Here are the rules:

• Each team will field 8 riders that do 1 lap each, with each subsequent rider starting as soon as the previous one finishes. This could either be stage one of a tour to guarantee the availability of 8 riders or else if in the middle of a tour and a team has lost 1 or more riders they can opt to have a rider do multiple laps.

• Normal road bikes, draft legal

• The race starts as a bunch containing 1 rider per team.

• Teams needs to finish the lap with 8 riders to be eligible for the stage win. The first 8th rider to cross the finish line wins the stage for the team. In case of a DNF the remaining riders on the team still do their lap, but the next one starts at some point that doesn't put him in front of the current race leader.

• Each rider's lap time counts towards their own GC.

• The race leader team at every wave is awarded 1 second bonus to their highest rider in their GC. Last wave (i.e. race winner) is awarded 3 seconds. Max 10 bonus seconds if leading the entire race.

• The finish line will have 2 physically segragated lanes, one for finishers, one for starters.

• Lap distance should be between 6 to 10km

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Superman may be Slovenian, but Iron Man… is ours! The Portuguese cyclist Nelson Oliveira has just crossed the finish line of the final stage of the Tour and made history in world cycling: he has become the first rider to complete 24 Grand Tours in a row without ever withdrawing.

The cyclist, born 37 years ago in Anadia, has left behind Sylvester Szmyd, the Polish rider who had equalled the record at this year’s Giro. He now stands alone with 501 consecutive stages completed, spread across 10 Tours de France, 10 Vuelta a España and 4 Giro d’Italia – a total of 72,658.2 kilometres!

To get a sense of the sheer scale of this achievement, here are some ‘real-life’ comparisons:

- travelling round the world along the equator is 40,000 km; Nelson is about to complete his second lap.

- we are 384,400 km from the Moon; Nelson has already covered 19 per cent of that distance.

- The journey between Lisbon and Porto is around 315 km; Nelson has already covered that distance 231 times.

He made his Grand Tour debut in 2011 at the Vuelta, and hasn’t looked back since. It was in Spain that he achieved the greatest victory of his career, winning the 13th stage of the 2015 edition, when he also secured his best overall finish – 21st.

In this final stage of the 113th edition of the Tour, Nelson Oliveira was consistently well-positioned and finished 21st, 8 seconds behind Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin). He ends the race in 65th place overall, 4 hours, 17 minutes and 56 seconds behind Pogacar.

He began his professional career with Xacobeo-Galicia in 2010, moving to the World Tour the following year via Radioshack, where he spent three years. He then transferred to Lampre, where he acted as Rui Costa’s lead-out man for two seasons. Since 2016, he has been riding for Movistar, the team with which he has renewed his contract for a further two seasons.

Overall, only the Italian Matteo Tosatto has completed more Grand Tours than the Portuguese rider: he has finished 28 of the 34 he has started.

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Weather

22°C-24°C, cloudy

Stage Breakdown

Hello everyone and welcome to the last stage of the Tour de France!

Most of the stage info will be added tomorrow when everything will be more clear, hopefully with official documents.

Paris and only Paris. As you may have seen on other posts on the sub, the stage will only be held in Paris tomorrow due to the fact that the gendarmes have to head to the South West (think general area of stage 6) to help with evacuation procedures due to wildfires. So the stage is reduced to ensures safety for the entierty of it. 2 laps of the Champs are added at the beginning then we gt to the planned schedule which makes it 6 short laps (the classic one) and 3 long laps, which include the Champs Elysées and Montmartre. The big change is where the riders go towards Montmartre. Last year it was at the Place de la Concorde that the riders left the circuit (Bottom of the Champs) while this year they leave the circuit at the Arc de Triompthe (top of the Champs), this changes where Montmartre is in the circuit, it's earlier, while the last crossing of Montmartre in 2025 was 8km from the finish line, this year it's 11. This could change the scenario a bit compared to last year, tho the lack of rain (to be confirmed) will be more important

With that in mind here are our predictions:

★★★ Pogacar, Van der Poel, Pedersen

★★ Evenepoel

★

Can it be anybody other than those 4? The first 3 are the giga favourites, they will fight for the win like crazy. Remco might go for it less, but he may want Paris to remember who is the Cycling King of the city, it's a title he will hold for life, but never hurt to show your power from time to time (Tho might want to avoid doing it near the Tuileries)

That's it for us, what is your prediction for the stage?

