Tour de France 2025

[Paulatic]

Just watched that piece on the discovery split screen thing which didn’t show the winner going over the line at all! The split screen thing is mostly good but I have noticed in other stages they tend to miss the winner actually winning!

We switch feeds to the split screen when adverts appear on the other feed. Not impressed by the split screen .

[MrsHJ]

Blimey. It looks like it’s in the bag. I love the way that Pog has ironed out his problem areas.- today felt redemptive.

Plenty of exciting racing every day though at least it’s not team sky playing safely the whole race. The young riders comp still looks good. Oscar Onley is doing brilliantly.

[mattheus]

Plenty of exciting racing every day though at least it’s not team sky playing safely the whole race. The young riders comp still looks good. Oscar Onley is doing brilliantly.

Yes. And thank goodness Pog is no longer a contender!!

Onley looked/sounded utterly destroyed during that post-match interview on the floor, but in good spirits. (Pog wasn't quite his usual effervescent self either, to be fair.)
How he does on the TT will be very telling, fingers crossed!

[TrevA]

Evenepoel out, so Lipowitz into the white jersey in 3rd overall and Oscar Onley not far behind in 4th.

It looks like Van der Poel has had to pull out due to illness too.

[Pendodave]

Good to see that today is likely a breakaway win.
There was a moment where UAE were getting arsey with anyone going up the road, but thankfully enough teams were prepared to give them the virtual digit.
Hopefully more of this for the rest of the week.

[st599_uk]

Will be interesting to see what happens today. Two climbs removed and the race delayed and shortened.

[reohn2]

Is it just me but the TdeF has become boring with the winner a forgone conclusion.
I'm also getting that Armstrong feeling about Pogy......

[Pendodave]

Is it just me but the TdeF has become boring with the winner a forgone conclusion.
I'm also getting that Armstrong feeling about Pogy......

I think having only 2 realistic winners, and this being about the 3rd year in a row hasn't helped. The rest of the field is a long way behind, but ironically has provided genuine GC jeopardy right up to stage 20 at least. JV making the race super-attritional from the start has taken the edge of week 3 because everyone is knackered. The weather being a bit rubbish over the last few days...
... there'st been a few factors that have come together.
As for the Armstrong smell, my own feeling is that across most(all) professional sports the anti doping effort seems to have lost its way and that there's less and less interest in actually catching anyone or stopping anything.

[willcee]

Caught quite a few nights and frankly i've been saying for a couple of years that Pogacar is the new Eddie Merckx and afaik those commentators are saying the same thing.. that aside several wellexperienced guys have slides from rear wheels slippage on not particularly tight corners where lean would perhaps be a source, yes a few have been in dampish wet conditions and i saw several pros save themselves, and others just slide down the road at quite high speeds, i regard myself a fairly accomplished descender over many years , many bad roads and lots of wet surfaces are they running way too hard pressures in tyres or are these tubeless tyres a harder compound so causing less rubber grip as if i was a director sportif i would be seeking advice from tyre companies and getting a softer grippier compound that we used to select for cars, like Michelin SB20's on closed special stage tarmac rallyes.AND CONGRATS to Oscar ONLEY THAT KELSO Scotsman for a very excellent 4th place on his first, correction his 2nd , my mistake,TDF Tour...W

[mattheus]

We've just had perhaps the most exciting Paris stage in history; will anyone on this thread have anything to say?

How about the wet cobbled descent off Montmartre - any views from the local expert descenders?

[cycleruk]

Really enjoyed this years TDF.
Yes a probable forgone conclusion but each day hoping someone would better him.
The best for me was watching the fighting for the other placed jerseys.
Onley and Healy deserving their positions.
Heart was in the mouth watching Wout van Aert escaping from Pogacar and then descending in the wet.
Brave or daft ??

Unless things (TV) change this will possibly be the last time I watch it.
And another thing - always a bit disappointed when the TDF is over as it is half the years gone and its downhill from now on

[pjclinch]

We've just had perhaps the most exciting Paris stage in history; will anyone on this thread have anything to say?

How about the wet cobbled descent off Montmartre - any views from the local expert descenders?

It was damn good!
I was not expecting WvA to come round Pog on the last ascent, but really glad that he did and got an epic stage win.

Great stuff, and now over to the ladies...

Pete.

[rareposter]

Heart was in the mouth watching Wout van Aert escaping from Pogacar and then descending in the wet.
Brave or daft ??

He's a multi-time World CX Champion who also has a list of many cobbled classic wins to his name; that sort of stage was written for the likes of him and MvdP. I reckon if Tom Pidcock or Thibau Nys had been riding, they'd have underlined that stage in red too.

Plus a lot of the riders weren't "racing" as such, they were just looking to get through it unscathed. Even Pogacar eased off the gas a bit once WvA had gone.