Who will win the 2025 Tour de France? Ranking the form of the favourites for the yellow jersey

PLATEAU DU MONT-CENIS, FRANCE - JUNE 15: (L-R) Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia and UAE Team Emirates - XRG - Yellow leader jersey and Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark and Team Visma | Lease a Bike compete in the chase group during the 77th Criterium du Dauphine 2025, Stage 8 a 133.3km stage from Val-d'Arc to Plateau du Mont-Cenis 2095m / #UCIWT / on June 15, 2025 in Plateau du Mont-Cenis, France. (Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard are the top two favourites for the yellow jersey (Image credit: Getty Images)

The start of the 2025 Tour de France is just around the corner on Saturday July 5, with the last WorldTour preparation stage races at the Crtiérium du Dauphiné and Tour de Suisse in the rear-view mirror, and the final tune-ups at altitude camp now being completed.

The three big-name favourites for the Tour and the podium from last year's race, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuckStep), all showed themselves at the French race, the pecking order seemingly the same as last July.

James Moultrie
News Writer

James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a few.

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