{"id":2028245,"date":"2026-07-05T16:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2028245"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:18:36","slug":"tour-de-france-stage-3-preview-the-mountains-come-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2028245","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Stage 3 Preview: The Mountains Come Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/stage-3.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrap fp-contentTarget\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\">\n<div class=\"fp-remove flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Jim Cotton<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published July 5, 2026 10:18AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Granollers \u2013 Les Angles: 195.9km \/ 3,850m+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tour de France hits the mountains early this year.<\/p>\n<p>But this transition from Spain into the French Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es could be cast off as fake news. The four categorized climbs on the menu are among the easiest in the race. They\u2019re long, shallow, and leg-sapping rather than steep and selective.<\/p>\n<p>Expect a huge brawl for the breakaway on a stage that could be fought on two fronts \u2014 for victory from the attackers, and for GC seconds in a late hilltop skirmish.<\/p>\n<p>At 195km and with close to 4,000m of vert this will be one of the most time- and energy-sapping stages of Le Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Watch out for which of the classification superteams flex their muscles and take responsibility for controlling it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Start Time: <\/strong>6:10 a.m. ET<\/li>\n<li><strong>End Time (estimated):<\/strong> 10:54 a.m. ET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\">\n<div class=\"fp-remove flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Jim Cotton<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published July 5, 2026 10:18AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france\/tour-de-france-stage-3-preview-2026\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/stage-3.jpg&#8221;] Jim Cotton Published July 5, 2026 10:18AM Granollers \u2013 Les Angles: 195.9km \/ 3,850m+ The Tour de France hits the mountains early this year. But this transition from Spain into the French Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es could be cast off as fake news. The four categorized climbs on the menu are among the easiest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2028245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2028245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2028245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2028245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2028245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}