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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: 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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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2021
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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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019
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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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018
Added: monday 02 July 2018 at 23:50:00
The Tour de France 2018 race route in Google Maps/Google Earth, time- and route schedules and stage profiles
As usual, velowire.com offers you the detail of the race route of the 105th edition of the "Grande Boucle", with all the routes on Google Maps/Google Earth, at a little bit less than one week of the start of the Tour de France 2018.

With all the information you find in this article you'll know all small details, all cities and villages which will be visited by this Tour and it'll thus allow you to prepare your visit on the roads of the Tour if you get the chance to be part of the 12 millions of spectators on the side of the road, or simply get a better understanding of the race if you're not there!
A little bit of information ...
Let's first precise some information before we get to the details of all Tour de France 2018 stages:
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: monday 12 March 2018 at 22:34:00
The Tour de France 2020 will have its Grand Départ in Nice
The day after the finish of Paris-Nice 2018 in Nice, Amaury Sport Organisation, the organisor of Paris-Nice and of the Tour de France, has officially announced that the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2020 will take place in the same city in the south of France and in the cities of its metropolis Nice Côte d'Azur (49 cities and towns).
The "Grande Boucle" turns back to Nice 7 years after its last visit, for its 2nd "Grand Départ"!
It was already 7 years ago that the Tour de France stopped in Nice. A stop with a team time trial (won by the Orica-GreenEDGE team, ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2020
Added: wednesday 27 December 2017 at 21:07:00
A stage in line and a team time trial for the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2019 in Brussels?
On 22 May 2014, velowire.com already mentioned a possible Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2019 in Brussels, as a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the first out of 5 overall victories in the Tour de France for Eddy Merckx. On 30 May this year, the organisor of the Tour, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), finally officially announced this Grand Départ, 100 years after the creation of the Yellow Jersey* and 61 years after the first Grand Départ of the Belgian capital.
Eddy Merckx: present or not?
The Cannibal himself already declared at that time that he would assist to this event if I'm still there in 2019 and in the end, he might be absent for another reason at this Grand Départ which will be dedicated to him. ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019
Added: tuesday 26 December 2017 at 20:46:00
The UCI WorldTeams (UCI WorldTour) for 2018 and the other teams
The year is about to come to and end. That seems to be the perfect moment to catch up with the UCI's decisions about the registration of the UCI WorldTeams for 2018, the teams which will participate in all UCI WorldTour races. At the same time we'll have a look at the second division teams, the Pro Continental teams.
The 18 UCI WorldTeams for 2018
For the 18 UCI WorldTeams there are no changes between 2017 and 2018, except for some name changes.

Therefore, we'll seize the opportunity to give you a look at the 2018 team kits for the different top level teams! Here's the full list (the teams indicated with a star * are the teams which were submitted to validation by the licence committee, either because they didn't fulfill all the criteria or because their UCI WorldTeam licence expired at the end of 2017; you can have a look at ...
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this article appears in the following categories: UCI ProTour| Tour de France| Giro d Italia| Vuelta a España
Added: wednesday 18 October 2017 at 1:00:00
The Tour de France 2018 race route has been presented: food for recognition!
On Tuesday 17 October afternoon the Tour de France 2018 race route was officially presented at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, in front of numerous high profile cyclists from France and abroad and after having awarded the "Vélo d'Or 2017" to Chris Froome (Team Sky)!

A race route without any surprises in terms of start and finish cities for those of you who have followed the rumours about the Tour 2018 race route here, but it does contain numerous new things wrapped up in a historical packaging. This spring we'll thus most probably see several famous riders do some recognition rides at the new locations in order to prepare their participation in the 105th edition of the Grande Boucle!
The numbers of the Tour de France 2018
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018
Added: monday 16 October 2017 at 22:32:00
Tour de France 2018: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities!
initially published on 9 September 2017 at 7.51PM, updated on 27 September at 7.42PM and on 5 October at 0.41AM, 8 October at 0.23AM, 9 October at 10.55PM, 13 October at 1.39PM, 14 October at 10.45PM and 16 October at 9AM, at 5.58PM and at 10.32PM

While the official announcement will only take place on Tuesday 17 October in the Palais des Congrès in Paris, you're probably used now to find here on velowire.com early September the first rumours about the race route of the upcoming Tour de France, in this case for the Tour de France 2018 which will take place from Saturday 7 July till Sunday 29 July 2018. And in order not to lose our good habits, we'll discover little by little over the next few days and weeks in this article the whole race route of the 105th edition of the Tour!

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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018
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