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The sprinters find a favorable ground, Friday, in the 13th stage of the Tour de France which leaves the Alps to join Valence, in the valley of the Rhone.
The race, which starts from Bourg d'Oisans, returns to the plain on the 169.5 kilometer course comprising two small hills.
"We wanted to give the sprinters a smile," says race director Thierry Gouvenou, after three days in the Alps.
In its final part, the race, which follows an east-west direction, could be exposed in the wind, sometimes violent in the Rhone valley. With the risk of possible breakage and loss of time for the contenders in the general clbadification
The finish is judged at the end of a straight line of 350 meters, near the Georges-Pompidou stadium.
Valence (64.000 inhabitants), which welcomed the departure of Critérium du Dauphiné last month, receives the Tour for the third time. Three years after the victorious sprint of the German André Greipel
Departure from Bourg d'Oisans at 13:35 (real departure at 13:45), arrival in Valencia around 17:30 (forecast average 45 km / h).
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