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Tour de France 2025

Tour de France 2025 race news, previews, results, tour map, race tech, analysis, and photos. Follow for breaking on twitter, instagram, or facebook.

Dates: July 5-27
Stages: 21
Rest days: 2
Start: Lille, France
Finish: Paris, France

The 2025 Tour de France will take place July 5-27. The 112th edition of the race starts in Lille, France, with a total of 21 days of racing and two rest-days. The final stage returns to Paris after finishing last year in Nice due to the Olympic Games.

Latest Tour de France News

7 years ago

Phinney crashes on stage 19: ‘I took a tree to the face’

Taylor Phinney crashes in Pyrenees, crosses stage 19 finish last with bandage over broken nose.


7 years ago

How to beat the Tour de France heat? Look at a rider’s urine

Tour de France riders have faced particularly hot conditions in the 2018 race. How do they cope with the heat?


7 years ago

Taylor Phinney the sprinter?

With his team's GC leader out of the Tour de France, Taylor Phinney found an opportunity to mix it up in the sprints.


7 years ago

Kristoff concedes Tour points title to Sagan ‘if he just manages to finish’

Peter Sagan had an insurmountable lead in the Tour de France points competition entering stage 19, but making it to Paris was not easy.


7 years ago

Stage 19: One last chance for climbers to strike

The climbers have one final opportunity to shine in the Tour de France. Thomas must rise to the occasion and defend.


7 years ago

VN Show: Did Tour de France stage 17 live up to the hype?

The Tour de France organizers got a bit experimental with stage 17. Did all of the innovations pay off? We've got takes.


7 years ago

The peloton’s perspective on Tour de France’s stage 17 experiment

Stage 17 of the Tour de France was fun to watch, but was it fun to race? We asked riders throughout the peloton.


7 years ago

Quintana rues stage 18 crash: ‘I’m always a bit screwed’

Movistar and its star climber Nairo Quintana were hoping to raid stage 19, but a crash has complicated matters.


7 years ago

Teamwork makes Sky’s Tour de France dream work

Sky's two leaders fully commit to team goal: take yellow to Paris — regardless of whether it is Froome or Thomas to win.


7 years ago

Fuglsang: ‘It’s a surprise to see Thomas leading the Tour’

Jakob Fuglsang is exasperated at Team Sky’s dominance and his own inability to keep up in the Tour de France.


7 years ago

Froome, Dumoulin say Giro/Tour double still possible in modern cycling

It looks like Chris Froome will come up short of the famous Giro/Tour double. He still says it's possible in the modern era.


7 years ago

Thomas lashes out at ‘idiot’ who ‘hit’ him on Tour stage

Geraint Thomas has some choice words for the roadside spectator who reached out and struck him on stage 17.


7 years ago

Sagan vows to finish Tour, but stage wins may be over

Peter Sagan believes he can overcome his injuries to finish the Tour de France.


7 years ago

Tour de France podcast: Was stage 17 the beginning of the end of Froome era?

We saw something unusual in stage 17: Chris Froome dropped on the Tour's toughest mountain. What does it mean?


7 years ago

Bardet’s podium hopes evaporate in Pyrénées

The two-time Tour de France podium finisher was aiming to be France's first Tour champion since 1985.


7 years ago

Dumoulin ‘hopes’ but sees Tour win impossible

Tom Dumoulin is hopeful but considers the Tour de France win almost impossible now.


7 years ago

Brailsford: ‘Froome will be a titan in the sport for helping Geraint’

Sky director Dave Brailsford says Froome's role as a super-domestique to ascendant Thomas will be cheered.


7 years ago

Quintana salvages his Tour de France with stage win

After a demoralizing two weeks of racing at the Tour de France, Nairo Quintana gets redemption with stage 17 win.


7 years ago

Thomas: If Froome was suffering, everyone was suffering

When Thomas heard that Froome was suffering on the Col du Portet, he knew he could hang onto yellow in stage 17.


7 years ago

Spectator abuse of Team Sky continues on Col du Portet

Sky's problems with spectators at this year's Tour de France continued Wednesday on the slopes of the Col du Portet.


7 years ago

Who is Geraint Thomas? A Tour de France contender blossoms

Geraint Thomas's success at the Tour de France springs from longevity and balance.


7 years ago

Tour de France: Sagan avoids serious injury in high-speed crash

Peter Sagan's hopes of winning a record-tying fifth green jersey remain intact after a scary crash in stage 17.


7 years ago

Froome concedes Tour, vows to support Thomas

There won’t be a record-tying fifth yellow jersey for Froome. And he won’t be the first rider since Pantani to win Giro/Tour double.


7 years ago

Tour de France podcast: Sky coach talks about Thomas; why Moscon must go

We hear from Team Sky coach Rod Ellingworth on who Geraint Thomas is and why he's poised to win the Tour.


