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iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited October 2009 in Pro race
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de ... ce-in-2010

I'm really hoping its not going to be a rubbish route....
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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  • The Kennington Kaiser
    The Kennington Kaiser Posts: 406
    A 80 km team time trial and special UCI prefential treatment if anyone from The Shack gets a puncture.

    19 flat stages and then two in the Pyrenees, I reckon. :wink:

    It can't be any worse than last year, surely?
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    iainf72 wrote:
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-racers-may-tackle-tourmalet-twice-in-2010

    I'm really hoping its not going to be a rubbish route....
    In one day would be amazing. They did the Col d'Aubisque from both sides in 1985. I was there rd side, watched them both times up

    18A Luz-Saint-Sauveur - Col d'Aubisque 52 Stephen Roche
    18B Laruns - Pau 84 Régis Simon
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • micron
    micron Posts: 1,843
    Supposedly Luchon-Pau stage: Peyresourde, Aspin, Tourmalet and Aubisque as climbed by Lapize and Faber 100 years earlier, then a 2nd rest day, then a stage finishing for the first time on the Tourmalet - but no news as to whether that's the rumoured MTT or a road stage
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Given that I rode the Aubisque, Tourmalet, Aspin, and Perysourde (in that order) this year, I am understandably very happy with that news! Shame they're going up where I went down and visa versa.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • shawman
    shawman Posts: 76
    http://www.velopeloton.com/blog.htm

    Maybe even doing Tourmalet 3 times!
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    iainf72 wrote:
    I'm really hoping its not going to be a rubbish route....

    If it's a Luchon-Pau stage, not the other way round, that doesn't bode well... Pau is miles away from the last climb
  • hommelbier
    hommelbier Posts: 1,555
    http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2009/10/12/692091-Tout-en-haut-des-Pyrenees-centenaires.html

    Probable route from a French regional newspaper
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    hommelbier wrote:
    http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2009/10/12/692091-Tout-en-haut-des-Pyrenees-centenaires.html

    Probable route from a French regional newspaper

    I was really hoping for Alpe d'Huez, I always miss it when it's omitted.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    How accurate were the predictions last year etc, can anyone recall?
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    iainf72 wrote:
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-racers-may-tackle-tourmalet-twice-in-2010

    I'm really hoping its not going to be a rubbish route....

    and please dont waste a mountain stage with a time trial
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    micron wrote:
    Supposedly Luchon-Pau stage: Peyresourde, Aspin, Tourmalet and Aubisque as climbed by Lapize and Faber 100 years earlier, then a 2nd rest day, then a stage finishing for the first time on the Tourmalet - but no news as to whether that's the rumoured MTT or a road stage

    Where about on the Tourmalet ? as it has finihsed at la Mongie a few times which as you know is lower down the climb.
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • shawman
    shawman Posts: 76
    Moray Gub wrote:
    micron wrote:
    Supposedly Luchon-Pau stage: Peyresourde, Aspin, Tourmalet and Aubisque as climbed by Lapize and Faber 100 years earlier, then a 2nd rest day, then a stage finishing for the first time on the Tourmalet - but no news as to whether that's the rumoured MTT or a road stage

    Where about on the Tourmalet ? as it has finihsed at la Mongie a few times which as you know is lower down the climb.

    At the summit. There was a finish there in 1974.
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    shawman wrote:
    Moray Gub wrote:
    micron wrote:
    Supposedly Luchon-Pau stage: Peyresourde, Aspin, Tourmalet and Aubisque as climbed by Lapize and Faber 100 years earlier, then a 2nd rest day, then a stage finishing for the first time on the Tourmalet - but no news as to whether that's the rumoured MTT or a road stage

    Where about on the Tourmalet ? as it has finihsed at la Mongie a few times which as you know is lower down the climb.

    At the summit. There was a finish there in 1974.

