Tour de France 2025. The Orne, largely forgotten on the route which will cross Normandy

Wednesday 09th October 2024 10:52 AM

The Tour de France will return to Normandy in 2025. With a Grand Départ given from Lille and the North of France, the probability of seeing the peloton of the Grande Boucle pass again was strong. And as mentioned by West France in recent days, the riders of the biggest cycling race in the world will cross the Region at the beginning of July.

If the details of the route will not be revealed until October 29 by the organizers, the main outlines of the passage to Normandy are emerging. On Tuesday July 8, the 4th stage will start from Amiens and should arrive in Rouen, in Seine-Maritime, as indicated by The Voice of the North . The next day, according to our information, Caen will host a time trial.

The day after the time trial, on Thursday July 10, the start could also be given from Calvados. Candidate, the city of Bayeux seems to hold the rope. Then the runners should head towards Brittany. But without going through Orne. Indeed, the peloton should descend along the Channel and Ille-et-Vilaine where the finish of the 6th stage could be judged.

Alençon’s candidacy once again rejected

Alençon, already a candidate to host the arrival or departure of a stage in 2015, 2016 and 2021, has officially renewed its desire to host the Grande Boucle in recent years. A priori without success, once again, in 2025. “We have not been contacted. As long as we do not have the definitive plan, we cannot give up on it, slips Vanessa Bournel, sports assistant. But hopes are dwindling. » After leaving Brittany, the Tour should head further south, passing through Laval. We will therefore have to wait a little longer for the city of the Dukes, which has not hosted the finish of a stage since 2002 (Forges-les-Eaux – Alençon).

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Among the other towns in the Ornais department, Argentan, where the Tour passed in 2015 without stopping, did not apply and was not surveyed to be crossed either. The same goes for Flers, in the northwest of the territory.

As a reminder, we have to go back to 2018 to see the peloton take to the Ornes roads. At the time, the runners left from Fougères, in Ille-et-Vilaine, to go to Chartres, in Eure-et-Loir. The towns of Alençon and Bellême had notably been crossed.