Blog - Tour de France 2012

Future journalist? Become one of the 'Jeunes Reporters' of the Tour de France 2012!

Since 7 years now, Amaury Sport Organisation allows, together with its sponsors which are different from one year to another, some adolescents to experience the Tour de France as a journalist. Their newspaper, A notre Tour, is handed out to the followers of the Tour every two days.

The operation is more international than ever before since it now allows not only French people (4 of the 6 Jeunes Reporters) but also a young Belgian journalist and a future journalist from Luxembourg to participate*.

The Jeunes Reporters du Tour 2012

Interview Yahoo! Sport Christian Prudhomme: it's not a job, for me it's a mission!

Nowadays we unfortunately more and more often the feeling that it's better to be first to tell something shit than being second telling the truth. Together with the sentence in the title of this article about his work as director of Cycling at ASO, this sentence about journalists is just one of those which highlight Emmanuel Barth's interview with Christian Prudhomme for Yahoo! Sport (published on 12 December).

This interview, without any hidden agenda's, is about a variety of topics, especially around the Tour de France. From the internationalisation of cycling, via the work of journalists and the Contador case to the Tour de France 2012, Christian Prudhomme comments many current topics in the world of cycling.

Right from the start of the interview, Christian Prudhomme, not only the director of the ...

Tour de France 2012: the race course of the first stages on Google Maps/Google Earth

Usually we only get to know the details of the stages of the Tour de France in June because ASO publishes the time- and route schedules only one month ahead of the start. For the Tour de France 2012 however, I already announced the detailed race course of the prologue and the 2nd stage and, thanks to Sud Presse the first stage now gets added to that list!

In this article you'll discover the detailed race course, the advertising caravan, the places of the fictive and real s ...

The detailed race course of the 2nd stage of the Tour de France 2012: Visé > Tournai (plus the route on Google Maps)

velowire.com continues announcing new rumours about the Tour de France 2012. Today it's the turn for the 2nd stage of the 99th edition of the Tour de France to be presented. Indeed, thanks to a regular reader of this web site, you can find all informations about the detailed race course of this stage between Visé and Tournai in Belgium in this article, including an interactive Google Maps version of the race route.

Go discover!

The 3 first stages of the Tour de France 2012

Saturday 30 June 2012 - prologue in Liège - 6,1 km

Video flashback on the official presentation of the Tour de France 2012

Last Tuesday was the official presentation of the Tour de France 2012. As we didn't expect any real surprises, I decided that this might be a good occasion to let you discover, if you didn't have the chance to be invited or to be able to follow the presentation on the official website, how such a presentation happens. Furthermore, the video with the presentation of each of the stages will allow you to discover all the small details which have been announced during the presentation and which you won't find on the letour.fr website.

A short flashback on the presentation in video and photos at the end of the article!

The introduction by Jean-Etienne Amaury: you'll never walk alone, with the UCI and GCP ...

The 2 Etapes du Tour Mondovélo 2012 : in the Alps and the Pyrenees

There'll indeed be 2 Etapes du Tour Mondovélo 2012!

Jérémy Roy (FDJ): I think the Tour de France 2012 will be quite difficult anyway! (video interview)

As you know, the official presentation of the Tour de France 2012 took place this morning and early this afternoon. This was the occasion to discover the final details in addition to what had already been published here, but also the occasion for some riders who have played an important role in the Tour de France 2011 to comment de race course.

With Jérémy Roy we thought it was a long time ago already that there haven't been any interviews in his section at velowire.com and it was thus also the occasion to ask him to comment this race course which has now been officially presented, but also to briefly come back to the end of his season ...

You can discover ...

Exclusivity velowire.com: the main climbs and mountains of the Tour de France 2012!

The Tour de France 2012 stage cities are now known since a little bit over one week. What is not known yet is the detailed race course for each of the stages and more importantly the most important climbs and mountains which will be part of this Tour de France 2012.

Exclusively on velowire.com you can find the hills and the mountains of the 99th edition of the Tour de France in this article!

The hills and mountains of the Tour 2012

The Tour de France 2012, a Tour made of transfers

As you know, I've been working since September on the rumours about the race route of the Tour de France 2012. While I was getting ready to publish all the information about the last week of the race tonight, ASO got the scoop before me by publishing, by mistake, the race route on the official Tour de France website.

That's why I decided tonight to publish the focus I was planning to do in the same article in a dedicated dédié, which you are currently reading ... The transfers of riders between cycling teams have more or less all been announced when we discover that the Tour de France 2012 will also be a Tour of transfers. Exactly what you need to make riders and followers of the Tour very happy!

The "bad mistake" in the content management of the website letour.fr

Tour de France 2012 : rumours on the race course and stage cities!

... and about the Etape du Tour MondoVélo!