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Two good, two bad, too late – Philippa York analyses the tactical miscalculations of the key stages of the 2025 Tour de France

Danish Jonas Vingegaard Hansen of Team Visma-Lease a Bike and Slovenian Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates pictured in action during stage 18 of the 2025 Tour de France cycling race, from Vif to Courchevel Col de la Loze, on Thursday 24 July 2025 in France. The 112th edition of the Tour de France starts on Saturday 5 July in Lille, France, and will finish in Paris, France on the 27th of July. BELGA PHOTO POOL BERNARD PAPON (Photo by POOL BERNARD PAPON / BELGA MAG / Belga via AFP)

The third week of any Grand Tour is always an intriguing time. The race scenarios and tactics become more and more focused as the riders become more fatigued and irritable. Each stage is another opportunity to salvage some kind of a result for those who have been invisible.

On Mont Ventoux, Team Visma–Lease a Bike got their tactics at the Tour de France absolutely spot on. Wout van Aert, Victor Campenaerts, Simon Yates and Sepp Kuss laid down the foundations for the attack that everyone knew was coming from Jonas Vingegaard.

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