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Tour de France Highlights - Netflix

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Daily highlights from Le Tour de France

Tour de France Highlights - Netflix

Type: Sports

Languages: English

Status: Running

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 2016-07-02

Tour de France Highlights - 2008 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11 - Netflix

These are the profiles for the individual stages in the 2008 Tour de France, with Stage 1 on 5 July, and Stage 11 on 16 July.

Tour de France Highlights - Stage 1 - Netflix

5 July 2008 — Brest to Plumelec, 197.5 km

For the first time since 1967, the tour started with a road stage rather than the traditional prologue. The stage was hilly with four fourth category climbs through the Monts d'Arrée in the department of Finistère. The finish at Plumelec is uphill on the Côte de Cadoual, with a 1.7 km climb at 6.2%. As there were no time bonuses in the three intermediate sprints, the first rider home wore the yellow jersey at the start of stage 2. An eight-man breakaway formed at the 3 km mark, and it got away for some time. At the first feeding station, Hervé Duclos-Lassalle crashed and sustained a broken left wrist, becoming the first rider to have to abandon the 2008 Tour. At about the 30 km to go mark, two in the break, Lilian Jegou and David de la Fuente got away from the other six after a short series of attacks and counter-attacks. The peloton, paced by Silence-Lotto, increased pace when the other six rejoined them, and Jegou and de la Fuente were caught at around the 7 km to go mark. At that point, the peloton split into several groups for the run in toward the finish, won by Alejandro Valverde. One of the pre-race favourites, Mauricio Soler, fell with 20 km remaining and lost more than three minutes. Stage 1 result and general classification after stage 1

Tour de France Highlights - References - Netflix

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