
Tour de France Stage 13: A Summit Finish and Possible KoM Battle
The Tour returns to the Massif Central area of France for this medium mountain stage with a brand-new (to the race) summit end. The Pas de Peyrol has been featured 10 earlier instances within the Tour, as lately as 2011, however by no means completed atop the climb.
The Class 1 ascent comes on the finish of a heavy day of climbing, with seven whole ascents and 4,400 meters of climbing—greater than any stage on this 12 months’ race besides Stage 18.
These climbs aren’t the lengthy monsters we’ll see within the race’s third week within the Alps. They’re shorter and usually much less steep. However, the sheer variety of them, sprinkled kind of from beginning to end, suggests we’re more likely to see an even bigger breakaway that is a mixture of riders searching a stage win and racers with designs on the polka-dot jersey of greatest climber.