This Saturday, August 29, the edition will begin 107 of the Tour de France It will be attended by important figures of current cycling, who will face each other in a suitable route for climbers and that will run until next September 20.
For this 2020, the test will not have a study week with flat stages where the popular fans wreaked havoc in previous versions and from very early the candidates for the title will have to face the mountainous fractions.
Although the flat days will also be decisive, the organizers of the ‘Grande Boucle’ established that siete stages will have the finish line in mountain passes, where a priori, the winner of the ‘Maillot jaune’ would be defined.
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The first mountainous event of the Tour de France will be in the fourth stage on September 1, which will start at Sisteron and finish at Orcières-Merlette.
This day will have a total route of 160.5 kilometers with five mountain passes distributed as follows: three of the third category, one of the fourth category and the final first category pass at the finish line.
Precisely this ascent of the Orcierés-Merlette has a distance of 7.1 kilometers with an average difference of 6.7% and with a maximum height of 1825 meters.
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