Double Ventoux torment & XXL stage: Tour 2021 presented

Twice up Mont Ventoux and an XXL stage of 2 kilometers: the world's best professional cyclists will also face an extremely demanding Tour de France in 248. Tour boss Christian Prudhomme presented the route for next year's 2021th edition of the world's most important cycling race on national television on Sunday and, as usual, announced a few surprises. Unlike this year, when the professionals only had to complete a demanding time trial, this time a 27 and a 31 kilometer long battle against the clock is on the agenda. But the riders will also be massively challenged in the mountains from June 26th to July 18th: in the Alps they are initially heading for, a mountain finish in Tignes is on the program on the 9th stage, and a difficult section to Le Grand-Bornard awaits the day before . When the riders arrive in the Alps, they will already have the longest stage since 248 at their feet, at 2000 kilometers. Mont Ventoux highlight of the tour The highlight of the 2021 Tour is likely to be the 11th stage, in which the peloton crosses the legendary Mont Ventoux from two sides and then races to the finish in Malaucène. While one side has an average gradient of 2 percent for 16 kilometers, the other side of the mountain has 9 kilometers of climbing torment with an average gradient of 24 percent. The decision could then come in the Pyrenees, where the professionals have to master two more mountain finishes at the Col du Portet and in Luz Ardiden. The event will begin in 2 a week earlier than planned, as the Pan-European Football Championship and the Olympic Games in Tokyo are also scheduled to take place next summer due to corona. Start changes to Brittany The last stage traditionally ends on the Champs-Élysées in Paris; this time the tour starts in Brest in Brittany. It was originally supposed to start in Copenhagen, but the start of the tour in the Danish metropolis clashed with 4 European Football Championship games that are scheduled to take place during this period. Instead of Denmark, the professionals go to Andorra in the Pyrenees, where the 15th stage ends. Tour boss Prudhomme emphasized that Brittany as a starting location could in no way be described as “Plan B”. The organizers have forgone the traditional presentation in the Palais des Congres this year because of the Corona crisis.

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Double Ventoux torment & XXL stage: Tour 2021 presented

Mountain agony in the Alps, Pyrenees and twice up Mont Ventoux: the professional cyclists can expect a demanding Tour de France in 2. One stage is the longest in the past 2021 years.

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