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On the large loop, runners go faster and faster with 10% speed earned in five years. But don't rhythms become too high? Are the falls more numerous and more violent?
The image marked the start of the Tour de France 2025: a violent collective fall at more than 60 km/h, downhill, in the last kilometers of the 7th stage. Big fright in followers. Some are abandoned, others, like Louis Barré, hang on to cross the finish line. No question of abandoning, even if the French still has its wounds. His friends came to encourage him, impressed by his strength of character.
Courageous but not unconscious. But why are there so many cyclists on the ground? Sprints are still as disputed, the speed only increases and the peloton is increasingly connected. The Tour medical team has been intervening every day since the big departure, as close as possible to the wounded runners. Joao Almeida, best support from Tadej Pogacar, abandoned, Sunday, July 13, too decreased by the fall of the 7th stage.
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