Tour de France 2025 - Steam Thread

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AdahnGorion 12 hours ago

Welcome to the Tour de France 2025 Steam Thread

It is time for the Tour de France. This time the 2025 edition.
Some people know this event because of the scandals, some because of its beautiful showcase of France and some for the beauty of cycling.

Whatever reasons you might have, you are all welcome here. This thread is supposed to be a place where you can debate anything revolving the tour, no matter if it is results, your favourite this year or maybe even more clinic focused stuff (the doping debate)

Stage one starts today (Lille Métropole > Lille Métropole) and the neutralized start will begin at 13:10 CEST.

Lets start with the basics.The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France (It sometimes have starts and stages in other countries). It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6emK18j6kvQ

Favourties:

With that out of the way. Here are some of the favourites for the various catagories this year.

Yellow Jersey (Winner of the general classification)

Tadej Pogačar - UAE Team Emirates XRG
Jonas Vingegaard - Visma–Lease a Bike
Remco Evenepoel - Soudal–Quick-Step

Outsider:
João Almeida - UAE Team Emirates XRG
Primož Roglič - Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe

Green Jersey (Most points from sprints)

Jonathan Milan - Lidl–Trek
Jasper Philipsen - Alpecin–Deceuninck
Wout van Aert - Visma–Lease a Bike
Tim Merlier - Soudal–Quick-Step
Mathieu van der Poel - Alpecin–Deceuninck

Outsider
Biniam Girmay - Intermarché–Wanty

Polka Dot Jersey (Best climber)

Tadej Pogačar - UAE Team Emirates XRG

Outsiders

Jonas Vingegaard - Visma–Lease a Bike
Lenny Martinez - Team Bahrain Victorious
Mattias Skjelmose - Lidl–Trek

The White Jersey (Best youth General Classifiction U26 in current year)

Remco Evenepoel - Soudal–Quick-Step
Florian Lipowitz - Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe

Outsiders
Carlos Rodríguez - Ineos Grenadiers
Mattias Skjelmose - Lidl–Trek

Best Team classification

UAE Team Emirates XRG
Visma–Lease a Bike

Outsider
Movistar Team
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Teams this year. (alphabetical order)

(UCI World Teams)

Alpecin–Deceuninck
Arkéa–B&B Hotels
Cofidis
Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale
EF Education–EasyPost
Groupama–FDJ
Ineos Grenadiers
Intermarché–Wanty
Lidl–Trek
Movistar Team
Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe
Soudal–Quick-Step
Team Bahrain Victorious
Team Picnic–PostNL
Team Jayco–AlUla
UAE Team Emirates XRG
Visma–Lease a Bike
XDS Astana Team

(UCI ProTeams)

Israel–Premier Tech
Lotto
Team TotalEnergies
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
Uno-X Mobility

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A little information about the two big favourites for the Yellow Jersey

Tadej Pogačar

He is 26 years old and from Slovenia. He is 1.76m height and 66 kilograms and a overall rider (albeit very good at mountain stages with burst of power)
He won the Tour de France in 2020, 2021 and 2024 (last year) so he is a defending champion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-NKrW8-4eo

Jonas Vingegaard

He is 28 years old and from Denmark. He is 1.75 m and 56 kilograms and is a overall rider as well (good at mountain stages where he keeps a steady pace, but not a burster, also good at time trial)
He won the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49PQhWC6JnA

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Clinic Talk - Scandals

The Tour have not been without scandals. Most people remember Lance Armstrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1qf9TlFTl4

There have been talk about all from regular doping to small motors in the cycles and whatnot. Overall that is a part of the cycling community as well. While Armstrong was one of the most known ones, there are countless other examples.

Fun fact: Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard perform better than Lance Armstrong!!! So well.. we can talk about that.

Other scandals.

The Festina affair
Michael Rasmussen
Alberto Contador

France made its first anti-doping law back in 1964.

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Predictions

Now for a little contest. Predict the winner of each catagory and the winner of each stage (we do the stages daily seperately)

I predict Tadej Pogačar as Yellow Jersey winner, Jasper Philipsen as Green Jersey, Lenny Martinez as Polka Dot, Florian Lipowitz as White Jersey and UAE Team Emirates XRG as best team.

I also predict atleast one scandal this year, I don´t think we will see a doping scandal, but instead we will see a situation where a fan crash with a favourite during a race (Hopefully I am wrong)

What do you think? Do you bike yourself? Do you watch the Tour? or only some stages?
Have a wonderful day all.

