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Tour De France 2025: NO South Africans in the Peloton
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Tour de France 2025: NO South Africans in the peloton
The 2025 Tour de France will start in Lille on Saturday, 5 July – without any South African riders in the peloton. Despite this year’s race, the 112th of all time, having one more than the 22 usual eight-rider teams, no riders from Mzansi were selected to start. Head-to-head fight In recent years Louis Meintjes has been a stalwart for the Intermarché-Wanty UCI team, but their line-up in 2025 is built around Eritrean sprinter Biniam Girmay. This …
The first stage of the Tour takes place on Saturday 5 July. It will leave Lille to arrive in the same city.
Everything about the Tour de France 2025: dates, routes, stages, riders and their teams, events, directs and information not to be missed
The entire centre of Lille has been cut off since the last hour of the morning; fences, police and volunteers sitting in chairs similar to those used by tennis judges. People are arriving as if there were no tomorrow, when there is, when Saturday begins the Tour in the capital of Upper France, in the north of the country, a sigh of the border with Belgium, next to the cobblestones of Roubaix.
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