The Tour de France 2025 lifts the curtain this Saturday in Lille with a stage of 185 kilometers marked by the wind, the narrow roads and an end designed for the first great sprint.
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This Saturday, July 5, the Tour de France 2025 starts, the largest showcase of world cycling. A squad of 184 cyclists is launched to conquer 3,338.8 km distributed in 21 stages that will run in full in French territory.
The premiere of this edition runs in Lille: 185 kilometers with departure and arrival in the capital of Alta France. The layout includes several punctual dimensions, but everything points to a massive arrival.
The route flirts with the Belgian border, which means narrow roads, exposed sections and a real threat of fans, especially in the last 45 kilometers, where the cross wind can make ravages. The technical end requires Extreme Precautions: five 90 -degree curves before a line of almost a kilometer that will serve as a launch track for faster men in the world.
Altimetry of stage 1 of the Tour de France 2025
Although the profile favors an end to the sprint, the Tour never gives anything. Here nobody comes to roll quietly: the tension of the first day, the pressure to show and the need to avoid cuts convert each meter into a potential mines field.
The Tour always bites, and the nerves of the first day are usually charged victims: falls, fans or disasters that can leave out of combat in favorites ahead of time. In the platoon they know it: it does not walk here.
This year the route offers seven flat stages, six in the middle mountain, six high mountain – with iconic finals in Hautacam, Mont Ventoux and El Col de la Lze, a ceiling of the edition at 2,304 meters – and two individual counterreloqu.es. A challenge for those who want to dress yellow in Paris.
The first stage may seem simple on paper, but the story of the tour remembers that nothing is safe when the road narrows and the wind insists on changing everything.
Time and where to see the first stage of the Tour de France 2025
- Date: July 5, 2025
- Route: 185 kilometers
- Place: Lille (France)
- Time: 6:00 a. m.
- TV transmission: ESPN and Disney+, Caracol Televisión, Caracol HD2 and Ditu, RCN TV and RCN application.
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