The 2025 Tour of France begins strong! The first stage of the Big Loop on Saturday in the North attracted “more than one million viewers” on the road of the road and to the television public has been the best for 25 years, the deputy director of cycling in ASO, said Pierre-Yves Thouault. “We are in very important figures and obviously we welcome it,” said Christian’s assistant Prudhomme on Sunday at the beginning of the second stage in Lauwin-Planque.
With more than one million viewers during the first stage, a loop around Lille, “we are almost at the Yorkshire level,” he insisted on Pierre-Yves Thouault, which is based on the figures collected by the North Prefecture. The great departure in 2014 in Yorkshire, county of northern England, remains the reference in terms of popular success.
“The best audience since 2000”
The spectators were also there on Saturday, added the manager of ASO, with …