Eight kilometers. A straight, horizontal, flat line. Highway to the goal. “A landing strip”, as the director of the Tour, Christian Prudhomme, calls it for the planes of the peloton. The penultimate stage is another unbeatable opportunity for the sprinters.
Direct, since you leave Aumont and turn, until Poligny there are no more curves. The towns of Montholier and Tourmont are crossed, but there are no complications. The banner, in the distance, will get closer to the speed of the sprinters’ train, like something inexorable.
For any brave person who tries to annoy, upset or surprise, the 8 km straight will take forever. While behind, the peloton will always have a visual reference.
The stage borders the Vouglas and Chalain lakes and the Ain river, and only the Ivory level, which is crowned at 602 meters, can make a fast man suffer but afterward he will have enough terrain, almost thirty kilometers, to connect again. The endless straight awaits.
