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Race thread: 🇫🇷 Tour de France 2025 - Stage 14 (www.letour.fr)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Deschanel2017 to c/procycling@lemmy.world

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Saturday 19: 12:00–12:15 → 17:05–17:45

The second and last mountain stage in the Pyrénées. A flat start, and then a hell of 4 passes in a row with little (false) flat in between, starting with the Tourmalet and including climbing Peyresourde again from the same side (not sure Evenepoel will fancy coming back on this slope!).

Weather shall be significantly cooler than on the previous days, and it should be drizzling.

Beware: the stage starts earlier than usual (still not in the morning, though).

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[–] Deschanel2017 1 points 1 week ago

https://www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/uae-management-decided-not-to-win-ventoux-to-keep-the-french-fans-happy/

“I find it a bit weird if you get your team to ride full gas all day and then on the last climb you just decide not to win the stage.”

Despite the URL, Storer seems to have the Tourmalet stage (#14) in mind more than the following ones. But beyond his anecdote/feeling, we could see how UAE/Pogatchar's attitude on those later stages was equally ambiguous. And he shares that opinion too:

“So I suspect that they took that into consideration as well in the last week, not to take everything.”