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Added: friday 25 June 2021 at 20:39:00
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.

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Added: monday 21 June 2021 at 1:05:00
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.

Publication initiale le 26 mai 2021 à 8h58, mis à jour et totalement terminé le 21 juin 2021 à 01h05.

Alors que le Giro d'Italia 2021 n'est même pas encore terminé au moment de la première publication de cet article, et avant même que les informations concernant le parcours des étapes soient publiées officiellement par l'organisation, velowire.com vous propose de découvrir en détail le parcours de cette 108ème édition de la Grande Boucle, du moins en ce qui concerne les 5 premières étapes dans un premier temps. Vous trouverez ainsi des cartes Open Street Maps/Google Earth du Tour de France 2021, qui seront ...
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Added: monday 02 November 2020 at 22:35:00
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
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Added: sunday 01 November 2020 at 12:02:00
Tour de France 2021: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities
initially published on 7 October at 11.20PM, updated on 8 October at 9.26AM, on 9 October at 6PM, on 13 October at 11.23PM, on 14 October at 9.21PM, on 17 October at 2.04AM, on 20 October at 10.06PM, on 21 October at 10.13PM, on 22 October at 11.02PM, on 25 October at 9.50PM, on 26 October at 10AM, on 27 October at 10.24AM and at 6.40PM, on 28 October at 8.27AM and at 12.11PM, on 29 October at 9.30PM, on 30 October at 11.52PM and on 1 November at 12.02PM

Is it possible that Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organisor of the Tour de France, really does everything to prevent me from finding the Tour de France 2021 race route based on the rumours? Going as far as organising the Tour de France 2020 in September right in the middle of the usual timespan in which the race route starts to build up in the publication which is now usual on velowire.com where you can find the rumours about next year's Tour de France race route since 2007?

Going as far ...
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Added: tuesday 25 August 2020 at 2:19:00
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 ...
Some first pr ...
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Added: monday 10 August 2020 at 17:50:00
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
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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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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.

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