Tour de France 2025The best pictures from the second week of the race

Double duel on the last metres of the 11th stage in Toulouse: While Jonas Abrahamsen and Mauro Schmid duel for the stage win, a security guard clears a protester out of the way with a tackle.
Photo: Getty Images/Dario Belingheri
Every day, the Tour de France writes stories and delivers countless pictures from the best sports photographers. The TOUR picture editor has fished the best photos from the second week of the race out of the archives.

What we saw: the first Tour stage win for the Norwegian team Uno-X Mobility, a demonstrator on the finishing straight, the astonishing superiority of Tadej Pogacar, a German in the white jersey of the best young pro and a public holiday for a worker in the peloton. See for yourself.

Andreas Kublik has been travelling the world's race courses as a professional sports expert for TOUR for a quarter of a century - from the Ironman in Hawaii to countless world championships from Australia to Qatar and the Tour de France as a permanent business trip destination. A keen cyclist himself with a penchant for suffering - whether it's mountain bike marathons, the Ötztaler or a painful self-awareness trip on the Paris-Roubaix pavé.

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