On Tuesday, the Tour de France heads over a series of varied ascents through the Massif Central in south-central France, and if you ever wanted an indication of how surprising the climbs of the region tend to be, rewind the clock to 2020.
On stage 13 to Puy Mary-Pas de Peyrol that year, Dani Martínez clinched an unexpected victory for EF Education-EasyPost, making the early breakaway and surviving a series of attacks before beating Lennard Kämna to take his first Grand Tour stage.
