There are the oddities of the time such as using cabbage leaves to protect against the heat, and the infamous incident of a fortune teller predicting jacques anquetils. To see all the horner diaries, please visit competitortv. The race will have a 65 km mountain stage, go over the cobbles of parris roubaix and climb up alp dhuez just to name a few. There are the oddities of the time such as using cabbage leaves to protect against the heat, and the. It ran from 29 june 20 to 21 july 20, starting in the city of portovecchio in corsica, with the island hosting the first three stages. Our experience and relationship with the tour allow us to.
I didnt watch the whole stage but i would have thought that letting sky drain the legs a little before this race gets going would be a better idea. Nine cobbled sections will pose a tough challenge to the lightweight gc contenders on stage 5. Jakob started the final stage 1 minute 15 seconds down on richie porte but attacked on the final climb to take back the time and won thanks to the 10 bonus seconds he got for winning the stage. Roll around paris for a bit, in this case 8 and a bit times, before a little sprint finish. Pinot, the far better timetrialist and new national champion, has the ability to podium should rivals falter. Ryan cooper, chief scientist of best bike split, modeled out the power, speed, and other metrics that riders may produce for this stage. I find the tour exciting enough as it is, but if you want a bit more of an adrenaline rush each stage, you can bet on the race. If youre in a hurry it came down to a contest between two riders and was close right until the end but theres more to it than that. Stage 19 is broadcast in full, so get set to watch a brutal day in the alps. A brace of stage wins for cavendish in 20 could not hide the fact that on a straight road, side by side, kittel was. He returned to ireland and won the nissan classic again. You might enterchange your prediction until the according stage starts.
Any of your riders who reaches paris in the top 10 earns you 1 point. Its the one that might make it on to the evening news or the back page of the paper. The tour consisted of twentyone stages and covered a total distance of 3,403. Jul 01, 2019 there always is a predictions thread, why dont we add some spice to it and give one of us some bragging rights. Ill soon find out, since i plan to climb it as part of a trip next week. Nobody wants to hear that your favourite stage of parisnice was actually more exciting because in reality nothing can compete with le tour. This year the race looks as exciting as ever and the route is a big part of this. A total of 6 regions and 32 departments will be travelled through. To add excitement to the 101st edition of the race, the organizers added a cobbled stage that will travel over some of the same challenging terrain that features in. If a rider that you chose finishes at the exact spot that you predicted, add 2 points.
Corsica was the only metropolitan region, and corsedusud and hautecorse were the only metropolitan departments, through which the tour had never previously passed and the organisers wanted to combine. From a commercial point of view, the tour secures more mainstream media attention than any other event on the calendar. The weather looks stunning and it should round off the tour in style. No, the first day in the pyrenees didnt shake up the overall contenders for the general classification gc, but it did provide cycling fans with a bizarre farming protest, two breathtaking crashes, and a reminder of one of. It started on the island of corsica on 30 june and finished on the champselysees in paris on 21 july. All predictions sent by email are without exception invalid.
The five mountain ranges of france will be on the menu of the. It last hosted a stage in 20 when andre greipel took his only win at that edition. Bikeroar predicts this years race will all come down to the final two mountain stages on days 19 and 20, where the riders who have survived the first grueling weeks of the tour will tackle the famed uphill finishes of saintgervase mont blanc. The stage starts in bourg doisans near the base of alpe dhuez and zigzags its way west toward valence. Has yet to win a stage, though was runnerup in three stages.
Two years earlier mark cavendish was the fastest while astana won a memorable, technical team time trial in 2009. A shrugged and slowed, enough to allow elie gesbert to jump across the gap and the pair formed the days breakaway. The fifth stage took the riders westwards through provence, crossing four small categorised climbs before reaching the port of marseille, finishing at parc borely, to the south of the city centre. Four categorised climbs but there are a couple of uncategorised pitches too and will sap the legs all day long. Jul 12, 2017 another sprint stage to take the race to the foot of the pyrenees. The tour director christian prudhomme had said before that if this happened, there would be no alternative winners for those years, but this has not yet been made official. Gaviria rendon fernando won the stage in fontenayle. View all available outright and match odds, plus get news, tips, free bets and moneyback offers. Learn more how the pro riders prepared for the tour and get unique stage predictions and power analysis as the race unfolds on trainingpeaks.