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Tour de France 2014 Route stage 5: Ypres (B) - Arenberg/Porte Hainaut

Tour de France 2014 stage 5Wednesday July 9th, time for the cobbles! It's a 152.5 kilometres ride from Ypres to Arenberg/Porte Hainaut featuring seven cobbled sectors. Could make for an interesting day... (Slideshow route/profile)

Today’s stage starts in Ypres in Belgium, a Flemish city near the French border. From there it’s off to Porte Hainaut. It’s a flat stage today but one that will terrify the GC men as it features seven sections of Paris-Roubaix cobbles, 13 kilometres in total and all in the latter part of the stage.

At first it were nine cobbled sectors in 15.4 kilometres but at the eleventh hour the organisation decided to skip Mons-en-Pévèle and Orchies to Beuvry-la-Forêt due to bad weather.

The last cobbled sector, the  infamous Hélesmes a Wallers, ends with just 7 kilometres left to race. The longest cobbled sector today is the 3.7 kilometres stretch from Hornaing to Wandignies-Hamage, also coming in the last 20 kilometres of the stage.

Thor Hushovd won the last cobbled Tour stage in 2010 – a stage where many GC men lost time and where Fabian Cancellara famously dragged Andy Schleck all the way to the finish line in the front group.

It’ll be interesting to see how Froome, Contador, Nibali et al handle this one…

Tour de France 2014 Stage 5: Images and more

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Tour de France 2014 Profile stage 5: Ieper - ArenbergProfile

Tour de France 2014 stage 5: The cobble stones between Ieper and ArenbergCobble stones

Tour de France 2014 Route stage 5: Ieper (B) - Arenberg - source: woosmap.com / ASO Route

Tour de France 2014 Last kilometres stage 5: Ieper and ArenbergLast kilometres

Tour de France 2014 - How the race was won: stage 5


How stage 5 was won in 2014

Tour de France 2014 stage 5: Details of the cobble stones between Ieper and ArenbergDetails cobble stoned sectors

Tour de France 2014 stage 5: scheduled times and GPSTimes en GPS

Tour de France 2013 - How the race was won: stages 5-9


How stage 5 was won in 2013

Tour de France 2014 TweetsTour de France Tweets

Tour de France 2014 stage 5: Cobbled sector Gruson au Carrefour de l'ArbreCarrefour

Tour de France 2014 stage 5: Cobbled sector Ennevelin à Pont - ThibaultPont – Thibault

Tour de France 2014 stage 5: Cobbled sector Mons-en-PévèleMons-en-Pévèle

Tour de France 2014 stage 5: Ieper - ArenbergGoogle Maps

Tour de France 2014 stage 5: Cobbled sector BerséeBersée

Tour de France 2014 stage 5: Cobbled sector Brillon à WarlaingBrillon à Warlaing

Tour de France 2014 stage 5: Cobbled sector Wandignies-Hamage à HornaingWandignies-Hamage à Hornaing

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