With the mountain just around the corner, Stage 12 will be impossible to control. The sprinters’ teams will not do it because hardly any of them will be able to overcome all the heights of the day. And the general’s men will not get involved in the fight either. So everything indicates that the escape must succeed.
Or the escape from the escape, a concept popularized by Chente García Acosta, director of Movistar, in The least expected day. Because in the last 50 kilometers two Segunda ports are climbed. Above all, the last one, the Col de la Croix Rosier, which is the hardest of the day, with 4km at 7.7%. It is crowned with thirty to go and it is the moment that several cyclists will have marked to reduce the escape, eliminate some rivals and have more chances of winning.
The Tour even distributes bonuses at the top of the Croix Rosier but with the start of the stage, full of heights and steep slopes, it is normal for a large group of adventurers to go ahead. It is a perfect day for hunters.
