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    2022 TOURS DE FRANCE SPECTATOR GUIDE

    Oct 21, 2021 4 minutes
    Words Richard Abraham, Owen Rogers
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    When Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme unveiled the route of the 2022 Tour de France in Paris last week, he carried out a little thought experiment. What would Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault do with the route he had created for next summer, he wondered? His answer: attack.

    They would attack the windy stages that follow the Tour’s most northerly Grand Départ in Denmark, home to an 18km bridge over the Great Belt channel that the race will traverse on stage two. They would attack the lumps and bumps of the Opal Coast in northern France on stage four and the 19.4km of ruinous cobblestones that feature in 11 secteurs on stage five. They would attack

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