The pack later passed over two similar bumps in the road, the Wormeldange, a mere eight-tenths of a kilometer with a grade of 9.5percentt, and the Hostert, 1.8 kilometers with a grade of 6.9percentt.
Once again, he was caught a few kilometers from the finish, up a climb 15.9 kilometers long with a grade of 7.8percentt.
Riders will set off one by one and face a final ascension of 18.4 kilometers (11.4 miles) with a grade of 7.2percentt.
Of the mountains traversed today, the toughest was the last, the Izoard, 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) long with a grade of 7.2percentt.
That did not exactly make it the Alps, nor was the second climb, the Vianden, at 2.7 kilometers with a grade of 5.7percentt, a peak in the Pyrenees.
Top-rated research departments History and Iberian and Latin American languages came out on top in the 2001 RAE, with a grade of 4 each.
If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, "There must have been a lot of dummies in that class".
Its pipelines stand ready to serve customers willing to pay a premium price — with a grade of oil closely resembling Iran's.
The crowds en route were again enormous, especially on the two major ascents, the Galibier, 18 kilometers at an average grade of 6.8percentt, and L'Alpe d'Huez, 21 hairpin turns over 13.8 kilometers with a grade of 7.9percentt.
