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We’ve got are first riders stopped for interview…
Anthony Turgis is subsequent and the compere tries and fails to get the group to shout his surname… Kevin Vauquelin is subsequent up.
Dylan Groenewegen is right here, and now Jasper Philipsen, the Tour’s most profitable sprinter of latest years.
Magnus Cort is right here in a shirt that feels just a little too informal. And now his teammate Alexander Krstoff, who’s sporting an open shacket. Requirements are slipping.
Sam Bennett is right here in full AG2R faculty uniform.
Sturdy applause for retiring Frenchwoman Audrey Cordon-Ragot, and up-and-coming Frenchman Romain Gregoire. Valentin Madouas, Lenny Martinez, and Evita Muzic get large hype too however few worldwide stars as of but…
We are actually launched to the professional riders who’re current in the present day. They’re all invited to stroll throughout the stage. Rumours are that it is not precisely probably the most star-studded attendance this 12 months….
Right here we go
Here is a glimpse contained in the Palais
The route is all the time saved beneath wraps till the presentation however whereas ASO are efficient in avoiding full-scale leaks, they’re perennially powerless to stop a reasonably correct define of the routes rising beforehand. That is as a result of native French mayors love letting slip that their city could or might not be internet hosting a stage end, whereas resort reservation patterns are utilized by the keenest of sleuths to piece collectively a rolling map of the Tour caravan rolling by the nation. Here is the way it’s trying to date…
The post-presentation scramble is all the time probably the most entertaining a part of the day. What does this all imply? Who does it favour? What kind of a Tour will we get?
The presentation kicks off at 11am CET, so greater than half an hour away. Even then, you possibly can anticipate bland speeches from ASO’s high brass, montages of the 2024 races which do really increase the heart beat, then extra bland stuff from native officers of the areas internet hosting the Grand Departs, earlier than we begin the run-through of each stage for each races.
The season could also be over however in the present day we have now maybe the largest day of non-racing motion of the biking calendar. Whole season plans are constructed across the info we’re about to obtain, the narratives that may outline subsequent 12 months’s racing begin to take form right here, and most significantly we can image the mountains that will probably be climbed subsequent summer season, which can maintain us by the lengthy chilly winter of cyclo-cross. That is all matched by a way of grandeur to the event, with this being introduced inside a packed-out Palais des Congres in central Paris. Riders will probably be right here in ill-fitting fits, crew bosses, sponsors, and dignitaries will all be current and proper, with all eyes on the race administrators, Christian Prudhomme and Marion Rousse.
Hey and welcome to our reside protection of the 2025 Tour de France and 2025 Tour de France Femmes route presentation.
