On the morning of Friday, July 8, the seventh stage of the 2022 Tour de France will be run, which will be the first with a high finish in a total route of 176.3 kilometers and can be seen in Colombia from 7:30 a.m.
From the town of Tomblaine the beetles they will face an altimetry designated as follows:
At kilometer 101.2 (Gerardmer) will be the first special sprint with a bonus included for the first three runners who pass through it, to add to the points classification.
Subsequently, the runners will face the ascent at kilometer 107.7 climbing a third category mountain pass (Big Stone Pass) rising to 955 meters above sea level. This port has 3.1 kilometers of ascent and a drop of 6.4%.
Followed by 14 kilometers of descent until reaching kilometer 136.1 (Col des Croix) a third category port with 3.2 kilometers of ascent and a difference in level of 6.3% in a designed ascent to 678 meters above sea level.
As for the arrival, this will take place at kilometer 166.6, the ascent to the last mountain pass of the stage, which is located at the finish line, will begin.
The first category port is the last 6 kilometers of the competition (Les-Mines floor) will be on an ascent to 1140 meters above sea level. The port has 7 kilometers ascent with a drop of 8.7%. The unevenness will vary from 9.4 to 9.5% in the final six fractions of the last first category port.
Next, the tour in images for Friday, July 8:
The Slovenian rider of the UAE Team Emirates, Tadej Pogačar regained the leadership of the general classification of the competition and is now going for the three-time championship.
The young cycling revolution in Europe took advantage of the route in Belgium and won the stage in the neighboring country, finishing first at 4 and 31 seconds –respectively– of his followers the American Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) and Danish Jonas Vingegaard (Team Jumbo-Visma), so He displaced the Belgian Wout Van Aert and established himself as the leader of the individual general classification with a time of 20 hours, 44 minutes and 44 seconds:
The best Colombian of the 2022 edition in Round is Daniel Felipe Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers), who occupies the eighth spot, 1 minute behind the leader, Pogačar.
Nairo Quintana (Arkéa Samsic), meanwhile, is in 11th place at 1 minute and 5 seconds from the general; while Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost) is in 26th place at 2 minutes and 14 seconds from the Slovenian.
“When things are done well, everything seems to go well”: Nairo Quintana
After completing the sixth stage of the Tour de France, Nairo Quintana spoke to the media and pointed out that age is not an impediment to entering the breakaways and living the stages prior to the mountain to the limit to discount in the general classification against Pogačar. Speaking to the press at the end of the sixth stage in Belgium, these were his words:
I am still very young, I feel good, these years have been of a lot of preparation, we have worked very well, bittersweet moments and we hope that the body goes like this during all these days until the end of the Tour, I have good feelings and that luck will accompany. The team, it should be noted, that they have done a great job, young people with all their willingness, also learning, but also doing. Barguil who has put himself in his role, for me it is of great help, when things are done well, everything seems to go well
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