"A very hard climb where you can't hide" - Armstrong, Wiggins and Hincapie on Mur-de-Bretagne summit finish

After a very fast and difficult sixth day at the Tour de France, the peloton will find some more flat roads but another hilltop finish at the Mur-de-Bretagne. Whilst by far not the hardest stage of the week, Lance Armstrong warns to the dangers of the ascent.

The last man to win on the Breton wall was Mathieu van der Poel, who will enter the stage this time around in the yellow jersey but after a day of monumental effort that can cost him. That's how Armstrong sees it in The Move podcast: "He will have to recover from the effort, he was finished after the stage, but he's back in yellow, one second ahead of Pogacar. The Mur-de-Bretagne will be climbed twice with ramps of 15% in the last 15 kilometers. Another exciting stage".

The final ascent will be two kilometers long at around 7% average gradient but includes a long straightforward double-digit uphill ramp. It is a grueling effort and the road slowly becomes flatter to the line where there is usually a sprint amongst the survivors. There will be a big battle for positioning which means the effort will be quite longer than just the 2-kilometer climb.

George Hincapie has raced up this climb in the past, supporting Cadel Evans to victory in 2011 for example, and has shared his opinion: "It's a very hard climb where you can't hide. You arrive very fast from the approach and the percentages start to go up 11, 12, 13, 14%. We're going to see a great stage, the guys in the general classification are going to have to attack, they're going to have to play."

Armstrong asked his fellow commentators if they see a breakaway potentially succeeding. Bradley Wiggins was adamant that he didn't and Hincapie explained why he didn't think so either: "The start is not that hard and if UAE and Alpecin want to control the race they will be able to do so".

With 1 second separating Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar in the overall classification, the stage could very well also lead to a change of jerseys at the top and subsequently put UAE Team Emirates - XRG back in the driver's seat when it comes to responsibilities of controlling the peloton.