Officials unveil mountain-filled route for 2020 Tour de France - Sportsnet.ca

PARIS — Like a giant roller-coaster from start to finish over five mountain ranges, next year’s Tour de France will feature new summits and only a few time-trial kilometres."With just one time trial, and moreover one with a very steep finish, I really like it," said Bernal, who at 22 became the youngest Tour winner since World War II in July. "I’m a climber so I prefer to have this kind of stages. It will be a different Tour. Really, really, hard, with a lot of steep climbs.

While organizers peppered a total of 29 climbs over the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Massif Central, the Jura and the Vosges, there will be only one time-trial, taking place on the penultimate 36-kilometre stage to the ski resort of La Planche des Belles Filles — a brutal and tortuous slope that has become a Tour classic in recent years. That is where the final battle between Bernal and his challengers should take place before the race’s traditional finale on the Champs Elysees on July 19.

Two big stages are then scheduled in the Pyrenees before a maritime interlude on the Atlantic Coast linking the island of Oleron to the Ile de Re. As often when competitors ride by the sea, strong winds could play havoc with the peloton if the gusts pick up. Following a pair of new summit finishes at Puy Mary in the Massif Central and the Grand Colombier in the Vosges, a mouthwatering trilogy of Alpine stages will then help decide the outcome of the race. Stage 17, arguably the toughest, features the Col de La Madeleine and another novelty, the Col de La Loze, the Tour’s highest point this year at 2,304 metres.

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