Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours

[Izzyeviel]

What's the obsession with 7 hour stages? They'll just go slower and attack in the final km

like they do when Pogacar isn't there?

 

[Red Rick]

like they do when Pogacar isn't there?

No it's for everyone. Longer, harder mountain stages are usually raced more passively because in a shocking discovery, riders do not have infinite energy resources.

 

[HashRouge]

So much of going to the Tour comes down to availability and determination. Of course, that rumored time trail on stage 16 looks to be just about the perfect stage. It’s a time trial. It’s easy to get to through transit and it’s in a gorgeous location.

I watched the stage 13 ITT last year and it was a great spectating experience. Maybe I need to look at the Alpine stages this year rather than focusing so much on the Pyrenees.

 

[Izzyeviel]

For much of the past 30 years, tactics at the grand tours & especially the tour consisted of the strongest team & rider not doing anything because they knew the weaker teams & rivals will ride all day. We used to call T-Telekom 'Lance Armstrongs own private taxi service'. If i'm forced to suffer watching another giro were the riders refuse to race a small mountain stage, then i'm all for making them suffer seven hours of an actual queen stage.

 

[Rob5091]

No it's for everyone. Longer, harder mountain stages are usually raced more passively because in a shocking discovery, riders do not have infinite energy resources.

"Your honour, I'd like to present exhibit A, namely the entire UAE team ...."

I suppose the good thing is if they're doing the Pyrenees early that means we can go off on our hols after week 1 and know we wont miss anything.

 

[rghysens]

Putting a 2014 Bergerac - Perigueux style ITT would be really good for the race IMO, atleast give remco a chance.

To become 2nd?
Btw, stage 8 will be a stage in line.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Putting a 2014 Bergerac - Perigueux style ITT would be really good for the race IMO, atleast give remco a chance.

Against Pogacar you can put 200 km of TT and he still will win. However, I would like to see a route with a good amount of TTs for once. It would be great to see big gaps before the mountains and Remco could wear the yellow jersey in the first week.

 

[rghysens]

That sounds to me like the Tour is not for him, not this particular route.

On current routes (at least 4 hc or 1c mtf´s, barely any flat itt), the tour is nothing for him, no.
By extension, that also counts for stage racing in general. Long gone are the times where races like Paris-Nice, Dauphiné and Switzerland had both a flat prologue and a long flat itt.

 

[Netserk]

On current routes (at least 4 hc or 1c mtf´s, barely any flat itt), the tour is nothing for him, no.
By extension, that also counts for stage racing in general. Long gone are the times where races like Paris-Nice, Dauphiné and Switzerland had both a flat prologue and a long flat itt.

And that's a shame. Some more variety would be nice.

I hope the ITT in the third week will be at least 40 km, I know I shouldn't hope for more than that.

 

[harrybo]

does anyone know what time the race route presentation starts on thursday please, as its not on tdf website, thanks

 

[Netserk]

does anyone know what time the race route presentation starts on thursday please, as its not on tdf website, thanks

11:00

 

[harrybo]

Next thursday, around 11.30 am local time.

so 10.30 uk time then

 

[ashhutch1997]

Against Pogacar you can put 200 km of TT and he still will win. However, I would like to see a route with a good amount of TTs for once. It would be great to see big gaps before the mountains and Remco could wear the yellow jersey in the first week.

I totally agree, but atleast give him an opportunity get a tiny headstart. This years TDF was almost designed for Pogacar with all the punchy stages