Alpe D'Huez 175.5km Stage 12.
A severe test of man and machine, God help the Sprinters !
Cavendish & Kittel already timed out or Abandoned, I expect several more today.
One for the purist climb
Albertville to La Rosiere 108.5km
2 X Huge HC climbs a Cat2 climb and a finishing Cat1 summit finish..
With GC riders needing to play catch up.
Thomas, Quintana, Bardet, Yates & Froome all ne
Stage 10 - Annecy > Le Grand-Bornand 158km
With 3 Cat 1 climbs a HC Cat climb and two other smaller climbs this has to be one of the hardest stages of this years race and will come as a shock to man
Stage 9. Roubaix.
Several teams have specialist Riders who ride the Northern Classics. Although this is a shortened version of the Classic Paris - Roubaix, you will probably see the beefed-up equip
Stage 8.
Just a comment on stage 7 It was a very quiet day at the Tour de France, with the regular sprinters fighting out a brief sprint, following what was more like a 230km Sunday Club Ride. Quit
Stage 7.
What a great finish to Stage 6 with Dan Martin holding off the late finish of Pierre Latour, just like I predicted (Well almost lol ). Stage 7 and its almost certainly back to the sprin
Stage 6.
181km relatively flat, fast and perfect for a breakaway. The last 20km has two Category 3 climbs with the second being a 2km climb of almost 7% to the Finish. Expect the sparks to fly on
Stage 3 & 4
Stage 3.
A very predictable Time Trial in which BMC Rubber stamped their TT skills over Team Sky. What was interesting was that Bora managed to Drop their Yellow Jersey, Peter S
Villanova de Arousa to Sanxenxo, TTT - 27km
The Vuelta organisers have certainly found a novel way to start the 2013 race, with a Team Trial Time starting off from a 'Balea' or a floating wooden pon
This year's Vuelta looks like being one of the most open stage races of the year, if not many years, with no clear favourite currently dominating at the top of the betting like Froome did at the Tour