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Stage by stage
stage 11 - Albertville 
La Toussuire - Les Sybelles
148 km
Thursday 12 July
La Toussuire - Les Sybelles
148 km
Thursday 12 July
High Mountains - A sporting perspective
Christian Prudhomme’s Analysis
Twenty years after the Winter Olympic Games, the riders will set off from Albertville for an alpine stage with a substantial agenda and marked out on a shorter distance. During 140 km, the peloton will go over the Col de la Madeleine, the Col de la Croix de Fer and the Col du Mollard before tackling the climb towards the resort of La Toussuire. This will certainly single out the potential winners.
Albertville
• Stage town on 1 previous occasion
• 19,800 inhabitants
• Subprefecture of Savoie (73)
The Tour’s riders have often passed through Albertville, a “ville vélo-touristique’’ (a city which provides riders with a welcome, services and facilities specially adapted to bicycle touring), for example to reach the Tarentaise and Beaufortain Valleys, but they have rarely stopped off there. They have more often had the opportunity to discover the Olympic city during the Critérium du Dauphiné, and in particular during the 2011 edition, when the first straight stage of the race set off from there. Several hours later, Belgium’s Jurgen Van den Broeck experienced the best moment of his young career, by winning in Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, ahead of Joaquim Rodriguez and Cadel Evans.
• www.albertville.fr
• www.albertville.com
• www.coral.fr
• www.cg73.fr
La Toussuire - Les Sybelles
• Stage site on one previous occasion
• 570 inhabitants at Fontcouverte and 2,500 for the domain of the Sybelles
• Winter sport station attached to Fontcouverte in Savoie (73)
The last time the Tour passed through La Toussuire was in 2006, but since then it has witnessed the victory of Joaquim Rodriguez during the last stage of the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné. The Spanish rider won his second stage in a row, which also allowed him to win the green and polka dot jerseys. Just behind him, France’s Thibaut Pinot, took advantage of his knowledge of the finish, since he had won a stage of the Tour des Pays de Savoie there, two years earlier.