7 years ago

Sagan OK after stage 17 crash: ‘He’s an animal’

World champion Peter Sagan crashes on stage 17, requiring attention from Tour de France medical staff


7 years ago

Gallery: The Tour’s dramatic second week

BreakThrough Media captured the scene during the second week of the Tour de France, which featured gravel, Alpine climbs, and more.


7 years ago

Tour debutants Haga, Boswell still going strong as race hits Pyrenees

With only a few tough mountain stages remaining, the two American Tour debutants are hanging tough.


7 years ago

Gilbert’s Tour over after finishing stage 16 with broken knee

Philippe Gilbert abandons the Tour de France on Tuesday with a fractured left kneecap after a spectacular crash.


7 years ago

Protest and tear gas drives Tour to edge of absurdity

Farmer protest on stage 16 is just the latest unexpected twist in a Tour marked by absurdity and bad roadside behavior.


7 years ago

Tour peloton set for ‘decisive’ test in stage 17

Top riders agree that the short, explosive stage 17 through the Pyrenees will be decisive in the 2018 Tour de France.


7 years ago

Stage 16 gamble doesn’t pay off for Yates

After Adam Yates abandoned his GC hopes at the Tour de France, stage 16 looked like a perfect opportunity.


7 years ago

Tour chief slams farmers as yellow jersey suffers from tear gas

After farmers block the race in protest with sheep and hay bales, Christian Prudhomme demands respect for the Tour.


7 years ago

Holm on Tour stage 16 crash: ‘Gilbert’s scream was a good sign’

On the same descent where Fabio Casartelli died, Philippe Gilbert flies off the road. He suffers only minor injuries.


7 years ago

UCI chief tells Brailsford to stop fanning Tour flames

UCI president David Lappartient calls on Team Sky boss Dave Brailsford to stop provoking French fans.


7 years ago

Teams agree Moscon punch is bad for cycling’s image

Fortuneo-Samsic and other teams want to put Moscon punch incident in the past but say it is bad for the sport.


7 years ago

Gilbert survives Tour de France crash over stone wall

The Belgian crashed into a wall and tumbled into a ravine, but he managed to get back on his bike and continue riding.


7 years ago

Tear gas from farmer protest halts Tour de France

Stage 16 of the French grand tour was stopped for 15 minutes due to the skirmish near the route.


7 years ago

Commentary: Moscon must go

Sky needs to kick Gianni Moscon off the team, for its own sake, and because it is simply the right thing to do.


7 years ago

Don’t underestimate stage 16 of the Tour de France

Stage 17 has gotten plenty of hype, but the peloton will first have to navigate Tuesday's tricky stage 16.


7 years ago

Nibali’s team considering legal action against Tour

Vincenzo Nibali's Bahrain-Merida team considers suing Tour after a fan caused him to crash on Alpe d'Huez last week.


7 years ago

Valverde, Landa call for allies, but ‘ego’ could also loosen Sky grip

Movistar pair Alejandro Valverde and Mikel Landa appeal for allies to help loosen Geraint Thomas's grip on yellow jersey


7 years ago

Tour roundtable: Leadership questions, sprinter slaughter, and a fight

There is plenty of intrigue on the Tour de France's second rest day, before the race heads into the pivotal Pyrenean stages.


7 years ago

Froome on Moscon DQ: ‘Disappointed in Gianni’s actions’

The Sky team will race the remainder of the Tour de France without Gianni Moscon, who was kicked out of the race Sunday.


7 years ago

Sky boss supports video replay despite Moscon DQ

Two of Dave Brailsford's riders have been kicked out of races this year under the UCI's new video replay system.


7 years ago

Froome willing to sacrifice Tour victory for Thomas

Chris Froome seems to have accepted the fact that his teammate Geraint Thomas is in control of the race and could win the yellow jersey.


7 years ago

Brailsford knocks ASO for Tour fans’ bad treatment of Sky riders

The British team has endured being spat at, booed, and even pushed by fans at the Tour de France.


7 years ago

Tour suspense: Froome in unfamiliar situation of not carrying yellow into final week

For the first time in the Froome era, Chris Froome heads into the final week of the Tour de France not wearing the leader's jersey.


7 years ago

Quintana hoping for Sky collapse as Movistar look to Pyrenees

Nairo Quintana said he would welcome rivals Chris Froome and Tom Dumoulin paying for their efforts in the Giro d'Italia as he looks to relaunch his Tour de France bid in the Pyrenees.


7 years ago

Moscon booted from Tour after altercation with rider

Team Sky's Gianni Moscon was expelled from the Tour de France on Sunday following an altercation with another rider.


