The Tour de Suisse has long served as a final proving ground before the Tour de France, and the 2025 edition delivered drama, dominance, and a few moments of clarity. From Egan Bernal’s 2019 win en route to yellow in Paris to Geraint Thomas and Richard Carapaz translating Swiss form into Tour podiums, the race often reveals more than just who’s in shape. It hints at how July may unfold.
This year, the Criterium du Dauphine, the other one-week June stage race, stole the show. That's bound to happen when Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar arrive up to the same race, something that has only happened only a small handful of times outside the Tour itself.
Suisse, instead, showed us what may happen in the gaps between the great battles of the Tour's two favorites, as well as provided insight into one of the riders set to support Pogačar next month. We learned absolutely nothing about Vingegaard's support since the Visma Tour squad all headed straight for an altutide camp after the Dauphiné.
Suisse still provided some insight. It featured a mountainous route capped by a brutal uphill time trial, with tricky mid-week stages that look a lot like the routes riders will face in the first week of the Tour. Most obviously, it was won by a rider Pogačar will rely on in the high mountains in July.
Here’s what we learned, and what it might mean with the Grand Départ less than two weeks away:
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