2023-07-14 06:01:12
DECRYPTION – The route, the speed and the temperature make up an intense and indecisive race, which scares some people.
The steep and demanding springboard of the Basque Country, the breathtaking and dizzying escapades in the Pyrenees or the burning Massif Central, surveyed belly to earth, marked the spirits and the bodies. And fed the questions, especially one: is the Tour too hard? Jean-René Bernaudeau, manager of the TotalEnergies team, decides: “Too hard? No. What is hard in the Tour is not to do it. I make the selection, there are runners who stay at home and who would like to drool. It is the runners who race. The Issoire stage (10e) was completely mad. I’ve never seen the best runners put the sliders to the maximum like this right away. After 20 km, the commitment was unreal. Transition stages no longer exist. So, no, the Tour is not too hard. On the Giro, the weather is often bad, there are a lot of mountains. On the Vuelta there are many summit finishes.»
The Tour of Spain (August 26-September 17) will feature ten summit finals (seven…
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