In the road book 109th edition of the Tour de France This Thursday’s stage was marked in red as queen’s day, but a few months ago no one expected the shake it would give Wednesday in the overall classification. jonas vingegaard on the last ascent to Col du Granon in the previous attack, draw a new panorama that still adds even more horror to the race at a stage that is already spectacular. Ahead, having neutralized the start at 1:05 pm, 165 exploding kilometers without knowing the word rest and starting uphill, offering the perfect setting for a race start to break. A day showing a positive drop of 4,750 meters, the largest in this edition, is almost always at the 2,000 meter limit and after the painful beating the previous day.
At kilometer 33 the peloton will begin the ascent to Col du Galibierfirst of the ports Hors Category –special category- the sun, with 23 kilometers at 5.1% which, unlike the previous day, will climb the slope of Col de Lautaret. It will be a day of border ascent and dreadful descent, with three demonic descents to be made after the three mountainous hardships of the day are crowned: the aforementioned Galibier, followed by Col de la Croix de Fer (29 km with 5.2%) and the outcome of one of the most sophisticated ports in the history of the Tour de France, Alpe d’Huez (13.8 km to 8.1%) and the 21 scary and at the same time the plastic curves where time seems to have stopped.
The Alpe d’Huez is one of the mythical climbs in the Tour de France, which in recent years has lost a bit of ‘weight’ to the benefit of other climbs, but retains its magic and doesn’t can be missed to celebrate the 70th anniversary of his first ascension, with success along with the legendary Fausto Coppi.
The last time the Alpe d’Huez was climbed was in 2018, with the Welshman’s victory Geraint Thomaswho led the Dutchman by two seconds Tom Dumoulin and at three to Roman Bardet. Thomas and Bardet were two of the cyclists who advanced yesterday and in turn made a perfect sandwich to Tadej Pogacar in the overall classification, with the Frenchman six seconds ahead and the Welshman six behind. Both start with a definite advantage in the decisive climb to the Alpe d’Huez, which could mark before and after the race, with a handicap for the Slovenian double winner of the Tour not knowing what its difficulty is. 21 curves. Now, it only remains to see if Pogacar will keep his word and act from now on, trying to reclaim the time Vingegaard took from him yesterday.
Source: La Verdad
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