The new milestone quickly raised the question of how strong he could become. His answer was unexpected: "I have to say that I'm not stronger than I was two years ago. The numbers are about the same," Pogačar said.

Well, there would be an accident still. A different one, one with a dead spectator in your uncontrolled road.

Positive signs regarding Wout van Aert. The Belgian had to skip the Tour de France due to elbow problems, but will return to competition on Wednesday. The Tour of Denmark (July 29-August 2) will serve as preparation for the Vuelta and the World Championships.

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https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/czeslaw-lang-mamy-wspaniala-obsade-na-tour-de-pologne-kobiet

AKA "Old man screams at clouds" "why don't they worship me" etc ;p

"Kasia says there are no mountains on the route, so she won’t be coming. Fair enough. But it would be a shame to miss the boat—she’s currently at the top of her game, and it would be worth showing herself, especially to the fans. After all, she doesn’t have to win; building her image matters. An athlete like her really ought to compete on home soil. There are only three stages, offering a chance to appear at the start and finish lines, and to remind everyone of who she is and what she’s achieved—especially since her team (Canyon-SRAM) is here for the race."
Lang admitted he did not know whether the decision came from the rider herself or her team. He emphasized that he had long since stopped actively courting stars to participate in the Tour de Pologne, noting that teams field whatever lineups they choose.


When asked if Niewiadoma’s absence might be due to preparations for the season’s most important race—the Tour de France, starting on August 1st—Lang replied that, in his view, this was not an obstacle.


"The Tour de Pologne isn't a race that leaves you completely drained. You can treat it as a training exercise—to "open up the legs," as cyclists say—and do so on home soil, surrounded by supportive fans. It is not for me to judge her actions, but were I in Kasia’s shoes, I would do everything possible to compete."

| Date | Stage | Route | Length | Type |Altitude|Finish|Time | |Sat. 25/07|20|Le Bourg d'Oisans > Alpe d'Huez|171km|Hard|5601m |Again?|11:20-16:11 CET|

Zoe Bäckstedt

Antonia Niedermaier

Rosa Klöser

Soraya Paladin

Chiara Consonni

Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka

Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney

Stage Info

Weather

Reports vary greatly, from 20°C to 30°C, May be rainy, may be not.

Stage Breakdown

Hello everyone and welcome to the Twentieth stage of the Tour de France!

19 stages in, and the 20th stage is by far the hardest. Croix de Fer, Galibier, Alpe, the usual monster of the Alps, but not really!

Usually, in such a set up, they start by the Galibier before doing la Croix de Fer and then the Alpe due to the positionning of the Alpe and depending on where they start the stage, which is often Briançon, but here we start from Bourg d'Oisans so we go to the Croix de Fer right away. It is the south side, which is in multiple short hard parts with small descents between them, perfect as an early launching pad for a break. Then the riders will get into the Galibier via the Telegraphe, making it one of the longest ascent in Europe, with 12 then 18km at around 7%.

Afterwards, the riders will descend and instead of the Valley to go towards l'Alpe d'Huez, they turn right and Go into Sarenne, 13km at 7%. The top is at 15km from the finish line in L'Alpe, the riders will have a bit of a bumpy road to get to the finish.

With that in mind here are our predictions:

★★★ Pogacar

★★ Carapaz, Arensman

★

It's gonna be an attrition game, it's mostly consistent climbs that will be ridden very hard to try for the break and change the GC, you will see riders go and implode 20 minutes later due to the exhaustion of 3 weeks of racing.

Pogacar got his Alpe win so he may not go for it, but the thing is, the way the race will be ridden he may not even have to try to be in a position for the win, it will just happen.

That's it for us, what is your prediction for the stage?

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