Tour de France faces famous Tourmalet on brutal stage 15: ‘You can cook yourself’
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Tour de France faces famous Tourmalet on brutal stage 15: ‘You can cook yourself’
The first and most common climb in Tour de France history is can be ‘make or break’, former Ineos Grenadiers’ road captain Luke Rowe tells The Independent
We planted our tent at the Tourmalet and spent one night alongside the indomitables of the Grande Boucle before the riders passed this Saturday in the early afternoon.
Felix Gall "Undoubtedly my best day on this Tour" "At the foot of the Tourmalet, when the attacks started, I also considered going there to integrate the escaped, but I think it was the right decision to stay in the peloton. Today, it was a calculated risk-taking in the last climb. I felt really good following the tempo imposed by UAE, so I thought it was a good opportunity to take back some time on my competitors in the general classification. …


The Tour crosses again the Tourmalet, one of its great peaks, which reached the gala round in 1910 thanks to the suicide commitment of a newspaper journalist who organized the race: his trip to the Pyrenees was one of the most surreal chapters in the history of cycling
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