The route of several cycling races precisely drawn in Google Maps with a possibility to download and view it in Google Earth (including the possibility to do a virtual fly-over of the route)!
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!
While the French cycling season is starting up again in March (after some first races in February) Paris-Nice or "the race to the sun" is on the programme starting this Sunday 8 and going on until Sunday 15 March 2020. 8 stages, including one individual time trial halfway the week, will bring the 136 riders of 17 teams from Plaisir to Nice in about 1220 kilometers traveling all the way from Paris down to the south of France.
As usual, velowire.com allows you to discover the race route on extremely detailed maps, based on Open Street Maps but also available for download in Google Earth, so you can do - if you want to - a virtual fly-over on one or several stages of Paris-Nice 2020.
The organisation of Paris-Nice is a bit disturbed this year due to the COVID19 / coronavirus health situation. Therefore, several mesures will be taken in order to limit the propagation risk of the virus related to the race. For ...
This Tuesday the 33rd Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine will start in Niort. 5 stages in 4 days (of which one time trial on Thursday afternoon, after a short stage in line in the morning) for a total of about 660 kilometers will be waiting for the riders on the routes of the former Poitou-Charentes region!
Let's discover in detail the routes they'll take in this article, with the detailed maps developed by velowire.com for the race organisor and for this article :).
The Tour Poitou-Charentes 2019 en Nouvelle-Aquitaine race route on Open Street Maps
1/ Tuesday 27 August 2019 - Niort > Rochefort-sur-Mer - 188.9 km
The first stage of this "TPC" will start at the Acclameur, concert and conference hall, in Niort. After the start the riders will first go off north until Château-Bourdin before going back down south turning around Niort on the west s ...> Read the whole story | no comments | shown 11362x
Now we're getting closer to the start of the Tour de France 2019, as usual, velowire.com allows you to discover all the tiny details of the race route of the 106th edition of the Grande Boucle, with all the routes drawn on interactive maps with Open Street Maps/Google Earth.
With the information available in this publication, you'll get to know all the routes, the visited cities and villages and it will thus allow you to prepare your visit of the race if you're among one of the 12 million people watching the race on the side of the road, or simply better understand the race if you're not one of these happy "few"!
Some preliminary information ...
Let's start with some elements you should take into account before you discover in detail all the stages of the ...> Read the whole story | 29 comments | shown 39265x
With the Tour of Italy behind us, it is now time to see the Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 start from the Cantal department and more precisely from the city Aurillac. This will be the 71th edition of this race which is considered by some riders as the ultimate preparation race for the Tour de France (the organisor of the race now by the way even uses the subtitle "on the way to the Tour de France by the way; others will prefer the Tour of Switzerland which will start on 15 June) and it is made up of 8 stages of which one will be an individual time trial (the 4th stage, in the middle of the week) for a total distance of 1202.1 kilometers.
Let's now look in detail the different stages of this Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 with the race routes ...
Tomorrow, on Saturday 11 May 2019, the Giro d'Italia 2019 will start in Bologna with an individual time trial. The 102th edition of the Tour of Italy, which celebrates in 2019 its 110th anniversary, is made up of 21 stages of which three will be individual time trials (the 1st, 9th and 21st stage) for a total distance of 3,576.8 kilometers. 7 stages will have a mountain top finish while 5 stages will take place in the higher mountains and 7 in the medium mountains.
The Giro d'Italia 2019 race route on Open Street Maps
1/ Saturday 11 May 2019 - Bologna > Bologna - individual time trial - 8 kmThe first stage of this Tour of Italy 2019 is a timed races in the streets of the city ...> Read the whole story | 4 comments | shown 10511x
This Sunday, the only Dutch classic, the Amstel Gold Race, will take place between Maastricht and ... the Rijksweg in Vilt. Indeed, since 2013, the finish is no longer on top of the Cauberg in Valkenburg but at the same location as where the finish of the 2012 World Championships races was.
The Amstel Gold Race 2019 - which will be the 54th edition - race route is a bit different from last year, especially for the final lap, but the race still has all its climbs, 35 to be precise, which allows it to be a UCI WorldTour race (in 2011 it went up from 31 to 32 and in 2012 back down to 31, before going up to 34 in 2013 and now thus 35 since 2017). In this article you'll find the time- and route schedule and the race route on Open Street Maps (similar to Google M ...
The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2019, will take this Sunday. For the 117th edition of the race, the organisor chose to slightly modify last year's race route: the start is a bit different, but this time also the 6 first cobble stones sections, between Troisvilles and Verchain-Maugré. The number of sections however remain the same (29) and there will still be a total distance of 54.5 kilometers of cobbles. The total distance of the race also remains the same, 257 kilometers.
In the Hell of the North a small problem can however come disturb a rider's race, while others can be lucky. Nothing's thus defined beforehand and it'll be this Sunday on the cobbles that we'll see who manges to win the race ... which doesn't have a big favourite this year!
The 29 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix 2019
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The 77th edition of Paris-Nice which starts this Sunday is made up of 8 stages (of which 1 time trial) for a total distance of 1,207.5 km visiting a total of 11 departments (the Gard department is the one which benefits of the shortest visit of only a few kilometers during the time trial on Thursday) and containing no less than 24 climbs, including the Col de Turini on the queen stage on Saturday.
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!