The Tour de France announced this Thursday the route of the first stages of its 2025 edition on the occasion of the big start of the tour, which will take place in the French city of Lille.
The first stage covers a distance of 185 kilometers starting and finishing in Lille-Métropole on a route with three elevation changesNotre-Dame-de-Lorette, Cassel and Mont Noir, but that will not prevent the stage and the first yellow jersey from being decided in a mass sprint, unless there is a big surprise.
The second stage of the 2025 Tour de France could cause the first differences in the overall ranking on a 209-kilometer route between Lauwin-Planque and the arrival in Boulogne-sur-Mer. A stage in which the cyclists ride over uneven terrain for much of the stage before entering the final 35 kilometers where the peloton must climb the heights of Haut Pichot, Saint-Étienne-au-Mont and Outreau before heading to the ramp finale At the finish line comes Boulogne-sur-Mer, which was the end of the stage when the Tour was last visited in 2012, and all this with threatening wind.
The third stage of the 2025 Tour will cover a distance of 172 kilometers between Valenciennes and Dunkirk on a route where the Côte de Cassel is presented as a great mountain difficulty, on a day where the wind could be the protagonist with the possible fans before arriving in Dunkirk.
The Tour de France also announced that the fourth stage of the 2025 edition will begin in the city of Amiens on the way to a town whose name has not been revealed. We wait to see what happens next year as the 2025 Tour de France takes shape.
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