The third week “On the Riviera, I take you”
The city that will host the second rest day on July 15th is still unclear. Narbonne? Carcassonne? Montpellier? Gruissan? In any case, there needs to be sufficient hotel infrastructure. On Tuesday, July 16th, the day of the five-time winner Miguel Indurain’s 60th birthday, the race will head east with a probable arrival in Nîmes (where Marc Cavendish, the 2021 winner, had taken the opportunity to get even closer to Eddy Merckx’s record -34 victories- which he has since equalled and hopes to definitively break in nine months) before returning, in a much more substantial way than the first week, to the Alpine massif via the Hautes-Alpes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. We should arrive at the ski resort of SuperDévoluy on July 17th, Barcelonnette on the 18th, and Isola 2000 on the 19th (probably via the Col de Vars and the Cime de la Bonnette, which peaks at… 2802 meters altitude)! The arrival in Isola 2000 is a certainty, as confirmed by Christian Estrosi, the President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Council, a few days ago. It smells like the queen stage!
Regardless of the gaps on Friday evening, the classification will not be frozen because the final weekend has been designed to offer these twists of fate that ASO loves since the episode of La Planche des Belles Filles in 2020 when the young Tadej Pogacar created a sensation by snatching the yellow jersey from his fellow countryman Primoz Roglic. These last two stages are officially known (as a reminder, due to the Olympics, the race will not finish in Paris for the first time since its creation in 1903): Nice-Col de la Couillole (a very bad memory for Merckx in 1975!) on the 20th (in a dynamic format with four mountain passes in 132 kilometers) and Monaco-Nice “against the clock” on July 21st, Belgian National Day… Certainly, Remco doesn’t like gravel roads, but he is the world champion in time trials!
Brittany, Normandy, the North, and… Belgium are completely skipped. But we already hear that 2025 could smile upon them with a Grand Depart planned in the Hauts-de-France.
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