    I see a La Mongie finish in 74 Stage 17 won by Jean-Pierre Danguillaume, is that the one you are refering to ? did it go all the way to the top then ?
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • Philip S
    Philip S Posts: 398
    Sonny73 wrote:
    How accurate were the predictions last year etc, can anyone recall?

    IIRC, La Depeche is usually pretty reliable. I remember they were reporting that Toulouse would have a finish and a start in 2008 the day after the TdF left the Pyrenees in 2007.

    Going with the detail given in that article, they're either very confident of their sources or do not mind a spot of oeuf sur la visage.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    I think they've picked up the Velonews piece. You only have to ring round a few places to book a hotel and if the hotel is complet already for one day in July then chances are ASO have hogged it for the race.

    Going by the route, we have three summit finishes: La Toussuire, Ax and the Tourmalet and the stage to Morzine could well probably finish via a descent into the town, another tough day.

    Only one big TT. Wiggo and Armstrong won't be pleased, but the likes of Andy Schleck and Bob Gesink will find their prayers answered. But Contador is always going to be the massive favourite.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    hommelbier wrote:
    http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2009/10/12/692091-Tout-en-haut-des-Pyrenees-centenaires.html

    Probable route from a French regional newspaper

    One wonders how much speculation is in there, but I found this quite interesting:
    "Entre Bruxelles où Eddy Merckx aura fêté ses 65 ans quelques jours plus tôt, et la Lozère, on pourrait retrouver quelques pavés de l'Enfer du Nord sur le chemin de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux ". Yes please!
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    I heard from a good source it starts in Rotterdam this year. ;)


    Seriously though - what time is the route unveiled?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Tomorrow at the Palais des Congres in Paris at 10am. It is actually broadcast on ES from 11.30am, or a summary at 4.30pm.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Streamed live on the ASO website if you haven't got an invitation to attend.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,812
    FJS wrote:
    hommelbier wrote:
    http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2009/10/12/692091-Tout-en-haut-des-Pyrenees-centenaires.html

    Probable route from a French regional newspaper

    One wonders how much speculation is in there, but I found this quite interesting:
    "Entre Bruxelles où Eddy Merckx aura fêté ses 65 ans quelques jours plus tôt, et la Lozère, on pourrait retrouver quelques pavés de l'Enfer du Nord sur le chemin de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux ". Yes please!

    That is cool,'cos ever since it was announced they were starting in Rotterdam I thought they might take on le pavé du Nord. I liked the finish at La Toussuire, and not just because of Floys, I enjoyed it when it was in the Dauphiné. [

    Spot prize for who won that day in the Dauphiné]
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,481
    Iban Mayo.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    andyp wrote:
    Iban Mayo.
    fell on the tarmac before the cobbles, not on the cobbles themselves. That's no different than the crashes you get for instance before windy echelon-risk sections.

    Riding on cobbles is part of road racing skills, just like say descending skills. And the 'paves' are part of classic French cycling roads, just as much as the road up the Tourmalet is; IMHO a tour of France is incomplete without them. In the eighties they featured more often, it's sad that's lost with the extreme specialisation since Indurain and Armstrong.
  • shawman
    shawman Posts: 76
    Moray Gub wrote:
    shawman wrote:
    Moray Gub wrote:
    micron wrote:
    Supposedly Luchon-Pau stage: Peyresourde, Aspin, Tourmalet and Aubisque as climbed by Lapize and Faber 100 years earlier, then a 2nd rest day, then a stage finishing for the first time on the Tourmalet - but no news as to whether that's the rumoured MTT or a road stage

    Where about on the Tourmalet ? as it has finihsed at la Mongie a few times which as you know is lower down the climb.

    At the summit. There was a finish there in 1974.

    I see a La Mongie finish in 74 Stage 17 won by Jean-Pierre Danguillaume, is that the one you are refering to ? did it go all the way to the top then ?

    Yes, the finish of stage 17 was at the summit. Stage 18 also crossed the climb.

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