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Maxime T’Sjoen
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In his mission as director of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme makes a point of honor to create mythsstories. To find new ones, he has placed on the map (since the 2020 Tour) le col de la stroseswhere the arrival of the 18th stage This Thursday, July 24, 2025.
A real hassle for sprinters, but the favorites should give themselves to heart. Before that, you will have to stuff the 171 km from the route which provides for the Col du Glandon and that of the Madeleine.
“It’s phenomenal”
“We have to go get new places, passes that will be those of today’s kids,” explained the boss of the Tour to actu.fra few months ago.
For me, the Col de la Loze is the 21st century pass: there are slope ruptures that do not exist elsewhere in France at such an altitude. At more than 2300 meters, we are 5 %, then go to 17 or 18 %, it is phenomenal.
Inevitably, it will be the playground for the best climbers in the peloton. Especially since there is not only the Loze In this “most demanding stage” stage.
5,500 m of elevation gainwith the climbs at the Col du Glandon (21.7 km at 5.1 %) then the Madeleine (19.2 km at 7.9 %). Before the LOZE (26.2 km at 6.5 %).
History side
Difficult to find a historic anecdote with a pass which has only been borrowed for five years, but the climb of the Col de la Loze 2023 will remain in the annals. Already, due to the Felix Gall number which is solo in Courchevel, a few kilometers after crossing the summit. But it is especially in this climb that Jonas Vingegaard won the Tour de France, after having wrung Tadej Pogacar the previous days. That day, the Slovenian will say on his team’s radio, which he “died” and will definitively lose the big loop.
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Knowing The desire to tadej pugacar to make history From cycling, the Slovenian will do everything to raise his arms in this stage with this famous collar renowned as the hardest in France.
If you don’t want to look at everything, you will have to see this final climb that should start vers 16 h 05. But if we had to give you advice, it would be this: if you can look at the whole race which, as a reminder, is broadcast in full on Eurosport and France Télévisions, Do it!
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