The most demanding of the Pyrenean stages combines the classic with the new. A showdown between the Tour’s big favourites is quite possible on the climbs of the Col d’Aspin and the Col du Tourmalet, assuming, of course, that they decide to join battle with more than 40 kilometres of the stage remaining. If they hold back, though, the day’s spoils will be contested by the best climbers in the breakaway in the sumptuous setting of the Cirque de Gavarnie, which they’ll reach after a long but rolling climb – 18.7 kilometres at an average gradient of 4%.
Christian Prudhomme's comment
October 23
rd
2025
- 12:20
Pau > Gavarnie-Gèdre
