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As it happened: Stage 7 of Tour de Suisse comes down to sprint between GC favourites

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The peloton tackles two tough climbs in the final 30km of the 207.5km stage into Emmetten

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Hello and welcome to CyclingNews' live report of the seventh stage of the Tour de Suisse 2025.

Today's stage is the final road stage of the race with the brutal mountain time trial closing proceedings tomorrow.

The neutral zone is due to begin in around 10 minutes and is 5.4km long today.

Today's temperature in Neuhausen is 24°C with an expected peak of 27°C. Thanks to the Alps, Switzerland are getting nothing like some of the heat the rest of Europe is facing at the moment.

The jersey wearers going into today are:

Neutral start

A few issues for riders in the neutral zone. Mauro Schmid (Jayco-AlUla) has been back at the car sorting an problem and Jonas Gregaard (Lotto) has had a mechanical. Both back in the bunch.

207.3km to go

There is a long wait before any mountain sprint or intermediate sprint with the first coming after just over 100km of racing, the category two climb of Schwändi, 3km long with an average gradient of 8.9% and a max of 23.7%.

Multiple attacks coming from the bunch as the fight to form the morning breakaway begins.

Crash!

DNSs today:

After 10km of racing there is no sign of a break forming despite a plethora of attacks coming from the bunch.

A group has a small gap over a peloton.

Multiple groups are now off the front of the peloton as the break continues to try and form. No names confirmed as of yet.

All back together again. The fight begins all over again.

The pace is extremely high after 25km of racing. Yet more attacks coming from the bunch.

A group of about 20 riders have 30" gap on the chasing peloton.

Once again, the attackers are caught. However, the pace is so high that the bunch has split in two!

180km to go

A group of about 15 riders are now just ahead of the first part of the peloton. One rider in the lead group is stage one 3rd place, Bart Lemmen (Visma-Lease a Bike). He is now almost 14 minutes down in GC.

The group including Lemmen have been caught by the first part of the peloton but there is still part of the bunch off the back by around 50".

More attacks come as the riders continue to force a breakaway.

Attack!

It looks like the seven man break may have gone as they now have 40" on the peloton led by UAE Team Emirates-XRG.

The break now has over a minute. They have finally been let go by the peloton. This now gives an chance to the riders who went out of the back when the peloton split to get back in as well. They are currently still 50" down.

The riders are around 65km from the first KoM of the day, the Schwändi.

150km to go

The break now have over two minutes on the peloton.

140km to go

The peloton are letting the gap to the break slowly drift out but not too far. They currently have 2'40" between the two groups.

Abandon:

Another abandon:

110km to go

The gap is now starting to reduce with just over three minutes splitting the break and the peloton.

100km to go

Onto the Schwändi climb they go. Just 3km long but this category 2 climb packs a punch. Average gradient of 8.9% with a max kicker of 23.7%.

Arkea-B&B Hotels and Tudor have joined UAE Team Emirates-XRG at the front of the peloton working for Vauqulin, Alaphilippe and Almeida.

Crash!

After his crash right at the start of the day, Matthew Riccitello (Israel-Premier Tech) is struggling to hold onto the back of the peloton.

KoM (Schwändi)

The action comes thick and fast now as the Tissot Kilometre nears for the riders.

Abandon:

Abandons:

Tissot KM

More abandons:

70km to go

One more abandon:

The race is going passed the beautiful lake of Zugersee. Then they will get to the even larger Vierwaldstatttersee lake with the finish coming just on a climb next to the lake.

Intermediate sprint (Kussnacht)

40km to go

Really big crowds in Luzern. The whole city looks to have come out for the stage.

The gap between the break and the peloton has dropped under a minute.

30km to go

They are just under 5km from the base of the penultimate climb of the day, the 5.5km Bürgenstock. It has an average gradient of 7.8% with a max kick of 11.2%.

Onto the Bürgenstock climb thy go with a gap of 53".

Attack in break

In the peloton, Tudor lead with Alaphilippe in second wheel. Vauquelin following close behind whereas Almeida is a few wheels back going his own pace, as is his style.

Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale now take over the pacing for Felix Gall with Alaphilippe dropping back a few wheels.

Van den Broek and Houle drop Vlasov in the chase group just behind Simmons.

The peloton is being absolutely shredded by the Decathlon-AG2R rider working for Gall. Only about 8 riders left in the main GC group.

20km to go

Attack!

Only Simmons is left out front now with Gall, Alaphilippe, Almeida, Vauquelin and Onley rapidly closing the gap.

Simmons has been caught. Van den Broek is turning himself inside out to try and get back to this front group.

Van den Broek now is back in the lead group. Hands some ice and water to his leader, Onley, and goes to the front to set a strong pace as they try to hold off the rest of the GC riders who are 30" off the back.

Frank van den Broek seems to be absolutely superb at turning himself inside out for a teammate. We saw it at the Tour de France last year with Romain Bardet and now we're seeing it again with Oscar Onley.

KoM (Bürgenstock)

Simmons has dropped back to help his team leader, Lennard Kämna, who is in the second group just about 25" down.

10km to go

All of the GC riders are, understandably, leaning on Van den Broek as he works for Onley. But, he is pulling out more time on the chasing group again with 8km to go.

5km to go

Onto the final climb of Emmetten up to the finish. 3.9km long with an average of 8.3% and a max of 10.2%.

Van den Broek is done and Almeida takes up the pacing. Behind, Simmons is also done with his work for Kamna in the chase just 24" down.

Attack!

Gall looks smooth but he keeps looking back at the quad of GC stars just 6" down on him.

In the chasing group, Ben O'Connor (Jayco-AlUla) is pushing on to try and get across with a few others.

O'Connor is with Kamna, Champoussin and Grossschartner but they are not closing in on the leaders.

Onley comes through to help Almeida in the chase of Gall and just 7" splits them inside 2km to go.

Almeida now pushing very hard and is about to drag Gall back yet again as Alaphilippe can't stay with the pace an longer.

Flamme Rouge!

There was a brief stalling and Alaphilippe is close to getting back on but Onley sees his chance and that sees the former word champion properly dropped.

Wow! Alaphilippe is back! He gets into the wheel of Vauquelin and we are back up to a group of five with 600 metres to go.

Attack!

João Almeida of UAE Team Emirates-XRG wins stage 7 of the Tour de Suisse men 2025 in a vicious sprint to the line.

Oscar Onley of Picnic-PostNL also managed to get around Kévin Vauquelin of Arkea-B&B Hotels despite his late attack. What a finale.

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GC after stage 7

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