Fight announced between sprinters and adventurers, the 19th stage of the Tour de France, entirely disputed in the Jura on Friday, ends on an interminable straight line of eight kilometers until the arrival in Poligny. A stage “certainly more complicated to control for the sprinter teams”.
Fight announced between sprinters and adventurers, the 19th stage of the Tour de France, entirely disputed in the Jura on Friday, ends on an interminable straight line of eight kilometers until the arrival in Poligny. On the eve of the difficult Vosges stage, it will be an opportunity to shine for the sprinters on a 172.8 km course starting from Moirans-en-Montagne, a small village of 2,130 inhabitants. This Thursday, it was the Dane Kasper Asgreen who won the sprint in Bourg-en-Bresse
The main information :
- 19th stage and final stretch of the Tour de France this Friday.
- The course will take place exclusively in the Jura between Moirans-en-Montagne and Poligny
- “There will be a real match between the sprinters’ teams and the breakaways”, analyzes Thierry Gouvenou
Unless a breakaway finally manages to find the opening in this Tour dominated by the steamrollers of the big teams. “It’s a little harder than the stage the day before. And certainly more complicated to control for the sprinter teams. There will be a real match between the sprinter teams and the breakaways”, analyzes Thierry Gouvenou, the Tour tracer.
“8 km straight line”
“If it has to happen in the sprint, we have 8 km of straight line. The runners should not miss the finish line”, he adds with a smile. Poligny, 4,000 inhabitants, is like Moirans-en-Montagne for the first time on the Tour map, in accordance with the wish of its director Christian Prudhomme to offer large cities in France or abroad and small villages.
The route of the 19th stage
Credit: official Tour de France website