After the peloton labeled stage 2 "a flat stage with a few early bumps", stage 4 an "uphill sprint stage" and stage 6 "hilly at best" it is now time for the first mountain stage of this years Tour de France. So the big question arises. What will be the excuses for not attacking this time?
Map:
Profile:
Timetable:
Start: 13:30
Intermediate Sprint: 14:38/14:35/14:32
Col de Menté: 15:11/15:06/15:02
Port de Balès: 16:32/16:21/16:14
Col de Peyresourde: 17:15/17:02/16:52
Finish: 17:28/17:14/17:04
Climbs:
Today we offer a three course menu with a special recommendation for the 2nd course.
We start with light with the Col de Mentè, the easiest climb of the day albeit still being 1st category and relatively steep. It's the 2nd and 3rd climb however which come in quick succession and will hopefully lead to meaningful attacks and time gaps. First the Port de Balès, a climb the once made an 11 year old Andy Schleck fan called Gigs cry, followed by the Col de Peyresourde a climb you might know from literally every Tour de France.
Michael Rasmussen's legs will start hurting thinking of how he just managed to follow Alberto Contador on his ruthless attacks on a very similar combination of finishing climbs in 2007.
General classification after Stage 7
Map:
Profile:
Timetable:
Start: 13:30
Intermediate Sprint: 14:38/14:35/14:32
Col de Menté: 15:11/15:06/15:02
Port de Balès: 16:32/16:21/16:14
Col de Peyresourde: 17:15/17:02/16:52
Finish: 17:28/17:14/17:04
Climbs:
Today we offer a three course menu with a special recommendation for the 2nd course.
We start with light with the Col de Mentè, the easiest climb of the day albeit still being 1st category and relatively steep. It's the 2nd and 3rd climb however which come in quick succession and will hopefully lead to meaningful attacks and time gaps. First the Port de Balès, a climb the once made an 11 year old Andy Schleck fan called Gigs cry, followed by the Col de Peyresourde a climb you might know from literally every Tour de France.
Michael Rasmussen's legs will start hurting thinking of how he just managed to follow Alberto Contador on his ruthless attacks on a very similar combination of finishing climbs in 2007.
General classification after Stage 7
- Adam Yates
- Primoz Roglic + 0.03
- Guillaume Martin + 0.09
- Egan Bernal + 0.13
- Tom Dumoulin s.t.
- Nairo Quintana s.t.
- Romain Bardet s.t.
- Miguel Ángel López s.t.
- Thibaut Pinot s.t.
- Rigoberto Uran s.t.
- Peter Sagan 138
- Sam Bennett 129
- Wout Van Aert 106
- Bryan Coquard 105
- Alexander Kristoff 93
- Benoît Cosnefroy 25
- Michael Gogl 12
- Primoz Roglic 10
- Alexey Lutsenko 10
- Nicolas Roche 10
- Egan Bernal
- Enric Mas + 0.09
- Sergio Higuita + 0.28
- Tadej Pogacar + 1.15
- Daniel Felipe Martinez + 18.44