Profile, climbs & map of the 16th stage (Tuesday, 19 July: Carcassone - Foix - 178.5 kilometres)
The 16th stage of the Tour de France 2022 in the live ticker
Neutral start: 12:30
Official start: 12:40
Finish: ~16:58-17:27
Rolf Aldag's assessment: Attacks in the Pyrenees
The final week of the Tour de France begins, the peloton rolls into the Pyrenees. The French-Spanish border mountain range presents the pros with difficult tasks, the roads are shady, often very narrow and wind dynamically between hills and mountain peaks. Even if the classification riders will certainly not go on the attack again today and prefer to take it easy, they and their teams will have to be on their guard and endeavour to achieve good positions in the race.
This stage is not suitable for an attack among the top riders, the descent to the finish in Foix is too long for that. So I'm expecting today to be a day for very aggressive climbers who pose no threat to the overall classification. Traditionally, Foix is a stage finish where daring breakaways make it to the finish. It should be the same this year. The action will certainly not be boring.
I think a larger group is likely to form before the climb to Port de Lers. It is already reduced on the steep first climb, but by the last three kilometres of the Mur de Peguere at the latest, only a few remain in the race for the day's victory. Directly after the up to 18 per cent steep climb to the pass, these candidates also use the descent to attack. It will be an exciting race.
As a professional cyclist, our expert Rolf Aldag rode the Tour de France ten times up to 2004; as manager and sporting director, he has led various top teams through France and this year, for the first time, he will be in charge of the German team Bora-Hansgrohe as sporting director at the Tour de France. There are few people who can tell so vividly what can happen on the stages of a grand tour and within the peloton.
What weighting does the stage have for the individual rankings?
For TOUR the 53-year-old sports manager has once again carefully studied the elevation profiles and route tables for this year's Tour de France. In his predictions, he names the teams and riders he sees at the front on each day, assesses the difficulty of the routes and says where he expects attacks and from whom. Will there be a bunch sprint? Will a breakaway group make it to the finish?
Aldag also assesses for TOUR what role each stage plays for the classification jerseys (see above): The more coloured jerseys our expert assigns to a stage, the greater its significance for the respective classification. The yellow jersey symbolises the weight of the respective stage in the overall classification, the green jersey stands for the importance of the best sprinter in the points classification and the red dotted jersey for the mountain classification, i.e. for the best climber.
TV broadcast & live stream of the 16th stage of the Tour de France 2022*
- ARD - Das Erste: 16:05 - 17:30
- Eurosport 1: 12:15 - 17:15
- More live pictures on ARD One, Sportschau.de and Eurosportplayer.com**
- You can also find all the important information here in our live ticker
The preview with Rolf Aldag of the stages of the 2022 Tour de France
This is how the stages of the 2022 Tour de France have gone so far
- The race report for stage 1
- The race report for stage 2
- The race report for stage 3
- The race report for stage 4
- The race report for stage 5
- The most spectacular pictures of stage 5
- The race report for stage 6
- The race report for stage 7
- The race report for stage 8
- The race report for stage 9
- The race report for stage 10
- The race report for the 11th stage
- The race report for the 12th stage
- The race report for the 13th stage
- The race report for stage 14
- The race report for the 15th stage
*Broadcast times subject to change; please note updates in teletext and on the Internet
**The Eurosport internet live stream is subject to a charge.
