Male Team 11 - 18 Oct
Le Tour de Langkawi
1109 Kilometers 8 Stages
Eurosport and GCN will broadcast the last 90 minutes of every stage. Times (CEST): 09.00 / 09.15 / 09.00 / 10.50 / 09.20 / 04.45 (digital only) / 09.15 / 09.05.
There will be 10-6-4″ up for grabs at every finish, plus 3-2-1″ at the intermediate sprints.
A distant location will see the Movistar Team take the curtains down to its 43rd season. Southeast Asia will see the Pablo Lastras-managed group compete for the very last time in 2022 at the 25th Le Tour de Langkawi, over eight warm, humid stages that offer chances to both sprinters and climbers.
The two days which should decide the GC result are the traditional, Hors Categorie mountain-top finish of Genting Highlands (Thursday 13th), a climb in two steps -the first towards the KOM of Gohtong Jaya (also HC)-, 1,100m elevation gain and nearly twenty kilometers to the summit; and Gunung Raya (Monday 17th), located in the Langkawi island on the penultimate day, over 9km at 6.6%.
Around those, the fastest men in the bunch will find up to six opportunities, with hillier roads on stages one and two and flatter courses for the remainder of the race. Controlling the field won’t be an easy task, though, with only six riders per team in this race.