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103rd edition: july 2 - july 24, 2016, list of stages, running gc, photos, stage profiles, maps and commentary.

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21st and Final Stage, Sunday, July 24: Chantilly - Paris/Champs Elysées, 113 km

Stage 21 results | Final Standings | Stage 21 Photos | Stage 21 map and profile | Organizer's preview

André Greipel just beats Peter Sagan. Sirotti photo

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Km 32.5: Côte de l'Ermitage, 0.9 km @ 7% - cat 4

Weather: In Paris at 1:25 PM it is 24C (76F) and will climb to 27C (80F) later in the afternoon. It's partly cloudy with 0% chance of rain. Wind is from the WNW at 12 km/hr (8 mph).

The Race: The riders rolled off about 2:05 PM to begin the final stage of the 103rd Tour de France. There is a 15-kilometer neutral zone before the official start, scheduled for 2:35 PM. 175 riders, an all-time record, signed in.

Sky's team cars are yellow with a black stripe and the team is wearing black jerseys with a yellow horizontal stripe. The team's helmets have yellow accents. While riding through the neutral zone Sky celebrated with a little beer and Froome had a cup of champagne to celebrate what would be his third Tour victory.

The official start was given at 4:50 PM. With the champagne ceremony completed before the official start, the peloton began racing with moderate intensity from the gun.

The final KOM point at the fourth category Côte de l'Ermitage was taken by Roman Kreuziger.

Team Sky took the point as the peloton entered Paris. Seven teams reached the city intact: Sky, Astana, AG2R-La Mondiale, LottoNL-Jumbo, Lampre-Merida, Etixx-Quick Step and Fortuneo-Vital Concept.

Thirty-seven year old Joaquin Rodriguez, who is soon to retire, was allowed the honor of being first onto the Champs Elysées.

With fifty kilometers to race, eight riders got away: Alexis Gougeard, Lawson Craddock, Markus Burghardt, Daniel Teklehaimanot, Jérémy Roy, Jan Barta, Rui Costa and Brice Feillu.

Then Tony Martin abandoned. He had been suffering from a painful left knee for a few days and yesterday he finished last. Rather than further injure the knee, the team decided to pull him rather than hurt his chances at the Olympics.

Marcel Kittel suffered a mechanical and needed a new bike. No Etixx-Quick Step riders waited for him and he had to make his way back to the peloton on his own. He was paced by the team car, but he was clearly upset. Up front, Burghardt also suffered a mechanical and had to drop back, making it seven riders in the break.

Direct Energie was doing the main work of chasing the break, and at 22 kilometers to go, the pack was just nine seconds back.

Seven kilometers later Sky riders Luke Rowe and Wouter Poels bridged up to the break. And almost immediately Daniel Teklehaimanot went off the front of the break.

Others tried to get away and with ten kilometers remaining, Greg van Avermaet and Alexey Lutsenko were dangling just a few seconds ahead of a determined peloton. Meanwhile, the sprinters were making their way to the front of the pack.

And the peloton's timing was impeccable with the escaping duo rounded up with the final lap about to begin.

Great French hope Bryan Coquard flatted with just two kilometers to go.

Alexander Kristoff was passed by André Greipel, who won the stage, just ahead of Peter Sagan.

Complete Results:

Stage 21 photos

113 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.561 km/hr

Final Standings after Stage 21: click on links for complete final standings

Final GC winner: Christopher Froome (Sky)
Final points classification winner: Peter Sagan (Tinkoff)
Final mountains classification winner: Rafal Majka (Tinkoff)
Final young rider classification winner: Adam Yates (Orica-BikeExchange)
Final team classification winner: Movistar

3,529 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.616 km/hr

Final General Classification:

Complete Final Points Classification:

Final Mountains Classification:

Complete Final Young Rider Classification:

Complete Final Team Classification:

Stage 21 map and Profile:

Stage 21 map

Stage 21 profile

Stage 21 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Team Sky in black jerseys with yellow bands and black helmets with yellow accents

André Greipel just beats Peter Sagan to win stage 21

Greipel is justly happy.

And gets to enjoy some quality time on the podium

Points classification winner Peter Sagan

Mountains classification winner Rafal Majka

Young rider classification winner Adam Yates

2016 Tour de France winner christopher Froome

The GC podium, from left: Romain Bardet (2nd), Christopher Froome & Nairo Quintana (3rd)

Organizer's preview:

There's one last stage remaining. It's a prestigious one with the Arc de Triomphe as a backdrop and the Champs-Elysées to welcome the 175 finishers of the Tour de France. This is a record – the previous highest number was 170 in 2010. The grand finale is a parade but also the sprinters' queen stage, as Mark Cavendish likes to describe it. But the most successful of them all this year (3 victories) has pulled out in order to gear up for the Olympic Games on the track. Therefore, only Peter Sagan can reach the number of four stage wins like André Greipel and Marcel Kittel (twice) in the past three years.

