Tour de France Tour de France 2022 route rumors thread.

[mortand]

Watching Anthony Turgis enter the scene, was like watching a young Dave Gahan.

 

[noob]

Pog looked so awkward!

 

[BlueRoads]

Watching Anthony Turgis enter the scene, was like watching a young Dave Gahan.

Turgis and Asgreen should be forced to wear suits on the bike.

 

[BlueRoads]

Pog looked so awkward!

Yeah, but pretty much all of them do...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Prudhomme trying his hardest to pretend a women's Tour de France has never existed in the past.

 

[Red Rick]

Guys, remember, this must be the best day of @SafeBet's year

 

[OlavEH]

Talking about good enchainments, what about montee de bisane and then megeve altiport?
It would be perfect for a long attack.
The problem is the next 2 hard stages that can neutralize this stage.

The descent from Col de Saises isn't too difficult? At it would mean 10-12 km of flat before the last ascent to Megeve airport. If used, it should be one of the last (or very last) mountain stage where riders are often more "forced" to attack than earlier in the race.

If all that were needed to use Plan Bois more safely was to pave the descent, a potentially great combo would be Plan Bois - Croix de Fry and either a descent finish to La Clusaz or a short ascent to the top of Col de Aravis.

But ASO only need to do minor tweaks on what are already using to make it much better. Add another climb or move the stage finish a short distance. Like adding Mont Cenis before Iseran on a stage to Tignes. Use Col de la Loze as a pass, descend and finish in Pralognan de Vanoise. Use Pla d'Adet as a stage finish instead of Col de Portet and make it a longer mountain stage with multiple cat 1 and 2 climbs. Things like that.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

That's a lot of Vosges for the women. Also interesting they're going for a stage with unpaved roads, hopefully that's a sign for the future of the men's race. A shame there's no TT, though.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Prudhomme trying his hardest to pretend a women's Tour de France has never existed in the past.

Yeah and someone from South Tyrol has even won it back in the day...

 

[noob]

Watching those crashes collected like that is awful :O

 

[Monte Serra]

They're now presenting the crash fest of this year's Brittany stages as a triumph?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

They're now presenting the crash fest of this year's Brittany stages as a triumph?

It's either this or pretending like they didn't happen, which would have been worse.

 

[BlueRoads]

But I agree they are presented as a spectacle.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Women's race:

 

[ice&fire]

So they're giving us the crashes to have something to complain before the route is shown?

 

[Ricco']

What is La Super Planche and why it seems even more despicable than the Not Super Planche?

 

[Red Rick]

Womens route looks pretty okay to me, apart from that it could've used a 20km ITT in there. 175km stage must be among the longer races on the womens calendar right?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

What is La Super Planche and why it seems even more despicable than the Not Super Planche?

It's the version with the stupid gravel ramp used in 2019 on top of the regular climb.

 

[Red Rick]

So they're giving us the crashes to have something to complain before the route is shown?

They know their audience.

 

[BlueRoads]

Womens route looks pretty okay to me, apart from that it could've used a 20km ITT in there. 175km stage must be among the longer races on the womens calendar right?

It's extraordinary long for a women's race.
Personally, I'm okay with the women's route although I don't find it "super".

 

[OlavEH]

Women's race:

Wonder if we'll ever see Le Markstein in the men's race. The section we see in the middle of that stage in the women's race (Petit Ballon - Platzerasel - Le Markstein) preceeded by perhaps 5-6 more cat 2 climbs, could be a great medium mountain stage in the men's race.

 

[noob]

Who's the good looking man next to Asgreen? Fuglsang?

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Wow the yellow jersey just had a gap on this bridge! Solo crosswind attack to be expected?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1448597417234997249

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Women's race:

I also wish they had turned one of the first stages into a time trial. A very long stage is great, and so is having two stages with multiple mountains in them.