With 2,300 metres of climbing and stretching 26km in length, the Col de la Loze is set to play a decisive role in the outcome of Stage 18 at the 2025 Tour de France. We sent Alberto Contador to check out where the race could be won—or lost!
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[Music] stage 18 is set to be one of the toughest days of this year’s Tour to France with 171 km and 5,500 m of elevation the Pelaton will have had to conquer two mountains before they take on the stage’s final summit the Cold Deal i’m gone i’m dead the two-time tour winner Alberto Conidor is once again on reckonance duty to take us up the brutal climb we’re just at the beginning of the menacing cordal the riders will get here having already done two or category climbs the Glondon and the Madlin so this climb could be decisive [Music] we’re already on the first slopes it’s a long climb 26 km with an average gradient of 6.5% some kilometers at 11% the road is wide at first and then bit by bit it will narrow [Music] right here after 11K the riders will tackle the first really hard kilometer around a constant 10% for me this will be an important point to launch an attack because they’ll already have been climbing for quite some time so an attack now could do some damage that being said there are still 14 km left [Music] [Applause] [Music] we’re now 5 km to the finish line the latter part is very very hard you can feel it because just one kilometer back the road changes and becomes narrower straight away you can feel the gradient change [Music] we’re finally at the top of this tough and endless climb the final part is also really complicated once you go past Guru that following kilome is really hard and then there’s an area of maybe 4 to 500 m of rest before the gradients ramp up to 9 10% again it’s a climb that’s designed to make time differences it doesn’t have ridiculous gradient percentages but because of the distance and all the previous accumulated climbing during the stage this climb could make the difference [Music]
15 Comments
強いです！！！
thank god for YouTube covering this race well bits of it Eurosport has really let us down
Would be much better if you just had subtitles… We know how to read.
Stage 18 is the toughest stage of this years TdF, not one of the toughest. I don't think any other mountain stage comes close to Stage 18 in terms of elevation. Over 5000m elevation, it will be a brutal yet also decisive day for the GC
on the saddle…. not even once
Thumbs down due to voice dubbing of Contador. Subtitles are best.
Just like Contador, anyone dosed with the right amount of Clenbuterol can conquer The Col De La Loze.😂
ma come sale il PISTOLERO ! 🤩🤩🤩
thanks for the Nothing Burger.
Col de la Loze from Brides les Bains via Courchevel. Epic stage. Not Courcheval Hatch. Get it right.
Don't forget some steak Alberto!
You say it's hard, but it looks so easy when you do it, champ! ❤
Does he ever sit down? Who can climb that long out of the saddle?!!
He is still doing the off the saddle climb like he use too 🤩
What has happened to journalists. They clearly don’t know so many words and or how to pronounce them 🤷♂️ I include all the media including the BBC. In this case I am referring to the woman introducing, wrongly pronouncing ‘reconnaissance’. As an ex sports journalist in my early 60s, I fear for the future of the English language; and the future generally. 😢