Tour de France 2023 - Stage 7 preview

Stage 7: Mont-de-Marsan to Bordeaux

Date: July 7, 2023

Distance: 169.9km

Stage type: Flat

The Tour rides away from the Pyrenees and heads to Bordeaux for sprint finish in the city.

The 169.9km pan-flat stage starts in Mont-de-Marsan, the adopted hometown of 1973 Tour winner Luis Ocaña and then cuts across the plains and forests of the southwest corner of France. 

Bordeaux hasn't hosted a Tour stage finish since Cavendish won in 2010 and the stage finish in Place des Quinconces will surely offer him and others a chance of another sprint win.

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