Stage 14 contained some classic climbs, some unexpected breakout stars, and some critical movement in the jersey rankings

It wasn’t the kind of thing cycling fans like to see, Remco Evenepoel pulling over to the side of the road and calling it quits on the 2025 Tour de France. Despite a not-ideal lead-up to the world’s biggest bike race, he’d been relatively well until the Stage 13 uphill TT, and then the brutal Stage 14 that finished on Super Bagnères.

It marked the end of a difficult few days for Evenepoel who lost time in the race’s first mountain stage at Hautacam on stage 12, and was then overtaken by Jonas Vingegaard during the stage 13 time trial. At the start of the day he was 7:24 behind yellow jersey wearer Tadej Pogačar.