Closest thing to a dead cert? Betting company offers shortest ever odds for Tadej Pogačar to win the 2025 Tour de France

Bookies reckon the three-time winner has his best ever chance of winning at this year's Grande Boucle

Tadej Pogacar before the Tour De France grand depart 2025
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We don't need a betting company to tell us that Tadej Pogačar is the favourite to win the Tour de France this month. However, as if to underline the fact, William Hill has now offered its shortest ever odds for the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider to pull on the yellow jersey in Paris – 4/11.

That means for every £11 you put down, you'll get a princely four back. It's not the most attractive wager, but if the form book is anything to go by it's about as close to a dead cert that you'll get. (Subject to crashes, illness, off-days, and all the rest of it, of course, so please don't take our word for that).

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After cutting his teeth on local and national newspapers, James began at Cycling Weekly as a sub-editor in 2000 when the current office was literally all fields.

Eventually becoming chief sub-editor, in 2016 he switched to the job of full-time writer, and covers news, racing and features.

He has worked at a variety of races, from the Classics to the Giro d'Italia – and this year will be his seventh Tour de France.

A lifelong cyclist and cycling fan, James's racing days (and most of his fitness) are now behind him. But he still rides regularly, both on the road and on the gravelly stuff.

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