4th Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge(1.1) - June 14th

[Eddy Evenepoel]

4th Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge(1.1)
When:
Tuesday June 14th

Race profile:

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/mont-ventoux-denivele-challenge/2022/result/startlist

Previous winners:
2019 - Jesus Herrada
2020 - Aleksandr Vlasov
2021 - Miguel Angel Lopez

Favourites:
Esteban Chaves
Alejandro Valverde
Michael Woods
Tobias Halland Johannesen
Guillaume Martin
Ivan Sosa
Carlos Verona
Mattias Skjelmose
Michael Storer
Ruben Guerreiro
Jesus Herrada

 

[hayneplane]

Disappointed by the startlist but it’s a hectic time of year and can understand the real tour contenders not bothering.
Looks like Woods, Chaves and Storer as a dangerous outsider to me.

 

[rallybanana]

What happened to Mont Ventoux? I always thought it was higher than 1900m.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

What happened to Mont Ventoux? I always thought it was higher than 1900m.

They decided to finish a few meters below not to overexert cyclists.

 

[Red Rick]

What happened to Mont Ventoux? I always thought it was higher than 1900m.

It is, but the main pass doesn't go all the way over the top.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What happened to Mont Ventoux? I always thought it was higher than 1900m.

They've given it a haircut. It's the bald mountain after all.

 

[Samamba]

That UCI points race is something else man. Half of those favorites weren't going to ride this a week ago, but now they need to. All those throubles just to realize some of those teams pick up 400 points in the Letvian, Israeli and Irish national champs next week.

 

[Red Rick]

I can't get over how dank it is the women don't do the traditional Bedoin ascent.

 

[Escarabajo]

Where is it going to be broadcasted?

 

[Rollthedice]

Not sure if Ventoux will be forever remembered for Froome or the other way around, if it will be remembered for Froome's "attaque stupéfiante" in 2013 or these "images folles" from 2016. Sadly he will not ride tomorrow.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I can't get over how dank it is the women don't do the traditional Bedoin ascent.

It almost makes the women's Emilia seem reasonable.

 

[hayneplane]

That UCI points race is something else man. Half of those favorites weren't going to ride this a week ago, but now they need to. All those throubles just to realize some of those teams pick up 400 points in the Letvian, Israeli and Irish national champs next week.

Ridiculous that national championships count towards the points

 

[Samamba]

Ridiculous that national championships count towards the points

Israel will just go to Canada with a few guys an come back with over 200 points lmao

 

[rallybanana]

It is, but the main pass doesn't go all the way over the top.

Last year's TDF stage profile gave it a height of 1910m. I doubt there's been 17 metres worth of erosion in 11 months.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Not sure if Ventoux will be forever remembered for Froome or the other way around

I think Mont Ventoux would be remembered by cycling fans regardless of Froome's experiences there. Pierre Saint-Martin is probably one that can forever be remembered for Froome as it was one of his most dominant wins and the first time the climb was used in the Tour, or maybe Jafferau. Other places like Finestre had legacies already, but Froome's attack there will likely forever be one of its most legendary. Ventoux? That already had enough of a legacy built up that he's 'just another' part of it.

 

[Cookster15]

It is, but the main pass doesn't go all the way over the top.

Do we know why they didn't go all the way? This is the climb we are used to. It shows 1,912 metres. Plus the final section is quite epic.

Mont Ventoux climb via Bédoin | 21.1 km | 1912 m | 7.6% - Climbbybike

Climb the Mont Ventoux via Bédoin by bike. The Mont Ventoux is 1912 high. You gain 1601 altitude metres in 21.1 km. Watch the profile, route, ranking, stories, images, gpx-file, ...

www.climbbybike.com

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Do we know why they didn't go all the way? This is the climb we are used to. It shows 1,912 metres. Plus the final section is quite epic.

Mont Ventoux climb via Bédoin | 21.1 km | 1912 m | 7.6% - Climbbybike

Climb the Mont Ventoux via Bédoin by bike. The Mont Ventoux is 1912 high. You gain 1601 altitude metres in 21.1 km. Watch the profile, route, ranking, stories, images, gpx-file, ...

www.climbbybike.com

According the the organiser's profiles they do go to 1912m, but the LFR database lists the top as being at 1893m. It was the same case in the Tour last year, where ASO said it was at 1910m, but LFR claimed it was at 1894m.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Israel will just go to Canada with a few guys an come back with over 200 points lmao

But these guys still need to be among the top 10 guys of the team at the end of the season, so if Piccoli or Cataford ends up winning it's wasted points, right? So it has to be the right riders collecting points in NCs and other races to make it matter.

According to PCS this is the UCI-points gathered so far by Israel this season:

1​	Nizzolo	584​
2​	Woods	490​
3​	Clarke	420​
4​	Fuglsang	334​
5​	Bevin	305​
6​	Houle	108​
7​	Hagen	85​
8​	Barbier	80​
9​	Einhorn	68​
10​	Vanmarcke	60​
11​	Neilands	59​
12​	Boivin	58​
13​	Berwick	44​
14​	Biermans	40​
15​	Impey	34​
16​	Goldstein	33​
17​	Wurtz	30​
18​	Zabel	25​
19​	Strong	21​
20​	Van Asbroeck	19​
21​	Froome	15​
22​	Hermans	13​
23​	Jones	10​
24​	Piccoli	8​
25​	Brändle	0​
26​	Cataford	0​
27​	De Marchi	0​
28​	Dowsett	0​
29​	Hollenstein	0​
30​	Niv	0​
31​	Sagiv	0​

The top 5 are obvious that will count at the end of the season, otherwise it's quite open. Boivin got 100 UCI-points when he won Canadian NC last year, but even if he wins that he might not go over 200 points in total if the rest of the season is underwhelming. All points he's scored so far is in Belgian classics, there are a lot less of these races in the autumn, right?

Given Carl Fredrik Hagen is already number 7 of the Israel boys perhaps he should be given a free role today in this race as he could be good enough for a top 10 spot and scoring 20-30 points?

There are some nice possibilities for him to score points later this season with Norwegian NC, Sibiu Tour (he will go there if he doesn't go to Tour I read), Artic Race and probably Vuelta (a top 15 could be within reach perhaps?).

 

[Netserk]

I get the altitude of the road as 1897 m with https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/donnees/plan-ign-v2

I think the peak of the mountain is ~1910 m.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I guess it's gonna be on of those days where Ivan Ramiro Sosa shows that he's actually a world class climber...

 

[search]

I guess it's gonna be on of those days where Ivan Ramiro Sosa shows that he's actually a world class climber...

I'd think it's still one climb too many for him

 

[Mayomaniac]

I'd think it's still one climb too many for him

Yeah, probably.
That said, he did win that Adriatica Ionica MTF on the Giau a few years back and that one had a bit of climbing before the Giau, so you never know.

He isn't as bad as Kevin Rivera, who seems to be only good on Unipublic style stages...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Yeah, probably.
That said, he did win that Adriatica Ionica MTF on the Giau a few years back and that one had a bit of climbing before the Giau, so you never know.

He isn't as bad as Kevin Rivera, who seems to be only good on Unipublic style stages...

And the stage in Asturias had a descent fnish after 200 km, whereas the other stages he's won have been MTFs after about 150 km, so maybe he's improving somewhat.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

According the the organiser's profiles they do go to 1912m, but the LFR database lists the top as being at 1893m. It was the same case in the Tour last year, where ASO said it was at 1910m, but LFR claimed it was at 1894m.

The women just finished. Don't think it's possible to go higher up than what they did.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The women just finished. Don't think it's possible to go higher up than what they did.

It isn't.