Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours

[Netserk]

Best possible use of Alpe and Tourmalet.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Stage 20 will be a huge flop.

 

[Breh]

It's a route that will give Seixas a chance at a podium finish. The stages are very short and there are no mountains. It's like the Tour de l'Avenir.

Let's not look at the length of the ECRR WCRR and lombardia

 

[Netserk]

Good change to the Paris circuit.

 

[Monsi]

Yeah I welcome that small change to the Montmartre being 15 km away from the finish when they climb it for the last time.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Yeah I welcome that small change to the Montmartre being 15 km away from the finish when they climb it for the last time.

Without rain it should be a full on sprint then I guess.

 

[will-10]

The first Alpe stage is designed for the record to go

 

[rghysens]

I really like the buildup of the first 7 stages. Bergerac-Perigueux should have been a long flat itt. I like the layout of the course from Aurillac to Orcières-Merlettes. The first AdH stage is too much, but the second one is superb, albeit a bit late in the course.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Last stage giving them enough room to come back is a positive, this time round they didn't even bother. It leaves the outcome more in the balance.

 

[rghysens]

Stage 20 will be a huge flop.

Yeah, the Tour will be decided the day before at the latest.

 

[Netserk]

Had stage 8 been the 2014 ITT, I'd give this route 10/10.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

There will be 21 stages again next year. It's clear they want Pogačar to win. Roglič remains the king of the 18 stage GT.

 

[OlavEH]

Some good stages. Le Lloran, Le Markstein and second Alpe d'Huez stage are good. Orcieres and first Alpe are awful. At least one of these should much rather have been replaced by a tough medium mountain stage.

 

[Netserk]

 

[Netserk]

Now I agree that it's a bad route for Evenepoel.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Had stage 8 been the 2014 ITT, I'd give this route 10/10.

Stage 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 17 (?) & 21 are for sprinters, so a long ITT instead on stage 8 would've been perfect. But Gouvenou hates TTs.

 

[Peyroteo94]

The TT has a 10 km climb at 4%? So Pogacar will win3 stages in the last week

 

[Rou]

Bad route. So Evenepoel will do Giro-Vuelta?

 

[Netserk]

The Haag/Le Markstein stage is not 100% in Haut-Rhin.

 

[Red Rick]

Had stage 8 been the 2014 ITT, I'd give this route 10/10.

It's a sad day to realize Netserk has lost his mind and given up on hoping for good routes.

 

[Netserk]

It's a sad day to realize Netserk has lost his mind and given up on hoping for good routes.

It's an ordinal score, not cardinal.

 

[OlavEH]

Gavarnie is a nice, but damned annoying (and very typical of ASO), that the Gaborisse climb is not included.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Now I agree that it's a bad route for Evenepoel.

Lipo-Pellizzari for the Tour while the 2 fresh effort specialists can fight it out at the Giro!

 

[Netserk]

Lipo-Pellizzari for the Tour while the 2 fresh effort specialists can fight it out at the Giro!

I think RB will put a lot of pressure on Evenepoel to have him in the Tour, but with this route he should probably peak for the Giro.

 

[Mayomaniac]

If there was a 35-40km flat Itt during the first 1,5 weeks it would actually be not half bad, aka a balanced route.
Also, I'm not sure about the Alpe record, if they go hard on the 2 stages at the start of the stage to establish the breakaway there will be some fatigue from the first hour of hard racing.