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Tour de France's new Montmartre climb could be a game changer. It sparks controversy
- Race organizers announced last week that the 2025 Tour de France final stage in Paris will include a climb up the Montmartre hill.
- This change follows last year's final stage moved to Nice due to the Olympics, and organizers want to build on Montmartre’s successful Olympic atmosphere.
- The steep, cobbled Montmartre climb near the finish could disrupt traditional sprinter dominance and alter team strategies and race dynamics significantly.
- Remco Evenepoel opposed the change, warning it will add stress with 150 riders fighting narrow positions and deprive sprinters of a rare Champs-Élysées stage win.
- The inclusion may decide the yellow jersey in Paris and heighten final-stage tension, but it also raises safety and tradition concerns amid possible bad weather.
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Tour De France: the Influence of the Olympics 2024, Macron's boost... How the Montmartre Dream Came True
From the dream of the organizers to the intervention of the head of state, the project of passing the last stage of the Tour by Montmartre was a race of obstacles where "the JO method" eventually prevailed.
·Paris, France
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'I feel pain in my sprinter's heart': Marcel Kittel reacts to Tour de France final stage shake-up in Paris
Retired German sprinting great says inclusion of cobbled climb to Montmartre before Champs-Élysées finish will be 'very stressful' and would leave him 'disappointed as a rider'
·Canyon, Canada
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