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Tour de France 2025 finale: Pogacar wins again as Van Aert lands stage 21 in Paris – as it happened

Wout van Aert won a stage for the ages but Tadej Pogacar came close on the way to confirming his fourth Tour de France title

The Guardian - UK

'I expect chaos' - what does the Tour de France peloton really think of the new final stage in Paris?

A hilly finale will replace the usual procession of the 21st stage. Tom Davidson asks riders if it’s what they really want

Cycling Weekly

Tour de France director hints that race will finish outside of Paris in future: ‘The 2024 finish in Nice won’t be unique’

Christian Prudhomme appears open to breaking a century-old tradition.

Cycling Weekly

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'Sprints are even more monotonous than before' - Why the Tour de France route planners tore up the script for 2025

'So many factors play a role' in route plan, says Thierry Gouvenou after 10 stages split between chances for GC riders, sprinters, and Classics racers

Cycling News

2025 Tour De France Adds Montmartre Suspense To Final Stage

The Tour de France will make three circuits of the historic Paris district of Montmartre on its last stage this year in what organisers said Wednesday would add a competitive finale to the world's greatest bike race.

International Business Times

'The cobbles themselves could wear Pogačar out' - Paris-Roubaix race director predicts tough battle for World Champion

Thierry Gouvenou calls Pogačar's participation 'an exceptional moment'

Cycling News

'Cycling is not for softies' – Paris-Nice stage 4 winner João Almeida defends race restart after bad weather neutralisation

Portuguese rider rejects calls that stage should have been stopped completely

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Paris-Roubaix 2025 route

Four corners before the entrance to the Arenberg adds a new twist to the 'Hell of the North'

Cycling News

Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2025 route

No changes for the women's route in the Hell of the North

Cycling News

Paris-Roubaix Arenberg chicane replaced with 'small detour' for 2025

Race director says new four-turn measure will 'slow down the riders in a more fluid manner'

Cycling Weekly

Tour de France could copy the Paris Olympics and spice up Champs-Elysées procession stage with hilly circuit around Montmartre

ASO submit file to Paris Police Prefecture for triple ascent of Montmartre hill to be included on Tour's final day, according to Le Parisien

Cycling News

'It wouldn't be acceptable' - Olympics circuit will not be replicated when Tour de France returns to Paris

Technical director Thierry Gouvenou explains why climb of Montmarte couldn't feature in July

Cycling News

'Another dark day for cycling' - Critérium du Dauphiné peloton rues latest mass crash

Huge pileup late on stage 5 sees 'a good 50 riders fall' and not enough ambulances to continue with the race

Cycling News

Paris-Roubaix organisers seek better future options for slower Arenberg forest entry

Race director blames last-minute change on 'a psychosis in the peloton'

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Paris-Roubaix Arenberg chicane aims to avoid 'death trap' but is labelled 'a joke' by Mathieu van der Poel

Race organiser ASO introduces a chicane to entrance of five-star cobbled sector after a request from the riders union, the CPA

Cycling News

Paris-Roubaix to include U-turn to slow sprint into Arenberg forest, Van der Poel asks 'is this a joke?'

ASO makes late changes to reduce the dangers of the key sector of cobbles

Cycling Weekly

Tour de France organisers 'not crazy enough' to put cobbles on stage one of 2025 race

Race's route designer says pavé will be back - just not in 2025

Cycling News

Putting cobbles into first day of Tour de France would have been 'crazy' says organiser

ASO promise more cobbled stages in future 'but not in 2025'

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Tom Pidcock recons gravel stage of the 2024 Tour de France

Briton joined by Ineos teammate Laurens De Plus to check out gravel roads around Troyes

The Guardian - UK

Mohoric wins furious stage 19 Tour duel as Vingegaard is quizzed on anti-doping

‘It’s cruel to be a pro cyclist,’ said the Slovenian winner after a photo finish, before race leader Jonas Vingegaard was asked about his pre-Tour altitude camps

Bangkok Post

Bastille Day stage could spark fireworks in Tour de France duel

BELLEVILLE (FRANCE) - The ongoing duel between defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and two time winner Tadej Pogacar may ignite on the Grand Colombier mountain on Friday's stage which falls on the French national holiday of July 14.

Cycling News

Paris-Roubaix cobbles pass organisers' inspection, dry weather expected

Arenberg Forest, Mons-en-Pévèle, Carrefour de l'Arbre keep five-star status

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