Very legs in this 14th stage of the Tour de France, Lenny Martinez, virtually at the top of the pea ranking of best climber, impressed on this 2025 edition. A few years ago, Bernard Hinault saw his successor in him.
He celebrated his 22 years on the Tour, on July 11, and continues to impress for his second participation in the Grande Boucle. Lenny Martinez, at the top at the top of the Col du Tourmalet this Saturday during the 14th stage between Pau and Lucho-Superbagnères, could continue to evolve with the polka dot jersey on the roads of France.
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First at the top of the second collar outside the category of this 2025 edition, the grandson of Mariano Martinez (ten participations in the Tour de France) now has 14 points ahead of Michael Woods and 15 on Tadej Pogacar, current yellow jersey and four stages winner since the start of the Tour. Son of Miguel Martinez, Olympic mountain bike champion in 2000, the native of Cannes has been considered for several years as a hope of French cycling.
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“I tell myself that Bernard Hinault (five-time winner of the Tour de France, editor’s note) is perhaps right to see in Lenny his heir” indicated Miguel Martinez about his son, younger leader in the history of the Tour of Spain in August 2023, in the columns of the Parisian. “He (Bernard Hinault, Editor’s note) said some time ago: ‘There is only one French that I see like my successor on the Tour, it is Lenny Martinez.'” Had continued the father. It was precisely since 1985, and the last coronation of Hinault on the Tour, that France awaits its successor.