Explainers · July 24
Alpe d’Huez: The 21 Hairpins, the Numbers, and Cycling’s Most Famous Climb
· Racing 101 No climb in cycling carries the weight that Alpe d’Huez does. Twenty-one hairpin bends stacked up a mountainside above the Romanche valley, a road that lifts a bike race from the valley floor to a ski station at 1,850 metres — it is not the longest climb the Tour de France uses, nor the highest, nor even the steepest. It is simply the…
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