TOUR DE FRANCE PREVIEW

STAGE 1

SAT. JULY 5 — 184.9 km — FLAT

LILLE > LILLE

COUCH RATING: 🛋️🛋️

Flat and windy, with just enough northern spice to make the Grand Départ worth watching. A sprinter is gonna be in yellow after this day, and I'm thinking it's Tim.

COUCH VIEW PICK:
TIM MERLIER

STAGE 2

SUN. JULY 6 — 209.1 km — HILLY

LAUWIN-PLANQUE > BOULOGNE-SUR-MER

COUCH RATING: 🛋️🛋️🛋️

Longest stage of the race, roller coaster from start to finish with 2,550 meters of climbing. Kilometer-long uphill finish, gonna be spicy one!

COUCH VIEW PICK:
JULIAN ALAPHILIPPE

STAGE 3

MON. JULY 7 — 178.3 km — FLAT

VALENCIENNES > DUNKERQUE

COUCH RATING: 🛋️🛋️

Could be a snooze-fest or a wind-fuelled bonanza. Could go crazy on the Côte de Cassel, but I don’t think it’s hard enough to drop the sprinters.

COUCH VIEW PICK:
JASPER PHILIPSEN

STAGE 4

TUE. JULY 8 — 174.2 km — HILLY

Amiens Métropole > Rouen

COUCH RATING: 🛋️🛋️🛋️

A baguette stuffed with fireworks, on a twisty descent into the finish in ROUEN. WHos got the biggest balls to drop the rest?

COUCH VIEW PICK:
WOUT VAN AERT

STAGE 5

WED. JULY 9 — 33 km — TIME TRIAL

Caen > Caen

COUCH RATING: 🛋️🛋️🛋️

LONG and flat individual time trail, remco got this in the bag, but gc battle starts here!

COUCH VIEW PICK:
REMCO EVENEPOEL

STAGE 6

THU. JULY 10 — 201.5 km — HILLY

Bayeux > Vire Normandie

COUCH RATING: 🛋️🛋️🛋️🛋️

Up and down and up and down, probably hardest stage so far and i think its going to the breakway.

COUCH VIEW PICK:
NEILSON POWLESS

STAGE 7

FRI. JULY 11 — 197 km — HILLY

Saint-Malo > Mur-de-Bretagne

COUCH RATING: 🛋️🛋️🛋️🛋️🛋️

REMEMBER WHEN mathieu van der poel won on the Mûr-de-Bretagne in 2021. yeah that shit was legendary, lets run it back again this year. dont miss this stage!

COUCH VIEW PICK:
MATHIEU VAN DER POEL