2024 Tour de France Stage 16 Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of Stage 16 of the 2024 Tour de France! Our live profile and commentary are below, followed by a preview of the technical aspects of the route.
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The final week of the Tour de France opens with a race from Gruissan to Nîmes. The 16th stage is 187 kilometres long and predominantly flat.
The second stage of the 2017 Vuelta a España went in the opposite direction. The race from Nîmes to Gruissan was more than 200 kilometres long and featured less than 600 vertical metres. Strong winds tore up the peloton in the finale before Yves Lampaert took off in the last kilometre. The Belgian took the stage win and the leader’s jersey.
The route from Gruissan to Nîmes travels more inland, and the altitude gain is almost 1,200 metres, which is still good news for the fast men. All the more, the toughest climb—Côte de Mas Cordon, 7 kilometres at 3.4%—appears around the midway marker.
Gruissan was not included in the Tour de France before but the opposite is true for Nîmes. The race visited the ancient city three times in the past decade. Alexander Kristoff (2014), Caleb Ewan (2019) and Nils Politt (2021) took the spoils in those editions – the first two in the sprint, the latter from the breakaway.
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