A runway at the end of the stage. The Tour de France will arrive on Wednesday at the Peyragudes plateau, in the Hautes-Pyrenees regionin what will be the fourth and last mountainous difficulty of the 17th stage.
The tour has 129.7 kilometers between the start at Saint-Gaudens and arrival at Peyragudes-Balestas plateauan enclave where scenes from a James Bond movie were shot a quarter of a century ago, The tomorrow Never Die.
According to the race director, Thierry Gouvenou, “after fifty kilometers on the flat, the ascents and descents follow one another without downtime to the finish line.”
Aspin (1st category), a Pyrenean “classic”, and the Hourquette d’Ancizan (2nd category), a more recent discovery, precede the Col de Val Louron-Azet (1st category), conducive to attacks.
The final ascent, 8 kilometers at 7.8%, It ends with an even harder ramp (16%), where Romain Bardet was the strongest in the previous finish, ahead of Colombian Rigoberto Urán.
But, in 2017, the final climb was considerably shorter (2.4 kilometers) to reach an altitude of 1,580 meters.
Departure from Saint-Gaudens is scheduled for 11:15 GMT (06:15 Ecuador), and arrival in Peyragudes around 10:00, time calculated with the platoon moving at an average speed of 36 km/h. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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