Top riders to watch in the 2025 Tour de France
Tadej Pogačar
It shouldn’t come as a shock to see the 26-year-old world champion’s name front and centre when discussing maillot jaune candidates. After all, he’s got three of them hung in his closest back home in Slovenia.
Nonetheless, Tadej Pogačar returns to France – and the roads that first introduced him to the world – with one goal in mind: winning his fourth Tour de France.
If his early-season form is any indication, the peloton should be nervous…very nervous.
Ranked No.1 in the world, Pogačar has been on an absolute tear this season, racking up one-day “classics” wins at Strade Bianche, Ronde van Vlaanderen, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
Furthermore, he’s proven he’s more than a one-trick, or perhaps a single-day, pony, picking up general classification palmarès at the UAE Tour and Critérium du Dauphiné – an all-important tune-up race held weeks before the Tour de France.
Known for his aggressive style of riding and unwillingness to accept defeat until the very end, expect nothing short of adrenaline-inducing racing from Pogačar, as he attempts to make the French countryside his pièce de résistance once more.