Tour de France Odds: Oddsmakers & Bettors Make Tadej Pogacar Favorite
Tour de France Odds: Oddsmakers & Bettors Make Tadej Pogacar Favorite
The long-awaited 108th Tour de France starts this Saturday in Brest, France. The riders will make there way through France before finishing on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Sunday, July 18.
Throughout the Tour there will be live odds and betting. Stay up-to-date with our Tour de France odds grids which will update automatically on OddsChecker to ensure you have the live odds at each stage.
But where has the money been going so far on the Tour de France odds grids?
Oddsmakers and bettors are looking for Slovenian Cyclist Tadej Pogacar to win the Tour de France again. Pogacar is the defending champion, having won the Tour de France in 2020. However, he isn’t the only one with a strong backing.
Pogacar is given +150 odds, or an implied 40% chance to win his second straight Tour de France. Fellow countryman Primoz Roglic, last year’s runner up, is the second favorite at +220, or an implied 31.3% chance to win. Former winner Geraint Thomas is also given decent odds at +550., or an implied 15.4% chance.
Meanwhile, bettors don’t really see much change from last year’s field. In fact, their top-3 matchup exactly to last year’s standings. Pogacar is the bettors’ favorite with 15.4% of bets over the last days. Roglic has seen14.7% of bets, and Richie Port has seen 9% of bets.
Bettors’ faovrite longshot is last year’s 6th place finisher Miguel Angel Lopez. He’s seen 4.8% of bets, 6th most on the market, but oddsmakers list him as their 11th favorite.
Tour de France Odds
| Cyclist | Odds | Implied chance |
|---|---|---|
| Tadej Pogacar | +150 | 40% |
| Primoz Roglic | +220 | 31.3% |
| Geraint Thomas | +550 | 15.4% |
| Richard Carapaz | +900 | 10% |
| Egan Bernal | +1000 | 9.1% |
| Remco Evenpoel | +1200 | 7.7% |
| Julian Alaphilippe | +2900 | 3.3% |
| Richie Porte | +3100 | 3.1% |
| Rigoberto Uran | +3300 | 2.9% |
| Mark Padun | +4500 | 2.2% |
View the full Tour de France odds here.
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Past Tour de France Winners
- 2020 Tadej Pogačar
- 2019 Egan Bernal
- 2018 Geraint Thomas
- 2017 Chris Froome
- 2016 Chris Froome
- 2015 Chris Froome
- 2014 Vincenzo Nibali
- 2013 Chris Froome
- 2012 Bradley Wiggins
- 2011 Cadel Evans
How To Watch The Tour de France?
The 2021 Tour de France will be live on NBC and NBCSN, and every stage of the 108th edition of the race can be streamed on Peacock. Stage 1 starts on June 26, and coverage will start on NBCSN at 6am.
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