Blog - Tour de France 2014

All information and rumours about the Tour de France 2014: from the Grand Départ to the race route and of course the participating teams and the selected riders! The Tour de France 2014 will take place from 5 until 27 July 2014.

Added: tuesday 24 October 2023 at 08:31:02
The Tour de France doesn't visit the whole of France? In fact it does, over time! - the historical map with the Tour de France parcours
Every time the route of the Tour de France is presented, the same comments are made in France, especially by residents of areas ignored by the upcoming edition: "The Tour never goes this way or that way."

But that's not quite true: even if there are areas that the Tour de France visits less often than others, all regions of France, and even all departements, have featured on the route of the Grande Boucle over the years.

Of course, this is easy to say but more difficult to verify, which is why velowire has created a map of the Tour de France routes over the last 16 years (2008-2023) on Open Street Maps. Every year, the complete route of the new edition of the Grande Boucle ...
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Added: friday 22 August 2014 at 23:14:00
A flashback on the Tour de France 2014 in photo and video
Just before the start of the Vuelta a España 2014, the Tour of Spain which will start this Saturday in Jerez de Frontera, I offer you the unique opportunity to do a visual flashback on the Tour de France 2014.

From a sports perspective it was a very nice Tour, a bit less from a weather perspective, but despite that there were numerous nombreuses to produce some nice images, both in photo and in video!

In this article you'll of course not find any video images of the race itself (sorry for that, if you expected to find that here) since they are exclusive to the official broadcasters of the Tour de France. However, you'll find photos, taken at the starts or the finishes of the stages and sometimes on the side of the road for certain stages and especially the individual time trial at the end of the Tour. You'll also find videos w ...
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Added: saturday 26 July 2014 at 00:25:00
The start order and times of the Tour de France 2014 time trial
The forelast stage of the Tour de France 2014, which will take place today, Saturday 26 July, will be an individual time trial between Bergerac and Périgueux.

Hereunder you'll find the list of participating riders for this race against the clock, but also the start times of the different riders (every 2 minutes for most of them and every 3 minutes for the last 10 riders).
Furthermore, you can discover the race route of this time trial in detail, on Google Maps, but also with a virtual fly-over in video!
The start order and times
The riders will, as usual, start in the reverse order of the general classification, starting at 10.51AM, for a race against the clock over 54 kilometers between Bergerac and Périgueux, on a slightly hilly route.

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Added: friday 04 July 2014 at 19:08:00
The Tour de France 2014 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and other details
As usual, velowire.com allows you to discover all details of the race route of this 101ème edition of the Grande Boucle, on Google Maps/Google Earth, and this time this exclusive content is already available at about two weeks from the start of the Tour de France 2014.

With the information in this article you'll get to know all details, all cities and all villages which will be visited by the Tour and it will thus allow you to prepare your visit if you go watch the race live or to simply better understand the race!
Some preliminary information ...
Some of you might have already discovered the race route on Google Maps as published by the organisor of the Tour de France on this official website of the race.

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Added: thursday 03 July 2014 at 19:58:00
All news about the sponsors and the advertising caravane of the Tour de France 2014
Due to a lack of time, this article has not been translated in English. Below you can find the French version which might provide you some interesting information anyway.

A quelques jours du départ du Tour de France 2014 il est grand temps de faire un petit tour d'horizon des partenaires du Tour et de la caravane publicitaire de cette 101ème édition de la Grande Boucle.

Quelques partenaires ont quitté la course après la 100ème édition, d'autres l'ont rejoint pour cette édition qui prendra son départ au Yorkshire ce samedi.
Les diffuseurs officiels
Pas de changements en ce qui concerne les diffuseurs officiels : on y trouve toujours France Télévisions (France 2 / France 3) qui diffusera cette année pas moins de 9 étapes en direct et en intégralité : les 3 premières étapes en Angleterre les 5, 6 et 7 juillet, mais également les étapes du 9 (Ypres > Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, ...
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Added: sunday 15 June 2014 at 23:02:00
Search notice: looking for Tour de France super fans who want to win a day in the Tour!
We now have less than 3 weeks to go before the Tour de France 2014 starts in Yorkshire, more precisely in Leeds. The riders of the Tour will thus ride on the roads of England, France and Belgium in order to connect Leeds to Paris in 3,663.5 kilometers.

Doing so, they'll come by huge numbers of fans, cyclign fans, Tour de France fans or in some cases even only fans of the advertising caravan which animates the roads of the Tour between one and two hours before the race! You'll thus be around 12 million to see the Tour come by on the side of the road!

But of course, there's fans .. and super fans! And ŠKODA is looking for the latter category on skodafantour.com!

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Added: sunday 09 February 2014 at 20:21:00
Looking back at the week: La Course by Le Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix 2014, ...
There was quite some news in the cycling world this week, like for example the announcement of La Course by Le Tour de France, a new women's race, the first informations about Paris-Roubaix 2014, but also the first edition of the Dubai Tour and the start of the cycling season in France for example.

In this article, we'll have a quick look at these different news items, in case you missed them or simply to allow you to comment them if you want to!
La Course by Le Tour de France: a very partial ... Le Tour Entier?
Last Saturday, ASO quite proudly announced a new women's race, La Course by Le Tour de France, of which the organisor already announces that the event is destined to become an iconic race in the women's calendar!

Do you remember the petition which was created in July 2013 under the name Le Tour Entier ...
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Added: friday 31 January 2014 at 08:49:00
The teams selection for the Tour de France 2014 has been announced - the comments!
This Tuesday, ASO, the organisor of the Tour de France and of several other major cycling races mainly in France, announced the teams selection for the Tour de France 2014 .. but also for Paris-Nice 2014 and the Critérium du Dauphiné 2014!

22 teams will participate in the Tour de France 2014, of which 4 by invitation. Among these 4 we find 2 French teams and 2 foreign teams.
The UCI ProTeams
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Added: tuesday 29 October 2013 at 22:30:00
Looking back at the 2014 Tour de France presentation
The official presentation of the Tour de France 2014 took place last Wednesday. Even though the race route was more or less without any surprises for us, it is always interesting to go back to the small details which are announced during this presentation. And that's exactly what I allow you to do in this article with several videos and photos!
The daily challenge in communications
The presentation started with an introduction by Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France and director of cycling with Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO).

Mentioning the different challenges which the Tour de France represents, the organisor of the Tour decided to put the challenge in telecommunications taken up by one of the sponsors of the Tour, ...
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Added: wednesday 23 October 2013 at 21:57:00
The Tour de France 2014 race route, original and international
A balanced Tour de France, between original start, cobble stones, 3 mountain areas (with a big Vosges accent, a short visit of the Alps and a big dose of Pyrenees) and only one time trial stage, that's how we can qualify the Tour de France 2014 race route.

Let's have a more detailed look ...
The Tour de France 2014 in digits
As usual, the race route of a Grand Tour can be presented in different ways and one of the interesting ways to look at it is the statistical aspect.

The riders who will come to the start of the Tour de France 2014 in Leeds in the Yorkshire (the 20th Grand Départ abroad since the first one in Amsterdam in The Netherlands in 1954, 60 years before this one thus) ...
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