The Butte Montmartre in novelty, timetables, a puncturer more than a victorious sprinter on the Champs-Elysées? The 21st stage in questions

During the final stage of the 2025 edition, the peloton will borrow the Butte Montmartre three times, in memory of the Paris Olympics, before concluding on the Champs-Elysées.

A final step in tribute to the Paris Olympic Games, a year after the opening ceremony. To complete the 2025 edition of the Tour de France, the peloton will start from Mantes-la-Ville towards Paris, Sunday July 27. But the final will have unusual features this year, with the triple ascent of the Butte Montmartre and seven passages on the avenue des Champs-Elysées. The day after a step marked by the rain and won by the Australian Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck), it is the last chance to see a second Frenchman lift his arms on this tower, after Valentin Paret-Peintre.

What profile?

No less than five ribs listed on the 21st stage menu. Before a well -deserved rest, the runners will have to swallow 132.3 kilometers. Launched from Mantes-la-Ville, they will take the direction of Versailles by first climbing the Côte de Bazemont (1.7 km at 7%), then they will climb the second difficulty of the day, the Côte du Pavé des Guards (700 m to 9.7%), on the Olympic marathon program last year.

Once arrived in Paris, the sprinters will have their hands with four passages on the finish line placed on the Champs-Elysées-an intermediate sprint will take place during the third crossing. Then, the Punchers will be called upon to plunge back into their memories of the joyful din last summer in the hill of the Butte Montmartre (1.1 km at 5.9%), which they will have to climb three times before spining the Champs-Elysées one last time.

What favorites?

While traditionally the last step is promised to sprinters, that the sip yellow champagne jersey with its teammates upstream of the arrival in Paris, this time the peloton should remain concentrated until the final passage on the avenue des Champs-Elysées. And the sprinters will have to hang on if they want to play the final victory on the cobblestones.

The Putnanchers, like Wout Van Aert or Julian Alaphilippe, but also and above all Tadej Pogacar, have every chance of shining. If the yellow jersey is essential, it will become the first carrier of the golden tunic to win the last stage of the big loop on the fields from Bernard Hinault, in 1979.

What are the hours?

Start of the retransmission: 3:20 p.m. on France 2 and 4:05 p.m. on france.tv(New window)(New window)(New window)(New window)

Fictive departure: 4:10 p.m.

Real departure: 4:25 p.m.

Provisional arrival: 7:26 p.m.