MADRID, 2 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The fourth edition of the NEOM Titan Desert Saudi Arabia mountain bike race, which will take place from November 18 to 22, will consist of four stages and a 12-kilometer prologue that will be tackled by the 200 registered riders, the organizers announced in a statement on Tuesday.
The peloton will have to overcome more than 380 kilometres and almost 3,000 metres of accumulated positive gradient in the inhospitable NEOM region of Saudi Arabia. The novelty of the event in 2024 is the 12-kilometre prologue that will be run the day before the usual four stages.
The prologue will serve to decide the starting order for the next day’s stage and award the first bonuses to the riders who complete the route in the shortest time.
From there, the race returns to its essence, four stages, all of them looping around Titan Mountain Camp, the camp where the entire peloton will stay.
On the first day, the titans will face an 84-kilometre route, very similar to the opening stage in 2023, but in the opposite direction and across large plains that end in a sandier area until reaching the finish line.
The second, tough and very technical, is the longest, with about 107 kilometres and the only one that exceeds 1,000 metres of accumulated positive gradient on soft, stony and faster terrain towards the end.
The third stage was the peloton’s favourite in 2023, with 90 kilometres of desert, canyons and dune passes. And the fourth stage, completely new, will cross a nature reserve where animals live together on large expanses of land.
2024-07-02 15:25:17
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