Pinot not very excited about the Tour de France route

Thibaut Pinot is too handicapped on his back to shine on the Tour.

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Thibaut Pinot estimated Sunday the route of the next Tour de France "really classic" and less favorable to climbers, after the revelation of the map of the 108th edition.

"It's a course that we haven't had for several years, with a lot of sprints, a lot of stages for punchers, not enough mountain in the first part and quite tough Pyrenees", declared the Franc-Comtois, who was one of the favorites for the 2020 edition before falling from the first stage in Nice.

Nice the route of the 2021 tour with the start at home in Brittany but also a lot of stages on the edges 🙈😜 # TDF2021

- barguil (@WarrenBarguil) November 1, 2020

"A course for complete runners"

The rider of the Groupama-FDJ team pointed out "a good stage in Tignes, which for me is the most fun mountain stage".

The # TDF2021 will be:

🚩 3,383 km

⛰ 27 2nd, 1st or

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passes ⛰ 6 mountain stages

⏱ 2 individual

CLMs The # TDF2021 will consist of:

🚩 3,383 km

⛰ 27 2nd, 1st or HC climbs

⛰ 6 Mountain stages

⏱ 2 ITT pic.twitter.com/qa9KfKaGka

- Tour de France ™ (@LeTour) November 1, 2020

“There are a lot of stages where the wind could be quite tricky,” noted Pinot (30).

"It's a different course than in recent years, less for climbers, more for complete runners especially with two big lap times".

"You have to see in detail, it's a course which is interesting anyway," concluded the winner of the Tourmalet stage in 2019, visibly on the reserve.

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