It was hot on this edition of Tour de France 2025! Despite everything, the runners will face fairly extreme temperature deviations in a few days, sometimes more than 20 ° C difference arriving in the Alps, the next judgment of the Tour. The weather could play greatly on the organizations and in the general classification of this 112nd edition, as explained by the former professional runner and now a member of the organization of the Tour de France and the management of ASO, François Lemarchandto our microphone Cyclism’Actuthis Wednesday from Bollène.
“It can rebatte the cards …”
“Yes, we were hot, even if we expected even more warmth”begins the former professional runner. “It was difficult especially on the side of Toulouse, but the runners know how to manage this. A few days of freshness are coming. The organizations will still suffer, and there could be failures. We risk losing up to 20 degrees. 20 degrees of difference, it is huge. But that's also it, the Tour de France: we are going to climb very high, so we have to be expected. The organization is very very hot. The body must constantly adapt, which makes cycling very difficult.
Maybe. We hope it will not be like in Tignes in 2019. We will see. The organizers fear this type of conditions which can upset everything. We fear hail, rain, mud or extreme heat. Unfortunately, we cannot stop the race as an indoor match. We remain very vigilant. We make the decisions at the last moment, with all the information available, to be as fair as possible and guarantee the safety of the runners “concludes François Lemarchand to our microphone Cyclism’Actu.
