Route du Sud 2014

[Antoine_Blondin]

UCI Europe Tour 2.1
Route du Sud 2014

- 38th Route du Sud, taking place in the Pyrenees region near Toulouse
- 3 stages with two uphill finish to Payolle, a village at the Col d’Aspin’s foot, and Van Louron, after climbing two mythical ascents, Col du Tourmalet and Col d’Aspin, while a sprint finish is expected at the end of stage 3 in Castres
- 529,7 kilometers to race (177 per stage)
- The last european race stage before the Tour de France !

To follow the race
You can watch the Route du Sud on the official website (live stream of the finishline with Daniel Mangeas' commentaries 1 hour before the finish), on DirectVélo (live coverage) or on Twitter / Facebook official pages of the race.

Many videos of the Route du Sud will also be published on the Youtube page (interviews, highlights etc.).

This year, there is a partnership between the Route du Sud, DirectVélo and the Gruppetto (see later for details).

Teams at the start :
- Team Sky
- Team Europcar
- Movistar Team
- Equipe FDJ.fr
- Saxo Tinkoff
- AG2R La mondiale
- Équipe Bretagne-Séché Environnement
- Equipo Ciclista Caja Rural
- Team Cofidis
- IAM Cycling
- Colombia
- MTN Qhubeka
- Équipe cycliste BigMat-Auber 93
- La Pomme Marseille
- Radio-Popular ONDA Boavista

Main riders to follow :
Alejandro Valverde, Ivan Guttierez, Adriano Malori, Benat Intxausti, Sylvain Chavanel, Michael Rogers, Nicolas Roche, Luis Léon Sanchez, Nacer Bouhanni, David Arroyo, Alexis Vuillermoz, Dario Cataldo, Chris Sutton, Alexandre Geniez, Kenny Elissonde, Hubert Dupont, Edvlad Boasson Hagen, Bernhard Eisel, Jérôme Coppel, Rémy Di Gregorio, Brice Feillu, Merhawi Kudus, Martin Reimer, Jacques Janse Van Rensburg, Rui Sousa, Blel Kadri, Samuel Dumoulin, Edward Diaz, Leonardo Duque, Darwin Pantoja, Miguel Angel Rubiano, Yukiya Arashiro, Perrig Quémeneur, Armindo Fonseca, Benoît Jarrier, Florian Vachon, Ametx Txurruka, Iván Velasco, Omar Fraile, Matteo Pelucchi, Dominic Klemme, Julien Antomarchi, Julien El Farès, Benjamin Giraud, Sylwester Szmyd, Kanstantsin Siutsou, Dimitri Le Boulch, Stéphane Rossetto, Egoitz Garcia, Guillaume Levarlet, Romain Hardy

Route :

06/20/2014 : Lectoure - Payolle (171,7kms)

06/21/2014 : Bagnères de Bigorre - Val Louron (178,6kms)

06/22/2014 : Saint Gaudens - Castres (179,4kms)

Links :

Past winners
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Website
Youtube
Official forum "Le Gruppetto"
Twitter "Le Gruppetto"
DirectVélo live coverage

 

[Antoine_Blondin]

Route details

Timetables

Stage 1 Lectoure - Payolle

Stage 2 Bagnères-de-Bigorre - Val Louron

Stage 3 Saint-Gaudens - Castres

 

[Wallenquist]

Can anyone beat Valverde ?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I hope in good form.

 

[Arkaitz]

2nd stage looks scary.

 

[MBotero]

This one is easy,hat trick for The Green Bullet.

 

[BeagRigh]

So Valverde, Valverde, Bouhanni...

Looks like the "hills" on stage 3 are somewhat exaggerated by the profile. Cote de Saint-Ferreol must be less than 150m climbing.

 

[jens_attacks]

a race over tourmalet,aspin and val louron not televized. disgraaaaaace!

vamos bala

 

[ILovecycling]

Roche to prove he has to be part of the Saxo squad for le tour and win this whole thing?

 

[Hugo87]

Wow a Portuguese team (Radio-Popular ONDA Boavista) doing a race in France, Frederico Figueiredo is a real talent rider, if he manage to keep form from Castilla y Leon, he could fight for top-10/15, though not sure if is a protected rider in this race with Rui Sousa and Daniel Silva in.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

I hope Kudus recovered from his injury and that he can show something here.

