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Le Tour 2021 – Stage 14 — Why Now?
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Le Tour 2021 – Stage 14

by Bryan

Tour de France Carcassone > Quillan

Distance: 183.7 kilometers.

A Hilly stage with two Cat 3 and three Cat 2 climbs.

  • Col du Bac 50.9 km (Cat 3: 3.1km @ 5.3%)
  • Col de Montségur 89.0 km (Cat 2: 4.2km @ 8.7%)
  • Col de la Croix de Morts 110.3 km(Cat 2: 6.8km @ 5.7%)
  • Côte de Galinagues 126.3 km (Cat 3: 2.2km @ 9.0%)
  • Col de Saint-Louis 166.8 km (Cat 2: 4.7km @ 7.4%)

The intermediate sprint is at 76.7 km at Lavelanet.

Yellow Jersey Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001) [Yellow] 56 hours 50 minutes 21 seconds
Green Jersey Mark Cavendish (DQT – 055) [Green] 279 Points
Polka Dot Jersey Michael Woods (ISN – 037) [Polka Dot] 54 points
White Jersey Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) [White] 4*

Stage winner: Bauke Mollema (TFS – 044)
Combative: Bauke Mollema (TFS – 044 ) [Red numbers]
Team: Bahrain Victorious ( TBV – 161-168 ) [Yellow numbers]

*Number 2 is wearing the White as Number 1 is wearing Yellow.

The Tour’s concept of “Hilly” is a bit skewed IMHO.

Top 30 below the fold

1 Tadej Pogacar (UAD – 001) –
2 Guillaume Martin (COF – 091) + 00h 04′ 04″
3 Rigoberto Uran (EFN – 111) + 00h 05′ 18″
4 Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) + 00h 05′ 32″
5 Richard Carapaz (IGD – 022) + 00h 05′ 33″
6 Ben O’Connor (ACT – 124) + 00h 05′ 58″
7 Wilco Kelderman (BOH – 073) + 00h 06′ 16″
8 Alexey Lutsenko (APT – 188) + 00h 06′ 30″
9 Enric Mas (MOV – 065) + 00h 07′ 11″
10 Mattia Cattaneo (DQT – 054) + 00h 09′ 48″
11 Peio Bilbao (TBV – 162) + 00h 10′ 28″
12 Jhoan Esteban Chaves (BEX – 172) + 00h 20′ 28″
13 Aurélien Paret Peintre (ACT – 125) + 00h 24′ 44″
14 Louis Meintjes (IWG – 211) + 00h 26′ 53″
15 David Gaudu (GFC – 081) + 00h 30′ 51″
16 Wout Van Aert (TJV – 012) + 00h 31′ 43″
17 Bauke Mollema (TFS – 044) + 00h 32′ 02″
18 Sergio Luis Henao (TQA – 191) + 00h 37′ 28″
19 Wouter Poels (TBV – 166) + 00h 39′ 31″
20 Dylan Teuns (TBV – 167) + 00h 43′ 54″
21 Ruben Guerreiro (EFN – 113) + 00h 47′ 37″
22 Sergio Andres Higuita (EFN – 114) + 00h 49′ 04″
23 Patrick Konrad (BOH – 074) + 00h 51′ 17″
24 Jonathan Castroviejo (IGD – 023) + 00h 51′ 34″
25 Alejandro Valverde (MOV – 067) + 00h 54′ 54″
26 Michael Woods (ISN – 037) + 00h 55′ 15″
27 Kenny Elissonde (TFS – 043) + 00h 57′ 38″
28 Steven Kruijswijk (TJV – 014) + 00h 57′ 38″
29 Julian Alaphilippe (DQT – 051) + 00h 58′ 41″
30 Jakob Fuglsang (APT – 181) + 01h 03′ 02″

Did not start:
Warren Barguil (ARK – 131)
Søren Kragh Andersen (DSM – 141)

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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