The One Stage That Will Decide The Tour de France 2025

Tour de France 2025 will be decided on this stage. We reveal the climbs, TT, and the brutal mountain that could crack even Pogačar. #TDF

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the one stage that will define the 2025 tour to France the route this year is brutal that’s what Tatty Pagachar said when it was announced back in October it kicks off in Liil July 5th ends in Paris again up there in the north but to get there we have three weeks of tough racing all live in demand for our viewers in Canada on flow bikes after liil while we head through Britany up in the northwest stages up there think winds think steep climbs we make our way down through the massa central trial and then on bastile day it’s a Monday not not a rest day we have to climb up to Mont door the first true summit finish in this 2025 edition we go through the Pyrenees we have stages up to Hodok we have stages up to Paragu we have the super beet we go towards the Alps but before we get there we had the monontto stage and then we have the kodelo climb we have the Pang climb and that’s the final big summit finish of this 2025 edition yes Tad you’re right it’s brutal so what is the most decisive stage of this year’s edition of the Tour to France the whole tour that we’re making you and I around the country of France a race that was won three times by Ted Pagachar and he’s looking to make his fourth this year twice Jonas Vingo well before I get to that one decisive stage what I think it is and you can let me know down in the comments what you think it is I want to talk about the other two that could be just as decisive one as I mentioned we got that stage up to Paragu in the Pyrenees the TT not just a TT but a mountain TT and already the riders are talking about gear combinations whether or not they use a pure TT bike or a road bike setup that stage we’re going to see the splits we’re going to see riders all over the road it’s an individual race so we’re going to see gaps then the other one Mon von 2 neither the Alps nor the Pyrenees it’s a place that cycling goes to rarely riders rarely get a chance to go over and train on the Vonu it’s kind of off away from their training camps that they hold in the Alps or the Pyrenees and it’s one that the riders fear perhaps because Tom Simpson died on the climb back in the day perhaps because we have those exposed windy sections and perhaps we just never get there walt Art will know it well he led over that race and went on to win the stage a few years ago but for me the most decisive stage well it’s coming after that Mont door summit finish on Bastil Day it’s when we get to the first big high mountain summit finish up at 1500 meters i’m talking about the Hodiccom and it’s named the Hodiccom because up there it’s the only one way to get up that climb only one version and you get up there and it’s the Hodokcom ski station a little familyrun ski station but it’s important in cycling you think back to Bonner Ree when he blew away the field in 1996 you think back to Armstrong when he made his mark on that first summit finish of the race the year that he won up there on the Hodokcom you think to the year of Venza Nibbley 2014 you think back to the year Vanard drove for Vingo to win the race overall the final mountain stage i think of that year’s edition it was an impressive ride by Van Art similar to what we saw in the Giratalia when he helped Simon Yates over the Fiestray to Cester the Hodiccom is around 13 14 km long averaging only 8% as in Daniel Free wrote in his book Mountain High it looks like a wedge of cheese and I’ll have to agree with you Daniel you’re a wise man a wedge of cheese that has a bite it’s a punchy cheese uh it’s nothing like you’d have for an appertif with a glass of French wine which we’d love to have the riders are going to be suffering out there not enjoying a sunset with a glass of wine tough climb it has a high pitch of about 13% at one point zigzags it gets crazy up towards the top and you get to that little familyrun ski station now why is this harder than the Kodel Laos or the other summit finishes because this year is a brutal route overall true tad but this summit finish well it’s going to be decisive in that we’re going to see those big cracks in the GC that we’re not going to see on Mont door the first summit finish there in the massive central shroud and it’s going to define this edition of the 2025 turn to France make sure you’re tuning in for the Hodokcom stage