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Time trial specialists will be disappointed by the stage schedule of the 102nd Tour de France: only a short individual time trial over 14 kilometres and a team time trial over 28 kilometres are on the programme. The only consolation: the winner of the opening time trial in Utrecht will slip into the yellow jersey.
After the stages in the Netherlands and Belgium, the route first leads to northern France, where there are also seven cobbled sections to overcome on stage 4. A team time trial awaits the riders on stage 9 before heading into the Pyrenees. The last difficult climbing stages are then in the French Alps. On the penultimate day, the riders will cross the Galibier Pass to the ski resort of L'Alpe d'Huez. A total of 26 mountain classifications in the HC, 1 and 2 categories await the pros.
Organiser ASO has also changed the rules for the flat stages. In the first week, the sprinters will have the chance to win the yellow jersey after the short time trial - thanks to the reintroduction of time credits: On stages two to eight, ten, six and four seconds will be credited to the first three at the day's finish. There is also a new points system for the green jersey: on the nine flat stages, the stage winner receives 50 points instead of 45 as in the previous year; the runner-up only 30 instead of 35 points; the points for the other places have also been reduced. The ASO wants to increase the value of stage wins on the flat stages.
The stages 20151st stage4. JulyUtrecht (NED) - Utrecht (EZF)14 kmMapProfileMarching tableStage 25. JulyUtrecht (NED) - Zeeland (NED)166 kmMapProfileMarching tableStage 36. JulyAntwerp (BEL) - Huy (BEL)154 kmMapProfileMarching tableStage 47. JulySeraing (BEL) - Cambrai221 kmMapProfileMarching tableStage 58. JulyArras - Amiens Métropole189 kmMapProfileMarching tableStage 69. JulyAbbeville - Le Havre191 kmMapProfileMarching table7th stage10. JulyLivarot - Fougères190 kmMapProfileMarching table8th stage11. JulyRennes - Mûr de Bretagne179 kmMapProfileMarching table9th stage12. JulyVannes - Plumelec (MZF)28 kmMapProfileMarching tableRest day Pau10. Stage14. JulyTarbes - La Pierre-Saint-Martin167 kmMapProfileMarching tableStage 1115. JulyPau - Cauterets - Vallée de Saint-Savin188 kmMapProfileMarching tableStage 1216. JulyLannemezan - Plateau de Beille195 kmMapProfileMarching table13th stage17. JulyMuret - Rodez200 kmMapProfileMarching table14th stage18. JulyRodez - Mende178 kmMapProfileMarching table15th stage19. JulyMende - Valence182 kmMapProfileMarching table16th stage20. JulyBourg-de-Péage - Gap201 kmMapProfileMarching tableRest day Gap17th stage22. JulyDigne-les-Bains - Pra-Loup161 kmMapProfileMarching tableStage 1823. JulyGap - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne185 kmMapProfileMarching table19th stage24. JulySaint-Jean-de-Maurienne - La Toussuire 138 kmMapProfileMarching tableStage 2025. JulyModane Valfréjus - Alpe-d'Huez110 kmMapProfileMarching table21st stage26. JulySèvres - Paris / Champs-Élysées107 kmMapProfileMarching table