7 years ago

Thomas won’t let Sky negativity ruin his yellow jersey moment

Geraint Thomas will not allow negative public sentiment toward Team Sky ruin his time in the Tour's yellow jersey.


7 years ago

Compact stage 17 expected to be toughest Pyrenean challenge

The Tour de France's shortest road stage in 30 years on Wednesday is expected to be the hardest of the final three mountain stages in the Pyrénées.


7 years ago

Froome target of rowdy crowds’ ire

Chris Froome continues a battle on two fronts: one against the peloton and a second to win the hearts and minds of French fans.


7 years ago

Commentary: The beauty of defeat at the Tour de France

Jasper Stuyven's near miss on Saturday underlined that cycling is often a game of miles, inches, or even a few feet of elevation.


7 years ago

Dumoulin predicts Thomas and Froome could turn on each other

Tom Dumoulin predicts that Team Sky duo Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome could turn on each other in the coming mountain stages.


7 years ago

Thomas on Froome: ‘We don’t want to start racing against each other’

Geraint Thomas said he and second-place Chris Froome must remain loyal to the team’s interests or risk losing the Tour.


7 years ago

Roglic emerges as yellow jersey threat

Roglic surged up the final climb to Mende to emerge as a legitimate podium contender at the Tour de France.


7 years ago

Inside Peter Sagan’s Tour de France sprint team

For the sprints, the team also brought three designated teammates to assist Sagan: Marcus Burghardt, Maciej Bodnar, and Daniel Oss.


7 years ago

Froome says it would be ‘dream scenario’ to finish 1-2 in Paris

On Saturday, Chris Froome hinted he would be fine to see the GC stay as it all the way to Paris.


7 years ago

Thomas: Doubters wrong, Sky is ‘100% clean’

After getting booed on Tour de France podium, Geraint Thomas defends his Sky team as 100-percent clean.


7 years ago

Here’s why this year’s Tour de France has been so cruel to the sprinters

With smaller teams, tighter cut-off times, and short, explosive stages, Tour sprinters find themselves off the back.


7 years ago

Tour de France: Sky’s delicate balancing act with Thomas and Froome

"If we are not careful, we can lose everything," says sports director Nicolas Portal


7 years ago

Is your climbing bike slowing you down on the climbs?

Aero bikes are for sprinters, and climbing bikes are for climbers, right? Well, that depends.


7 years ago

Sunweb wary of Sky trap as Dumoulin emerges as top threat

Sunweb wants to avoid an ambush in the coming days to keep Tom Dumoulin within striking distance of the yellow jersey.


7 years ago

Tour de France podcast: Who’s in charge at Sky, and can Dumoulin beat them?

It is Sky vs. Sky after 12 stages of racing in the Tour. Geraint Thomas is in yellow, but will he work for Froome?


7 years ago

How the Tour changes without Nibali

Officials from several teams discuss the departure of Vincenzo Nibali, who left the Tour de France after a crash on Alpe d'Huez.


7 years ago

After Nibali, Froome incidents, Tour chief calls on fans to respect riders

Thursday's stage that ended atop Alpe d’Huez was marred by fans interfering in the race — which resulted in Vincenzo Nibali abandoning.


7 years ago

Thomas gains time but stands behind Froome

Geraint Thomas wins again and tightens grasp on yellow, but if you ask him, Froome is still Sky's #1 GC rider.


7 years ago

Analysis: Craddock’s data reveals extreme demands of Tour

American Lawson Craddock continues to churn away stage after stage through the Alps, despite a broken shoulder.


7 years ago

Dumoulin, Sunweb say they’ve found Team Sky’s weakness

Dumoulin and his Sunweb team director Luke Roberts say they think they've cracked the code to beat Team Sky.


7 years ago

Landa: Maybe Sky isn’t as strong as before

Movistar has endured a tough few days in the Alps, but Mikel Landa senses fractures in Sky's "Fortress Froome."


7 years ago

Kruijswijk resolute after stage 12 heartbreak

On Tour de France stage 12 to Alpe d'Huez, early escapee Steven Kruijswijk gave the day's most stirring performance.


7 years ago

Nibali out of Tour after Alpe d’Huez crash

Vincenzo Nibali was forced to quit the Tour de France with a vertebrae fracture after a crash Thursday.


7 years ago

Froome endures abuse on Alpe d’Huez

Chris Froome has raced Alpe d'Huez four times in his Tour de France career. This edition might go down as his least favorite.


7 years ago

Sprinters keep suffering in Alps as Gaviria, Groenewegen abandon

This year’s Tour de France is proving too punishing for the peloton’s top sprinters.


7 years ago

Nibali not racing for the podium, he’s racing to win Tour

Winner of the 2014 Tour de France, Vincenzo Nibali is a couple minutes behind overall but still dreaming of yellow.


