13th stage of Loudenvielle in Peyragudes Friday July 18

The climb to Peyragudes has built a good reputation. However, in particular the last hectometers which give access to the Altiport and scatter the favorites of the Tour in full effort. Nevertheless, Always formidable, the dry ascent will not forgive any dead time in the background. In addition, Runners will barely have two kilometers To take their momentum and enter the rise of Peyresourde.

With a formidable category 1 coast, the runners will have 8 km of climbing at 7.9%. Meanwhile,

The Tour de France returns to Loudenvielle a year after having served as a springboard for a stage removed from the Beille plateau by Tadej Pogacar. Nevertheless, the third of its six successes in this edition. In 2020. during the Tour du Covid disputed in September, Nans Peters had known the greatest day of 13th stage loudenvielle peyragudes friday his career by detaching themselves in the port of Balès with Ilnur Zakharin before letting go of Russian, little comfortable in the exercise, in the descent. The Grenoblois had already won a Giro stage the previous year.

Loudenvielle welcomed three other stages of the Tour de France in her own name between 1997 (Laurent Brochard’s victory on July 14). 2007, where the victory had returned to Luxembourg Kim Kirchen after the doping of Alexandre Vinokourov.

The first departure is planned for 13h10the last to 17h05. On the arrival side, the first is scheduled for 13h36 and the last to 17h31.

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