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The Avenir routes were announced today. The men's race has the godforsaken TTT (again), MTFs at Col de la Loze (again) and Col du Mont Cenis, a MTT to Les Karellis before the final stage takes on the southern side of Iséran (again) on the way to the easy MTF at Sainte Foy.
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The inaugural women's race does actually have a regular ITT, in addition to mountain stages to Mégève and also to Sainte Foy (approaching from the other side, so no Iséran).
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The Avenir routes were announced today. The men's race has the godforsaken TTT (again), MTFs at Col de la Loze (again) and Col du Mont Cenis, a MTT to Les Karellis before the final stage takes on the southern side of Iséran (again) on the way to the easy MTF at Sainte Foy.
The MTT is a split stage and on the same day as the Mont-Cenis MTF.

Going by the length and the vertical gain, it's from Le Bouchet to Les Karellis, middle 11 km of the cyclingcols profile:
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I think the stage to Mont-Cenis will only feature Côte de Saint-André and Côte d'Aussois before Mont-Cenis.
 
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Besides the TTT it actually looks fine. The text on their website has big Google translate energy...
Cenis as a MTF from the French side is pretty meh, unless you put it at the end of a tappone with steep climbs before Iseran from the easier side (Bisanne and Col du Pre would be my option). Still, it's a half stage, so it's ok in my book.
 
I think the final stage will look like this, maybe without Villaroger:
No Villaroger and the start in Val Cenis/Termignon proper (like the grafic mentions) a few kms earlier and it's probably it. Adds a short ramp right at the start and we should reach that kind of distance.
 

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