Just like in the 2000 Tour de France, the 2025 Tour will finish on the Mont Ventoux today. Back then, Italian super climber Marco Pantani had a brief return to his best. He attacked on the Ventoux,, but only won the stage after Armstrong gifted it to him. A short, but very heated, rivalry was born.
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