A Tour de France route featuring a double ascent of Mont Ventoux on stage 11 has been unveiled for 2021. Despite the eye-catching detail, and the inclusion of five mountain stages in the Pyrenees in the final eight days, the 2021 edition has been hailed as a route for more the ‘all-rounder’ than pure mountain goats. The 2021 Tour will begin in Brest in the north west of France on June 26 next summer — coronavirus permitting — and finish in Paris on July 18, so as to be done in time for the postponed Tokyo Olympics. As well as the usual flat stages for sprinters, the riders will tackle two individual time trials, totalling just under 60km and split roughly evenly between stage five from Changé to Laval and the penultimate stage from Libourne to Saint-Émilion. While nowhere near as much time trialling as the Tours of the 1990s and early 2000s, it will be the most individual time trial kilometres of any Tour since 2013.
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by The Telegraph
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