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Coronavirus: the Tour de France 2020 to be rescheduled, but when? - from 29 August till 20 September

It was more and more likely over the past few weeks, but after the announcements made by Emmanuel Macron in his speech last night, it has become mandatory to cancel the Tour de France 2020 at its initial dates, which were from Saturday 27 June 2020 till Sunday 19 July 2020.

Cancelation at these dates, but maybe followed by a rescheduled edition? Let's have a look in detail at the different aspects around rescheduling the event!

Why should the Tour de France 2020 be rescheduled?

The Paris-Nice 2020 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

While the French cycling season is starting up again in March (after some first races in February) Paris-Nice or "the race to the sun" is on the programme starting this Sunday 8 and going on until Sunday 15 March 2020. 8 stages, including one individual time trial halfway the week, will bring the 136 riders of 17 teams from Plaisir to Nice in about 1220 kilometers traveling all the way from Paris down to the south of France.

As usual, velowire.com allows you to discover the race route on extremely detailed maps, based on Open Street Maps but also available for download in Google Earth, so you can do - if you want to - a virtual fly-over on one or several stages of Paris-Nice 2020.

The organisation of Paris-Nice is a bit disturbed this year due to the COVID19 / coronavirus health situation. Therefore, several mesures will be taken in order to limit the propagation risk of the virus related to the race. For ...

Tour de France 2020: the rumours on the race route and the start and finish cities!

this article has not been translated in English and will probably not be; you can read it below in French

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2020 in detail: the 2 first stages on Open Street Maps with a main role for Nice

While the full Tour de France 2020 race route will only be announced on 15 October and even though this website already provides you loads of informations about the Tour de France 2020 race route based on rumours, velowire.com now exclusively allows you to discover in detail the two stages which make up the Grand Départ of the 107th Tour de France in Nice, in detail on Open Street Maps.

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2020 in Nice - the detailed race route of the two first stages

The Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

This Tuesday the 33rd Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine will start in Niort. 5 stages in 4 days (of which one time trial on Thursday afternoon, after a short stage in line in the morning) for a total of about 660 kilometers will be waiting for the riders on the routes of the former Poitou-Charentes region!

Let's discover in detail the routes they'll take in this article, with the detailed maps developed by velowire.com for the race organisor and for this article :).

The Tour Poitou-Charentes 2019 en Nouvelle-Aquitaine race route on Open Street Maps

1/ Tuesday 27 August 2019 - Niort > Rochefort-sur-Mer - 188.9 km

The participants list of the Tour de France 2019 and their bib numbers

This Thursday, 22 teams of the Tour de France 2019 have been presented to the Brussels public on the Grand-Place in the capital of Belgium.

There will be no less than 30 nationalities at the start of this 106th edition of the Grande Boucle, for a total of 176 riders (8 per team).

France is the best represented country, with a total of 34 riders at the start (19%), followed by Belgium with 21 riders and Italy with 15 riders. The top 5 is completed by Spain with 11 riders and ex aequo for Germany and The Netherlands with each 11 riders.

Kazakhstan, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Argentinia, Russia, Latvia and Erythrea are the less well represented countries, with each only one rider in the peloton of the Tour.

Hereunder you'll find the complete list of participating riders for t ...

The Tour de France 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

Now we're getting closer to the start of the Tour de France 2019, as usual, velowire.com allows you to discover all the tiny details of the race route of the 106th edition of the Grande Boucle, with all the routes drawn on interactive maps with Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

With the information available in this publication, you'll get to know all the routes, the visited cities and villages and it will thus allow you to prepare your visit of the race if you're among one of the 12 million people watching the race on the side of the road, or simply better understand the race if you're not one of these happy "few"!

Some preliminary information ...

The Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

With the Tour of Italy behind us, it is now time to see the Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 start from the Cantal department and more precisely from the city Aurillac. This will be the 71th edition of this race which is considered by some riders as the ultimate preparation race for the Tour de France (the organisor of the race now by the way even uses the subtitle "on the way to the Tour de France by the way; others will prefer the Tour of Switzerland which will start on 15 June) and it is made up of 8 stages of which one will be an individual time trial (the 4th stage, in the middle of the week) for a total distance of 1202.1 kilometers.

Let's now look in detail the different stages of this Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 with the race routes ...

The Tour of Italy 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

Tomorrow, on Saturday 11 May 2019, the Giro d'Italia 2019 will start in Bologna with an individual time trial. The 102th edition of the Tour of Italy, which celebrates in 2019 its 110th anniversary, is made up of 21 stages of which three will be individual time trials (the 1st, 9th and 21st stage) for a total distance of 3,576.8 kilometers. 7 stages will have a mountain top finish while 5 stages will take place in the higher mountains and 7 in the medium mountains.

Let's now look in detail all stages of this Tour of Italy 2019 with the maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

The Giro d'Italia 2019 race route on Open Street Maps

1/ Saturday 11 May 2019 - Bologna > Bologna - individual time trial - 8 km