Stage 19: Bordeaux - Pauillac

Date: July 24, 2010

Stage 19: Bordeaux -  Pauillac

Distance: 52km

Individual time-trial - A sporting perspective
A time trial for fine-tuning

This is the only time-trial stage of this edition.

The route will wind its way through the streets of Bordeaux for fifteen kilometres, with avenues and buildings to shelter the riders. Then suddenly, they will leave the city and arrive in the open countryside, amidst the vineyards, because they will be passing through the famous landmarks of the Haut Médoc wine-making region, such as Margaux, passing one château after another.

The finish is magnificent. On the face of it, this time trial will merely fine-tune the classifications; there is no way the seventeenth-placed rider will grab first place.

The last time trial when the Yellow Jersey changed hands on the penultimate day was in 2006, when Landis (3rd at the time behind Sastre) triumphed. However, since then, the American has been disqualified due to a positive doping test.

Source: letour.fr