On September 20 at the top of La Planche des Belles Filles, at the end of a suspense awakening the memory of the 8 seconds of eternity dug in 1989 between Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar overthrew his compatriot Primoz Roglic to become, on the eve of his 22 years, the youngest winner of the Grande Boucle since 1904. In this crazy end of the season which, due to the health crisis, sees the Giro (with an unprecedented outcome crowning the Briton Tao Geoghegan Hart without ever having worn the pink jersey) and the Vuelta intersect, after having ordered the last classics, the Tour de France unveiled the route of the 2021 edition (from June 26 to July 18) and opened a window on the coming season in an environment where to project is a challenge.
Here is the official # TDF2021 route!
Here is the official route of # TDF2021!
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- Tour de France ™ (@LeTour) November 1, 2020
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The Tour de France 2021 will visit Brittany
Among the highlights of the 108th edition of the Tour de France, after a start between land and sea in Brittany (from Brest to Fougères, via Landerneau, Perros-Guirec, Mûr-de-Bretagne, Lorient, Pontivy and Redon) are plant 58 km of individual time trial (27 km between Changé and Laval, then 31 km between Libourne and Saint-Emilion the day before the parade on the Champs-Élysées), a 248 km marathon stage between Vierzon and Le Creusot, the longest stage in the Tour de France since 2000 (Belfort-Troyes; 250 km), makes a promised return to Tignes (after the stage interrupted at the top of the Iseran after the mudslide in 2019 ), settle for five days in the Pyrenees and land an unprecedented double ascent of the legendary Mont Ventoux.
The memory of Froome running on foot
Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour, presents: “This is the stage that will have the most elevation: 4,500 m.
The Vaucluse Departmental Council is working on the summit of Ventoux, the summit will be reserved for pedestrians and cyclists.
We will no longer be able to drive to the top.
The recurring passages of the Tour, the myth of Ventoux for all cyclists or cycle tourists in Navarre and around the world mean that there is real economic activity around all this, they are doing work that will be completed next year to reorganize the summit of Ventoux.
We wanted to return to Ventoux after 2016 and the hallucinatory scenes of a yellow jersey (Chris Froome) running on foot on the slopes.
To show the Ventoux, but by removing the spectators, we pass twice and we arrive at the bottom.
With the desire to highlight everyone, with Malaucène who is in the shadows.
The only finish of the Tour which climbs by Malaucène is the victory of Bernard Thévenet in 1972. It is always Bédouin who is the emblematic climb.
We will go through Bedouin, through Malaucène, through Apt. ”
Among the curiosities of the edition (ten unpublished stopover towns Landerneau, Pontivy, Changé, Vierzon, Sorgues, Malaucène, Quillan, Céret, Pas de la Case, Chatou) will include the signal d'Uchon, a granite chaos, with very steep slopes. steep during the 7th stage.
Then during the Carcassonne-Quillan stage, the peloton will climb through the citadel of vertigo in Montségur, on the rougher side and will continue with two passes including the Saint-Louis pass (6 km, with 1 km at more than 10%) at the beginning with the Escargot viaduct.
On the menu, there is something for all tastes, rollers, sprinters, backpackers, punchers, fans of borders, players of the new wave ...
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The 2021 Tour de France will visit Brittany