Live Tour: Platoon on the dreaded pavement Tour de France

The peloton receives many more pavers than the last two times that the Tour has planned a paved tour. In 2014, we opted for six tracks (totaling 13.3 kilometers), in 2015 for nine tracks (15.4 kilometers in total).

"But this year the drivers are really expecting a mini-Paris-Roubaix, with only 15 paved strips!" In total, the drivers bounced back over 22 kilometers through De Hel . 39, your ranking can only be shit. "

Boogerd is waiting for Tom Dumoulin to hurt some competitors. "He has to be able to do that, just like Vincenzo Nibali, who laid a solid foundation for his Tour victory in 2014 with a race Lieuwe Westra."

He is with Niki Terpstra a former winner of Paris-Roubaix at the start, who could provide a third Dutch victory in a row, after the two sprint victories of Dylan Groenewegen. "With Niki back to the Tour, we have someone for the stage win, just as Lars Boom did the trick in 2014."

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Lars Boom accelerates to victory step, in his wheel Vincenzo Nibali.

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