The Tour de France peloton will summit the Butte Montmartre thrice on the ultimate stage in Paris this July, the ultimate time simply 6km from the road, the race organiser [ASO] revealed on Wednesday.
In a presentation on Wednesday, the Tour organiser revealed that the race would replicate components of the Olympic street race route, taking over three ascents of the cobbled climb that attracted a whole bunch of hundreds of followers.
This yr’s version marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Tour’s first end on the Champs-Élysées. The ultimate stage is often contested by the sprinters left within the race; nonetheless, with a climb simply 6km from the road, the stage may as a substitute be contested by Classics fashion riders comparable to Mathieu van der Poel, and even the GC hopefuls.
ASO confirmed that the race will nonetheless embrace 4 laps of the same old ending circuit, though it’s going to then transfer away to a special circuit which is able to lead the riders to the climb.
Talking earlier this week, earlier than the total particulars of the stage had been unveiled, two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard mentioned a passage via Montmartre may result in “extra stress” within the peloton.
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“The Montmartre was good to do within the Olympics. It appeared good, and there have been lots of people and a very good ambiance,” Vingegaard mentioned. “However in that race, once they got here to Montmartre, there have been solely 50 riders left within the bunch. Once we do the Tour de France, we can be 150 guys combating for positions.”
The ultimate day of the race has historically staged a procession for the general winner, with the quick end seen because the ‘Unofficial World Championships’ for sprinters.
Final yr’s race additionally strayed from the same old Champs-Élysées finale, culminating with a time trial in Good, in order to not conflict with the Paris Olympics.
