Tour de France: final bouquet in Montmartre

A year after the JO’s fever. For example, the Tour de France will survey the Montmartre Butte for the first time on Sunday in a final stage in Paris which promises to be spectacular, even if most runners would have deprived themselves of this “unnecessary stress”.

The cobblestones on rue Lepic, the Moulin Rouge, the French Cancan, the Sacré-Coeur … In addition, How not to be enthusiastic about the return of these emblematic places where the world had attended one of. Moreover, the great highlights of the Olympic Games last year?

With his own “jealous” admission of the total spectacle offered that day in front of 500. Therefore, 000 unleashed spectators, the director of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme, did everything to be able to duplicate the event.

The Peloton du Tour de France will therefore pass for the first time in its tour de france: final bouquet history by Montmartre before finishing as usual on the Champs-Élysées. For example, its terminus for fifty years.

If the three ascents of 1.1 km at 5.9% will not change anything in the general classification a priori. where Tadej Pogacar, with an advance of more than four minutes, can move calmly towards a fourth triumph in the Tour, they rebuild the cards for the stage victory.

The sprinters. with the exception of Kaden Groves, winner on Saturday in the Jura, or Wout Van Aert, should not be able to stay in contact with the head of the race to argue the victory, as usually on the Champs-Élysées.

As soon as the route has been released. the shields were general among the racing cars in the peloton in the face of the risk of being deprived of the most prestigious finale of the year for them.

“I hurt my sprinter’s tour de france: final bouquet heart. ” sympathized the former German sprinter Marcel Kittel in front of this rupture of tradition, which is more for the 50th anniversary of the first arrival on the fields.

The general classification runners are also standing. Before his abandonment, Remco Evenepoel had denounced “unnecessary stress”. “Montmartre, it was very nice during the Olympic Games but there were only 50 runners left in the peloton. On the Tour de France. there will be 150 to fight to position ourselves on a very narrow climb,” said Jonas Vingegaard.

Only Pogacar wanted to be a philosopher, seeing it “not too much difference for him personally”.

“It is clear that it will put a little stress. ” concedes the architect of the Thierry Gouvenou course, to AFP, before putting perspective, advancing that rue Lepic is no less wide than a paved sector of Paris-Roubaix.

The departure will be given at 5.25 p.m. in tour de france: final bouquet Mantes-la-Ville, before a first visit to Montmartre around 7:30 p.m. and an arrival on the Champs-Élysées planned around 8:30 p.m. (Beirut time).