Daily during this Tour de France 2020, we suggest you decipher the stage of the day by three essential things or not, to know about the course and its characteristics.
This Friday, the peloton snorts, for the 19th stage, between Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) and Champagnole (Jura).
A breath after the mountain
This 19th stage was conceived as a kind of break in the hell of the runners.
After the Alpine triptych, the organizers have concocted a course in the form of breathing.
The peloton will still be in the Jura but with very low percentages of slopes.
The finish is very flat with a long final straight line heralding a massive sprint at the finish.
It will therefore probably be the penultimate sprint before the Champs-Élysées.
A departure in front of the favorite monument of the French
The stage will start from the royal monastery of Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse.
It is a masterpiece of Flemish Gothic art from the beginning of the 16th century.
On September 20, 2014, the Brou monastery was designated “
favorite monument of the French
” during a France 2 program broadcast on the occasion of European Heritage Days.
Champagnole has not seen the Tour for 56 years
The small Jura town has not seen a Tour peloton since June 28, 1964 and the stage between Champagnole and Thonon-les-Bains.
On the sidelines of the duel between Raymond Poulidor and Jacques Anquetil who fascinates all of France (that day, Poulidor takes 34 seconds in Anquetil), it is a Dutchman who wins in the sprint by recovering his green jersey in the process: Jan Janssen , the future winner of the 1968 Tour.
