Stage 11 Toulouse - Toulouse (156.8km)
Will punchers laugh at the sprinters again?
The day after the rest day, a stage from and to Toulouse is on the program. Although the road book indicates a flat stage, two hefty leg-breakers in the last fifteen kilometers wink seductively at attackers. The ASO has again found a finish that should tempt guys like Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert out of their shells.
The eleventh stage in the 2025 Tour de France is almost a warm-up for the violence that will follow later in the week. The stage is only 154 kilometers long, and very secretly, there will be riders who make it a second rest day. The course remains mostly flat on Wednesday, which means you can relatively easily let go in the finale and still arrive well within the time limit. But from Corronsac, it's constantly turning and twisting in the last hour, and it goes up and down. Equipment trouble is fatal in this phase.
Along the Garonne River, the peloton makes another loop before they enter the center of the old French city. The riders then ride over the Côte de Vieille-Toulouse (1.5 kilometers at 6.7%) and the Montée Pech David (900 meters at 9.1%), among others. The latter lies eight kilometers from the finish in the center of Toulouse. The finish takes place at the Boulevard Lascrosses, where the Tour de France also ended in 2019: then Caleb Ewan won after a photo finish against Dylan Groenewegen. Now it remains to be seen whether we'll get a real mass sprint.
Stage 11 Toulouse - Toulouse (156.8km)
Will punchers laugh at the sprinters again?
The day after the rest day, a stage from and to Toulouse is on the program. Although the road book indicates a flat stage, two hefty leg-breakers in the last fifteen kilometers wink seductively at attackers. The ASO has again found a finish that should tempt guys like Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert out of their shells.
The eleventh stage in the 2025 Tour de France is almost a warm-up for the violence that will follow later in the week. The stage is only 154 kilometers long, and very secretly, there will be riders who make it a second rest day. The course remains mostly flat on Wednesday, which means you can relatively easily let go in the finale and still arrive well within the time limit. But from Corronsac, it's constantly turning and twisting in the last hour, and it goes up and down. Equipment trouble is fatal in this phase.
Along the Garonne River, the peloton makes another loop before they enter the center of the old French city. The riders then ride over the Côte de Vieille-Toulouse (1.5 kilometers at 6.7%) and the Montée Pech David (900 meters at 9.1%), among others. The latter lies eight kilometers from the finish in the center of Toulouse. The finish takes place at the Boulevard Lascrosses, where the Tour de France also ended in 2019: then Caleb Ewan won after a photo finish against Dylan Groenewegen. Now it remains to be seen whether we'll get a real mass sprint.