What are the most difficult stages of the Tour de France 2023?

The issue 110 The Tour de France begins this July 1 in Bilbao, Spain, the starting point of a long journey of emotion and suffering for the main part, a spectacular journey to final on July 23 in Pariswhere there will be a triumphal walk of the bearer of the yellow jersey.

La Grande Boucle will have this season a stage against time, six lowland stages, six medium mountain stages and eight high mountain stageswith five days for top finishes, which would be decisive for the structure of the final podium.

Tour de France 2023: Who will keep the yellow jersey?

The peloton will cover 3404 kilometerswith the Alps as judges in the dispute for the yellow shirt already in the decisive part of the French circuit that will pass through the Pyrenees in the first week, where you can have an announcement of the fight for the lead.

The first phase will be Bilbao (182 kilometers), the place chosen for the 2023 Grand Départa stage with a classic Basque atmosphere, broken and explosive profile where the first fight for the yellow shirt will take place.

The first big day of the French circle will come July 6 with the sixth stageroute between Tarbes – Cauterets-Cambasque, part 144.9 kilometers with three passes and the goal of climbing the first category this can make the first big differences in the general classification.

The first week of the tour ends with 182.4 kilometers in the ninth stagethe section between Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat and the ascent of the Puy de Dome, a pass of 12 kilometers, with the last five very demanding and exhausting. There will be 3,600 meters of accumulated bumps and an average gradient of 12%.

phase 15 goes from Les Gets to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, 179 kilometers in the third day of high mountainswith 4300 meters of positive ascent, including the climbs of Col de la Forclaz de Montmin, Col de la Croix Fry, Cote des Amerands and finally Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc Le Bettex, a first-class port.

The best and most demanding remains for the third week of the Tour, with two more days of high mountains and the individual time trial (CRI), always a definite specialty in stage trials that comes after the second rest day.

CRI in stage 16 has 22.4 kilometers trails defined more for climbers than sprinters, with uneven terrain on the slopes of Mont Blanc, s the last seven kilometers uphill to Comblouxwhich can make the difference for the applicant to keep the yellow jersey.

Day after day it comes phase queen, day 17 who will travel 165.7 kilometers between Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and Courchevel, with the most demanding mountain passes that will outline this year’s winner.

For the 20th competition day, there is a short stage, but a bonfire. it will be 133.5 kilometers in stage 20 between Belfort and Le Markstein, the last chance to fight for the podium and settle the positions in the general classification.

Paris will crown the winner of the Tour de France on July 23 on a day suitable for sprinters. The stage 21 will have 115 flatland kilometers destined for the triumphal walk on the Champs-Élysées of the holder of the yellow jersey. (D)