"We drive 60 terminals in Belgium before reaching the Ardennes", sums up the race director Thierry Gouvenou about the route which leaves from the town of Binche, at the carnival listed as a UNESCO heritage site and also the headquarters of the Intermarché team. .
"The finish is the same as in 2017 in Longwy, on the heights of the citadel, where Peter Sagan won after taking off his shoes", recalls the course designer about the line installed at the top of the Côte des Religious (1.6 km at 5.8%).
But he adds an important precision: "the notable difference is an 800-meter climb at 12% located 5 kilometers from the finish, which will undoubtedly exclude the sprinters from the game."
Tour de France 2022: the route of the 6th stage Vincent LEFAI AFP
A stage town for the seventh time, Longwy (15,000 inhabitants), very close to Belgium and Luxembourg, received the Tour four years in a row, between 1911 and 1914, before the First World War, when the race strictly followed the contours of the country.
Departure from Binche at 12.05 p.m. (launched at 12.15 p.m.), arrival in Longwy around 5.29 p.m. (timetable calculated at 42 km/h on average).
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