{"id":2044779,"date":"2026-07-14T16:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2044779"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:54:38","slug":"tour-de-france-stage-11-preview-sprinters-to-the-front-in-nevers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2044779","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Stage 11 Preview: Sprinters to the Front in Nevers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/stage-11.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrap fp-contentTarget\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published July 14, 2026 10:54AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Vichy-Nevers: 161.3km, 1400m+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attackers will of course attack on stage 11 of the\u00a0Tour de France, but with such a flat course and with the three previous finishes in Nevers being settled in bunch sprints, it\u2019s hard to see any other outcome on this day.<\/p>\n<p>The peloton\u2019s fastest riders will all try to follow Eric Leman, Guido Bontempi and Alessandro Petacchi into the history books, with sprinters such as Jasper Philipsen, Tim Merlier, Biniam Girmay and Mads Pedersen all dreaming of adding their name to that list.<\/p>\n<p>There are some slight climbs, but the two category 4 ascents on offer won\u2019t trouble the heavier riders and will make things very complicated for breakaway hopefuls.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-placeholder-wrapper relative w-full border-t border-b border-border-light col-span-full my-3 md:col-span-10 md:col-start-2\">\n<div class=\"mb-[30px] min-h-[30px] text-center\"><span class=\"font-utility-4 font-medium tracking-[1px] text-neutral-500 uppercase\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As for the climbers, they will certainly have to wait for another chance. That\u2019ll be a disappointment for Lenny Martinez, the uphill specialist with Bahrain-Victorious. He grew up in Ni\u00e8vre, just 8km from Nevers, but the terrain doesn\u2019t offer him the chance to land what would be his first Tour stage win.<\/p>\n<p>That will have to wait until another day; for now, the gallopers have the best odds to fight for the victory.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"u-text-transform--upper u-font-weight--bold u-letter-spacing--1\"><strong>Start<\/strong>:\u00a07:50 a.m. ET<\/li>\n<li class=\"u-text-transform--upper u-font-weight--bold u-letter-spacing--1\"><strong>Est. Finish<\/strong>:\u00a011:30 a.m. ET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published July 14, 2026 10:54AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france\/tour-de-france-stage-11-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-11.jpg&#8221;] Published July 14, 2026 10:54AM Vichy-Nevers: 161.3km, 1400m+ Attackers will of course attack on stage 11 of the\u00a0Tour de France, but with such a flat course and with the three previous finishes in Nevers being settled in bunch sprints, it\u2019s hard to see any other outcome on this day. The peloton\u2019s fastest [&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-2044779","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\/2044779","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=2044779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}