Albertville to La Rosière

Stage 11 - Wednesday, 18 July - 108 km (67 mi)

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The Stage

This is the real deal; four nasty cols with the finish up on La Rosière. The GC battle will be fought real hard here and we'll get a good idea of who is doing well or not.

The stage is only 108 kilometres long which means that no one is allowed to lose much time on the victor. It's going to be quite hard for the 'bus' to get in on time. Will the ASO be magnimous if 40 riders arrive too late?

Winner: Geraint Thomas

Tour Touristique

The Roselend Dam is an arch-buttress dam located 5 km (3 mi) east of Beaufort in the Savoie department of the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is located just west and below the Cormet de Roselend mountain pass. The dam was designed by Coyne et Bellier and construction began in 1955. The reservoir began to fill in 1960, the power station was operational in 1961 and the dam complete in 1962.

The dam has a maximum height of 150 m (492 ft) and a length of 804 m (2,638 ft). It is 3 m (10 ft) wide at its crest and 22 m (72 ft) wide at its base. The dam has a structural volume of 945,000 m3 (1,236,013 cu yd). Its reservoir, Lac de Roselend, can store 187,000,000 m3 (151,603 acre⋅ft) of water and has a surface area of 3.2 km2 (1 sq mi).

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