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Blog - Tour de France 2015

All information about the Tour de France 2015

Added: tuesday 21 July 2015 at 16:07:09
The climb of the Lacets de Montvernier in video - 18th stage of the Tour de France 2015
You must have heard about the Lacets de Montvernier already. Since the Tour de France 2015 race route has been announced, we've seen the nice images of these 17 hairpins which form the climb from Pontamafrey towards Montvernier almost everywhere around the world.

What we've seen less however, is the route itself which the riders will take while following these different hairpins.

On Kinomap, we found a video by Florent Ligney, a passionate cyclist who talks about his training and the competitions he participates in on his blog, of this climb. Let's thus discover the Lacets du Montvernier as the riders of the Tour will see them this Thursday at 10 kilometers from the finish in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.

Before they'll get there, the riders of the Tour will have done ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015| Kinomap
Added: monday 13 July 2015 at 16:33:00
The first ever climb of La Pierre-Saint-Martin in the Tour de France 2015 in video!
After today's rest day in Pau, the Tour de France 2015 will go on tomorrow, with the first mountain stage. It will take place in the Pyrenees, between Tarbes and La Pierre-Saint-Martin. For La Pierre-Saint-Martin, it'll be the very first time it receives the Tour de France and it's thus not surprising that this finish was being asked for for years now.

The stage will have three 4th category climbs which precede the final climb (see the race route in detail) but it's the mountain top finish which will have a very big influence on the general classification and it might even decide the Tour tomorrow. ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015| Kinomap| Catching up with Jérémy Roy

Added: sunday 28 June 2015 at 11:20:00
The Tour de France 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, profiles and time- and route schedules
As usual, velowire.com allows you to discover all the details of the race route of this 102nd edition of the Grande Boucle, on Google Maps/Google Earth, at only a few days from the start of the Tour de France 2015.

With the informations in this article you'll get to know all small details, all cities and all towns visited by this Tour and this will allow you to prepare your visit to the race or simply help you to better understand it!
Some preliminary information ...
Some of you might have already discovered a Google Maps version of the race route maps published by the organisor of the Tour de France on the official website of the race.

velowire.com could thus have simply sent you over to that website or take over the maps published ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015| Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: tuesday 23 June 2015 at 18:58:00
The Tour de France 2015 time trial in Utrecht on video!
Are you impatiently waiting for the start of the Tour de France 2015 on 4 July? In that case you most probably know that it'll start with an individual time trial of 13.8 kilometers in the city of the Grand Départ, Utrecht in The Netherlands.

If you don't know Utrecht, or if you'd like to know all the details of the race route the riders of the Tour will follow on Saturday 4 July, you've came to the right page! Indeed, in this article you'll find the race route of this time trial on video and ... in case you're in The Netherlands for the Tour (or if you're using Kinomap Trainer!), you can even do this almost completely flat track yourself, in my wheel!
The time trial race route in Utrecht double filmed!
A few weeks ago I went to Utrecht, to climb on my bike at 6AM! Uhm, yes, in order to show you the race route in the best ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015| Kinomap| Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: wednesday 17 June 2015 at 21:43:00
News from the sponsors of the Tour de France 2015
Only 2 and a half weeks left until the start of the Tour de France 2015 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The city of Utrecht and its mascotte Miffy (Nijntje in Dutch) are ready to receive the Tour de France since several weeks now, as I discovered myself when I was there a few weeks ago: see the photos I took in Utrecht.

The sponsors of the Tour are also getting ready and thus send out information about their different actions around the Tour. From the first electrical car in the caravan of the Tour de France to the new white and green jerseys, via the Tour on Strava with Powerbar, this article will provide you the latest informations from the different sponsors.

Hereunder, the sponsors have been presented in ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015| Marketing
Added: wednesday 18 March 2015 at 23:31:00
Changes in the sponsors of the Tour de France: what about the green jersey? And the white jersey?!
Like every year, there will be some changes in the sponsors of the Tour de France again this year. Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) already announced its partnership with Dimension Data just before Paris-Nice, but there will be quite some other changes. And the most awaited announcement was of course the one for the sponsor of the green jersey since the moment PMU announced it would stop sponsoring it.

And since we're talking about the green jersey ... we'll also have to talk about the white jersey! Find out why below!
The musical chairs of the jerseys
We already knew it before the Tour de France 2014 arrived back in Paris: PMU would no longer figure on the green jersey of the Tour d ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015| Marketing
Added: wednesday 14 January 2015 at 23:20:00
The teams selection for Paris-Nice, the Critérium du Dauphiné and the Tour announced: MTN-Qhubeka will be there!
... and some quotes from MTN-Qhubeka, Bora-Argon 18 and Bretagne-Séché Environnement
In 53, 144 and 171 days, Paris-Nice 2015 and respectively the Critérium du Dauphiné 2015 and the Tour de France 2015 will start (Paris-Nice in Maurepas, the Tour de France in Utrecht in The Netherlands).

This Wednesday the different teams selected to participate in these UCI WorldTour races have been announced and the big news is that ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015| Paris-Nice| Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré| Paris-Nice 2015| Critérium du Dauphiné 2015
Added: wednesday 22 October 2014 at 23:59:00
The Tour de France 2015 race route presented: a particular profile for the Grande Boucle
Today, at 255 days from the start*, the race route of the Tour de France 2015, 102th edition of the Grande Boucle, was officially presented. Without a real surprise as it comes to the stage cities which had already been anounced in the rumours about the race route, the official announcement confirms the surprise as it comes to the general profile of the race.

Very few kilometers of individual time trial, a first half on flat roads, a team time trial in the 9th stage (!), very few long stages and 10 days in the mountains to finish it all off are the elements which describe best this Tour ...

* an information which was found in the page dedicated to the Tour de France 201 ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015

Added: tuesday 21 October 2014 at 12:20:00

Tour de France 2015: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities!

initially published on 8 September 2014 at 11.55PM, updated on 9 September at 9.00AM and at 9.55PM, on 10 September at 11.30PM, on 18 September at 8.30AM, on 20 September at 10.00PM, on 22 September at 9.00AM, on 24 September at 11.55PM, on 25 September at 1.00PM and at 10.50PM, on 1 October at 9.00AM and at 11.00PM, on 2 October at 11.30PM, on 9 October at 5.15PM, on 11 October at 1.45PM and at 11.55PM, on 16 October at 9.00AM, on 17 October at 8.30PM, on 19 October at 8.00PM, on 20 October at 8.45AM and at 9.30PM and on 21 October at 12.20PM

While the official announcement will only be done on Wednesday 22 October in the Palais des Congrès in Paris, you probably know by now that every year early September you can find the first rumours about the upcoming Tour de France race route here, in this case for the ...

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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015

Added: saturday 24 May 2014 at 17:43:00

The Tour de France via Neeltje Jans and Antwerp in 2015!

During the World Ports Classic 2014 where the first stage was won today in Antwerp by André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol), the organisor of this Belgian/Dutch race (A.S.O.), which is also the organisor of the Tour de France, announced some further information about what will follow after the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2015 which was presented in November 2013.

We thus now know the place where the second stage will finish and also the city where the 3rd stage will start.

Neeltje Jans and Antwerp

After the opening time trial of the Tour de France 2015 starting and finishing in ...

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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015

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Blog - Tour de France 2015

Some preliminary information ...

The time trial race route in Utrecht double filmed!

The musical chairs of the jerseys

... and some quotes from MTN-Qhubeka, Bora-Argon 18 and Bretagne-Séché Environnement

Neeltje Jans and Antwerp