The Côte de la Butte Montmartre is reportedly set to be left out of the final stage of the 2027 Tour de France following its use in two subsequent finales of the race. French regional newspaper Le Progrès reported the proposed omission on Thursday, ahead of the official route announcement. Removing the climb could favour the sprinters on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, but the final-stage route has yet to be confirmed.
The Champs-Élysées remained the finish line in both 2025 and 2026. The change is the removal of the cobbled climb in Montmartre, which riders tackled three times in each of those finales. It turned the traditional bunch sprint, a fixture of the final day for nearly 50 years, into a stage for puncheurs.
ASO first added the climb in 2025 after it featured in the road races at the Paris Olympics, where large crowds lined the slopes. Le Progrès gives no reason for the proposed omission.
The climb's first Tour appearance came on a wet day in 2025. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) attacked on all three ascents. Wout van Aert (Team Visma-Lease a Bike) countered on the last one and finished 19 seconds clear of the next group.
"This was a very special day," Van Aert said in his team's report afterwards. "Winning again on the Champs-Élysées is incredible, especially with the Montmartre climb featured in the finale for the first time."
In July, the climb survived an emergency change to the route. Wildfires forced the redeployment of some security personnel, and the stage was cut from 133km to 89km: seven laps of the Champs-Élysées circuit, followed by three laps of a loop that included Montmartre. Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) went clear with Pogačar on the final ascent. He then rode the last 600m alone and narrowly held off the chasing sprinters.
For 2027, the start town, distance and circuit of the final stage are still unknown. Christian Prudhomme and Marion Rousse will present the men's and women's routes at the Palais des Congrès in Paris on October 22.
