This Friday 1st of July, the Tour de France 2022 starts in the streets of Copenhagen in Denmark, with an initial time trial of 13.2 kilometers, on a city track which gets quite technical.
If there's no further last minute surprises, 176 riders (22 teams of 8 riders) will come to the start of this 109th edition of the Tour de France.
In this article, you'll find the complete list of these riders, as well as their start order and -times for the initial time trial in the streets of Copenhagen.
The Tour de France 2022 participants list
Positive Covid-19 tests have had some impact on the peloton of the Tour de France 2022 even before the start, with some luck for the brand new French Champion Florian Sénéchal (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl ...> Read the whole story | 5 comments | shown 10966x
The month of July is about to start and with that also the 109th edition of the Grande Boucle. As usual, velowire.com allows you to consult the race route maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth of the Tour de France 2022, with all the details, but also the official time- and route schedules and the stage profiles of each of the stages, and finally a KMZ file which can be opened in Google Earth to see this Grand Tour as a whole or to do a virtual fly-over of one or more of the stages.
With the information in this article you'll be able to know all cities and all towns which will be visited by this Tour and you'll thus be able to prepare your visit of the race if you're one of the spectators on the side of the road or simply to better understand the race if you're not there!
Every year, the Dutch Team Jumbo-Visma needs to wear a special team shirt during the Tour de France. The usual team shirt, yellow with black accents, is indeed too similar to the Yellow jersey worn by the leader of the general classifications and during the French Grand Tour a solution thus needs to be found in the form of a specific team jersey.
The team could have simply develop a specific team shirt and wear that every year for the Tour, but instead of that, the team chose for a surprise and originality in every edition of the Grande Boucle. Let's no longer wait to have a look at how Primož Roglič, Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard and their team mates will be recognisable on the Tour de France 2022 roads: thanks to The Masterpiece!
In the past week, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) has announced the selection of teams which will participate in the Tour de France 2022 which will start in Copenhagen in Denmark on Friday 1 July.
While the announcement was expected, it finally of course only really concerned 2 teams because that's the only margin which remains for the organisor to make his choice among the candidate teams for participation in the Tour de France. And A.S.O. decided to choose two French teams for those final wildcards!
The selection procedure of the teams for the Tour de France 2022
Indeed, the maximum number of participating teams is decided by the International Cycling Union (UCI) and is currently fixed at 22. This organisation which governs the cycling sport also details further rules among those 22 teams which can participate in t ...> Read the whole story | 3 comments | shown 20230x
As usual, you've been able to discover it little by little since over one month already, through the rumours - which were at 98% correct this time - but on Thursday morning, in the Palais des Congrès in Paris (which rediscovered this anual event after having been cancelled and replaced by a TV broadcast last year), the Tour de France 2022 race route was officially announced.
And what it turns out to be is what could be guessed already when the race route was still at a rumour level, even though they've been quiet for quite some time on the Pyrenean programme this year.
Indeed, this Tour will be one with some original stuff, a very international Tour with no less than 4 countries being visited and a rather mountaineous Tour with no less than 5 moun ...
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It's early September, it's thus really time to get a closer look to the rumours on the Tour de France 2022 race route. We now know that the official presentation will take place on Thursday 14 October 2021 and we also know that the Grand Départ will take place in Denmark.
For what follows, Christian Prudhomme has confirmed that a visit of the Nord department was planned, and this was already a rumour which had become almost sure. After ...> Read the whole story | 503 comments | shown 190120x
Santini gets in the Grande Boucle .. after having provided the Tour of Spain before
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While she was commenting Paris-Tours on France Télévisions, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organisor of the Tour de France and starting next year also of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, announced that Marion Rousse becomes the director of this new feminin version of the race.
On RMC, Christian Prudhomme commented this announcement and also discussed the financial question of female races and thus necessarily the question about sponsors. And that gives us the occasion to talk about Le Coq Sportif as well .. or rather about its removal as a sponsor of the Tour, in a difficult financial context for the French brand.
Marion Rousse, director of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift
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A press release from Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organisor of the Tour de France, announced tonight that the city of Copenhagen in Denmark became a candidate to receive the Grand Départ of the Tour, with a 3 days long programme.
Nothing's sure about whether this will become reality, but A.S.O. never before sent a press release about a candidate without making it happen in the end!
Copenhagen's proposal
The city of Copenhagen thus officially became a candidate, to organise the Grand Départ of the Tour de France somewhere between 2019 and 2021, in collaboration with its surrounding islands.