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Race thread: 🇫🇷 Tour de France 2025 - Stage 19 (www.letour.fr)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Deschanel2017 to c/procycling@lemmy.world

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Friday 25: 13:30–13:40 → 17:15–17:45

This is the second and last alpine stage. There is a little bit less elevation gain than on the previous day, but the stage is very short and therefore there is even fewer flat sections. A breakaway paradise?

Mountain classification

T. Pogatchar 🇸🇮 UAE – 105 pts
J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – 89 (-16)
L. Martinez 🇫🇷 Bahrein – 72 (-33)
T. Arensman 🇳🇱 Ineos – 65 (-40)
B. O'Connor 🇦🇺 Jayco – 51 (-54)

Are available tomorrow, in order of apparition:

5 points at Héry/Ugine;
10 points on the Col des Saisies;
20 points on the Col du Pré;
5 points on the Cormet de Roselend;
and 20 points in La Plagne.

That's a maximum of 60 points.

There will still be 9 extra points to grab on the hills the day after, and 5 more on the final Paris stage.

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[–] Deschanel2017 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

BREAKING NEWS

For a ludicrous reason, the stage will be shortened by 40 km.

The first 2 climbs are cancelled! (and the Sprint is either moved or cancelled too.) They will go straight from Albertville to Beaufort by a valley road. If you have good eyes, you can see Beaufort on my map; if you haven't, you can see it on the profile 😀

The start will be postponed by one hour ⇒ 14:30 French Time.

Therefore, there won't be 60 mountain points to grab but only 45.

edit: here are the new map and profile:

As you can see, there will be an Intermediate Sprint after 12 km (therefore in a type of location very similar to the original one).

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What was the reason given for the shortening of the stage?

[–] Deschanel2017 2 points 3 weeks ago

There is an epidemic amongst cows. Cattle breeders / milk farmers are ~~unhappy~~ angry (unhappy is their normal condition, when they attack at night green and left-wing party offices with the blessing of police forces which just watch them without stopping them, without bringing them in, without even registering IDs or vehicle plates). When farmers are angry, they attack anything that vaguely looks related to the State, or common good. The State refuses to apply law and order when it is about farmers, the State just caves in (unless it happens in Paris, where suddenly they find their gas canisters and truncheons again). If there was a left-wing demonstration, the Police / riot squad would just spray teargas everywhere, beat 'em up and cuff the whole lot; but they let those Poujadist, semi-fascist, semi-mafia organisations do whatever damage they wish to do and often grant them what they want (rinse and repeat).

So, as the Police will not do its job, the Tour has to go somewhere else.

[–] Deschanel2017 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

After one of the first mini-attacks by Pogatchar, as Onley stayed in the wheels but Lipowitz was dropped a little bit, I thought Bora could lose everything they had 30 km from the finish line yesterday. But in the end, it is Onley who was dropped, and Lipowitz keeps and strengthens his podium.

I am surprised to see L. Martinez finish well (11^th^, better than O'Connor, Jegat, Vauquelin who were fighting for their GC ranking), I thought he would drop after losing his chances to score big points in the final climb.