Blog - Tour de France

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 25 September 2018 at 23:14:00
Tour de France 2019: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities!
initialement publié le 24 septembre à 1h28, mis à jour le 25 septembre à 23h14
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 race route of the 106th edition of the Tour!

In this article you'll sometimes find mentions of rumours which might develop further or become obsolete later on but on the map at the bottom you'll only find the stage which really ...
> Read the whole story | 24 comments | shown 8182x

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 ...
> Read the whole story | 3 comments | shown 3911x

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:
- ...
> Read the whole story | 10 comments | shown 22701x

this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018| 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, ...
> Read the whole story | 2 comments | shown 4632x

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. ...
> Read the whole story | 7 comments | shown 11257x

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 ...
> Read the whole story | 2 comments | shown 5457x

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
As usual, let' ...
> Read the whole story | 63 comments | shown 29509x

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!

In this artic ...
> Read the whole story | 892 comments | shown 194778x

this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018
Added: saturday 22 July 2017 at 9:41:46
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!

Click on the images to open them:

...
> Read the whole story | 1 comment | shown 11255x

this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2017
Added: friday 30 June 2017 at 19:00:00
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 most well represented countries starting in the Tour de France 2017 are France with 39 riders, Italy with 18, Belgium with 16 and Germany also with 16 riders.

The most experimented rider is French and his name is Sylvain Chavanel (Direct Energie), who will start the Tour for the 17th time. The youngest rider is French as well, his name is Elie Gesbert (Fortuneo-Oscaro), and he is 22!
The liste of participating riders for each team, with their bib numbers
Here's the complete list of participating riders:< ...
> Read the whole story | 4 comments | shown 14764x

this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2017
older items