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Le Tour 2020 – Stage 6 — Why Now?
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Le Tour 2020 – Stage 6

by Bryan

Tour de FranceLe Teil > Mont Aigoual

Distance: 191 kilometers.

A “Hill” stage with two minor climbs followed by a Cat 1 and an uphill run to the finish. It starts at 132 meters and ascends to 1560 meters at the finish.

  • Cap de Coste 146.0 km (cat 3: 2.1km @ 7.3%)
  • Col des Mourèzes 163.0 km (cat 3: 6.1km @ 4.8%)
  • Col de la Lusette 177.5 km (cat 1: 11.7km @ 7.3%)

The intermediate sprint is at 125.5 km at Saint Hippolyte du Fort.

The first 143 kilometers are basically flat, but things favor the climbers after that. The end is scaling the Col de la Lusette followed by the ending of 8.3 km @ 4% to reach the finish on Mont Aigoual.

Yellow Jersey Adam Yates ( GBr – MTS – 161 ) [Yellow] 27h 03′ 57″
Green Jersey Sam Bennett ( Irl – DQT – 043 ) [Green] 129 Points
Polka Dot Jersey Benoit Cosnefroy ( Fra – ALM – 033 ) [Polka Dot] 23 points
White Jersey Tadej Pogacar ( Slo – UAD – 131 ) [White] 3

Stage winner: Alexey Lutsenko ( Kaz – AST – 146 )
Combative: Nicolas Roche ( Irl – SUN – 208 ) [Red numbers]
Team: EF Pro Cycling ( EF1 – 071-078 ) [Yellow numbers]

Top 30 below the fold

1 Adam Yates ( GBr – MTS – 161 ) –
2 Primož Roglic ( Slo – TJV – 011 ) + 00h 00′ 03″
3 Tadej Pogacar ( Slo – UAD – 131 ) + 00h 00′ 07″
4 Guillaume Martin ( Fra – COF – 121 ) + 00h 00′ 09″
5 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez ( Col – INS – 001 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
6 Tom Dumoulin ( Ned – TJV – 014 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
7 Esteban Chaves ( Col – MTS – 164 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
8 Nairo Quintana ( Col – ARK – 081 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
9 Romain Bardet ( Fra – ALM – 031 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
10 Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno ( Col – AST – 141 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
11 Bauke Mollema ( Ned – TFS – 104 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
12 Thibaut Pinot ( Fra – GFC – 051 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
13 Mikel Landa Meana ( Spa – TBM – 061 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
14 Rigoberto Uran ( Col – EF1 – 071 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
15 Richie Porte ( Aus – TFS – 101 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
16 Julian Alaphilippe ( Fra – DQT – 041 ) + 00h 00′ 15″
17 Emanuel Buchmann ( Ger – BOH – 022 ) + 00h 00′ 22″
18 Enric Mas Nicolau ( Spa – MOV – 094 ) + 00h 00′ 22″
19 Alejandro Valverde ( Spa – MOV – 091 ) + 00h 00′ 34″
20 Richard Carapaz ( Ecu – INS – 003 ) + 00h 00′ 41″
21 Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia ( Col – EF1 – 074 ) + 00h 00′ 41″
22 Damiano Caruso ( Ita – TBM – 063 ) + 00h 00′ 41″
23 Pierre Rolland ( Fra – BVC – 218 ) + 00h 01′ 10″
24 Pello Bilbao ( Spa – TBM – 062 ) + 00h 02′ 32″
25 Greg Van Avermaet ( Bel – CCC – 111 ) + 00h 02′ 33″
26 Alexey Lutsenko ( Kaz – AST – 146 ) + 00h 02′ 39″
27 Marc Soler ( Spa – MOV – 097 ) + 00h 02′ 40″
28 Domenico Pozzovivo ( Ita – NTT – 197 ) + 00h 02′ 42″
29 Fabio Aru ( Ita – UAD – 132 ) + 00h 03′ 45″
30 Hugh Carthy ( GBr – EF1 – 073 ) + 00h 04′ 04″

Note: Wikipedia has a simple article on the Mountain classification used on the Tour. The basic fact is that climbs fall into five types, with the four numbered types decreasing in difficulty as the numbers get larger, and then there is the Hors Catégorie, literally “without category”, which generally makes you look for an elevator or Sherpas.

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