7 years ago

A third blow to Bardet, Gallopin withdraws from Tour

Tony Gallopin is the third Ag2r La Mondiale rider to pull out of the Tour, leaving Romain Bardet with just four teammates.


7 years ago

Valverde: No regrets for attacking Sky at Tour

Alejandro Valverde vowed to attack Team Sky again and again at the Tour de France.


7 years ago

Uran withdraws from Tour de France after Roubaix crash

The Colombian pulled out of the French grand tour after crashing hard during Sunday's cobblestone stage.


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Tour de France Writers

Andrew Hood

Andrew Hood, aka “EuroHoody,” is European editor for Velo. Since joining the title in 2002, he’s been chasing bike races all over the world. He’s covered dozens of editions of the spring classics and the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia, and Vuelta a España, as well as numerous world championships in road, track, and mountain biking. He’s also covered six Olympic Games and reported on bike races across six continents. Beyond the Outside cycling network, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Outside, SKITraveler Magazine, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, and Denver Post. He’s a voting member of the Velo d’Or prize committee, and he’s appeared on CNN, NBC, NPR, and BBC. Chances are, if there’s a bike race, EuroHoody’s been to it, or will be going soon.

Betsy Welch

Betsy writes about off-road racing, culture, and personalities for Outside’s cycling group. As a rider, she loves big adventures on the bike. Some of her most memorable reporting/riding trips include the Migration Gravel Race in Kenya, bikepacking the Colorado Trail, and riding from Torino to Nice after the inaugural Tour de France Femmes. In the summer, she loves to run, ride, and hike through the Elk Mountains in her backyard; in the winter, she skis uphill.

Jim Cotton

Jim is a UK-based editor and reporter focusing on road racing, training, and nutrition. He’s developed a bank of experience working on the ground at all three grand tours, Paris-Roubaix, Tour of Flanders, Strade Bianche, road worlds, and many more prestigious races. Additionally, Jim writes the ‘Behind the Ride’ series of features that digs into how riders in the pro peloton have become the best in the world. It’s a wide-ranging column that’s covered diet, training, recovery, altitude camps, and a lot more. And when he’s not working? After a few decades of mostly dismal results, he’s hung up the wheels on his bike racing career. Instead, now, he’s a trail / ultra racer… but don’t hold that against him.

Andy McGrath

Formerly editor of Rouleur magazine, Andy McGrath is a freelance sports journalist and has covered the Tour de France, Tour of Italy and the sport’s big one-day Classics. He covered the 2023 Tour de France for VELO.

Shane Stokes

Shane Stokes has written about pro cycling for over 25 years, covering grand tours, world championships, Classics and other major events during that time. He’s been the Irish Times cycling correspondent for over two decades, appeared regularly on that country’s national broadcaster RTE in analyzing the sport, and contributed to Velo and many of the sport’s international outlets. When not writing about cycling he’s happiest in nature on a sunny day, particularly with a dog or two in tow.

Will Tracy

Will Tracy is a San Francisco based editor interested in all things cycling. Since getting his start in cycling journalism with Peloton Magazine, he has reported from the Tour de France; the Taipei Cycle, Eurobike, and Sea Otter trade shows; and covered the biggest events in gravel racing including Unbound and SBT GRVL. When not biking, he stays active with climbing and running and likes to take photos, cook, and serially dabble in new hobbies.

Alvin Holbrook

Alvin is a tech editor for Velo, where he covers road, gravel, and e-bikes after nearly a decade in the bike industry. In addition, he uses his background in urban planning to cover stories around active transportation, policy, tech, and infrastructure through the Urbanist Update series. He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife and an ever-growing stable of bikes and kitchen utensils. Meet Alvin

Josh Ross

Josh hails from the Pacific Northwest but when it’s time to ride, hot and dry is better than cold and wet. He will happily talk for hours about the minutiae of cycling tech but understands most people just want things to work. He is a road cyclist at heart and doesn’t care much if those roads are paved, dirt, or digital. Although he rarely races, if you ask him to ride from sunrise to sunset, and beyond, the answer is always yes.

How to watch the Tour de France in 2025

For 2024: Peacock is showing the Tour de France in North America. Those of you in Europe have more options.

Inside the United States and Canada

Cycling fans in the U.S.A. and Canada can watch the Tour de France streamed through Peacock. The $6 per month subscription will allow you to watch via a web browser, the mobile app, or a smart TV app. Select stages of the Tour are also broadcast on NBC and USA.

Daily coverage begins as early as 5:00 a.m. EDT daily. You’ll want to check the specific broadcast time for each stage, since there is some variability in the start times of the daily broadcast.

Outside the United States and Canada

Eurosport will show the race in Europe. Other options include Rai Sport in Italy, L'Equipe TV in France, and Sporza in Belgium.