Tour De France 2025: Tadej Pogacar and UAE Team Emirates-XRG Dominate Second Week
FRANCE, JUL 20 – Defending champion Tadej Pogacar holds a 4-minute 13-second lead over Jonas Vingegaard as the race enters its toughest mountain stages including Mont Ventoux and Col de la Loze.
- Beginning in Lille on Saturday, July 5, the 112th Tour de France begins in Lille, and it concludes on Sunday, July 27 on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
- As a 23-day race with rest days on Tuesday, July 15 and Monday, July 21, the Tour de France tests endurance, and Slovenia's world champion Tadej Pogacar enters as the overwhelming favourite.
- Currently, the reigning champion leads Jonas Vingegaard by 4 minutes 13 seconds, while also amassing 21 career stage wins, the sixth most ever.
- Despite two rare off days, Jonas Vingegaard insists he is still in contention, while double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel was forced to abandon the race.
- Yesterday’s rest day sets the stage for the Alps' final week, with summit finishes on stages 16, 18, and 19, and Pogacar now faces Mont Ventoux and Col de la Loze again.
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The Tour de France is a three-week super challenge. Each day, a cyclist can burn the equivalent of about 23 cheeseburgers in calories.
The cyclists at the Tour de France used the second day off to recover before the final week, which brings the most demanding mountain stages in the Alps. While leading cyclist Tadej Pogačar managed to escape media obligations on the first day off, this time he took time for a press conference, at which he drew a line under the first weeks of the Tour and added that he had not yet thought about plans for the second part of the season.
Montpellier Witty minds have already made puns about what they hope to see in the coming week. "Pogi goes cold on the Col de la Loze," as it sounds over a techno beat in a video from the satirical sp...
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