Blog - Tour de France 2017

The start order and times for the individual time trial of the Tour de France 2017 in Marseille

The forelast stage of the Tour de France 2017 will take place today in the streets of Marseille, as an individual time trial with start and finish in the Orange Vélodrome in the center of the city (see the race route in Google Maps).

There should be 167 riders at the start of this forelast stage of the 104th edition of the Grande Boucle and yoy can find their start order and -times for each of these riders below!

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The participants list of the Tour de France 2017 and their bib numbers

Tomorrow the Tour de France 2017 will start in Düsseldorf in Germany for 3,516 kilometers towards Paris where the final stage will finish on Sunday 23 July 2017.

198 riders will come to the start, with no less than 49 of them participating in the Tour for the very first time!

Some numbers

The liste of participating riders for each team, with their bib numbers

The Tour de France 2017 race route in Google Maps/Google Earth

As usual, velowire.com allows you to discover in detail the race route of this 104th edition of the Grande Boucle, on Google Maps/Google Earth at one week before the start of the Tour de France 2017.

With the informations from this article you'll know all the tiny details, all cities and villages the Tour will visit and you'll thus be able to prepare your trip to the race if you're one of the 12 million spectators on the side of the road, or simply be able to follow the race in a better way if you're not!

Some information first ...

Team selections for the WorldTour races in France - A.S.O. (Tour de France, Paris-Nice and Critérium du Dauphiné) and in Italy - RCS (Giro d'Italia, Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico and Milano-Sanremo)

The 2017 cycling season is alive and kicking already and there have already been 4 UCI WorldTour* races this year and there are still 34 to come.

As you know, the UCI WorldTour races can invite, in addition to the 18 UCI WorldTeams, other continental pro teams, with a so called wildcard. And all those races of course do that to come up with a nice and dense peloton starting in all of the races.

The French (organised by A.S.O.) and Italian races (organised by RCS Sport) have already announced which teams they invited this year and hereunder you'll find the list for each of them.

* yes indeed, in addition to the Santos Tour Down Under, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race is now the second Australian race on this prestigious calendar, and the Abu Dhabi Tour the third one, despite the fact that for the ...

The Tour de France 2017 race route presented: twice the Alps, the intermediate mountains honored!

Early afternoon, in the Palais des Congrès in Paris, this Tuesday 18 October 2016 the Tour de France 2017 race route was officially announced. Not only you could follow it live on velowire.com, but you have also discovered it before the official announcement in the rumours about the Tour de France 2017 race route.

As predicted, the intermediate mountains (Vosges, Jura and Massif Central) are honoured, just like the Alps which see double with a first visit in Chambéry, followed by a transfer and a descente towards the Pyrenees followed by transition stages back to the Alps. The Tour will still end in Paris, but we'll get to know who's the winner of this 104th edition of the Grande Boucle in Marseille, since that's where the time trial the day before ...

Tour de France 2017: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities!

The race route of the first stages of the Tour de France 2017 on Google Maps

While we're at only two days from the presentation of the Tour de France 2017 race route, which you of course already discovered at velowire.com based on the rumours, I now offer you the opportunity to watch closer in detail the two first stages of this 104th edition of the Grande Boucle, with the first stage completely and the first part of the second stage.

The race route of the individual time trial and of the first part of the 2nd stage of the Tour de France 2017

It's now official: Düsseldorf will have the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017!

The rumours were quite present already since London announced it withdraw for the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017: Düsseldorf had the biggest chances to win it, as you could read in the article The Tour de France 2017 is being worked on already: the Grand Départ in Düsseldorf (Germany)? on 24 November.

Today it's finally official and the details will be announced in January ...

The official announcement of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017 in Düsseldorf (Germany)

The Tour de France 2017 is being worked on already: the Grand Départ in Düsseldorf (Germany)?

It was the news of the day on Monday 28 September: London had said "no" to the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017! We knew that there were different candidates in Germany and the city Düsseldorf voted a bit less than 3 weeks ago for the organisation of the Grand Départ of the 104th edition of the Grande Boucle.

The official announcement of the location of the Grand Départ has still not been done however, but that's quite normal, for 2016 the Grand Départ in the Manche department was only announced on 24 November as well.

Other cities are willing to organise this same Grand Départ ... or one of the next ones!

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017 in Düsseldorf (Germany)?