tour probably won’t be thankful for small mercies, but they should be. Last time the tour visited in 2021, although the background scenario was the same. Today, Pogar had smashed the race to bits on the first serious climb and was set fair for victory. The organizers cruy made them go over the 1,910 m summit twice in two different ways. Walt Vanard might recall that with a rise smile. The Belgian was in his prime back then and he won out of a breakaway. The time before that in 2016, the chaos on the mountain was such that the man who was pifying the race that year, Chris Froom, ran part of the way to the finish, which had been moved off the summit due to high winds. Froom might recall that utterly freakish episode with a ry smile from his home in Monaco, but it will be tinged with regret that at 40 he probably won’t be racing up the giant of province again. Temporal mutant, but not the venu partly reflects one of the key features of the tour. The way it constantly revisits and rewrites its past in places that have barely changed since the first visit. Go around the partly banked corner at St. testive and on to the virtually straight hall through the oak wooded lower slopes. And it’s essentially the same brutal experience that the stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s might have undergone perhaps with better tarmac as you go up with barely a hairpin to break the gradient until the final hall across the scree slopes to the top. He decades pass, generations of tour to France cyclists come and go, but some gruesome things never change. On Tuesday, the survivors of one of the craziest, fastest tours ever, a race with even less respit than usual, will do as their predecessors. ers.