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Added: Saturday 11 October 2025 at 16h13
The Paris-Tours 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, race profile and time- and route schedule ... and the participants list
One falling leaves classic can hide another. After the Tour of Lombardy, whose route you've been able to se here in detail, it's the turn of Paris-Tours this Sunday to see the classics riders try their luck at adding another line to their palmares in the final days of the season (there are still a few other races left, as the UCI cycling calendar, which has also recently been updated with information for 2026, can testify).

The finale of Paris-Tours 2025 has been slightly modified compared to 2024, but there will still be a long straight stretch to the finis ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Tours| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: Friday 10 October 2025 at 22h17
Tour de France 2026: the rumours and also what's sure about the race route and the stage cities of the 113th edition!
September is here, and so it's high time to turn our attention to the rumors about the route of the upcoming Tour de France, in this case the 113th edition, the Tour de France 2026! At the time of publication of the first version of this article, the number of rumors is still relatively low, and above all, many of them are not necessarily based on precise facts ... so I can only reiterate the wish that local newspaper journalists do real investigations, to bring concrete elements.

In an unstable context, with an important reminder about budgets to be monitored and with municipal elections coming up in March 2026, it's possible that some localities will find it difficult to commit to hosting the Tour at this time. That said, the "rendez-vous annuel" is back: it's here that we're going to try to document all the rumours and ot ...
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Added: Friday 10 October 2025 at 00h55
The Tour of Lombardy 2025 (Il Lombardia) race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile
The last Italian UCI WorldTour race of the year, Il Lombardia - the official name for the Tour of Lombardy 2025, takes place this Saturday, over a distance of 241 kilometers, between Como and Bergamo.

The Italian Fallen Leaves Classic is part of a string of Italian classics, the latest of which were won this week: the Coppa Bernocchi by Dorian Godon (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team), the Tre Valli Varesine by Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and this Thursday's Gran Piemonte by Isaac Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates).

And Tadej Pogačar is undoubtedly already thinking about the Giro di Lombardia, as the Slovenian rider has won the last 4 editions and could make the 2025 edition his quintet of victories! In agreement with its organizer, the race will take place without the Israel Premier Tech team, which is keeping a low profile while awaiting a change of ...
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Added: tuesday 30 September 2025 at 09h01
The European cycling Championships 2025 race routes in Drôme-Ardèche (France) (time trials and races in line) on OpenStreetMap maps and in Google Earth and the race profiles
With the World Championships just over, it's already time to turn our attention to the Drôme-Ardèche region for the European Road Cycling Championships. The Boucles Drôme Ardèche (Faun Ardèche Classic and Faun Drôme Classic), in other words the Drôme and Ardèche départements, will host this prestigious event, which will see the awarding of white jerseys with blue stripes and yellow stars, to be worn by the European Champions for one year.

Organized since 1995, it was only in 2016 that the European Championships were extended to the elite categories, and this year thus marks the 10th anniversary of the first edition to award these titles to the elite riders - which took place in France as well at that time, in Plumelec to be precise.

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Added: Saturday 27 September 2025 at 00h41
The race route of the women's and men's road races in line of the Road World Championships Kigali/Rwanda 2025, the race profiles and the participants lists
After the time-trial races at the Kigali / Rwanda 2025 Road World Championships, it's time for the road races, which will hand out yet more rainbow jerseys at these World Championships, held for the first time on the African continent.

In this publication, you'll discover all the details of these road races, and in particular those in the elite women's and men's categories, which will determine the successors to Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) and Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia).
Kigali 2025 Road World Championships road race program
On Thursday, the World Championships in Kigali switched to race in line mode, with a single main circuit for all races, run a variable number of times depending on the race, and completed by an extended circuit for the elite men's race.Here is the race program for the races in line:
- thursday, september 25, 2025
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  - Added: Saturday 20 September 2025 at 17h12
    The race route of the women's and men's time trials of the Road World Championships Kigali/Rwanda 2025 and the starting order and times
    For the first time on the African continent, the World Road Cycling Championships will take place starting this Sunday: from September 21 to 28 and Rwanda, and more specifically Kigali, will host the competition. This major event, organized annually by the International Cycling Union (UCI) to determine who will wear the iridescent jersey for an entire year, will therefore bring the world's greatest cyclists together on the African continent for the first time.
    
    The first rainbow jerseys will be handed out in the solo event: the time trial, which will take place this Sunday, September 21, 2025 for elite women and men. In this publication you'll find the detailed course of these time trials on an OpenStreetMap map, their profiles as well as the starting order and times. You'll also find the route of the mixed relay time trial.
    
