ANALYSE – After fifteen stages, the Tour de France marks a break with a day of rest. Balance sheet after two weeks of a 2025 edition led at a crazy rate.
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Tadej pugacar the extraterrestrial
Four stages victories after two weeks of racing, overwhelming supremacy and a fourth crown which reaches out to him in Paris unless a cataclysm. Tadej Pogacar walks on the Tour de France, devours competition and does not escape the weight of suspicions either. He has a week left to get the record for stages victories (eight in an edition) in the hands of Charles Pélissier, Freddy Maertens and Eddy Merckx. An impossible quest?
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Thymen arensman, the man who was able to resist “pogi”
On Saturday, he thwarted the plans of Tadej Pogacar by depriving the Slovenian with an amazing triple in the mountain stages of Pyrenees. It is already a feat in itself. In the fog of Superbagnères, Thymen Arensman (ineos grenadiers) signed an impressive solo number to win the 14th stage by resisting the return of the yellow jersey in the last ascent (12.4 km at 7%). A capital feat.
Vauquelin, Martinez and Jegat in the Blues
Kévin Vauquelin continues to hang on to his podium dream in Paris. The Norman occupies an unexpected 5th place in the general classification after the Pyrenees and a successful XXL test in the high mountains. Even if he works on alternating current, Lenny Martinez has made a goal of polka dot a goal for his second round in France. It has a (very thin) eight -point mattress on Pogacar before the Alps. The hardest part is to do. Finally, the discreet Jordan Jegat strikes the door of the top 10 (11th) in the general classification. The Vannetais is gaining momentum, like a very beautiful stage in Carcassonne completed in 8th place by taking up 4’31 ” on the yellow jersey. The biggest surprise in the first half of the French side.
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Stéphane BOURY, the Tour de France platform
He has jumped since the finish line to stop a pro-Palestinian activist when the sprint was racing for the victory in Toulouse on Thursday. Stéphane BOURY, the manager of the arrival sites of the Tour de France, showed immense composure before placing against the barriers the unconscious individual who had burst on the road. A successful rescue operation for the best caravan platform. In 2020 in La Roche-sur-Foron, he had already stopped a disturbing element that wanted to spoil the party by operating in the same way.
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Vingegaard’s profiled helmet, a sign of a Visma clan in doubt
It is a bit the symbol of a lost and trying visma team for the whole in front of the UAE Team Emirates compressor roller since the departure of the Tour de France. In the time trial towards Peyragudes on Saturday, Jonas Vingegaard tried a stroke of poker by styling his disproportionate and profiled helmet while the time was composed almost exclusively of climbs. Second behind Pogacar, the Danish certainly achieved a good service but the choice of equipment from the Dutch formation in clear loss of speed against the Armada of Slovenian questions.
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Remco Evenepoel no longer answers
The Belgian abandoned during the 14th stage, at the end of strength, his gaze lost when he occupied third place in the general classification. A terrible failure in the Tourmalet and a thunderclap for Belgium which is more and more wondering about the capacity, one day, of the 24 -year -old Olympic champion who can mix with the battle between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. If it is still there after the slap inflicted by Slovenian on his rival this year.
The suspense killed in the egg
We can only bow to the supremacy of Tadej Pogacar and rejoice to be the contemporaries of a huge champion, perhaps the greatest in the history of cycling. The future will tell us. But the evening of the time trial in Peyragudes, “Pogi” definitively broke the toy of lovers of the Tour de France who dreamed of an showdown even in the Alps. His overwhelming supremacy could end up tiring and bring shade to the largest cycling test in the world if no one manages to give him the reply.
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No French stage for the moment
There are six stages to the Blues left to avoid a pointed zero that would stain in the great history of the Great Loop after the three successes signed in 2024 thanks to Romain Bardet, Kévin Vauquelin and Anthony Turgis. Since 1903 Only two editions have completed without a French runner to raise his arms on the finish line: 1923 and 1999. A third dark year in perspective?
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