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The Tour de France and all related aspects ... information about the Tour de France history, the upcoming Tour de France editions, things you always wanted to know but never discovered before about the Tour de France and a lot more ...

Added: tuesday 14 April 2020 at 12:41:00
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?
Several answers to this question!

First of all because the initial dates won't work anymore. The Tour de France 2020 was planned to have its Grand Départ in Nice on Saturday 27 June 2020, preceded by the usual programme of pre-race operations starting on Wednesday 24 June 2020 with the opening of the Perma ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2020
Added: monday 14 October 2019 at 18:20:00
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

article publié initialement le 15 septembre 2019 à 17h41, mis à jour le 15 septembre à 20h56, le 16 septembre à 10h03 et à 19h06, le 18 septembre à 21h04, le 20 septembre à 17h37, le 22 septembre à 23h20, le 24 septembre à 11h00, à 12h18 et à 18h11, le 30 septembre à 23h03, le 1er octobre à 17h05, le 3 octobre à 11h11 et à 12h46, le 7 octobre à 11h18 et à 19h50, le 8 octobre à 22h50, le 9 octobre à 22h54, le 12 octobre à 19h09 et le 14 octobre à 13h05 et à 18h20

Alors que l'annonce officielle n'aura lieu que le mardi 15 octobre prochain au Palais des Congrès à Paris, événement au cours duquel Christian Prudhomme présentera les villes départ et arrivée, les difficultés et les grandes lignes du parcours, vous avez l'habitude de retrouver ici en septembre/octobre les premières rumeurs sur le parcours du ...
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Added: saturday 05 October 2019 at 20:58:00
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 programme of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2020 starts right from Wednesday 24 June 2020 when the permanence and press center open in the P ...
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Added: friday 05 July 2019 at 1:58:01
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 ...
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Added: saturday 29 June 2019 at 0:16:00
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 ...
Let's start with some elements you should take into account before you discover in detail all the stages of the ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: saturday 23 March 2019 at 21:30:00
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 UCI WorldTeams, a total of 18 teams, are invited by default to participate in the Tour de France. This year, the teams which were sure to participate thus are: ...
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Added: wednesday 20 February 2019 at 22:03:00
The Tour de France will start in Copenhagen in Denmark, ~~but when?~~ in 2021
initially published on Monday 20 June 2016 at 9.50PM, updated on 25 January 2017 at 7.30PM and on 20 February 2019 at 10.03PM
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.

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Added: tuesday 01 January 2019 at 17:29:00
The race route of the first stages of the Tour de France 2019 on Open Street Maps/Google Earth
As usual, we'll have to wait until June before we get to know all the details about the race route of the different stages of the Tour de France 2019. Well, that is .. not for all of them, because the race route of the two stages which make up the Grand Départ of the 106th Tour, in Brussels in Belgium, is already known now!

You might have beebn waiting for it since the official announcement of the Tour de France 2019 stages, the maps with the detailed race route of the first Tour de France 2019 stages are finally available here!
The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2019
Brussels, in Belgium, will receive the ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: tuesday 23 October 2018 at 22:04:00
Tour de France 2019: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities!
initially published on 24 September at 1.28AM, updated on 25 September at 11.14PM, 1st of October at 4.10PM and 2 October at 11.53PM, 3 October at 9.11AM, 5 October at 0.31AM, 7 October at 7.58PM, 14 October at 7.03PM, on 17 October at 10.14PM, on 20 October at 3.17PM and on 23 October at 10.05AM and at 10.04PM
While the official announcement will only take place on Thursday 25 October in the Palais des Congrès in Paris, you know that velowire.com is your place to be if you want to find the first rumours about the race route of the Tour de France to come, in this case the Tour de France 2019 which will take place from Saturday 6 July till Sunday 28 July 2019. Even though it's a bit later than usual, we keep up with these good habits to discover, over the next few days and weeks, in this article the whole r ...
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Added: friday 06 July 2018 at 18:59:00
The participants list of the Tour de France 2018 and their bib numbers
Tomorrow the Tour de France 2018 will start in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, the start of a 23 days adventure with 21 stages for 176 riders (you can find the detailed race route here).

Less riders than usual, 22 less to be precise, because the number of riders per team has been reduced from 9 to 8.

Team Sky
Chris Froome, last year's winner, will finally be at the start of the race, despite the refusal from A.S.O. to see the British rider start in the race, because of the ongoing investigation about him. Indeed, since the UCI received the green light from AMA concerning ...
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Coronavirus: the Tour de France 2020 to be rescheduled, but when? - from 29 August till 20 September

Why should the Tour de France 2020 be rescheduled?

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

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

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

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

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

Some preliminary information ...

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

The 18 UCI WorldTeams

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

Copenhagen's proposal

The race route of the first stages of the Tour de France 2019 on Open Street Maps/Google Earth

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2019

Tour de France 2019: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities!

The participants list of the Tour de France 2018 and their bib numbers

Team Sky