Vingegaard will run in Paris-Nice, which has a tough last weekend and a team time trial on a racetrack for cars.

It will begin in Paris-Nice for Jonas Vingegaard. Dane who has won the Tour de France twice will start in Yvelines on March 9. This was talked about during the Race to the Sun course presentation. The Visma | Lease a Bike team leader has only used this race twice before, choosing instead to ride in Tirreno-Adriatico most of the time.

But this year he has picked the French multi-day race. The announcement was made by Christian Prudhomme at the Paris-Nice presentation. “We will have a great field of participants, especially now that we know Jonas Vingegaard will be racing here—he has never won Paris-Nice before,” the Tour de France director said. “I can imagine he wants 2025 to be a year of revenge after Tadej Pogacar’s victory in the last Tour.” This week, Vingegaard has been working in Spain. His last race was in 2023, and he came in third, 1 minute and 39 seconds behind Pogacar.

There are eight rounds in the 2025 edition. The sprinters will go through three rounds. Two stages will be transitional, which means they’ll probably be good for riders who want to get away, and two stages are meant for riders who are competing for the general classification. On top of that, there is a 28-kilometer team time trial scheduled for the Magny-Cours car racing track. During the last weekend, the mountain stages will be very important. First, riders will have to go over the Col de la Colmiane. The stage will end at the Auron ski resort, which is 1,600 meters above sea level and could have snow.

Will the rough last weekend decide the winner?

People who like riding will already know that the last stage starts and ends in Nice. There are three first-class climbs that riders will have to go up: the Col de Porte (7 km, 7.2% grade), the Côte de la Peille (6.5 km, 6.9% grade), and the Col des Quatre Chemins. With an average grade of 8.8% and stretches that reach a punishing 16%, the nearly four-kilometer climb has become the most important part of the race. Matteo Jorgenson, who rides for Vingegaard’s Visma team, won the multi-day race last year.