Tour De France 2025: Latest Updates From Stage 16 To Mont Ventoux – Live

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Is nan title for nan yellowish jersey over? Not according to Jonas Vingegaard, nan two-time victor promising to spell for broke.

“We person to effort to do something,” he said, and insisted that he was consenting to consequence everything to win. “There needs to beryllium a weakness location connected Tadej’s part. For now, we haven’t recovered it, but we’ll support trying. I’m consenting to sacrifice 2nd spot to spell for first.”

William Fotheringham connected nan fable of Ventoux.

Tempora mutantur, but not nan Ventoux. That, partly, reflects 1 of nan cardinal features of nan Tour; nan measurement it perpetually revisits and rewrites its past successful places that person hardly changed since nan first visit. Go information nan partially banked area astatine Saint-Estève and connected to nan virtually consecutive haul done nan oak-wooded little slopes, and it’s fundamentally nan aforesaid sadistic acquisition that nan stars of nan 50s, 60s and 70s mightiness person undergone, possibly pinch amended tarmac arsenic you spell up pinch hardly a hairpin to break nan gradient until nan last haul crossed nan scree slopes to nan top.

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Here then, is nan Alpine shape that rivals only Alpe d’Huez for its spot successful folklore of Le Tour. And dissimilar L’Alpe, visits are acold rarer. As nan riders caput towards nan acme finish, they will sojourn terrain that bears closes resemblance to nan aboveground of nan Moon alternatively than nan sweeping greenery of le belle campagne. It was past nan decorativeness of a shape successful 2016, won by Thomas de Gendt, but memorable for Chris Froome moving up that hill. The man successful nan framework coming is Tadej Pogacar, and he seeks to emulate nan greats successful winning connected Ventoux, which he climbed up – and doubly – successful 2021, smashing nan section arsenic he did. Poulidor, Merckx and Pantani each raised their arms successful triumph successful that rarified aerial truthful tin he?

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