2018 Route d’Occitanie
Male Team 14 - 17 Jun

Route d'Occitanie

731 Kilometers 4 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Alejandro Valverde
  2. Carlos Barbero
  3. Nuno Bico
  4. Rubén Fernández
  5. Antonio Pedrero
  6. Dayer Quintana
  7. Eduardo Sepúlveda
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TV

Eurosport will be showing all four stages live from Thursday through Sunday, starting at 3pm CEST. Days one and two will be broadcast through ES1; stages three and four will, in turn, head to ES2 due to the Le Mans 24 Hours.
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Timetable

All stages will finish just after 4pm local, except for the last one, expected around 3.55pm.
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Bonus

There will be 10-6-4" available at every finish, with 3-2-1" up for grabs at intermediate sprints.
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Social Media

The organisers of the @RouteOccitanie will be using #RDO2018 as official hashtag. Some good livetext from all stages will also be available at Directvélo. Over at @Movistar_Team, we'll be following our Blues live all four days, in the final stagerace for the Movistar Team before the TDF. The race coincides with the second half of the Tour de Suisse.
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Score

Under its former name (Route du Sud), Eusebio Unzué's squads have won the race five times: 1998 (De las Cuevas), 2000 (Brozyna), 2011 (Kiryienka) and two GC victories by Nairo Quintana in 2012 and 2016. There's more info available on our website's History section.

Stages

Analysis

01
Cap Découverte - Carmaux (168km)
14 June
  1. 01 Nacer Bouhanni Cofidis 4h12'32"
  2. 02 Christophe Laporte Cofidis "
  3. 03 Bryan Coquard Vital Concept "
  4. 05 Carlos Barbero Movistar Team "
  5. 07 Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team "
  6. 40 Rubén Fernández Movistar Team "
  7. 50 Nuno Bico Movistar Team "
  8. 53 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team "
  9. 59 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team "
  10. 64 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team "
02
Saint-Gaudens - Masseube (173km)
15 June
  1. 01 Clement Venturini AG2R La Mondiale 4h07'08"
  2. 02 Nacer Bouhanni Cofidis "
  3. 03 Carlos Barbero Movistar Team "
  4. 40 Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team "
  5. 42 Rubén Fernández Movistar Team "
  6. 93 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team +1'57"
  7. 104 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team +3'53"
  8. 110 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team +15'34"
  9. 112 Nuno Bico Movistar Team "
03
Prat-B'repaux - Monts d'Olmes (198.4km)
16 June
  1. 01 Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team 5h28'53"
  2. 02 Dani Navarro Cofidis +2"
  3. 03 Kenny Elissonde Team Sky +6"
  4. 12 Rubén Fernández Movistar Team +2'02"
  5. 29 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team +7'56"
  6. 40 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team +13'10"
  7. 74 Nuno Bico Movistar Team +24'52"
  8. 87 Carlos Barbero Movistar Team +40'27"
  9. —  Dayer Quintana Movistar Team DNF
04
Mirepoix - Cazouls-lès-Béziers (192.7km)
17 June
  1. 01 Anthony Roux Groupama-FDJ 4h37'19"
  2. 02 Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team "
  3. 03 Evaldas Siskevicius Delko-Marseille "
  4. 16 Carlos Barbero Movistar Team "
  5. 25 Rubén Fernández Movistar Team "
  6. 33 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team "
  7. 35 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team "
  8. 67 Nuno Bico Movistar Team +19'17"

Analysis

Alejandro Valverde will be one of the biggest amusements in the first edition with its current name -the 42nd in the history of the race- of an event which had been long called La Route du Sud.

“From the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean sea” is the motto of La Route d’Occitanie, which has taken advantage from the recent transformation (2016) of the administrative region scheme in France to use the name of a historical region with a distinct character, combining mountains and coastline, which is also visible in its route.

Four stages, with no time trials, make the parcours. The two opening ones (Thursday 14th, Friday 15th) are quite flat: 168km to start things off, from Cap Découverte to a circuit finish in Carmaux, and a more rolling 173km on day two, towards Masseube.

As it’s custom in this race, stage three through the Pyrenees (Saturday 16th) will be decisive: 198km with the cols of Lers (Cat-1), Souloumbrie (Cat-2), Chioula (Cat-2), Montségur (Cat-2) and a finish up Les Monts d’Olmes (Cat-1). To wrap the race up (Sunday 17th), a route harder than in previous editions: 193km to Cazouls-lès-Béziers with three rated ascents, some slopes in the finale and the demanding Pic de Nore (Cat-1) halfway through the day’s course.