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Linked articleStage 7: Hagetmau to Bordeaux | Tour de France 2026 Preview
Stage 7 of the 2026 Tour de France covers 175 kilometers from Hagetmau to Bordeaux, returning the race to flat roads after the Pyrenean block. This is the first clear sprint opportunity since the opening weekend, and the teams that have spent six days protecting climbers will finally hand control back to the fast finishers. Bordeaux sits on the Garonne, wide and exposed, and the final approach into the city follows long, straight roads that favor organized lead-out trains over late improvisation. The stage leaves Hagetmau in the morning and rolls northwest through the Landes, a region of pine forests and flat agricultural land that stretches toward the Atlantic coast.…
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