Durango’s Sepp Kuss and Quinn Simmons were absent from the front of the Tour de France during Stage 7 on Friday or Stage 8 on Saturday. Neither rider finished inside of the top 40 in either stage.

Tour de France continues on Friday with Stage 7, a 197 km trek through Brittany featuring rolling terrain and a dramatic finish at Mûr-de-Bretagne.

Pogacar was happy to cruise around the peloton and stay safe on stage eight and still leads the general classification by 54 seconds from Remco Evenepoel, with Frenchman Kevin Vauquelin a further 17 seconds down and Jonas Vingegaard 1:17 adrift of his big rival.

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Tadej Pogačar remains the -550 favorite to win the 2025 Tour de France after Stage 6 on Thursday, but the competition remains stiff up front where Mathieu van der Peul (+49000) reclaimed the yellow jersey as overall leader, one second ahead of the three-time champion.

Today’s stage eight is a 172km run from Saint-Meen-le-Grand to Laval, in the Pays de la Loire region, and while it’s pretty flat all day there’s a late sting in the tail: a category-four climb with less than 20km left to race, and an uphill drag to the line that may kill off the hopes of some of the pure sprinters.

Various cyclists were knocked off their bikes in a crash during the seventh stage of the 2025 Tour de France.

MUR-DE--BRETAGNE, France -- Mattia Cattaneo, a key teammate of Tour de France contender Remco Evenepoel, has withdrawn from the race.