Mont Saint Michel - Tour stage?

Dave-M

Has this iconic landmark ever featured in a tour stage?

I only ask I was looking at Google images a while ago and noticed a bike race ending there.

Now, I'd like to find the pic for you, but I can't! So, can anyone remember if this took place, or it was maybe another race?

Thanks in advance.

takethehighroad

In 1990, if memory serves me correctly. Museeuw maybe won

takethehighroad

I'm pleased with myself for that one

http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/fr/TDF/1990/400/etape.html

Dave-M

Good job, still can't find an image of it though....

Dave-M

I have a video though:

http://www.kewego.co.uk/video/iLyROoafYkC1.html

Moomaloid

Yeah they made a massive thing about getting over it and back before the tide came in and how the cross wind would cause crashes. I think they was a crash no?

mercsport

1990 Stage Four : Nantes to Saint Michel.

I seem to remember it as an overcast day and a breezy and wet crossing of the causeway

Stage 4: Nantes - Mont St. Michel, 203 km

1. Johan Museeuw: 5hr 23min 33sec
2. Guido Bontempi s.t.
3. Olaf Ludwig s.t.
4. Davis Phinney s.t.
5. Adriano Baffi s.t.
6. Johan Capiot s.t.
7. Sean Kelly s.t.
8. Jean-Paul Van Poppel s.t.
9. Etienne De Wilde s.t.
10. Martin Schalkers s.t.
GC after stage 4:

1. Steve Bauer: 15hr 33min 24sec
2. Ronan Pensec @ 30sec
3. Frans Maassen @ 33sec
4. Claudio Chiappucci @ 1min 1sec
5. Moreno Argentin @ 8min 27sec
6. Raul Alcala @ 9min 58sec
7. Steven Rooks @ 10min 5sec
8. Sean Kelly s.t.
9. Eric Van Lancker @ 10min 4sec
10. Alan Peiper s.t.

Pross

Can't find a picture but some video footage here (not great quality).

http://www.kewego.fr/video/iLyROoafYkC1.html

crymble

Don't have any pictures - but I was there! :-)

First tour stage I had ever seen (live) Also saw the start the next day and remember Robert Millar getting in trouble for cutting round the wrong side of a roundabout at the start.

Also as someone else mentioned the tour went past it (early 2000's I think,) and there was a crash on the slippy road.

Keith

ednwireland

Moomaloid wrote:

Yeah they made a massive thing about getting over it and back before the tide came in and how the cross wind would cause crashes. I think they was a crash no?

i think your thinking of the passage du gois to the island of Noirmoutier near nantes
(the only reason i know this is i saw a video recently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T66LLvqgZS4

the causeway at mont st michel doesnt get cobered by the tide i dont think

jimmythecuckoo

Didn't Zulle come off?

disquieting_museeuws

ednwireland wrote:

Moomaloid wrote:

Yeah they made a massive thing about getting over it and back before the tide came in and how the cross wind would cause crashes. I think they was a crash no?

i think your thinking of the passage du gois to the island of Noirmoutier near nantes
(the only reason i know this is i saw a video recently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T66LLvqgZS4

the causeway at mont st michel doesnt get cobered by the tide i dont think

They're doing the Passage at the start next year, but neutralised. Zulle lost about 7 minutes last time, about the same as he lost the Tour by (but let's not get into that).

In 1990 Olaf Ludwig was the sprinter to beat, I remember him saying that he judged his sprint on a giant coca-cola bottle that was at the stage finishes, but this time it was placed a little before the line so he started too early, allowing Museeuw to come past. Fignon lost some time on the stage at a squeeze in a village (as on the video, I think).

OffTheBackAdam

What a list of sprinting greats!