This race has an excellent parcours for him, though maybe a bit too easy.

 

[trevim]

Wow a Portuguese team (Radio-Popular ONDA Boavista) doing a race in France, Frederico Figueiredo is a real talent rider, if he manage to keep form from Castilla y Leon, he could fight for top-10/15, though not sure if is a protected rider in this race with Rui Sousa and Daniel Silva in.

Wow that's really good! It's good for them to race abroad. Frederico is truely a talented rider; for those who don't know him, he finished in the group that sprinted for 3rd in the World Championships U23 last year, alongside Villella, Alaphilippe, Van Baarle, Herklotz, both Yates or Henao.

He has been having a good year but I'm not sure if he has enough practice on the big cols to perform, although I think he's a pure climber. A top 20 would be outstanding for him.

Regarding Rui Sousa and Daniel Silva, I expect them to be in poor shape as usually for the portuguese riders. They often just perform in the Volta a Portugal and Troféu Joaquim Agostinho.

Vamos Frederico!

 

[roundabout]

another race with 1 day less

 

[Flamin]

Valverde to attack on Aspin.

 

[Antoine_Blondin]

another race with 1 day less

The first stage, initially expected in Agen, was cancelled because of the municipality withdrawal (as to say a lost of more than 50 000 euros, or 15% of the budget). Unfortunately, organization has to cancel the TV coverage planned on Eurosport. It will be for next year nevertheless

 

[Hugo87]

Wow that's really good! It's good for them to race abroad. Frederico is truely a talented rider; for those who don't know him, he finished in the group that sprinted for 3rd in the World Championships U23 last year, alongside Villella, Alaphilippe, Van Baarle, Herklotz, both Yates or Henao.

He has been having a good year but I'm not sure if he has enough practice on the big cols to perform, although I think he's a pure climber. A top 20 would be outstanding for him.

Regarding Rui Sousa and Daniel Silva, I expect them to be in poor shape as usually for the portuguese riders. They often just perform in the Volta a Portugal and Troféu Joaquim Agostinho.

Vamos Frederico!

Yes, he's very talented and fantastic climber plus he follows me on Strava , that's a huge honor to have a talented rider like him following my rides.

Regarding Rui Sousa and Daniel Silva, you are probably right they like to peak once a upon a time every year.

 

[Netserk]

The first stage, initially expected in Agen, was cancelled because of the municipality withdrawal (as to say a lost of more than 50 000 euros, or 15% of the budget). Unfortunately, organization has to cancel the TV coverage planned on Eurosport. It will be for next year nevertheless

That sounds great!

 

[jens_attacks]

pretty awesome news then Antoine!

maybe rui sousa will teach a lesson to valverde on the first uphill finish would be cool

 

[Netserk]

Uphill finish? More like false flat finish

Aspin without the last 5 km:

 

[Parrulo]

Yes, he's very talented and fantastic climber plus he follows me on Strava , that's a huge honor to have a talented rider like him following my rides.

Regarding Rui Sousa and Daniel Silva, you are probably right they like to peak once a upon a time every year.

Nuno Bico is also riding, but he is only 19 so i doubt he will be able to do much. Oh and that damn fool is missing his college exams this week

I hope Frederico rides well, i was very surprised by his performance in Asturais and at the worlds last year.

 

[trevim]

Nuno Bico is also riding, but he is only 19 so i doubt he will be able to do much. Oh and that damn fool is missing his college exams this week

I hope Frederico rides well, i was very surprised by his performance in Asturais and at the worlds last year.

Is he in college? But yeah he should a good climber as well, he has finished Volta a Portugal already and he was born in 1994!

 

[Parrulo]

Is he in college? But yeah he should a good climber as well, he has finished Volta a Portugal already and he was born in 1994!

Second year of Mechanical engineering in FEUP

 

[trevim]

Second year of Mechanical engineering in FEUP

Nice one, I didn't knew that. On the other hand, poor guy, 3 more years to take on. If he's lucky enough to go abroad, I don't see how he can keep studying, specially such a demanding subject.

 

[manafana]

A great little race pity about the lack of tv coverage and the loss of a stage, I have done that climb of Tourmalet Aspin its a nice back to back, you forget how much you must climb from the north to get even to the base of those climbs.

 

[murali]

another weak team from sky?