The 2022 Tour de France route has already been revealed. This Thursday in Paris the 109th edition of the Grande Boucle was presented, which will have as a great novelty the return of the cobblestones and the high goals of La Planche, Granon, Alpe d’Huez, Peyragudes and Hautacam. In addition, the Tour Femmes returns to the calendar after 13 years.
The Colombian cyclist Nairo Quintana from Team Arkéa Samsic was present at the event and appreciated the new route. In addition to the Boyaca runner, who has been podium three times, Tadej Pogacar, current champion, David Gaudu, Benoit Cosnefroy, Kasper Asgreen, Julian Alaphilippe and Guillaume Martin, among others, were also present.
“We have seen the route of the Tour de France 2022, a route a little more particular than the last two years. With very important wind stages in the first part of the Tour, with a pavé stage, eleven sections. Then comes the terrain that we like the most where we can do good things, the mountain stages, “said the French team rider.
“There is a good mountain menu, in the Alps first and then ending with tough stages in the Pyrenees, we hope it will be a good Tour for the team. I have faith and we are going to work hard this winter to work the Tour de France well“, he complemented.
In the most recent edition of the Tour de France, Nairo Quintana finished in box 28 of the general classification at 1 hour, 33 minutes and 11 seconds behind the Slovenian of UAE Team Emirates. What’s more, He wore the red seed shirt for five days that accredited him as the leader of the mountain.
The 2022 Tour de France will run from July 1 to 24 and will feature 21 stages, three of them in Denmark and two of them passing through Switzerland. There will be five high mountain stages and two individual time trials.