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Peacock/NBC Sports is streaming the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift again in the U.S., but there may be a better (and more fun) way to watch the race.

Ben Healy of EF Education-Easypost won a furiously-contested stage six at the 2025 Tour de France Thursday, attacking from a group of eight riders with 41 kilometers remaining and soloing to the finish in Vire Normandie.

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And Stage 12 is just one of 21 stages that must be completed in the 24 days of the tour. You can listen to more articles from The Conversation, narrated by Noa, here. I am a sports physicist, and I’ve modeled the Tour de France for nearly two decades using terrain data – like what I described for Stage 12 – and the laws of physics.