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Strava segments for the HC climbs and uphill finishes of the 2017 Tour de France

What do you mean you’ve never heard of the KoM?

One of the most noticeable side effects of Strava’s vast user base is that every mile of road has not just one segment attached to it but somewhere between four and five million. Fortunately, they’ve sent in the moderators to assess this year’s Tour de France route and they’ve picked out some of the key climbs. Disappointingly, Strava’s carefully hand-picked selection of climbs was still too long for our tastes, so we’ve whittled it down still further.

And it’s still too long.

Nevertheless, here are the segments for the race’s uphill finishes and hors catégorie (HC) climbs. We’ve almost certainly missed some, but don’t feel that you have to help us out by highlighting the omissions. We’ll just assume that we’re guilty of some grave oversight and then we can all just leave it at that.

If you’re really desperate to know who’s King of the Mountain for something that’s been omitted, it’s almost certainly just some wind-assisted amateur French rider you’ve never heard of, so don’t worry about it.

Stage three

An uphill finish. Short and occasionally steep.

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Stage five

A summit finish. Longish and occasionally steep.

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Stage nine

A triple HC day, with the Col de la Biche, the Grand Colombier, and the Mont du Chat.  

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Stage 12

Probably not the most significant climb of the day, given that there’s a first category climb after and a second category summit finish, but it’s an HC, so here it is.

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Stage 17

A double HC day with the Col de la Croix de Fer and the Galibier. Stage 17 was probably feeling pretty full of itself until it read about stage nine a minute ago.

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Stage 18

The Col d’Izoard.

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Ben12345 | 6 years ago
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Why does the author assume any good result is quote "it’s almost certainly just some wind-assisted amateur French rider" ??

Maybe that guy was actually good on the climb. Maybe he's a decent cat 2 or cat 1 racer. 

Wind assistance on a climb won't magically make anyone go from 5000th place and into the top 5.

Theres also the fact that the Strava KOM might have only done this one climb that day with the aim of getting a quick time. While the pros would have done an entire TDF stage that's 200km long and might not have been going full speed yet.

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kitsunegari | 6 years ago
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Can't wait for stage 9. I used to live very close to Col du Grand Colombier, and by jove thats a difficult mountain to climb.

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