While the route of the 2025 edition of the Tour de France will be made official at the end of October, there is now talk of a detour via Caen in the middle of the first week, a city which would host a time trial.
The route of the 2025 Tour de France is gradually taking shape. While the meeting is already set for Saturday, July 5 in Lille for three first stages in the North and Pas-de-Calais, the rest of the festivities are just waiting to be known. Before the official presentation scheduled for October 29 in Paris, the regional press is teeming with details concerning the 21 stages that will take the peloton to the Champs-Élysées, back on the program after a year of absence linked to the organization of the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.
While an arrival at the summit of Mont Ventoux or even a detour via Italy have already been mentioned, the daily
West France presents in its columns what could be the first major meeting of this 112th edition of the Grande Boucle. Absent from the race course since 2006 and a stage concluded by a sprint victory for Oscar Freire, Caen would be entrusted with the start and finish of the fifth stage, on Wednesday July 9.
Caen, gateway to Brittany
In order to celebrate the millennium of the Calvados prefecture in style, the teams of Christian Prudhomme and Thierry Gouvenou have already decided to organize a time trial whose distance should reach twenty kilometers with a generally flat profile highlighting the city’s monuments such as the Château or the Memorial. This would allow to establish a first hierarchy in the general classification without however generating too large gaps between the candidates to succeed Tadej Pogacar, who crushed the race this year. A stage entirely in Caen which should however not be the only one organized at least in part on the territory of the Calvados department, which had not hosted the Tour de France since 2015.
Indeed, West France suggests that Bayeux would be the starting city for the sixth stage, which should head towards Brittany. Saint-Malo should be on the program, as well as Saint-Méen-le-Grand, the birthplace of Louison Bobet, and Mûr-de-Bretagne. Absent from the route since the 2021 edition, the west of France should indeed be in the spotlight next summer.
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