Final decision missing tours and the climbers will play their last card on a very challenging Pyrenean stage.It features two ports in the special category and a first and finish line located in the legendary Hautacam.
There will be only Saturday’s probationary period to give definitive shape to the last general of the raid, which envisions a decisive battle at 143.2 kilometers between the Marian temple at Lourdes and the finish line at 1,520 meters above sea level.
the day is short, almost no rest with the first 60 kilometers of sawtooththe leg breaker that doesn’t allow to rest before staring at the three colossi.
El Aubisque, another classic of the Pyrenees, and its peak 76 kilometers from the finish line, 16.4 kilometers at a 7.1% slope.It will wear out forces, but it also marks the beginning of hostilities.
Its descent with Souler in the middle ends at the foot of the Spandelles. an unprecedented increase tours, that the organizers traditionally included with the intention of not crossing the valley leading to Hautacam.
The discovery of Spandelles gave them this opportunity, and the fact that local authorities were repairing a badly degraded road eventually convinced Tour that its slope could be included in the 2020 course.