Male Team 16 - 19 Jun
Route d'Occitanie
584 Kilometers 4 Stages
The race will be broadcast all four days on the Eurosport App + GCN (14.00 CEST).
There will be 10-6-4″ up for grabs at every finish, plus 3-2-1″ at the intermediate sprints.
The Movistar Team has notched up, only in its Telefónica era, no less than six overall victories in this race, with Vasil Kiryienka, Nairo Quintana (2x), Alejandro Valverde (2x) and Antonio Pedrero (in 2021).
The Route d’Occitanie is a race which brings many great memories to the Movistar Team, a squad which will once again close here -with the only exception of the multiple National Championships across Europe the week after- its path towards the Tour de France. It’s an event quite close to home, with lumpy roads and a big mountain stage, over 4,000m elevation gain, that will surely decide the GC result.
Following a stage for the sprinters to L’Isle-Jourdain (Thursday 16th), the race will tackle on the final section of stage two (Friday 17th) a duo of inescrutable, gentle ascents: Tiergues (Cat-2; nearly 6km at 4%) and the finish in Roquefort (2km at 4.8%). A day later (Saturday 18th), the Queen stage will bring, as is tradition in this race, climbs not used by other professional events, often discovered here: Roque Jalère (Cat-1), Jau (Cat-1), Hares (Cat-1) and the finish up Les Angles / Balcère (Cat-3). The showdown on Sunday 19th, in Auterive, will again be for the fastest finishers.