The Tour de France 2025 starts with a demanding tour and 21 stages that will test the favorites.
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The Tour de France, which will begin on Saturday in Lille (North), will gather as every year the best peel cyclists, highlighting above all the two runners who have won the Grand Boucle in the last five editions: Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard.
These are some of the names that will be protagonists during the 21 days that the most important cycling career lasts in the world, which will end in Paris on July 27.
Tadej Pogacar (SLO/TEAM UAE Emirates)
Winner in 2024, with three tours at 26, the Slovenian is once again the man to beat.
Insatiable, Pogacar has dominated with iron fist the first part of the season (victories in the Dauphiné, the Flanders Tour, La Lieja-Bastña-Lieja, the Vallea arrow, the Strade Bianche) always giving show, to the point that may sometimes seem insolence.
Always hungry for triumphs (already 99 in his record), the Slovenian has an ability to attack in many fields that many of his rivals have not found a way to respond.
To this adds a skill in the management of the bicycle and a physical and mental resistance that makes it almost unbeatable.
The corridor, who defines himself as “a boy from a good family who does not take shortcuts in life” is the main star of the world platoon, as reflected in the new contract he has signed with his team: 50 million euros (58.5 million dollars) for six years.
Jonas Vingegaard (the/Visma)
As usually happens in the great rivalries of the history of sport, Vingegaard is quite the opposite of Pogacar: almost 100% is concentrated in the tour, to the point of competing very little in other races, and is of a much more reserved and discreet nature.
But the leader of the visma, who despite growing in a remote place in Denmark hit by the North winds prefers heat, has been the only corridor capable of defeating Pogacar in the tour in the last five years (2022 and 2023) and was second in 2024 after recovering from a very serious fall in the Tour of the Basque Country.
Considered the best platoon climber and one of the best downspouts, Vingegaard can also have a powerful team to surprise Pogacar.
Remco Evenepoel (Call/Soudal Quick-Step)
The protagonist at the Paris Games last year, where he achieved a double (route and counterreloj), the Belgian young man has potential to be the third man in discord in this tour, although perhaps he penalizes him to have a team that does not usually focus his efforts on the general classification of the great laps.
Evenepoel, who changed a promising career as a footballer for stardom in cycling, stands out for his resistance capacity and acceleration capacity.
After being third in 2024, everything that is not repeating podium in Paris can know little.
Primoz Roglic (Slo/Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)
The most veteran of the favorites, the Slovenian Roglic (35 years) runs out the time to add a tour of his great record, but it seems far from his best, the one he exhibited in 2020, when he lost the yellow jersey in the last counterreloj, in the planche des Belles Filles, before his compatriot Pogacar.
The winner of four laps and a turn, which began in the cycling too late while doing physiotherapy to recover from a fall while jumping skiing, its youth sport, and therefore perhaps does not have a domain of the bicycle like others, it usually has very bad luck, in the form of falls, in the tour.
Aspiring in the shadow beyond the four great applicants, other runners will be aware of any incident or fainting of the favorites to try their assault on the podium.
One of them will be the Spanish Carlos Rodríguez, leader of the INEOS in the absence of Colombian Egan Bernal, and who already has two top 10 in the last two years (5th and 7th) thanks to his regularity.
Despite arriving as assistants of their respective leaders, the British Simon (Visma) and Adam (UAE) Yates can become any time in heads of their squads.
At 32 years they already accumulate enough experience and victories: Adam has a podium in the Tour (2023) and has already dressed as yellow; Adam won the last turn without being the favorite, his second big after the return of 2018.
The young German of the Red Bull-Bora Florian Lipowitz (24 years) can become the revelation after the excellent results this year: 2nd in Paris-Niza, 3rd in Dauphiné, 4th in the Basque Country, in addition to his 7th place in the last return to Spain. Initially, however, he will have to help Roglic.
Another young man called to have prominence is the Danish Mattias Skjelmose (24 years old), leader of Lidl-Trek, 5th in the last return to Spain, where he also won the classification of best young man.
What Colombians will be in the Tour de France?
Although in the race poster this year there is no great presence of national corridors, a group of four pedalists will represent Colombian aspirations.
Santiago Buitrago (25 years old), of Bahrain Victorus, heads the delegation. Einer Rubio (27 years old) accompanies him, who defends the colors of Movistar Team.
For its part, the XDS Astana team has two Colombians: Sergio Higuita (27 years), recognized for their mountain combativity, and Harold Tejada (28 years), who brings regularity and teamwork.
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