Cycling Weekly | June 16, 2016
THE MAGIC AND MYSTIQUE OF MONT VENTOUX
Let’s not beat about the bush (you’ll struggle to find one on its wind-scarred summit): when stage twelve heads up Mont Ventoux on Bastille Day during this year’s Tour de France, it will be tackling the most fearsome climb in cycling. Ventoux has it challengers for severity (Angliru, Mortirolo), prominence (Mount Etna, Puy de Dôme), otherworldliness (Col d’Izoard), altitude (anything over 1,911m) and legend (Alpe d’Huez, Col du Tourmalet) but the Giant of Provence rolls all these characteristics into one, making it a Tour icon and a bucket-list tick box for cyclists the world over.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Cycling Weekly June 16, 2016.