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Le Tour 2021 – Stage 16 — Why Now?
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Le Tour 2021 – Stage 16

by Bryan

Tour de France Pas de la Case > Saint-Gaudens

Distance: 169.0 kilometers.

A “Hilly” stage with two Cat 2, a Cat 1, and a Cat 4 climbs.

  • Col de Port 54.0 km (Cat 2: 11.4km @ 5.1%)
  • Col de la Core 101.1 km (Cat 1: 13.1km @ 6.6%)
  • Col de Portet-d’Aspet 136.5 km (Cat 2: 5.4km @ 7.1%)
  • Côte d’Aspet-Sarrat 162.0 km (Cat 4: 800m @ 8.4%)

The intermediate sprint is at 84.7 km at Vic d’Oust.

Yellow Jersey Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001) [Yellow] 66 hours 23 minutes 06 seconds
Green Jersey Mark Cavendish (DQT – 055) [Green] 279 Points
Polka Dot Jersey Wouter Poels (TBV – 166) [Polka Dot] 74 points
White Jersey Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) [White] 3*

Stage winner: Patrick Konrad (BOH – 074)
Combative: Patrick Konrad (BOH – 074 ) [Red numbers]
Team: Bahrain Victorious ( TBV – 161-168 ) [Yellow numbers]

A diverse cast on the stage podiums in this version of the Tour with many first time stage winners.

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

Top 30 below the fold

1 Tadej Pogacar (UAD – 001)
2 Rigoberto Uran (EFN – 111) + 00h 05′ 18″
3 Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) + 00h 05′ 32″
4 Richard Carapaz (IGD – 022) + 00h 05′ 33″
5 Ben O’Connor (ACT – 124) + 00h 05′ 58″
6 Wilco Kelderman (BOH – 073) + 00h 06′ 16″
7 Alexey Lutsenko (APT – 188) + 00h 07′ 01″
8 Enric Mas (MOV – 065) + 00h 07′ 11″
9 Guillaume Martin (COF – 091) + 00h 08′ 02″
10 Peio Bilbao (TBV – 162) + 00h 10′ 59″
11 David Gaudu (GFC – 081) + 00h 14′ 13″
12 Mattia Cattaneo (DQT – 054) + 00h 14′ 45″
13 Aurélien Paret Peintre (ACT – 125) + 00h 22′ 10″
14 Jhoan Esteban Chaves (BEX – 172) + 00h 23′ 46″
15 Louis Meintjes (IWG – 211) + 00h 30′ 11″
16 Wout Van Aert (TJV – 012) + 00h 32′ 16″
17 Sergio Luis Henao (TQA – 191) + 00h 37′ 43″
18 Wouter Poels (TBV – 166) + 00h 38′ 42″
19 Dylan Teuns (TBV – 167) + 00h 44′ 09″
20 Ruben Guerreiro (EFN – 113) + 00h 44′ 56″
21 Patrick Konrad (BOH – 074) + 00h 47′ 02″
22 Bauke Mollema (TFS – 044) + 00h 48′ 12″
23 Alejandro Valverde (MOV – 067) + 00h 51′ 10″
24 Franck Bonnamour (BBK – 223) + 00h 52′ 58″
25 Jonathan Castroviejo (IGD – 023) + 00h 56′ 36″
26 Kenny Elissonde (TFS – 043) + 00h 57′ 53″
27 Julian Alaphilippe (DQT – 051) + 00h 59′ 19″
28 Sergio Andres Higuita (EFN – 114) + 01h 00′ 19″
29 Michael Woods (ISN – 037) + 01h 00′ 50″
30 Steven Kruijswijk (TJV – 014) + 01h 05′ 39″

Did not start:
Vincenzo Nibali (TFS – 041)
Amund Grøndahl Jansen (BEX – 175)

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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