WHISTLE TOUR STOP
Saturday 29 August 156km Stage 1. Nice – Nice
his was always going to be a unique stage, at least for the Tour de France, whose currency is usually point-to-point routes, but even more so now given the season to date; three loops of a circuit in and close to the city, including one to be covered twice, with three passages of the Promenade des Anglais along the seafront and two of the 5.8km, 5.1% Côte de Rimiez, up through the suburbs north of Nice. There’s nothing here that will lead to anything other than one of the sprinters bagging the first yellow jersey of the race, but it’s the pent-up energy in the peloton.
