Stage 3 | Monday, 1 July | Piacenza - Turin | 230.8 kilometres | 1100 vertical metres
Rolf Aldag's assessment of stage 3: A long day for the green jersey
Today offers one of the few pure opportunities for sprinters. If you take a close look at the stages of this year's Tour de France, it makes it particularly difficult for the men to reach the finish line. The question is whether all the specialists for the final metres even made it through the first stage in the grace period, because the action was difficult enough.
From Piacenza, the route now heads west for around 230 kilometres, with a flat intermediate sprint in Alessandria on the agenda: this is a good old sprinters' stage, where the respective teams will dominate the action. Although there are two category four climbs later on, it shouldn't be a problem for any serious sprint train to get their own candidates safely over them or into position on the 59 kilometres to the finish. After the programme of the past two days, this is a relaxed affair, at least on paper: breakaways won't stand a chance against the sprint teams, it's all about points for the green jersey classification with full team strength. The finish in Turin is humourless, it's straight into the centre, where there are two clear left-hand bends - then the seven-metre-wide finishing straight, which leads directly to the Olympic Stadium. Turin thus hosts the second Grand Tour of the year, after the Giro d'Italia celebrated its big start here in May.
Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of stage 3 of the Tour de France 2024
- Neutral start: 11:15 am, sharp start 11:35 am
- Estimated arrival time: between 16:57 and 17:30
- TV broadcast: ARD 14:10 - 17:15, Eurosport 1 11:00 - 17:15
- 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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