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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

Paris-Roubaix 2019: its race route, its cobble stones sections and other details of the Hell of the North

The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2019, will take this Sunday. For the 117th edition of the race, the organisor chose to slightly modify last year's race route: the start is a bit different, but this time also the 6 first cobble stones sections, between Troisvilles and Verchain-Maugré. The number of sections however remain the same (29) and there will still be a total distance of 54.5 kilometers of cobbles. The total distance of the race also remains the same, 257 kilometers.

In the Hell of the North a small problem can however come disturb a rider's race, while others can be lucky. Nothing's thus defined beforehand and it'll be this Sunday on the cobbles that we'll see who manges to win the race ... which doesn't have a big favourite this year!

The 29 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix 2019

The last wildcards have been announced, here are the teams which will participate in the Tour de France 2019

While Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) already announced the participation of a Belgian team (Wanty-Groupe Gobert) and a French team (Cofidis, solutions crédits) next to the 18 UCI WorldTeams on 10 January, the organisor of the Tour de France yesterday announced the last two wildcards concerning the participation in the Tour de France 2019 which will start in Brussels in 106 days (on Saturday 6 July 2019).

Find out which are the 22 teams which will participate in this 106th edition of the Grande Boucle.

The 18 UCI WorldTeams

The Paris-Nice 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

The 77th edition of Paris-Nice which starts this Sunday is made up of 8 stages (of which 1 time trial) for a total distance of 1,207.5 km visiting a total of 11 departments (the Gard department is the one which benefits of the shortest visit of only a few kilometers during the time trial on Thursday) and containing no less than 24 climbs, including the Col de Turini on the queen stage on Saturday.

In this article, you'll find the usual presentation of the Paris-Nice 2019 race route with maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

Let's now have a detailed look on the 8 stages of this Paris-Nice:

1/ Sunday 10 March 2019 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye > Saint-Germain-en-Laye - 138.5 km

The Tour de France will start in Copenhagen in Denmark, but when? in 2021

Copenhagen's proposal