Monday 14: 13:10โ13:25 โ 17:25โ17:55
The last stage of this long first sequence gathers et concentrates all the hills, climbs and other difficulties the previous days were lacking. There won't be a bit of flat, it goes up and down and up and down and up and...
Many climbers as well as many hard-classics specialists (ร la Healy) will probably attempt to break away. Will Visma and UAE insist on looking for a stage win on this first mountain(-ish) stage?
Yep, it's an orgy of points compared to what was distributed so far.
That's 5x7+2=37 points max. There were so few categorised climbs so far that it was impossible to score that many points along the first 9 stages even if one rider had won all GPMs, and the 'leader' of the ranking only has 8 points...
However, it may highly depends on the individual luck to get or not into the right breakaway.