Finally, the blue-white-red people were starting to despair! Sudal Quick-Step’s runner chose his place to bring his first victory in the large 2025 loop to the country by winning Tuesday July 22 at the top of Mont Ventoux at the end of a sixteenth stage filled with suspense. Narrative.
However, we believed that Healy was going to sign his second success on this tower … Coming from the breakaway, Valentin did not steal it by beating the Irish Sprint Ben Healy with which he fought a homeric battle on the lunar and murderous slopes of Mount Bald, invaded by tens of thousands of spectators. As always.
The two men finished in front of Santiago Buitrago and Ilan Van Wilder, a “VPP” teammate returned from the Devil-Vauvert to offer a last relay to the French climber after the red flame. Which will be worth the two men a nice embrace on the finish line.
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The yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar finished 43 seconds from the winner, scratching another two seconds to his rival Jonas Vingegaard, in his wheel. The Danish attacked it three times, propelled each time by a different teammate, in the ascent of one of the hardest passes in Europe. In the general classification, the Slovenian phenomenon now has 4’15 ahead of Vingegaard five stages from arrival in Paris. It is not won but not far, in short.
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Valentin Paret-Peintre therefore delivered the tricolor nation which was starting to fear a zero pointed for the third time only in the more than secular history of the large loop. And again, Julian Alaphilippe had offered a strapontin (3e Place) Sunday …
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“VPP” becomes the fifth French to win at the top of the Provence giant after Raymond Poulidor, Bernard Thévenet, Jean-François Bernard and Richard Virenque. Wow.
A-line weight from Savoie
This is the third victory for the Haut-Savoyard (1m72-58kg) career career after a stage on the Giro in 2024 and on the Tour of Oman this year.