The two Germans have the Champs-Elysées in sight. Kittel is hungry for more after having won only once this year (stage 4 in Limoges). Greipel is still at zero, like Alexander Kristoff and Bryan Coquard who have already experienced finishing second in Paris but not first. Stage 10 winner Michael Matthews is a worthy challenger. He has showed good form in going into breakaways in the Alps. Rookies Dan McLay and Dylan Groenewegen might have some ideas at the back of their mind too. But according to recent statistics, every eleven years it's not a bunch sprint finish in Paris.

In 1994, Eddy Seigneur rode away from a 5-man breakaway to precede Frankie Andreu by three seconds. In 2005, Alexandre Vinokourov overtook Bradley McGee who had escaped the peloton before the flamme rouge. We're in 2016…

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Stage 20, Saturday, July 23: Megève - Morzine Avoriaz, 146.5 km

Complete stage 20 results, photos, stage story, map and profile

GC after Stage 20:

GC leader: Christopher Froome (Sky)
Points classification leader: Peter Sagan (Tinkoff)
Mountains classification leader: Rafal Majka (Tinkoff)
Young rider classification leader: Adam Yates (Orica-BikeExchange)
Team classification leader (Movistar)

Stage 19, Friday, July 22: Albertville - Saint Gervais Mont Blanc (Le Bettex), 146 km

Complete stage 19 results, photos, stage story, map and profile

GC after Stage 19:

Stage 18, Thursday, July 21: Sallanches - Megève 17 km individual time trial/hill climb

Complete Stage 18 results, photos, stage story, map and profile

GC after Stage 18:

Team classification leader: Movistar

Stage 17, Wednesday, July 20: Berne - Finhaut Emosson, 184 km

Complete stage 17 results, photos, stage story, map and profile

GC after Stage 17:

Rest Day 2, Tuesday, July 19: Berne

Stage 16, Monday, July 18: Moirans en Montagne - Berne, 209 km

Complete stage 16 results, photos, stage story, map and profile

GC after Stage 16:

Young rider classifiction leader: Adam Yates (Orica-BikeExchange)

Stage 15, Sunday, July 17: Bourg en Bresse - Culoz, 160 km

Complete Stage 15 results, photos, stage story, map and profile

GC after Stage 15:

Stage 14, Saturday, July 16: Montélimar - Villars les Dombes Parc des Oiseaux, 208.5 km

Complete stage 14 results, photos, stage story, map and profile

GC after Stage 14:

Mountains classification leader: Thomas de Gendt (Lotto-Soudal)
Team classification leader: BMC

Stage 13, Friday, July 15: Bourg Saint Andéol - La Caverne du Pont d'Arc, 37.5 km individual time trial

Complete stage 13 results, photos, stage story map and profile

GC after Stage 13:

Stage 12, Thursday, July 14: Montpellier - Mont Ventoux, 184 178 km

Complete stage 12 results, photos, stage story, map and profile

GC after Stage 12:

Stage 11, Wednesday, July 13: Carcassonne - Montpellier, 162.5 km

Complete stage 11 results, photos, stage story, map and profile

GC after Stage 11:

Mountains classification leader: Thibaut Pinot (FDJ)

Stage 10, Tuesday, July 12: Escaldes Engordany - Revel, 197 km

Stage 10 complete results, photos, stage story, map and profile

GC after Stage 10:

Points classifiction leader: Peter Sagan (Tinkoff)

Rest Day 1, Monday, July 11: Andorre

Stage 9, Sunday, June 10: Vielha Val d'Aran - Andorre Arcalis, 184.5 km

Complete TDF stage nine results, photos, video, stage story, map and profile

GC after stage 9:

Points classification leader: Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data)

Stage 8, Saturday, July 9: Pau - Bagnères de Luchon, 184 km

Complete stage 8 results, photos, stage story, video, stage map and profile

GC after Stage 8:

Stage 7, Friday, July 8: L'Isle Jourdain - Lac de Payolle, 162.5 km

Complete stage 7 results, stage story, photos, video, stage map and profile

GC after Stage 7:

GC leader: Greg van Avermaet (BMC)

Stage 6, Thursday, July 7: Arpajon sur Cère - Montauban, 190.5 km

Complete stage 6 results, stage story, photos, video, stage map and profile

GC after Stage 6:

Young rider classification leader: Julian Alaphilippe (Etixx-Quick Step)

Stage 5, Wednesday, July 6: Limoges - Le Lioran, 216 km

Complete stage 5 results, stage story, photos, video, stage map and profile

GC after Stage 5:

Stage 4, Tuesday, July 5: Saumur - Limoges, 237.5 km

Complete stage 4 results, stage story, photos, video, stage map and profile

GC after Stage 4:

GC leader: Peter Sagan (Tinkoff)
Mountains classification leader: Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo)
Team classification leader: Orica-BikeExchange

Stage 3, Monday, July 4: Granville - Angers, 223.5 km

Complete stage 3 results, photos, stage story, video, stage map and profile

GC after Stage 3:

Stage 2, Sunday, July 3: Saint Lô - Cherbourg en Cotentin, 183 km

Complete stage 2 results, stage story, photos, map and profile

GC after Stage 2:

Points classification leader: Peter Sagan (Tinkoff), but green jersey will be worn by Mark Cavendish

Stage 1, Saturday, July 2: Mont Saint Michel - Utah Beach/Sainte Marie du Mont, 188 km

Complete stage 1 results, GC, stage story, photos, video, stage map and elevation

GC after Stage 1:

GC leader: Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data)
Mountains classification leader: Paul Voss (Bora-Argon 18)
Young rider classification leader: Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo)
Team classification leader: Lotto-Soudal

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Tour de France 2016 route and map: Riders face one of the toughest courses in years

A Bastille Day climb up Mont Ventoux highlights one of the steepest and toughest Tour de France routes in a long, long time.

