Male Team 08 - 11 Jul
Baloise Tour
334 Kilometers 5 Stages
The race will be broadcast almost in full at live.baloiseladiestour.com.
There will be 10-6-4″ at the finish of the two road stages not under double sector schedule, 3-2-1″ at the intermediate sprints and 6-4-2″ at the finish of the morning sector on Saturday.
A cross-border stagerace, with really high speeds and less than 1,000 meters of elevation gain in total in its four-day, five-stage parcours. The race formerly known as BeNe Ladies Tour will be the last event for the Movistar Team before the Olympic Games, in a stark contrast -technical, flat courses, with three expected sprint finishes- with the demanding slopes of the final days in the Giro Donne.
Together with those bunch kicks -in Eeklo (Friday 9th), the first sector on Saturday 10th in Knokke-Heist and the final day around Zulte (Sunday 11th)-, two time trials will be covered, which together with bonus seconds and some splits due to wind or indesirable incidents, will decide the GC outcome: a 4km prologue in Utrecht, on Thursday 8th, and the second sector of day three in Knokke, almost 12 kilometers long.