Tour de France 2025: Everyone against Pogacar, the young blue guard ready to bite, Montmartre a false good idea? The 112th edition in ten questions
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DECRYPTION - Before the big departure from Lille on Saturday, a review of the challenges of the new vintage.
The big circus of the Tour de France has landed in Lille, where the race will start on Saturday. The edition will end on Sunday, July 27, on the Champs-Élysées with a new route in Paris, passing through Montmartre and following part of the Olympic route. On the program, 3,320 km exclusively in France, something that has not happened since 2020, divided into 21 stages, including 6 mountain stages and 2 time trials to determine the successor to Tadej Pogacar (winner in 2020, 2021 and 2024), the favorite to succeed him .
- Has Tadej Pogacar ever won a race? NO
At 26, the Slovenian says it himself: "I'm in the form of my life." Pogacar is coming off an exceptional first half of the season with an unprecedented record: victories in the Strade Bianche, the Tour of Flanders, the Flèche Wallonne, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Critérium du Dauphiné, not to mention podiums in Paris-Roubaix ( 2nd ), Milan-San Remo ( 3rd ) and the Amstel Gold Race ( 2nd ). Armed with the biggest budget in the peloton (around €60 million)...
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