Stage 11 | Wednesday, 10 July | Evaux-les-Bains - Le Lioran | 211 kilometres | 4350 metres in altitude
Rolf Aldag's assessment of the 11th stage: Race within the race
The second mountain stage of the tour leads over the routes of the Massif Central. As befits this region, the route planning includes relentless ups and downs, and the stage is also 211 kilometres long. It is a stage that comes close to the first day of the Tour de France 2024 in terms of intensity. While it starts off reasonably moderately, the finale is brutally difficult: the last 45 kilometres include four rated mountains and the profile offers no chance to catch up on the flats. The route passes the Pas de Peyrol, the highest tarmac road in the Massif Central. The Col de Pertus just before the finish is just as tough. It has to accommodate puncher breakaways.
Today's finish was won by 2016 Olympic champion Greg van Avermaet, who broke away from a strong breakaway group on the narrow roads. Van Avermaet even took the yellow jersey. But I also assume that we will see a race within a race today. Because gaps can be provoked between the contenders for overall victory and for the top ten. The winding, shady, steep roads require good positioning and very explosive driving when it counts. However, I have to say: all of the riders who are considered favourites for the Tour can do this in the meantime. So it's more about not losing touch in the hectic pace.
Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of the 11th stage of the Tour de France 2024
- Neutral start: 11:20 am, sharp start 11:30 am
- Estimated arrival time: between 16:54 and 17:31
- TV broadcast: ARD 14:10 - 17:20, Eurosport 1 11:00 - 17:15
- Live stream: ARD one, sportschau.de, GCN+, Discovery+, Eurosport
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TOUR expert Rolf Aldag
As a racer with a great overview, Rolf Aldag was a bank for successful Tour teams and supported Bjarne Riis and Jan Ullrich in their victories in France. As a sports manager and sporting director, the Westphalian is also one of the most respected representatives in the industry. He is also planning the Tour de France mission again in 2024 with the newly named Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team. As in previous years, Aldag has once again focussed exclusively on this year's Tour for TOUR readers.
The 55-year-old has looked at the dramaturgy of the route planners and gone into detail to assess the possible course of the individual stages. In this work, he reflects on which constellations are likely in the race and which riders are likely to have particular hopes - or worries - on which stages. He also includes his view on innovations and trends in the business. In addition, Aldag provides a compact overview of the relevance of each stage for the classification. He assigns zero to three jerseys per classification: for the overall classification (yellow jersey), the points classification for the best sprinters (green jersey) and the Tour's mountain classification (dotted jersey). In this way, Rolf Aldag's forecast offers added value every day.
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