Stage 14 | Saturday, 13 July | Pau - Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d'Adet | 151.9 kilometres | 4000 vertical metres
Rolf Aldag's assessment of stage 14: Mountains for the favourites
The second mythical pass in Tour de France history is on the programme as a welcome to the Pyrenees. As a warm-up, so to speak, it's off to a mountain of the highest category, with different scenarios to be considered on the Tourmalet. Pure climbing specialists will break away early and make their way as far as possible into the Pyrenees. However, the stage is too important and too compact for them to be able to hold their own against the best riders and their teams. Even on the Tourmalet, Visma | Lease a Bike or UAE Emirates could make the race difficult and cause energy problems for their rivals.
That wouldn't be the right strategy for us at Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, because we'd rather rely on our captain's explosiveness. In any case, after the Tourmalet there is still a very mountainous double climb to come. In the valley, there's hardly any chance of bringing anything together. At the end, there is a really difficult climb, where Raymond Poulidor won a Tour stage for the first time in 1974. The Pla d'Adet ski area can be reached from Vignec via a 10.6-kilometre road that climbs steeply by more than ten per cent, especially in the first few kilometres. On the way to this very tough mountain finish, Rafal Majka came through alone in 2014, while Vincenzo Nibali, who wore the yellow jersey, distanced all his rivals.
Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of the 14th stage of the Tour de France 2024
- Neutral start: 13:05, sharp start 13:20
- Estimated arrival time: between 17:17 and 17:50
- TV broadcast: ARD 14:35 - 18:55, Eurosport 1 12:30 - 17:30
- 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 each stage for the 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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