The last stage of the Tour de France 2025 will be played on the Champs-Elysées, but with a novelty: three climbs of the famous Butte Montmartre. A spicy arrival which could allow Tadej Pogacar, future winner except incidents, to imitate Bernard Hinault by also winning the final stage by wearing the yellow jersey.
The 21st and ultimate stage of the large loop will end on the Champs-Elysées, but with an unprecedented loop on the Montmartre hill. She will devote the fourth final success of Tadej Pogacar.
Will Tadej Pogacar imitate Bernard Hinault, the only yellow jersey in history to have won the Champs-Elysées stage, which too often comes down to a massive sprint?
Slovenian could use the modification made this year to the course. The traditional final circuit on the cobblestones of the famous Parisian avenue will indeed be embellished by the climb three times from the Butte Montmartre via rue Lepic, sublimated by the Olympic Games last year.
The Montmartre hill will spice up the arrival
A way also to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first arrival on the fields. That year (1975), the yellow jersey was Bernard Thévenet. “Will Lepic Street be enough to widen a gap to avoid a massive arrival in the sprint?” He wonders.
Ambassador of ASO (the organizer of the Tour), he adds: “In any case, she will put a little more chili. It is good to change from time to time because it has been so long that we attended a long procession to the Champs-Elysées.”
In the 3rd and last passage at the top of the Montmartre hill, there will remain 6 kilometers to go. So, escaped or massive sprint? Verdict around 7:30 p.m. this Sunday.