One of cycling’s best-loved ascents, the daunting Mont Ventoux, could well be back on the Tour de France route in 2025 after a four-year absence, with a summit finish rumoured for the ‘Giant of Provence’ for the first time in the race since 2016.
According to regional newspaper La Marseillaise, a summit finish on the Ventoux is “expected” in 2025. The media outlet also cites local département president Dominique Santoni as saying that “there was a very strong possibility that the Tour de France comes here next year,” although Santoni did not say exactly where he means by ‘here’.
Pogačar went on to win overall, but Visma-Lease a Bike later said his difficulties that day on the Ventoux became the starting point for their development of a strategy to defeat the UAE Team Emirates racer in the 2022 Tour and again in 2023.
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