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If there's one word to describe the 2016 Tour de France route, it's steep . This year's race features 56 categorized climbs, some of them the hardest the Tour has featured in some time. This year's route gives all the more reason to think the ultra climb-y Nairo Quintana might be able to take the yellow jersey away from Team Sky leader Chris Froome. That assumes the young Colombian rider makes it to the end, however.

The crown jewel of this year's Tour is smack dab in the middle of the race on Stage 12. On July 14, Bastille Day, riders will climb to a mountaintop finish on Mont Ventoux before heading into Switzerland and the Alps. Mont Ventoux has been featured in the Tour de France 16 times, most recently in 2013 when Froome summarily left his opponents behind to win the stage and take an iron grip on the yellow jersey that he wouldn't relinquish.

Mont Ventoux is big. Riders climb to a height of 1,918 meters -- a net distance climbed of 1,758 meters -- and take one of several stretches of gradients greater than 10 percent. The landscape is vegetation-less -- bald, nothing but exposed limestone -- exposing riders to bike-stopping winds. Whoever wins the stage will have etched his name among some of the greatest to ever do this sport.

And then there's more. Stage 12 arguably isn't even the hardest of the Tour. Below is a map this year's route, courtesy of the Tour's official site :

Map of the route for the 2016 Tour de France.

After Mont Ventoux, the Tour squirrels around the Alps in France and Switzerland. Stages 19 and 20, the last two stages of pure racing, are utter climb fests that could determine the yellow jersey very late along the route. Stage 19 ends on a mountaintop and is my vote for the queen stage of the Tour . It looks like this:

Zero respite.

The Tour will start much more innocuously this Saturday at picturesque Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, France's great Northwest. From there, it transitions to the Pyrenees, where it will climb the famed Col du Tourmalet before paying a visit to Andorra and Spain. Then it's eastward, to Ventoux, the Alps, and eventually Paris for Champagne and a leisurely ride around the Champs-Élysées (assuming you're not a sprinter).

For more on the Tour de France, visit the lovely people at Podium Cafe . Their mountains preview takes an in-depth look at all the pain in store for this year's riders , and their viewer's guide lets you know which stages you can and absolutely cannot miss .

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Tour de France 2016: balanced route features Mont Ventoux on Bastille Day

Race will be dominated by climbers but first week unlikely to be as hectic ‘Next year’s course suits me better,’ says champion Chris Froome

The Tour de France appears set to be dominated by the climbers once more in 2016 but cycling’s most prestigious stage race should get off to a calmer start than this year’s edition after organisers revealed a balanced course on Tuesday.

After rattling through cobbled sections and battling perilous crosswinds in an extremely nervous opening block of racing this year, the overall contenders will be relieved that the first week will be much less treacherous. “It will, however, be a week for the strong,” warned the competition director, Thierry Gouvenou, who designs the course along with the Tour director, Christian Prudhomme.

While this year’s race had a post-second world war low of a single individual time trial measuring just 14km, the 2016 edition will feature two arduous tests against the clock that are likely to suit the overall contenders and Olympics-bound cyclists.

This photo provided by ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) shows the official map of the 2016 Tour de France.

The first, a 37km ride between Bourg-Saint-Andéol and La Caverne du Pont-d’Arc, will feature two climbs and the second, an undulating 17km course from Sallanches to Megève.

The defending champion Chris Froome said: “I think it’s a great course. It really does challenge in every aspect of cycling – time trials, the mountains, a tricky technical descent also.

“It’s such an amazing, special race, I’m still 30 years old and feel I have a lot left in my legs. [Next year’s course] suits me better,” he added, in reference to the two time trials.

The sprinters will have more chances to shine with seven stage finishes designed for the speed merchants, between the first stage ending at Utah Beach, a site for one of the D-Day landing operations in June 1944, to the traditional final dash up the Champs-Elysees.

There will be plenty of mountains, too, with 28 climbs, three more than this year, scattered over four chains – the Massif Central, Pyrenees, Alps and Jura – with four mountain stages concluding with uphill finishes. The Tour has been heavily favouring the pure climbers since 2012, when Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the race.

The Queen stage on Bastille Day will take the peloton from Montpellier to the iconic Mont Ventoux, one of France’s toughest climbs – a crippling 22.7km ascent at an average gradient of 7.2%, where Froome crushed his rivals in 2013.

“I think that the beautiful thing about the Tour de France is that it’s not specifically about one stage, I think it’s going to take a complete cyclist, but the stage that certainly stands out for me is the stage to Mont Ventoux,” Froome said.

“I know how difficult this climb is and how much time can be won or lost on that climb.”

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