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Start time of the day
Here are the times of departure for the top 10 (all times TSB):
15:11: Ilnur Zakarin
15h13: Nairo Quintana
3:15 pm: Daniel Martin
3:17 pm: Roman Bardet
3:19 pm: Mikel Landa
3:21 pm: Steven Kruijswijk
15h23: Chris Froome
15h25: Primoz Roglic
15h27: Tom Dumoulin
15h29: Geraint Thomas [19659015] And a few others Notables and imaginary horsemen dispersed throughout the day …
11h56: Arnaud Demare
11h31: Maciej Bodnar
11h45: Alexander Kristoff
12h39: Yves Lampaert
1:11 pm: Peter Sagan
1:43 pm: Stefan Kung
1.51pm: Michal Kwiatkowski
] 14:25: Julian Alaphilippus
14:27: Tejay Van Garderen
2:31 pm: Adam Yates
Preamble [19659004] Alès da ! Whitchurch High School could soon add a Tour de France winner to its list of alumni, as well as three-time Champions League winner and Grand Slam captain and British and Irish Lions. Geraint Thomas would have been three years of school above Gareth Bale and Sam Warburton in Cardiff, but is a time-trial-nothing-daft-now far to surpbad no doubt their achievements. As long as he stays on the bike today and keeps closest rivals Tom Dumoulin and Primoz Roglic at 2 minutes 5 seconds away, Thomas will become only the first British Tour winner and the first Welsh to claim the yellow link.
Of course, despite the heavy buffer, he is pursued by the World Time Trial Champion Dumoulin (Roglic finished second in Bergen) which was 1min 40sec faster than him at the ITT at the Tour of the World. Last year. for this step. But Thomas has a considerable time pedigree who himself won the national championships in June and finished second at an ITT at the Giro in May … but 49secs later, you know who.
present some challenges because it is hilly … very hilly, actually. A winding, winding road features a series of powerful ups and downs, with barely a flat stretch longer than 1 km, a short and very sharp climb to 3 km from the finish with gradations up to 22% before the descent to Espelette – The house of Espelette pepper. In reality, all the heat is likely to be behind Thomas in the battle for the podium while 32secs separate Dumoulin and Chris Froome in fourth.
And some essential readings before the race:
