For the second consecutive year, the Tour de France renounces the triumphal walk. The final stage of 2025 maintains its arrival in the Elysees fields, but introduces a triple promotion to Montmartre that promises action.
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The 2025 edition of the Tour de France will close with a final stage that breaks schemes, shakes traditions and puts spicy the usual toast in the elisseos fields. 50 years have passed since the Great Round Gala adopted as arrival as the most famous avenue in the world, but for the second consecutive year, it will not be that rectilinear walk that monopolizes the absolute prominence. This time, Montmartre wants to steal the show.
The scene was already lived in 2024 during the Olympic Games. The cobblestone of Lepic Street, watered from the public, marked a before and after. The images were so powerful that the organizers of the Tour did not hesitate: Montmartre had to be put in the tour. And not as anecdote: it will go up thriceeach closer to the goal, until the last step Six kilometers from the end.
The result is a final day of 132.3 kilometers between Mates-La-Ville and Paris, which no longer resembles the typical triumphal parade where tribute is paid to the champion with champagne, photos and a sprint to close. This time there is tension, there is tactic, and there is a cobbled level that can dynamite the last strokes.
Goodbye to the traditional sprint?
Montmartre is not a devastating wall, but it has its own: 1,100 meters at 6%with closed curves, irregular asphalt and narrow streets. It is not a port for pure climbers or a shot for classic sprinters. It is the ideal setting for Explosive rollersGlory hunters, and even for some leader who wants to close the tour with a blow of authority.
The general classification, yes, seems closed. Tadej Pogacaron your way to your Fourth crownIt has no close rivals in the table. But that does not mean that he does not dream of repeating the deed of Bernard Hinaultthe last yellow jersey that won in the Elyseos fields, in 1979 and 1982. It would be pure history.
Stage 21 altimetry
The decision to harden the end has not liked everyone. Several cyclists have criticized extra stress on a day that, by tradition, was almost ceremonial. But the tour is no longer made up of the routine. The trend is clear: less flat endings, more emotion in every kilometer. And Paris, with his new Montmartinian dressing, does not stay outside.
Between protocol greetings and sparkling drinks, a 10% wall in Chavillebefore entering the city and start the final dance. After four laps to the usual circuit, the triple climb that changes everything will come. The last stage becomes A classic mini with monument endmore open and with margin to surprise.
The race can be seen live, from 7:00 am, in Caracol HD2 and Ditu. At 8:30 AM begins in the basic signal of Caracol Televisión.
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