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.

Another stage for the sprinters as the peloton tackle a pan-flat 174.1km route from Chinon to Châteauroux

Portugal's Joao Almeida retires from the race during the ninth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 174.1 kilometres (108 miles) with start in Chinon and finish in Chateauroux, France, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP)

A key teammate of Tour de France leader Tadej Pogačar has abandoned the race. João Almeida had fractured a rib during Stage 7 and was dropped early during Sunday’s ninth

Stage 7 unfolds across a picturesque expanse of northwestern France, starting in the historic port city of Saint-Malo and winding its way through the departments of Ille-et-Vilaine and Côtes-d'Armor.

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.

There were high expectations for him from the outside world, but before the Tour de France, Thibau Nys ( Lidl-Trek) already tempered those expectations somewhat. Rightly so, as it turned out: in the first days,