Tour de France 2025: stage 14 sets blockbuster mountain test in Pyrenees
Date: 2025-07-19T09:30:17.000Z
Title: Here's the official', 'Tour de France', 'map of today's stage 14.
Content: Here's the official Tour de France map of today's stage 14.
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Date: 2025-07-19T09:30:17.000Z
Title: Some Col du Tourmalet data via Strava:
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Key details
Distance: 18.83 km
Elevation Gain: +1,398 m
Average Gradient: 7.65%
KOM (fastest time)
Belongs to Thibault Pinot at 51:13 min.
This was set on 20th July 2019, and you can view the activity here.
Pro v amateur comparison
It takes an average amateur 1 hour and 51 minutes to complete this segment, while the average pro takes around 1 hour and 8 minutes.
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Date: 2025-07-19T09:30:17.000Z
Title: Jeremy Whittle on Friday's time-trial triumph.
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The second time trial in the 2025 Tour was expected to further confirm Pogacar's supremacy over the peloton and so it proved, as the defending champion extended his lead to over four minutes with his fourth stage win in this year's race and the 21st Tour stage of his career.
Riding a standard road bike instead of a time trial setup, he was the fastest at every time check on the 10.9km climb, in many ways a carbon copy of Thursday's ascent to Hautacam, where he also triumphed.
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Date: 2025-07-19T09:30:17.000Z
Title: Preamble
Content: Le Tour is Pogacar's. That much we know, as Tadej, as his good lady wife calls him, has been devastating as soon as the race reached the mountains, previous rivals unable to live with him. This, let us recall, is a rider who has also competed for the Classics all year; this isn't supposed to happen in the modern age. Though Pogacar is rewriting history and collecting stages at a rate that must have Mark Cavendish twitching. The gap is over four minutes, just a crack on a mountain pass away but can Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel rely on that?
Today, the middle Saturday, is another journey into the heart of the Pyrenees. Time for a breakaway? The truth is nobody is strong enough to break away from Pogacar. And as he said himself: 'it's the Tour, you cannot just back off if there's the opportunity for a stage win. You never know when it's your last day on the Tour.'
William Fotheringham's verdict is thus:
A mountain classic: Cols de Tourmalet, Aspin and Peyresourde, plus the pull up to the ski station, where winners include Federico Bahamontes, Greg LeMond, Hinault and Robert Millar, now known as Philippa York. Four big passes make this a decisive day in the mountains prize with a ton of points on offer; the stage winner will probably be a climber who's not figuring overall. Enric Mas of Spain might fit that bill, or the Austrian Felix Gall.
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