The 2025 Tour de France is nearly upon us, and history is on the line as Tadej Pogacar bids to become only the sixth rider ever to win four yellow jerseys.
Pogacar dominated last year’s race in a remarkable season which also featured victories at the Giro d’Italia and World Championships, and the 26-year-old has carried that form into a blistering 2025 with a raft of wins in the spring classics to go with stage-race triumphs at the UAE Tour and last month’s Criterium du Dauphine. His main rival, Jonas Vingegaard – who won the yellow jersey in 2022 and 2023 – has won Paris-Nice and the Volta ao Algarve this season but will need his Visma-Lease-a-Bike teammates to help pull off a tactical masterclass if he is to end Pogacar’s reign.
