Stuart O'Grady's review of the 2025 Tour de France Route
The Tour De France 2025 has finally been unveiled, and it’s fantastique!
A Tour De France, entirely in France for the first time in 5 years.
My first thoughts are that this is a traditional tour, one for the romantics, the historians, the true cycling aficionados… Starting from the tough northern Classics area of Lille, the tour winds it way counter clockwise around a very large area of the republic.
The first week is locked and loaded for the sprinters to go head to head in an all-out battle for the Stage Win and the all-important Maillot Jaune. An Individual Time Trial should see the leader’s jersey swap shoulders and give us all a small indication of who’s got the form dialled in as we head south towards the Pyrenees and the all-decisive Alps.
Hautacam, Super Bagniere Luchon, Col de la Loz & Mont Ventoux will sort out the worlds very finest climbers as they prepare to take on a record 51,500 metres of vertical climbing. 20% more than the Giro has on its irresistibly hard to swallow menu. And I think the most satisfying moment from the cycling worlds side, is the return of the final stage on the Champs-Élysées, in Paris.
The Grand Finalé, back where it belongs after the disruption of the Olympic Games in 2024. The French are happy to have their race back in their homeland for the full 3 weeks. This is what the Tour de France is all about. And I cannot wait to be there, alongside my Mummu Cycling guests, taking you on a journey inside the world’s biggest, most difficult but simply amazing, Tour De France adventure…
Allez Allez! Who's coming with me...?
Stuart O'Grady