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Tour de France 2025: The top 14 riders – and six duels to watch
- The 2025 Tour de France began on July 5 in Lille, covering 3,320km entirely in France over three weeks with 176 riders including 11 British entrants.
- This edition follows five consecutive Tours dominated by Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, whose rivalry shapes expectations for the race.
- Pogacar, a 26-year-old Slovenian with 99 wins this season, leads UAE Team Emirates with a strong squad, while Vingegaard's Visma team plans careful attacks leveraging his descending skills and heat endurance.
- Belgian Remco Evenepoel, who secured a pair of cycling gold medals at the 2024 Olympics, intends to challenge the leading competitors as race director Christian Prudhomme describes the course as a misleading "trompe l'oeil" filled with dangers throughout.
- Veteran Geraint Thomas is making his final Tour appearance, with the challenging route and strong field setting up a race where "something will happen to somebody," as Thomas predicted.
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Tour de France: Clash of styles as odd couple duel for title again
Tadej Pogacar and his great rival Jonas Vingegaard have won the past five editions of the Tour de France between them, and the chalk and cheese duo top the bill again at the 2025 Tour which starts on Saturday. Here AFP takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses which…
The two-way battle organisers hope will ignite the 2025 Tour de France
As the 2025 Tour de France rolls out from Lille in France's north, all eyes will be on defending champion Tadej Pogačar, with two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard Hansen arguably the only rider in the way of total Tadej domination.
In front of Jonas Vingegaard, who considers himself "stronger than ever", the best rider in the world, Tadej Pogacar, is putting his title into play from this Saturday on the Tour de France. An edition that promises to be the climax of rivalry between the two men.
DEXYPTAGE - The Slovene will slew Lille as a huge favourite, but the road to a fourth victory is sown with pitfalls.
One bike professional trains with scientific precision for the most important round trip of the year, while the other prefers to compete in classiques. What is the recipe for the overall victory at the Tour de France?
Find the list of riders who compete in the Grande Boucle at the start of Lille on Saturday 5 July, including Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. But also our improbable predictions.
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