Link to official homepage (you can see much more details here)
https://www.letour.fr/en/

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ℭycaleo 12 hours ago

I think you did an amazing work, Mr. Gorion, Sir. Its not my type of sport, and it doesn't look like Suisse has a chance, anyway...

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AdahnGorion 12 hours ago

Todays stage:
https://www.letour.fr/en/stage-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgfrIl4jzu4

I think Jasper Philipsen will win.

steven1mac 11 hours ago

https://youtu.be/G6lxSTqTC1U

AdahnGorion 11 hours ago

Originally posted by steven1mac:
https://youtu.be/G6lxSTqTC1U

Thank you for sharing, it is always good with a little fun.

The Commendatore 11 hours ago

They'll be messing with a fellow in yellow who will be pedalling like hell up in the peloton.

AdahnGorion 11 hours ago

Originally posted by ℭycaleo:
I think you did an amazing work, Mr. Gorion, Sir. Its not my type of sport, and it doesn't look like Suisse has a chance, anyway...

Thank you.

It can be a tad harsh to make a long thread like this with so many details, but I tried to not overdo it. But I think there are tour fans in off topic, so its worth it.

AdahnGorion 11 hours ago

Originally posted by The Commendatore:
They'll be messing with a fellow in yellow who will be pedalling like hell up in the peloton.

It will be interesting to see if I am right about Philipsen getting the Yellow Jersey today, but well.. obviously all will be pedalling like hell.

The gap to the break is around 2.10 min. I don´t expect them to be able to pull it off.

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AdahnGorion 10 hours ago

If you can´t watch the tour, then you can follow it here for updates
https://racecenter.letour.fr/en/

Todays state could be interesting because of the wind, but we will have to wait a bit more for something crazy to happen.. Most likely it will be your avarage starter stage.

AdahnGorion 9 hours ago

UAE is attacking in the wind.

allegedly 9 hours ago

Originally posted by AdahnGorion:
Some people know this event because of the scandals

I usually hear about the winner later to be a confirmed cheater

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AdahnGorion 8 hours ago

First exist of the tour already.
Filippo Ganna had a fall and hurt his back to much.

Originally posted by allegedly:
Originally posted by AdahnGorion:
Some people know this event because of the scandals
I usually hear about the winner later to be a confirmed cheater

It is like that for many, but there are many winners in the current age that have never been confirmed to cheap (both of the two favourites have never been so ie. and they have won the last 5 together)

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allegedly 8 hours ago

Originally posted by AdahnGorion:
First exist of the tour already.
Filippo Ganna had a fall and hurt his back to much.

Originally posted by allegedly:
I usually hear about the winner later to be a confirmed cheater

It is like that for many, but there are many winners in the current age that have never been confirmed to cheap (both of the two favourites have never been so ie. and they have won the last 5 together)

armstrong won his first title like in 1999, the doping was confirmed like in 2012. And I think he got caught and sanctioned by a us agency because other us cyclists spilled the beans.
Tour de france organization didn't do anything, if it was up to the tour de france he would still be a champion

tour de france is not much interested in revealing all those cheaters because it obviously damages the reputation of the tour de france

disgusting af

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AdahnGorion 8 hours ago

Originally posted by allegedly:
Originally posted by AdahnGorion:
First exist of the tour already.
Filippo Ganna had a fall and hurt his back to much.

It is like that for many, but there are many winners in the current age that have never been confirmed to cheap (both of the two favourites have never been so ie. and they have won the last 5 together)
armstrong won his first title like in 1999, the doping was confirmed like in 2012. And I think he got caught and sanctioned by a us agency because other us cyclists spilled the beans.
Tour de france organization didn't do anything, if it was up to the tour de france he would still be a champion

tour de france is not much interested in revealing all those cheaters because it obviously damages the reputation of the tour de france

disgusting af

Obviously not. It is not good for business, but in some cases they still do it.. Take the Rasmussen case.. they disliked him and they had no issue in throwing him under the bus.
He was never caught in the cookie jaw, but later spilled the cheating himself.

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Free Speech Enforcer 8 hours ago

I bike a lot irl, but have never been fascinated enough in watching others do it for sport. I get it from the athlete's perspective, the competition and training must be very motivating for them and others, but have absolutely no desire to be a spectator.

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