Preview - Tour de France 2022 stage 20

The final time-trial of the Tour de France. It can be a crucial day for the overall classification, or at the very least an interesting day with a Tour de France stage win up for grabs. The riders will have 40 kilometers ahead to tackle, a very decent distance by today’s standards, and definitely a day where serious differences can be made.

The time-trial is rather hilly. Not one where the specialists can’t put the power down, but definitely open to surprises and with a tactical aspect to it. Until the third intermediate point aftr 33 kilometers, the roads are very rolling, sometimes tilting up a bit, sometimes tilting down, however in the map it’s visible that it doesn’t go through straightforward simple roads. This won’t be favourable to the specialists, however this is where they have to make their difference.

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In the final section the riders will encounter two descents and two hilltops - one coinciding with the finish line in Roccamodour. The first of which is 1.6Km long at 4.7%, nothing serious, but the second into the finish can be quite hard to manage for those who haven’t saved their legs. The final ascent to the town center is 1.8Km long at 6.2%, with it’s toughest gradients near the base. It will be a very sharp effort at the end of a long time-trial.

CyclingUpToDate prediction:

**** Wout van Aert

*** Filippo Ganna, Stefan Küng

** Stefan Bissegger, Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard

* Yves Lampaert, Geraint Thomas, Mattia Cattaneo, Dylan van Baarle