The big legend of the Tour de France - COL DU TOURMALET - History and great battles

Col du Tourmalet, the mountain of bad return. The most climbed pass in the history of the Tour de France. Get to know the legend and the best stories of this cycling myth.
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In its more than one hundred years of history, few landscapes have been as representative of the Tour de France as the Col du Tourmalet. Of the 110 editions that are fulfilled this year, 82 have included a Tourmalet ascent, being the end of the stage on three occasions: 1974, 2010 and 2019. We must add the times it has also been the scene of the Vuelta a España, thus becoming the busiest mountain pass in the history of professional cycling.
In 2010, Tour de France honoured the Tourmalet on the centenary of its discovery for cycling. It was climbed in two differnts days, the second of them as the end of the 17th stage.
Its fame is well deserved, since it´s a very hard mountain in any slope by which it is climbed. The ascent lasts more than 17 kilometers from the east side and 19 from the west, with an average slope of 7% that exceeds 10% when approaching the top, and 1,258 meters of unevenness. It is also one of the highest mountain passes in world cycling, with a maximum of 2115 meters of altitude. The time records are between 47 and 48 minutes on the eastern slope, the shortest. A titanic effort even for great climbers. Since the 1980 edition it´s considered "hors categorie".
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[@Panagiotis-Skordilis]

excellent

[@juanjosevallejo2522]

Amazing video

[@Acedfest]

Jonas Vingegaard's ascent of Tourmalet in 2023 Vuelta was pretty epic

[@epiccyclists]

true, amazing

[@Acedfest]

Actually Andy Schleck was awarded the 2010 Tour de France when Contador was disqualified, which considering he attacked after he saw Schleck's chain drop is great karma

[@kazehana877]

The interest is that this legendary Mountain is being used in the Tour de France Femmes as its queen stage.