Stage 15 | Sunday, 14 July | Loudenvielle - Plateau de Beille | 197.7 kilometres | 4800 vertical metres
Rolf Aldag's assessment of stage 15: revenge and territory for breakaways
The French bank holidays is coming up, tomorrow is a rest day. This offers opportunities for revenge in the classification and for ambitious climbers who have made less of an appearance so far. This long section is much better suited to breakaways than yesterday's stage because it climbs up the Col de Peyresourde from the start. Someone like Max Poole from the dsm-firmenich PostNL team comes to mind, a young rider who isn't in contention for a win but doesn't have any podium ambitions himself. On the French bank holidays, the riders from the host country will of course be aiming high, traditionally making life difficult for each other. There is actually a chance that breakaways will get through.
On the other hand, depending on how things have gone so far, I see the option for a team like UAE Emirates to really put pressure on their rivals. If a team with strong climbers has several riders close to the overall podium, it could join the breakaway. That's risky, of course, but it also has the potential for major upsets in the race. The sprinters have justified concerns today. On this stage, where attacks are on the cards from kilometre one, the broom wagon is a constant threat. The stage is long and agonisingly mountainous with 4800 metres of climbing. You have to finish within the time limit.
Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of the 15th stage of the Tour de France 2024
- Neutral start: 11:55 am, sharp start 12:05 pm
- Estimated arrival time: between 17:22 and 18:04
- TV broadcast: ARD 14:00 - 17:55, Eurosport 1 11:30 - 17:45
- 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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