Thursday 22 August 2024
Stage 1
BESSANS
LES KARELLIS
| Distance |
73 km (45 mi) |
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Mountain |
| Délais (estimated) |
n/a
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| GPX file | Download |
| Timetable (estimated) | PDF (69.87 KB) |
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KM 38.6Côte de Saint-André
Full Results
Stage 1 PDF (2.01 MB)| Rider | Gaps | |
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| Marion BUNEL (FRA) |
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| Isabella HOLMGREN |
+ 00:00:34
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| Lore DE SCHEPPER |
+ 00:00:50
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| 4 | Julie BEGO |
+ 00:01:31
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| 5 | Nicole STEINMETZ |
+ 00:01:38
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| Rider | Gaps | |
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| Marion BUNEL (FRA) | ||
| 2 | Isabella HOLMGREN |
+ 00:00:16
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| 3 | Lore DE SCHEPPER |
+ 00:00:31
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| 4 | Julie BEGO |
+ 00:01:33
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| 5 | Nicole STEINMETZ |
+ 00:01:44
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All riders started
Yellow Jersey
Polka dot jersey
Green jersey
White jersey
R.A.S. The peloton remained tightly bunched throughout stage 2 of the Tour de l’Avenir Femmes on the beautiful roads of the Saone-et-Loire region. Apart from three crashes on the way to the actual start, there was nothing to thwart the likelihood of a sprint finish. The rare attempts were so timid that none of them managed to gain more than a few lengths’ advantage over the peloton. Admittedly, the prospect of the mountains to come on Thursday and Friday is likely to dampen the hopes of women lacking a reference point in an event of this type, but the development of women’s cycling is also at stake and this issue must be taken into consideration.
In short, 102 of the 105 competitors still in the race rode together to the finish in Louhans-Chateaurenaud, where a large and friendly crowd awaited them. Switzerland’s Linda Zanetti was the clear winner, emerging from the pack ahead of Belgium’s Julie De Wilde, now wearing the green Biofioul jersey.
German rider Antonia Niedermaier’s CIC yellow jersey was therefore in no danger and she also leads the De Dietrich youth classification, which is reserved for 19 and 20 year-olds. For her part, Dutch rider Fem Van Empel, 3rd in the stage, wears the polka-dot Alden best climber jersey after taking the lead on the small Col de Brancion at the halfway point.
German rider Antonia Niedermaier’s CIC yellow jersey was therefore in no danger and she also leads the De Dietrich youth classification reserved for 19 and 20 year-olds.
For her part, Dutch rider Fem Van Empel, 3rd in the stage, wears the polka-dot Alden best climber jersey after taking the lead on the small Col de Brancion at the halfway point.
Stage 3 takes the peloton from Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne (Ain) to Val d’Epy (Jura) over 97.3km, which includes the côte du Thoissia classified as a 2nd category climb in the final fifteen kilometres.
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Situated at an altitude of 1750 metres, Bessans is a typical Haute-Maurienne village close to the Vanoise National Park and Italy.
Authentic, sporty and family-friendly, it is steeped in tradition and boasts a rich cultural heritage.
Set on a vast, sun-drenched plateau, snow-covered from November to April, Bessans, a village surrounded by glaciers and peaks over 3,000 metres high, has become one of the undisputed leaders in cross-country skiing and biathlon, both in France and internationally.
When nature reawakens, Bessans offers a whole host of other sporting activities: hiking, mountaineering, trail running, Nordic walking, climbing, canyoning, via ferrata, etc. At the heart of the biggest passes in the Alps, it is also very popular with cyclists and mountain bikers.
Bessans is a natural reserve of authenticity, naturalness, oxygen and energy… The hamlets, the agricultural and pastoral life, the flora and fauna, swimming in the lakes, the baroque heritage, the sports teams in preparation, the simplicity of the locals – everything contributes to an active or contemplative holiday.
The Les Karellis resort lies at an altitude of between 1,650 m and 2,495 m.
With its northerly location, the resort benefits from good snow cover and a rather cold microclimate, which means it is open from December to mid-April with few snow problems.
The resort is located above Saint Jean de Maurienne, less than an hour’s drive from Chambéry, an hour and a half from Grenoble and Annecy, and two hours from Lyon on the A43 freeway. The resort is also accessible by train from the Saint Jean de Maurienne station, with shuttles providing the final link between the station and the resort.
The resort differs from “traditional” resorts in that it is run by associations: all the land belongs to the commune, and the investors are all associations. There are 7 vacation villages: 6 full-board and 1 self-catering, managed by associations. The resort’s atypical accommodation offering is almost exclusively full-board. This differentiation enables the resort to offer attractive rates.
The Les Karellis ski area has 16 lifts3. It boasts 60 km of downhill ski trails with a 950 m vertical drop, as well as 30 km of cross-country ski trails and 10 km of pedestrian and snowshoe itineraries. There are 29 downhill ski runs4 : 6 green runs (les Copies, le Lac, la Ponsonnière, les Près, les Gentianes, les Loix), 7 blue runs (les Granges, la Somma, le Vinouve, les Arpons, les Mottes, le Guetton and la Tallière, open for the 2023-20245 season), 12 red runs (le Vé, les Mottes Rouges, Pramol , la Combe de la Rama, la Combe des Chamois, la Rama, le Stade, les Achères, les Embrunes, les Fontagnoux, les Vordaches and les Gentianes at the top) and 4 black runs (les Enfers, les Bachaches, la Cote des Agneaux, les Crêtes).
There’s also a Children’s Garden, a snowpark, a boardercross and a toboggan run. 80% of the ski area is above 2,000 m.
