Profile & map of the 20th stage (Saturday, 23 July: Lacapelle-Marival - Rocamadour - 40.7 kilometres - individual time trial)
Re-Live: This is how the 20th stage of the Tour de France went
Start first rider: 13:05
Start last rider: 17:00
Rolf Aldag's assessment: Fight for victory and seconds
Whoever makes the announcements in the car behind the riders today is likely to have a lot of notes on their lap. The individual time trial at the end of the battle for the overall classification is long enough and challenging enough to lead to upsets.
Of course, the very demanding mountain stages have widened the time gaps in the ranking, of course, over the almost three weeks Tour de France a hierarchy has already emerged. But there is still the chance to attack the worse time trialists and really do them harm. A number of very technical sections with many changes of direction stretch over more than 40 kilometres. Finally, the riders have to master two more climbs.
The metres in altitude at the end of the tour are particularly painful. This is where the athletes will open their mouths and fight for seconds. Looking at the design of this stage, I would expect the time gains or losses compared to the competitors to become apparent after ten kilometres and then increase continuously. It would be physically and mentally impossible to reverse the trend on the way.
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 in 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 20th stage of the Tour de France 2022*
- ARD - Das Erste: 16:00 - 18:00
- Eurosport 1: 12:45 - 18:00
- 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
- 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
- The race report for the 16th stage
- The race report for the 17th stage
- The race report for the 18th stage
- The race report for the 19th 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.
