From Plumelec and the Cadoudal slope with Valverde in yellow in 2008 at 2,000 meters from the top of Madeleine (which the men will have crowned a week before and which Andrés Gandarias’ victory in 1969 inaugurated for the Tour) and also the Joux Plane, from West to East of the hexagon, from the Armorican coast (where the irreducible Gauls lived) to the Alps where Hannibal entered with his elephants, and then Julius Caesar, the women’s Tour de France of 2025 (July 26, Saturday, to August 3, Sunday), is a long straight line (longer than any year, already nine stages, more than 1,000 kilometers) towards the sunrise and broken at its heights by as many mountains as it crosses.
It is the map on which the Dutch goddess Demi Vollering will seek her redemption, defeated in 2024 by the Polish Katarzyna Niewiadoma after a rough battle in the 21 curves of the Alpe d’Huez. Vollering, 27 years old, who was just 4s away from repeating the victory in 2023, has left SD Worx, his team of recent years, the best in the world, and will lead the French team FDJ for its new assault on the Tour. Suez.
The rugged route (only two sprint stages are planned, compared to three steep ones, two medium-mountain ones in the Averno volcanoes and the pre-Alps and a weekend of high altitude in the great Alps, and there will be no time trial) will also be a magnificent, and tough, exam for the Spanish cyclists of the future, the daughters of Mavi García, the last Spanish Tour woman, who will turn 41 in January. Both, the Basque Eneritz Vadillo (from Gorliz and its beach, Bizkaia, and turns 20 this Friday) and the Catalan Paula Blasi (from Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, and 21 years old), revealed themselves as magnificent climbers and Tour women in the recent Tour del Porvenir, where they shone in the terrible Finestre over Sestriere and finished third and fourth, respectively, in the final general classification.
If in its fourth edition since ASO took over its organization, the women’s Tour grows in length and toughness, the gap remains in the same proportions, 10 to one, with respect to the men’s Tour: the total amount of the prizes It is 250,000 euros (2.3 million for men), and the winner will take home 50,000 euros (500,000 euros for men).
Saturday, July 26, 1st stage, Vannes-Côte de Cadoudal), 79km
Sunday, July 27, 2nd, Brest-Quimper, 110km
Monday, July 28, 3rd, Le Gacilly-Angers, 162km
Tuesday, July 29, 4th, Saumur-Poitiers, 128km
Wednesday, July 30, 5th, Futuroscope-Guéret, 166km
Thursday, July 31, 6th, Clermont Ferrand-Ambert, 124km
Friday, August 1, 7th, Bourg en Bresse-Chambéry, 160km
Saturday, August 2, 8th, Chambéry-Col de la Madeleine, 112km
Sunday, August 3, 9th, Praz sur Arly-Châtel, 124km
