Tour de France | Analysis
Stage 11
Stage 11 Breakdown:
Stage 11 bring the riders back into the lowlands, with a fairly flat 156km roundtrip starting and finishing in Toulouse. This is the first stage following the first restday of the tour, which was likely very welcomed by the riders after completing the first 10 stages. Despite being a fairly flat and short stage, it still contain 1750m of elevation gain and five categorized climbs. The last 3rd category climb is only 800m long but has a whopping 12.4% average gradient!
They reach the top with 8.8km still to go, which should be enough time to make it a bunch sprint. However tired legs or bad positioning could easily eliminate the winning chances of a few sprinters. The final kilometres take place within the city of Toulouse, where they reach an angled roundabout with about 500m to go followed by a final straight line to the finish.
Favorites:
| +++ | Jonathan Milan, Wout van Aert, Mathieu v.d. Poel
| ++ | Kaden Groves, Romain Gregoire, Axel Laurance
| + | Biniam Girmay, Tim Merlier
TourManager:
Etappe 11 er første etappe etter første hviledag, og en siste flat etappe før fjellene for alvor kommer igang. Til tross for at det er fem kategoriserte stigninger, med en siste stigning 9km fra mål, vil det trolig være duket for en massespurt.
Dersom du allerede har begynt å omstille laget til fjellene, anbefaler vi å ikke bruke noen bytter til denne etappen. Det er de kommende fjelletappene som gir de store poengmulighetene, og det er der man virkelig vil trenge alle bytter man kan ha.
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