Recent content by Broken_Leg

I'll have to wait for tomorrow to vote. Quintana attacking from the start of the Champs Elysees circuit and TTing his way to 2nd place would add a few points, I guess :D

Thank you. And sorry for not knowing CAOrsay (I do not have the encyclopedic knowledge of cycling of ... let's say Libertine Seguros :-() And if I know that it's possible to design an interesting stage 21 around Paris, given how I suspect it'll be ridden, it's kind of a waste of time (hills in...

Re: Sky Depending on what exactly happened, and in which country you are, it can be. For example, in France, the use of some drugs is a penal/criminal offense (basically, it's the same set of laws that they use against dopers than when hunting people smoking/selling pot/cocaine... ...

Stage 21 – Orsay – Paris 120 km – Flat Usual parade followed by the Champs Elysées circuit and mass sprint. Not much to say about this stage.

Stage 20 [Saturday] Bordeaux – Margaux ITT – 31.5 km Climbing : 51m Last actual GC day for the Tour, and for those GC contender, the race will end as it had started, by an ITT. Like the first one, it will be an exercise in pure power : there are precious few technicalities along the route...

Stage 19 [Friday] : Tarbes – Langon Flat – 200 km Climbing : 1096 m Yesterday being the last mountain day, the sprinter may now rejoice : we’ll stay on flat ground until the end. In a Tour with fewer than usual possibilities for them to get a stage win, they should take two of the three...

Stage 18 [Thursday] : Tarascon sur Ariège – Luchon Superbagnère 208 km – Mountain Climbing : 5872 m Port de Lers 11.4 km @ 7% Col de la Core 13.4 km @ 6.5 % Portet d’Aspet 5.7 km @ 6.9% Col de Menté 9 km @ 7.2 % Port de Balès 19.8 km @ 5.8 % Superbagnères 18.5 km @ 6.32 % Today is the...

Stage 17 [Wednesday] : Lezignan-Corbières – Foix 200 km – Mountain Climbing : 3223 m Col de St Benoit 6.3km @ 4.8% Col du Bac 2.6 km @ 6% Col de Montségur 6.3 km @ 6.8% Col de Port 14.9km @ 4.8% Col de Péguère 3.3 km @ 12.5% After a relatively long transfer (80km, but on highways) from Agde...

Rest Day [Monday] Sage 16 [Tuesday]: Avignon – Agde 173 km – Flat Climbing : 599 m Les Baux de Provence 2.7 km @ 3.6% Mont Saint Clair 1.6 km @ 10.8% After a rest day spent in Avignon (almost no transfer from Sunday afternoon’s arrival in Malaucène), the peloton will once again head back to...

Stage 15 [Sunday] : Aix en Provence – Malaucène 182 km – Mountain Climbing : 3574m Côte de Vauvenargues 3.5 km @ 4.9% Côte de Montfuron 7.1 km @ 4% Côte de Viens 4.4 km @ 5.7 % Côte de Lagarde d’Apt 11.1 @ 7% Mont Ventoux 23.9 km @ 5% After two day close to the Mediterranean, we head back...

Stage 14 [Saturday]: Toulon – Marseille 140 km – Hilly Climbing : 2128 m Côte de Bandol 2.9 km @ 5.3% Côte de La Ciotat 4.6 km @ 6.9 % Côte de Carnoux 4.5 km @ 5.1% Col de l’Espigoulier 10.5 km @ 5.5 % Côte de Cadolive 4.2 km @ 4.4 % Côte du Roucas Blanc 1.6 km @ 6.8% Today’s stage between...

Stage 13 [Friday] : Frejus – Toulon 213 km – Hilly Climbing 3098 m Col du Vignon 5.5 km @ 5% Côte de la Garde Freinet 6.8 km @ 3.5% Col du Canadel 9.2 km @ 4.5% Col de la Citadelle 11.3 km @3.4% Mont Faron 5km @ 8.5 % Today’s stage will start in Frejus, 50 km west of Antibes where we ended...

Good idea. Don't know how I missed it. From a quality point of view, I would then go with a Clairette de Die - Chatillons are nothing to write home about. My benchmark was Galibier 11. It's been a very long time since I last went up the Lombarde, but I've been in Galibier recently and IIRC it's...

Stage 12 [Thursday] : Isola – Antibes 158 km – Hilly Climbing : 2350 m Col St Martin 14.5 km @ 6.7% Côte de Vence 3.4 km @ 5.8% Col St Antoine 2 km @ 8% Today the peloton will leave the mountains and head for the Mediterranean coast in a short stage (158 km). The sprinters will welcome the...

Stage 11 [Wednesday] Embrun – Isola Col de la Lombarde 138 km – Mountain Climbing : 4303m Col de Vars 19.4 km @ 5.7 % Col de la Bonette 23.3 km @ 6.7 % Col de la Lombarde 21.5 km @ 6.9% I know it’s extremely similar to this year’s Giro stage 20, but believe it or not, the first draft of my...