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Tour de France 2014 Favourites Stage 12: Big sprint before the big mountains

The sprinters will be eyeing this one up, and with some heavy climbing to deal with tomorrow, one of them should at least start with a smile on his face after winning the sprint into St Etienne. (Slideshow route/profile)

The only real obstacle today is the Côte de Grammond, 10 kilometres at 2.9%, surely this won’t trouble the Kittel’s of the world. The strenght of the Giant-Shimano teams is such, that even if Kittel has an off day, there is another option like John Degenkolb (image).

Greipel also has a strong lead out but one suspects it’ll be all or nothing for ‘The Gorilla’ as he looks to steal the limelight from his rival.

Favourites:

Marcel Kittel
André Greipel
John Degenkolb

Outsiders:
Mark Renshaw
Danny van Poppel
Arnaud Démare
Bryan Coquard

Tour de France 2014 stage 12: Images and more

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Tour de France 2014 Route stage 12: Bourg-en-Bresse - Saint-Etienne - source: woosmap.com / ASO Route

Tour de France 2014 Profile stage 12: Bourg-en-Bresse - Saint-EtienneProfile

Tour de France 2014 Last kilometres stage 12: Bourg-en-Bresse - Saint-EtienneLast kilometres

Tour de France 2014 stage 12: Climb detailsClimb details

Tour de France 2014 stage 12: Scheduled timesScheduled times

Tour de France 2014 stage 11: Col de Brouilly at StravaCol de Brouilly at strava.com

Tour de France 2014 TweetsTour de France Tweets

Tour de France 2014 stage 12: Bourg-en-Bresse - Saint-EtienneGoogle Maps

Tour de France 2014 - How the race was won: stages 11-15


How stage 12 was won in 2014

Tour de France 2013 - How the race was won - stages 10-15


How stage 10 was won in 2013

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