Profile, final climb & map of the 10th stage (Tuesday, 12 July: Morzine les Portes du Soleil - Megeve - 148.1 kilometres)
Re-Live: This is how the 10th stage of the 2022 Tour de France went
Neutral start: 13:30
Official start: 13:40
Finish: ~16:58-17:18
Rolf Aldag's assessment: a chance to escape on the mountain
After the rest day, it's on to the next mountain finish of the Tour de France to. However, anyone hoping for a showdown between the favourites will have to be patient. I expect the star teams to control the action today, but not go on the offensive. The final climb to the Megeve airfield is long, but not particularly steep. One of the top stars is likely to have unpleasant memories of it. Primoz Roglic crashed here in the 2020 Tour of the Dauphine and had to abandon as the leader.
Today's stage doesn't even have 2500 metres of elevation gain - so with its mountain panoramas south of Lake Geneva, it looks much more spectacular than it is designed to be in terms of the sporting challenge; so I'm expecting another day for breakaways. However, there are two problems: The stage starts with a descent. This makes the chances of a breakaway more difficult.
Depending on which of the following climbs a group establishes itself on, there is relatively little distance left to make up time on the peloton. Nevertheless, I see a realistic chance that at least one rider from the breakaway will stay in front. For the team of the overall leader, it will be all about controlling the action so that the gap doesn't jeopardise the classification.
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.
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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 difficulties 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 10th stage of the Tour de France 2022*
- ARD - Das Erste: 16:05 - 17:25
- Eurosport 1: 13:15 - 17:00
- 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
*Broadcast times subject to change; please note updates in teletext and on the Internet
**The Eurosport internet live stream is subject to a charge.
