Millau to Carcassonne

Stage 15 - Sunday, 22 July - 181 km (112 mi)

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The Stage

A more serious col at the end today. Most GC riders will want to take it easy today but will someone force them to respond to an attack? Another chance here for a buccaneer like Steve Cummings?

Winner: Magnus Cort Nielsen

Tour Touristique

The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the gorge valley of the Tarn near Millau in southern France. It is the tallest bridge in the world, with one mast's summit at 343.0 metres (1,125.3 ft) above the base of the structure (23 m taller than the Eiffel Tower). In a Franco-British partnership, it was designed by the English architect Sir Norman Foster and French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux, and as of May 2017 it is the twenty-second highest bridge deck in the world, being 270 metres (890 ft) between the road deck and the ground below.

The cost of construction was approximately € 394 million and was built over three years. The bridge has been consistently ranked as one of the great engineering achievements of all time.

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