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The participants list of the Tour de France 2021

It's time already for the Tour de France 2021 tomorrow, which will start in Brest for a total of 3,414.4 kilometers up till the finish on the Champs-Elysées in Paris (click here to see the race route in detail). The Grand Départ covers the whole region of Brittany (Bretagne), with no less than 4 stages, each of which taking place in one of the departments of Brittany.

Hereunder you'll find the participants list for this 108th edition of the Tour de France: a total of 184 riders from 23 teams will get to the start in Brest.

Even though it's difficult to guess who will win a Grand Tour because of the fact that many things can h ...

The Tour de France 2021 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

This information is not yet available in English. You can read it in French below in the mean time.

The Tour of Italy 2021 on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

This publication is unfortunately not available in English. You can however read the French version below.

Le mois de mai 2021 est entamé et - avec un retour sur la programmation habituelle - on retrouve donc déjà le Tour d'Italie 2021, ou Giro d'Italia comme on dit en langue locale en Italie.

Le Giro d'Italia 2021 aura lieu du samedi 8 mai 2021 jusqu'au dimanche 30 mai 2021, sur une distance totale de 3479,9 km répartis sur 21 étapes différentes. Il s'agira de la 104e édition de ce Grand Tour italien. Regardons en détail l'ensemble des étapes de ce Tour d'Italie 2021 avec les cartes Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

Le parcours du Giro d'Italia 2021 sur Open Street Maps

1/ Torino (Turin) > Torino (Turin) - contre-l

The Tour de France 2021 race route has been presented: a Tour with less climbing but more transfers

It's been almost a month since you progressively discovered it through the rumours, but last night during a TV show dedicated to the Tour de France 2021 race route it has been officially presented. And it turns out that what already started to become clear in the rumours indeed becomes truth. Indeed, this Tour will be more classical, less mountaineous but filled up with quite important transfers between the stages!

Let's now have a look at all this more in detail.

The little details of the Tour de France 2021 race route: from Brest to Paris for the 108th edition

The Tour de France 2021 in numbers

Tour de France 2021: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities

The Tour de France 2020 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

As usual, velowire.com allows you to discover in detail the race route of this 107th edition of the Grande Boucle - an edition which is a bit particular in the current context related to the health crisis around the coronavirus / Covid-19, starting of course with the dates on which it takes place - on Open Street Maps/Google Earth now we're getting closer to the start of the Tour de France 2020.

With the informations in this article you'll get to know all the details, all cities and towns which are visited by the Tour and in this way you can either prepare your visit of the race if you're one of the many (but most probably lot less this year than usual) spectators on the side of the road, or simply to better understand the race if you're not there!

A little bit of initial information ...

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2021 will take place in Brittany, avec les premiers coups de pédale à Brest !

A follow-up of date changes following the health crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic led to a change in the place where the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2021 will take place. Next year, the Tour de France will thus not start in Copenhagen in Denmark as initially planned (being prepared since June 2016 and officially announced in February 2019) but in Brittany. The first kilometers of this 108th edition of the Grande Boucle will take place in Brest in the Finistère department.

The date changes which prevent the Tour to start in Copenhagen in 2021

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