The route gets presented in under 10 min. I'll be recording the entire thing for anyone interesting in watching it back. It will up as soon as the presentation is over. Feel free to discuss the route meanwhile! Here is the presentation Edited by Failured on 23-10-2013 13:40
England -> France coast, one finish in Lille -> One stage in Belgium, starting Ypres and finishing Porte d'hainaut -> down to Alsace/Vosges -> Plance des belles filles -> Alps -> Nimes -> Pyrenees, Hautacam, Spain -> TT in the middle of France -> Paris
Tour de France 2013 will be for attackers.
Cobbles, long TT, good sprint and breakaway opportunities, 5 climbing finishes. Well, it seems we will have the most competitive start list.
Assuming normal circumstances, it's got Froome written all over it. Good amount of climbing, which is nicely varied, but not enough big finishes for people like Quintana to gain the several minutes needed to be able to defend from Chris over 54km.
Expecting big big gains there, easily 2'00+ over the climbers, and probably also over Nibali (looking at 2012) if he turns up.
Now we just wait for the normal Vuelta route of 6000 ascent finishes and -200km of TT.
vismitananda wrote:
It's good to see a cobbled stage featured again next season. Just like in 2010 where Sylvain Chavanel owned it.
That definitely isn't how I remember it. He lost his overall lead which was of a significant margin beforehand. Hushovd, Hesjedal, Ryder and Andy were the ones owning it iirc.
However, it is great to have a such stage, yes. This is even better than last time (more sections).
for Cobbles and The Vosges
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