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The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy! And the finish with a time trial Monaco > Nice!

The Tour de France 2023 race route has been presented: the Tour of all mountain areas!

Without much surprises if you have followed the search for the Tour de France 2023 race route on this website in the past few weeks, the 110th edition of the Grande Boucle will take place on a rather limited part of France after the Grand Départ in Bilbao and in the rest of the Spanish Bask country, but it does visit all French mountain areas.

Indeed, after the Grand Départ and a visit of the Pyrenees, the race will go up north up till Bordeaux before taking off, via Limoges, towards the Massif Central followed by the Jura to get to the Alps where the race will camp for several days before getting back on its steps, visit another part of the Jura and end off in the Vosges before the transfer towards Paris. Only one time trial, not without any difficulties, of 22 kilometers will be on the programme of this Tour!

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Tour de France 2023: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities

The Tour of all the mountain areas!

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2023 in the Basque country: detailed maps on Open Street Maps

While the Tour de France 2022 is doing its transfer from Denmark to France this Monday 4 July 2022, let's look one year ahead, towards the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2023.

When the choice of the Bask Country was announced for this much more southern start than the most northern start in the history of the Tour de France which we just had in Denmark and in Copenhagen for the 109th edition this year, I didn't find the time to publish an article with this information and as a gift to make up for this delay is thus made up of the detailed maps with the race routes of the 3 Bask stages (only the start and first part of the last stage) which will mark the start of this 110th edition of the Tour!

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The participants list of the Tour de France 2022 and the start order and -times for the initial time trial on Friday 1 July

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

The Tour de France 2022 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

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!

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Team Jumbo-Visma presents an original jersey for the Tour de France 2022: The Masterpiece

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!

Why a specific team shirt?

The 22 teams which will participate in the Tour de France 2022

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

The Tour de France 2022 has officially been presented: an original and definitely international 'Grande Boucle'!

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.


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Tour de France 2022: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities