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The Tour de France reaches the end of its first week with a lumpy transitional Stage 7 that provides an opportunity for a breakaway to succeed. Join The Roar for live coverage from 10:00pm (AEST).
Stage 7 covers 234km from Épernay to Nancy, with a rolling series of uncategorised climbs and two Category 4 climbs in the final 20km.
With the first medium mountain stages of this year’s Tour coming this weekend, there will be plenty of riders and teams hoping to conserve energy today. It’s almost the ideal scenario for a small group to slip away and take a win.
Of course, the sprinters’ teams will have their own ideas, as this is their last opportunity for a few days.
The stage begins in the Champagne region, which should add a touch of class to this evening’s #TourSnacks. If you’re the kind of person who’ll happily crack open a bottle of Dom Perignon to watch a bicycle race, you might as well do it in the wine’s home town.
The finish in Nancy, in the Lorraine region, has featured in the Tour many times. The legendary Italian champion Fausto Coppi won here twice, in 1949 and 1952.
If the sprinters want to win the stage, they’ll need to survive the Côte de Boufflers (1.3km at an average gradient of 7.9%) which comes just 5km from the finish, followed by a descent into Nancy and a fairly technical run into the finish – in other words, it’s a perfect springboard for an opportunist hoping to win a taste of Epernay’s finest.
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