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The 2025 Tour de France will be staged exclusively in France for the first time in five years.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 112th edition of the Grand Tour will feature 21 stages, starting in Lille on 5 July and ending in Paris on 27 July.<\/p>\n
The Tour had raced through Andorra in 2021 while it had Grand Departs in Copenhagen in 2022, Bilbao in 2023 and Florence in 2024.<\/p>\n
The 2025 race will also see a return of the Champs-Elysees finale on the 50th anniversary of its first finish there. The Tour finished outside Paris<\/a> for the first time in its history this year because of the Olympics.<\/p>\n “We decided to bring the Tour home, it was high time after all the foreign starts,” said race director Christian Prudhomme.<\/p>\n The Tour, stretching 3,320km (2,063 miles), will feature two time-trials and six mountain-top finishes, with the first part taking place mostly on the plains.<\/p>\n “A week in the plains is not the joy ride it was in the old days. We have cut the sprint stages and laid traps everywhere,” Prudhomme said.<\/p>\n “I don’t think Thierry Gouvenou, who mapped out the route, left a single climb [untouched] between Lille and Brittany.”<\/p>\n UAE Team Emirates’ Tadej Pogacar won his third title this year to secure a Tour de France-Giro d’Italia double and is set to battle two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard for the yellow jersey again in 2025. <\/p>\n The women’s Tour, meanwhile, has added a ninth stage and will run from 26 July to 3 August. <\/p>\n Poland’s Katarzyna Niewiadoma won the third edition<\/a> of the Tour de France Femmes this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n