DECRYPTION – The scene of sublime battles in the past, the Pyrenean pass is finally back on the Tour map.
Special envoy to Luchon and Superbagnères
The route of the Tour de France 2025 (July 5 to 27) is revealed this Tuesday during the traditional presentation at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. The first three stages are known: Lille-Lille (185 km), Lauwin-Planque-Boulogne-sur-Mer (209 km) and Valenciennes-Dunkerque (172 km). Further on, after passing through Normandy and Brittany, the Grande Boucle will experience an intense triptych in the Pyrenees. With, in conclusion, a stage perched at 1,804 m, in Superbagnères. At the crossroads of history and novelty.
Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour, presents: « It’s a return, a rebirth. When the road to the summit of Superbagnères was built, the Tour de France came straight away (victory of the Italian Imerio Massignan in 1960, of the Spanish Federico Bahamontes in 1961). For me, it is then a memory, the day after the fall of Luis Ocaña in…
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