Category: 2024 women
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Stage 1: warming up
We hope the riders on stage one have a good warming up but we look at a different sort of warmth called geothermal heat.
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Stage 2: Tidal
Three large tidal channels in the Rhine-Meuse mouth region of Dordrecht and Rotterdam in the South of Holland feature on stage two of the Tour de France Femmes. It is not only river branches that cut up the Netherlands. It is also the dykes along them. Crossing rivers also means crossing dykes. Crossing over to…
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Stage 4: The chase
The speed of the chase of a peloton vs a breakaway is easily calculated but how do you measure that of an underwater lizard?
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Stage 5: Ardennes
In the Ardennes we climb up the valleys instead of up the hills. It’s a fascinating and old geological story for stage 5.
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Stage 6: Jurassic
The Jura Mountains are the name giver of the Jurassic geological time period but how do you define such a period?
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Stage 7: Jura to the Alps
As we from Jura to the Alps we have some good geological questions. Like, why is there a plateau between Jura and Alps?
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Stage 8: Let’s climb
Let’s climb 3700 meters of elevation. Let’s ride 150 kilometers to conclude this Tour de France Femmes. How can we do that better than with the iconic 21 legendary hairpins of Alpe d’Huez. The grand finale of this year’s Tour de France Femmes traverses through the depths of an ancient ocean. It has been uplifted…
