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The Tour de France, one of the greatest cycling races in the world, will have an all-French route for the first-time in years during its 2025 edition. After being staged in many different countries in the last four years, the 112th edition of the Tour de France will have 21 stages, with the first one happening in Lillie on July 5, and it will draw to a close in Paris on July 27.
Notably, in 2021, the Tour de France had made its presence felt in Andorra, while it had Grand Departs in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2022. Furthermore, the 110th edition of the famed cycling race had its route in Bilbao, Spain, while it was also quite a hit earlier this in Florence, Italy, but now, the Tour de France is set to have all its routes exclusive to France next year.
Tour de France will have the Champs-Elysees finale in Paris on the 50th anniversary of its first finish
After finishing for the first-time outside Paris in 2024 due to the Olympic Games in the French capital, the Tour de France will have the Champs-Elysees finale on the 50th anniversary of its first finish in the same location. The race director of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme, remarked on the matter, as per BBC Sport, “We decided to bring the Tour home, it was high time after all the foreign starts.”
He was also quoted as saying, “A week in the plains is not the joy ride it was in the old days. We have cut the sprint stages and laid traps everywhere. I don't think Thierry Gouvenou, who mapped out the route, left a single climb [untouched] between Lille and Brittany.” Moreover, the Tour de France will be 3,230km long in 2025, which will include two-time trials and six finishes on the mountain top.
