Stage 6 | Thursday, 4 July | Macon - Dijon | 163.5 kilometres | 1000 vertical metres
Rolf Aldag's assessment of stage 6: Historic terroir
The stage offers the perfect opportunity for a sprinter's revenge. Firstly, however, ambitious breakaway riders will fight from the start for the chance to get into the group of the day. This is because the climb up the Col du Bois Clair just after ten kilometres is a natural obstacle that will allow the escape group to extend its gap to the peloton early on. However, the ride between the two firmly established stage towns of the Tour, through picturesque Burgundy with its wine terroirs and rich historical heritage, offers plenty of opportunity for an orderly approach in the peloton.
This means that with an eye on tomorrow's individual time trial, the teams with podium candidates for the classification will only be riding for safety, while the sprinters' teams should dominate the road on the course towards Dijon. Unlike yesterday's stage finish, we are looking at a real boulevard sprint today.
In the centre of the old ducal residence town of Burgundy, the starters and the fast sprinters shoot across the Avenue du General Charles de Gaulle. Dijon is also the place where, on stage 19 of the 1997 Tour, my team-mate Jens Heppner and Dutchman Bart Voskamp tussled so hard after a successful escape in the sprint that they were both relegated to the rear. This is how Mario Traversoni, who was actually distanced, achieved the greatest success of his career. Incidentally, Jan Ullrich was wearing the yellow jersey at the time.
Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of stage 6 of the Tour de France 2024
- Neutral start: 13:35, sharp start 13:50
- Estimated arrival time: between 17:19 and 17:38
- TV broadcast: ARD 14:10 - 17:30, Eurosport 13:15 - 17:30
- 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 the respective stage for which 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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