tuesday 19 June 2007 at 00h30

UPDATE 22 November 2007: the start from Monaco has now been confirmed; click here to read more about the start of the Tour de France 2009 from Monaco !

In 2009 the Tour de France would start in Monaco ...
That's at least what we can read in the daily newspaper Le Parisien .

After the start of the upcoming edition on July 7th, 2007 in London, the start of the Tour de France 2008 in Brittany (Brest) this would be the first start ever of the Tour in Monaco.

According to Le Parisien Monaco's start would be a 15,2 km time trial.

In addition to Monaco several other cities were Tour start candidate for 2009, including Rotterdam, Utrecht, Liege, Lugano, Budapest, Florence and the Basque Country. As far as I know, at least the city of Utrecht has planned to come and have a look in this year's Tour de France to see how a Tour stage is organised. Maybe they'll try again in 2010 ...

ASO (the organiser of the Tour de France) didn't want to confirm nor deny the news, but we shouldn't forget Le Parisien is a newspaper edited by Editions Philippe Amaury, while ASO (short for Amaury Sport Organisation) is also part of that company ...

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door Thomas Vergouwen
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  1. Salut Thomas,

    Oui j'avais déjà lu celà il y a quelques temps. Ce qui me plait encore plus c'est le départ de Corse annoncé pour 2013...
    A très bientôt. Il faut que l'on s'appelle, on va être un peu concurrent...

    | Pascal ORSINI | tuesday 19 June 2007 om 01h23

  2. Bonjour Pascal !

    Un départ en Corse réparerait alors ce petit oubli ... tous les départements de la France ont déjà été visités par le Tour de France, sauf la Corse !!

    On va être concurrent ? Tu veux dire que tu ferras plus que seulement l'étape dans la caravane pour laquelle tu as été invité ?

    | Thomas Vergouwen | tuesday 19 June 2007 om 07h56

  3. bsr thomas ca va ??? peux tu eclairer ma lanterne stp?? est il vrai que mon JAJA ne va plus participer au tour de france en tant que consultant ??? c est un de mes contacts qui vient de me dire cela et l affirme haut et fort ...!! rassure moi et dis moi que c est faut ...snifffffff..!! bises thomas

    | nathalie | Saturday 09 August 2008 om 00h38

  4. Bonsoir Nathalie et désolé de ne pas t'avoir répondu plus tôt ... Je ne suis pas au courant de cette rumeur et je dois même dire que je ne l'ai lu nulle part ailleurs ...

    Je me demande donc si la personne qui te l'a dit n'a pas voulu te faire une blague ... un peu ratée certes ;-).

    | Thomas Vergouwen | Saturday 16 August 2008 om 00h28

  5. bsr thomas , je me doutais un peu que ce n était qu une rumeur ,et j en suis ravie....WOUHAA......!!!trop cool,ich lieben meine jaja .bisous thomas

    | nathalie | Monday 18 August 2008 om 23h46

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