Every morning during this Tour de France 2020, we invite you to decipher the stage of the day through three essential things or not, to know about the course and its characteristics.
This Sunday, the peloton snorts, for the 15th stage, between Lyon and the Grand Colombier.
A greeting to Gerland.
In the great football derby between Lyon and Saint-Etienne, the Tour de France does not choose.
Last year, the Grande Boucle arrived, then set off the next day, at the foot of the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium.
The mythical lair of AS Saint-Etienne.
This year, the 15th stage will start right in front of the Gerland stadium, south of Lyon.
Where until 2016, Olympique Lyonnais played its matches and where the LOU rugby club now plays.
The Grand Colombier succeeds for the French
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The Col de l'Ain is one of the most difficult of the Tour.
The test has already passed there three times.
In 2012, 2016 and 2017. Two out of three times, the stage ended with the victory of a French rider.
Thomas Voeckler during the Mâcon - Bellegarde-sur-Valserine stage in 2012 and Warren Barguil in 2017 during the Nantua - Chambéry stage.
Nothing harder in France?
On
the eve of the second day of rest, the favorites including Primoz Roglic and Tadej Pogacar will be able to indulge themselves without calculation.
“This is the first time that we will climb the Grand Colombier twice and on two different slopes,” explains Thierry Gouvenou, the technical director of the Tour.
On the first ascent, the percentages go up to… 22%.
Over three or four kilometers, this is the hardest part in France.
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