Profile, climbs & map of the 11th stage (Wednesday, 13 July: Albertville - Col du Granon - 151.7 kilometres)
Re-Live: This is how the 11th stage of the Tour de France 2022 went
Neutral start: 12:15
Official start: 12:30
Finish: ~16:40-17:13
TOUR editor Andreas Kublik was already on site and took a look at the final climb to the Col du Granon. Here are some impressions.
Rolf Aldag's assessment: panic, hectic and triumph
You shouldn't plan anything else today, because the signs are pointing to stress right from the start and clear insights with a view to the overall winner of the Tour de France. The dramaturgy is set up for a showdown between the top stars, with the Col du Galibier as the highest pass of this year's Tour on the programme, before the difficult mountain finish on the Col du Granon rounds off the programme.
It will be a hectic ride, as the stage is short in relation to the 4000 metres of altitude. A pinch of panic is likely to enter the peloton before the Lacets de Montvernier. Although these hairpin bends only cover just under 300 metres in altitude, they are extremely narrow. If you ride further back, you will lose the race rhythm. After the windy and undulating route through the Maurienne valley, one of the toughest stages in the Tour repertoire follows.
If perhaps 80 riders make it up the Telegraphe together, the field will be greatly reduced in the thin air and on the fast descent from the Galibier. On the steep last climb of the day, I expect statements from the favourites and a triumphator inspired by Greg LeMond's historic attack on yellow in 1986.
The stage is risky for top sprinters and could have an influence on the awarding of the green jersey if a competitor breaks the time limit here.
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 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 11th stage of the Tour de France 2022*
- ARD - Das Erste: 15:10 - 17:15
- Eurosport 1: 12:00 - 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
- 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
*Broadcast times subject to change; please note updates in teletext and on the Internet
**The Eurosport internet live stream is subject to a charge.
