Tour de France 2025 - Stage 19: Voigt's preview: A dangerous day for everyone

Stage 19 | Friday, 25 July 2025 | Albertville - La Plagne | 93.1 kilometres

Jens Voigt's assessment of the 19th stage

My favourite stage of this Tour de France - on an incredibly difficult route with three mountain classifications: A large part of the day's route leads uphill - including the mountain finish in La Plagne. Today will be a day that could turn everything upside down - a nightmare par excellence for the sprinters.

This will be a stage in which there will be no group ghetto and everyone will try to fight their way through on their own to stay within the time limit. And the team wearing the yellow jersey will either have to be very strong today or ride very cleverly! Because with almost 3000 kilometres of racing in their legs, riders can "explode" spectacularly today, and entire teams can "smoke themselves out", as they say in racing jargon.

It will be a dangerous day for all those wearing the classification jerseys. Today is one of the rare days when EVERYONE will warm up on the rollers before the start! It's all ups and downs over the Col du Pré (HC) and the Cormet de Roselend (2nd cat.) and then into the 19-kilometre finale to the summit of La Plagne (HC) at 2069 metres. I call this an honest day: everyone has to lay their cards on the table. Hiding or cleverness won't help today - only performance counts.

Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of the 19th stage of the Tour de France 2025

• Neutral start: 14:30, sharp start 14:45
• Estimated arrival time: between 17:13 and 17:31
• TV broadcast: ARD 14:10-17:35, Eurosport 1 14:00-18:20
• Live stream: sportschau.de, Discovery Plus (fee required)
• All stages of the Tour de France 2025 at a glance

Highlights of the 19th stage

• 16:00: The finale of this tour begins with the ride over the Cormet de Roselend, a dangerous descent and showdown on the final climb to La Plagne.

TOUR expert Jens Voigt

Nobody in the German-speaking world knows the Tour de France better: Jens Voigt competed as a professional in the most important cycling race a total of 17 times between 1998 and 2014. Only the Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel, the current record holder, has managed one more participation. Voigt knows the race from the perspective of the winner and the tireless helper in the team. He won two stages himself and wore the yellow jersey for one day each in 2001 and 2005. In 2010, as a team-mate in Team Saxo Bank, he accompanied Luxembourg's Andy Schleck to his overall victory (after the doping disqualification of Alberto Contador, who initially came first; editor's note). The 53-year-old Berliner currently works as a brand ambassador for the bike manufacturer Trek and as a pundit for the Eurosport channel.

For TOUR readers, the former pro gives his predictions for the course of the 21 stages, points out difficulties and things worth seeing. For each day's stage, he gives a tip on what role the course could play in the final standings in the individual classifications in Paris. If three of the jerseys are coloured, this means that this day could be decisive for this classification - i.e. overall classification (yellow), sprint/points classification (green) and classification of the best climber (red dotted jersey). We also give you the broadcast times of the TV channels in Germany (ARD and Eurosport) and their live streams - plus tips on when it might be particularly worth tuning in.