Tour de France 2025: “It’s really a skating rink …” Why the organizers decided to freeze times before arrival on the fields

This is a particular rule for a step which is just as much. Similarly, This Sunday. In addition, when the Tour de France 2025 is preparing to crown for the fourth time Tadej Pogacar on the Champs-Élysées, the organizers communicated, once the test started, that a change of size was going to be carried out. Moreover, In question, the climatic conditions which do not facilitate this 21st and last step. “Due to weather conditions, times in the general classification will be frozen in the 4th tour de france 2025: “it’s passage on the finish line, 50.3 km from the finish” said the organizers at 5.25 pm.

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A decision that will please Lilian Calmejane. A little earlier in the morning. the Tarnais now retired from the professional circuit, had recognized the stage before calling on the caution of the runners. “At the bottom, we have a very very fast road, not paved, but there is ice where the leaves fall. It is really a skating rink. You can even fall when you walk. so by bicycle it is very very dangerous,” he said in a posted video on his social networks.

By deciding to freeze times long before arrival on the Champs-Élysées. the organizers tour de france 2025: “it’s hope to avoid falls, especially because the peloton will three times set up the Montmartre hill and in particular the pavers on rue Lepic. Also. this decision will allow runners wishing to lift their foots to take advantage of these last kilometers on the 2025 Tour, while others will be able to fight for a stage victory that is always so prestigious. Although the weather has decided to get involved.