By its final week, the 2025 Tour de France had devolved into a meander through Whine Country—this edition was too long, too hard, too wet, too unlucky with injuries and illnesses to be compelling in the way the sport’s grandest competition habitually was.

Florian Lipowitz planned a quiet Monday in Paris after a stunning third-place finish at the Tour de France the previous day. "I am looking forward to the break," the Tour debutant said after completing the final podium behind four-time winner Tadej Pogacar and ex-champion Jonas Vingegaard.

Last year’s Tour concluded outside Paris for the first time since 1905 because of a scheduling conflict with the Olympics, with the final stage held in Nice. The Champs-Élysées returned this year for the conclusion of the 3,320-kilometer (2,060-mile) race.

The biggest race of the year has started: the Tour de France. On Saturday, July 5, the peloton started from Lille, with the race set to conclude three weeks later with the (not so) traditional finish in the French capital,

The 33-year-old is the second GC competitor to drop out of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes with stomach issues after Marlen Reusser.

Mavi Garcia has become the oldest rider to win a stage at the women’s Tour de France. The 41-year-old Spaniard clinched the second stage on Sunday with a solo breakaway.

The Tour de France comes to a close in Paris, but could the late loops of hilly Montmartre tempt Tadej Pogacar to one final stage win?