Tour De France 2025: Stage 13 Time Trial Sends Riders Up Climb To Peyragudes – Live

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Stage 13: Loudenvielle to Peyragudes individual clip trial, 11km

Here’s a look astatine today’s stage, Friday 18 July: Loudenvielle to Peyragudes individual clip trial, 11km, pinch William Fotheringham’s preview:

Three kilometres of flat, 8 consecutive uphill against nan watch, culminating successful a last kilometre astatine 16%. This is simply a time for nan GC men, pinch perfectly nary hiding aliases bluffing. Whoever wins present will person a very bully chance of winning wide successful Paris, truthful it’s a time for Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard to show precisely what they’ve sewage successful nan tank. For everyone else, it’s harm limitation.

Preamble

After an perfectly sadistic time successful nan mountains yesterday, nan Tour de France riders are successful for a 10.9km individual clip proceedings (ITT), complete pinch an 8km, class 1 climb pinch an average gradient of 7.9%. So, not your accustomed level ITT.

Of course, each eyes will beryllium connected nan GC contenders, namely Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) who is starring successful nan yellowish jersey pinch a 2min 10sec spread connected 2nd placed Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike).

It could each spell arsenic expected – Pogačar gained important clip connected Vingegaard during shape five’s level ITT – but coming could besides propulsion up immoderate suprises. Away from nan duelling duo, Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) is 13secs down Vingegaard, Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) is successful 4th spot and young Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL) has sewage pundits excited.

During shape 13, each eyes will beryllium connected nan yellowish jersey leader Tadej Pogačar (R) and 2nd placed Jonas Vingegaard (L). Photograph: Martin Divíšek/EPA

Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick-Step), Felix Gall (Decathlon-Ag2R La Mondiale), Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Cristián Rodríguez (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) information retired nan apical 10 connected GC.

Today’s shape will commencement astatine 1.10pm CEST (12.10pm BST) with nan first rider, past placed Mattéo Vercher (TotalEnergies) rolling down nan ramp, and is scheduled to wrap up aft Pogačar takes his move astatine astir 5.05pm CEST (4.05pm BST). As always, get successful touch pinch your predictions, questions and thoughts connected today’s shape via nan email linked above.

Here’s a recap of yesterday’s stage: