126.4 miles Another sprint stage – flat but there is a category 4 climb just past the intermediate sprint. The roads here are long, straight, and flat – which makes it difficult for a break to get away. Another tricky finish, with a series of roundabouts, speed bumps, and some tight turns. That said, at …
Monday Yesterday was a “rest day” in the Tour de France. I put that in quotes because, although they weren’t riding a stage Monday, on Sunday night they flew to Perigueux, and yesterday they would hardly lay about and binge watch reality TV (well, maybe Taylor Phinney, who seems a little Bill and Ted). Most …
This stage has one category 2 climb right at the start line and a breakaway went clear right from the start. Later there are two category 3 mountains, two HCs (HC = Hors Categorie – or “beyond classification”), then the intermediate sprint point, a category 4 hill, then one more HC with a downhill finish. …
Continuing my view of strategy vs. tactics using the lens of the Tour de France. I’ll need to skip stages 6 and 7 – my small houseguests were complaining about the hours of Tour de France coverage so I took a couple of days away from the TV to show them the city. Stages 6 …
At 113.5 KM, an eight-rider break is off the front by 2:57 with the peloton in hot pursuit. One reason for their determination is because the break includes Bossen-Haggen – how did they let him get in there? He’s only 16 seconds off the yellow jersey! – Phillipe Gilbert, and Thomas Voeckler. It’s Voeckler’s last …
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