Tour de France 2016 route prediction

[Valv.Piti]

*** medium mountains if the high mountains are aight which it seems they definitely are. Looks super promising imo.

 

[winkybiker]

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An uphill time trial on Mont Ventoux would be epic and reasonable considering the GC battle.

Uphill time trial will be Superbagnere.

 

[McLovin]

I'm 99% sure you're wrong. And you said it like it's a fact.

 

[sir fly]

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An uphill time trial on Mont Ventoux would be epic and reasonable considering the GC battle.

Uphill time trial will be Superbagnere.

According to the all mentioned rumours, it won't even feature in the route. Unless you have some exclusive info.
Nevertheless, it sure would be thrilling.

 

[ferryman]

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Simply make Ventoux a mtt, take the long tt to the first week and maybe add another short one as the final stage. It ain't that hard Monsieur Prudhomme!

Yes please

Bigf ring

 

[Ruudz0r]

http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrennen/Tour/1.2467840

Rit 1 2 juli Mont-Saint-Michel - Utah Beach
Rit 2 3 juli Saint-Lo - Cherbourg
Rit 3 4 juli Granville - Tours
Rit 4 5 juli Tours - Limoges
Rit 5 6 juli Limoges - Le Lioran
Rit 6 7 juli Saint-Flour - Montauban
Rit 7 8 juli Montauban - Auch
Rit 8 9 juli Auch - Pla de Beret (Spa)
Rit 9 10 juli Saint-Girons - Arcalis (And)
11 juli Rustdag in Andorra
Rit 10 12 juli Andorra (And) - Revel
Rit 11 13 juli Carcassonne - Montpellier
Rit 12 14 juli Montpellier - Mont Ventoux
Rit 13 15 juli Bourg-Saint-Andéol - Vallon Pont d'Arc
INDIVIDUELE TIJDRIT
Rit 14 16 juli Vaison-La-Romaine - Digne
Rit 15 17 juli Digne - Briançon
18 juli Rustdag in Briançon
Rit 16 19 juli Serre-Chevalier - Aix-les-Bains
Rit 17 20 juli Chambéry - Le Grand Bornand
Rit 18 21 juli Mégève - Lausanne (Zwi)
Rit 19 22 juli Pontarlier - Colmar
Rit 20 23 juli Strasbourg - Mulhouse
Rit 21 24 juli Chantilly - Parijs (Champs-Elysées)

 

[TromleTromle]

LOL - that is like getting hit in the head with a old, rotten & smelling fish.

Please take that "journalist" credentials away on the spot!

 

[Jagartrott]

What do you mean?

 

[Alexandre B.]

Sporza article is pure ***.

http://www.ledauphine.com/sport/2015/10/15/une-etape-bourg-en-bresse-culoz-avec-le-grand-colombier
According to Le Dauphiné, ASO will hold a conference in Culoz the day after the presentation.
Bourg-en-Bresse - Culoz confirmed ?

 

[TromleTromle]

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What do you mean?

What Alexandre said.

Seems like GC is really in - any rumours on Biche ?

 

[barmaher]

Granville to Tours is 270km. I don't buy it.

 

[TromleTromle]

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Granville to Tours is 270km. I don't buy it.

Just the Beret/Arcalis combination makes my eyes hurt

 

[Tonton]

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Granville to Tours is 270km. I don't buy it.

In '84, two stages were 320K and 338K. Why not?

 

[barmaher]

There is absolutely no way that there will be a Tour de France stage of 270km this year. Maximum allowed under UCI rules is 240km. I could maybe believe they would go over it by 10km, but not 270km.

In fact, I would bet a lot of money on it.

 

[Jagartrott]

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There is absolutely no way that there will be a Tour de France stage of 270km this year. Maximum allowed under UCI rules is 240km. I could maybe believe they would go over it by 10km, but not 270km.

In fact, I would bet a lot of money on it.

It's a new try-out were riders have to catch the train along the way for a 100 km shortcut.

 

[sir fly]

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There is absolutely no way that there will be a Tour de France stage of 270km this year. Maximum allowed under UCI rules is 240km. I could maybe believe they would go over it by 10km, but not 270km.

In fact, I would bet a lot of money on it.

It's a new try-out were riders have to catch the train along the way for a 100 km shortcut.

That's the spirit of the past times.

Judging by the rumours, the route won't look bad. The first week's difficulties should be positioning and maybe the weather. Nothing to be afraid of in advance.
The Alps look more promising than in the previous years, I'd say.

 

[Billie]

20th stage will finish on Ballon d'Alsace.

 

[staubsauger]

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20th stage will finish on Ballon d'Alsace.

No, really!?

Wow! That's super, super, super cool!!!

Maybe they learned from this years Vuelta? If the race ain't decided yet, the Vosges are perfect to turn thing around with a long range attack. Especially with bad weather or brutal heat.

Also it forces the riders to attack earlier in the race and requires them to do the same later on. If the race is already decided, it's gonna be a breakaway stage. But that would be the same in the high mountains or if the Vosges were in the first week.

 

[rghysens]

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20th stage will finish on Ballon d'Alsace.

In 2017.
No, really.

 

[sir fly]

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20th stage will finish on Ballon d'Alsace.

I'm afraid you're too north.

 

[Alexandre B.]

There will be no stages in Alsace (again, Sporza article is sh*t).

Thomas confirmed a stage finish on Lac de Payolle.

 

[McLovin]

4 days in the Pyrenees, one Jura and 5 in the Alps (including Ventoux)?
In this case we will have a lot of one climb stages, or weak mountain stages. Payolle, Revel, Ventoux and maybe Culoz I guess will have one climb. From Payolle all we can hope is that we will have a downhill from Aspin/HA.

 

[rghysens]

imo there's nothing wrong with a one climb stage, as long as that one climb is only followed by a technical descent to the finish.

 

[ice&fire]

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There is absolutely no way that there will be a Tour de France stage of 270km this year. Maximum allowed under UCI rules is 240km. I could maybe believe they would go over it by 10km, but not 270km.

In fact, I would bet a lot of money on it.

They can do it with 30kms of neutralized start

 

[winkybiker]

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I'm 99% sure you're wrong. And you said it like it's a fact.

Let's see about that 1 % in a few weeks.