{"id":192897,"date":"2025-07-18T19:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/tour-de-france-2025-stage-14-preview-finale-in-the-pyrenees-strikes-with-four-fierce-climbs-to-mountaintop-finish\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:02:11","slug":"tour-de-france-2025-stage-14-preview-finale-in-the-pyrenees-strikes-with-four-fierce-climbs-to-mountaintop-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/tour-de-france-2025-stage-14-preview-finale-in-the-pyrenees-strikes-with-four-fierce-climbs-to-mountaintop-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2025 stage 14 preview &#8211; Finale in the Pyren\u00e8es strikes with four fierce climbs to mountaintop finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-de-france\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-de-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France<\/a> makes its obligatory annual visit to Pau for the start of the stage 14, another difficult day in the high mountains. Four classified climbs dominate the final 100 kilometres of the 182.6km adventure from Pau to Luchon-Superbagn\u00e8res, with 4,950 metres of elevation gain, only second for a heavy load of climbing to stage 18&#8217;s queen stage next week.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 14 replicates the 1986 route where a showdown between Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault unfolded on that race&#8217;s stage 13. LeMond dominated that day&#8217;s stage, soundly defeating race leader Hinault, which led to the US rider taking overall victory.<\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-base\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The heights of the Pyrenees still loom large in the distance as the opening 70km roll slightly uphill to the only intermediate sprint of the day, Esquieze-S\u00e8re. From there, riders are directly on the ramp to the fearsome Col du Tourmalet (19km at 7.4%), making its 89th appearance in the Tour. The ascent to the Tourmalet uses the direction from Luz-Saint-Sauveur, the least travelled by the Tour.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-solid border-y border-neutral-300\">\n<span class=\"font-article-heading block pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333]\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The first rider across the summit of this hors categorie climb will receive the Souvenir Jacques Goddet, which has been a near-annual tradition since 2001. It will also mark the first of four ascents at this year\u2019s race to reach 2,000 metres above sea level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The nearly 17km descent through La Mongie and Sainte-Marie-de-Campin leads to back-to-back ascents of Col d\u2019Aspin (5km at 7.6%) and Col de Peyresourde (7.1km at 7.8%). Passing through Bagn\u00e8res-de-Luchon, a thermal spa town at the confluence of L&#8217;One and Pique rivers, riders then rush towards the ski resort at Superbagn\u00e8res (12.4km at 7.3%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">With two mountain stages already causing legs to burn, the gradient to the mountaintop finish bumps up to 10% in the final 1,500 metres. Not only a prestigious win awaits, but bonus points for the top three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Last year Col du Tourmalet featured in stage 14&#8217;s mid-stage battle to Pla d&#8217;Adet, where Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) rode solo ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) for the stage win. Like last year, Poga\u010dar rides the stage in yellow with Vingegaard chasing in second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The parade of categorised ascents will not only uncover riders suffering in the second week of racing, but provide a playground for attacks for contenders to prove themselves against one of the best climbers, and current race leader.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-imageGallery-RmpRqnxrYAupNCn6NSjfW8-TAfR8DQLfMfXbZff9bHr2MOvWUBofT2Z\" class=\"slice-container imageGallery-wrapper imageGallery-RmpRqnxrYAupNCn6NSjfW8-TAfR8DQLfMfXbZff9bHr2MOvWUBofT2Z slice-container-imageGallery\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"inline-gallery first-slide-only\">\n<p>Image <!-- -->1<!-- --> of <!-- -->2<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow-x:hidden\" class=\"inline-gallery__items\">\n<div style=\"-webkit-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;-webkit-transition:all 0s ease 0s;transition:all 0s ease 0s;-webkit-transform:translate(0%, 0);transform:translate(0%, 0);direction:ltr;display:flex;will-change:transform\" class=\"react-swipeable-view-container\">\n<div style=\"width:100%;-webkit-flex-shrink:0;flex-shrink:0;overflow:auto\" aria-hidden=\"false\" data-swipeable=\"true\">\n<div class=\"items__item\">\n<div class=\"item__image-cont\">\n<div class=\"image-cont__image\">\n<figure class=\"image-wrapped__wrapper\" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"false\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapped__widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:1355px\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapped__aspect-padding\" style=\"padding-bottom:78.45018450184502%\">\n<div style=\"display:contents\"><picture data-hydrate=\"true\"><source class=\"image-wrapped__image image__image\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/fo9RJZX4xJhMrtyDTcBxwA-320-80.png.webp 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/fo9RJZX4xJhMrtyDTcBxwA-480-80.png.webp 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/fo9RJZX4xJhMrtyDTcBxwA-650-80.png.webp 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/fo9RJZX4xJhMrtyDTcBxwA-970-80.png.webp 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/fo9RJZX4xJhMrtyDTcBxwA-1024-80.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/fo9RJZX4xJhMrtyDTcBxwA-1200-80.png.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 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Four classified climbs dominate the final 100 kilometres of the 182.6km adventure from Pau to Luchon-Superbagn\u00e8res, with 4,950 metres of elevation gain, only second for a heavy load of climbing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6804],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-192897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}