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    this article appears in the following categories: World Championships Road Cycling| World Championships Kigali 2025| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
  - Added: Thursday 11 September 2025 at 23h44
    The Tour of Spain (Vuelta a España) 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules ... and the participants list
    The Tour of Spain 2025, or from its official name the Vuelta a España 2025, starts in Italy tomorrow, Saturday August 23, 2025, so it was high time to bring you the OpenStreetMap maps of this 3rd Grand Tour of the year.
    
    Last year, the Vuelta a España had already had a foreign start with 3 stages, but that was in neighbouring Portugal ... whereas this time it's 3 stages on Italian soil followed by a stage between Italy and France that launch the Tour of Spain, a long way from the 5th stage which will take place in Spain. And stages 6 and 7 will see a little excursion to Andorra! As the route book was only made available on Wednesday, for the moment only the first 4 now 6 9 stages are available, and downloading in > Read the whole story | 2 comments | shown 6230x
    
    this article appears in the following categories: Vuelta a España| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
  - Added: Monday 21 July 2025 at 17h42
    LOOK Cycle celebrates 40 years of automatic pedals
    It was already 40 years ago, in 1985, that the automatic pedal saw the light of day, and led to Bernard Hinault's victory in the Tour de France, the last of his 5 victories in the Grande Boucle.
    
    Over the past 40 years, the automatic pedal has continued to evolve, but it was the revolutionary idea of switching from ski bindings to a bicycle pedal that formed the basis of the pedal as we know it today. On the occasion of this 40th anniversary, let's take a look back at the history of the automatic pedal created by LOOK Cycle, then owned by Bernard Tapie.
    40 years of LOOK Cycle's automatic pedal history
    In 1983, Bernard Tapie bought the LOOK company, and it was two years later, in 1985, that the company invented the first automatic pedal (the PP65) and launched the very first carbon frame ( ...
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  - Added: Friday 18 July 2025 at 01h32
    The start order and -times of the individual time trial between Loudenvielle and Peyragudes for the 13th stage of the Tour de France 2025
    The 13th stage of the Tour de France 2025 will take place today between Loudenvielle and Peyragudes, in the form of an individual time trial, mostly uphill.
    
    In this article, you'll find the starting order and times of each rider for this individual time trial.
    Starting order and times for the time trial between Loudenvielle and Peyragudes
    Starting at 1:10 pm, with Matteo Vercher (TotalEnergies), red lantern of the general classification, until Tadej Pogačar at 5:05 pm, 171 riders (of the 184 who were present at the start of the Tour de France 2025 in Lille), will take the start of this time trial.
    
    From 1:10pm to 2:00pm, the first 51 riders will start every minute, while the following riders will start every 1'30", with th ...
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    this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2025
  - Added: Friday 04 July 2025 at 19h49
    The participants list of the Tour de France 2025 and the bib numbers
    This Saturday, July 5, 2025, the Tour de France 2025 will take off from Lille, and last night, on the Grand'Place in Lille, the 23 teams were presented, bringing together 184 riders (8 riders per team).
    
    So it's high time to take a look at the list of starters, even if we know that the two big favourites are of course Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike).
    
    In this publication you'll find the names of each rider, as well as their nationalities and bib numbers, so you can spot them easily, at the roadside or on TV.
    A reminder: the detailed route is available and the velowire application is available in test version!
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    this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2025
  - Added: Saturday 28 June 2025 at 19h02
    The Tour de France 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
    The end of June is fast approaching, and so is the Tour de France 2025! The 112th edition will start in Lille, as part of the Grand Départ in the Nord de France region. For the first time in recent years, this will be a 100% French Tour de France, as it will not have a single meter outside France. However, it will also be a Tour de France with 48% transfers, as the distances between the stage finishes and the departures of the following stages is almost identical to the total distance of the Tour de France 2025, which is 3,338.8 km (the transfer distances are 3,055 km!)
    
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    this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2025| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
  - Added: Saturday 10 May 2025 at 21h10
    The competition sites of the UCI 2027 World Championships in Haute-Savoie have been officially announced ... but how are these Super World Championships organised?
    It's been three weeks now already since the venues for the 2027 UCI Super World Championships were officially announced.
    
    In this article, you'll find all the details about these venues, but we've also decided to take a closer look at how these UCI Super World Championships are being organized in Haute-Savoie. Michel Callot, President of the French Cycling Federation (FFC) and of the Organizing Committee for these championships, and Florian Vuillaume, Director of the Organizing Committee, give us the details!
    Locations of the 2027 UCI Super World Championships
    UCI Super World Championships ?
    "Super World Championships, what's that?", I hear you say! Well, in 2023, the UCI has decided not to organize a road World Championship every 4 years (as in other years) but UCI Super World Championships, combining the World Championships of several cycling disciplines into a single event. In 2023, this event took place for the fir ...
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  - Added: Thursday 08 May 2025 at 20h18
    The official participants list of the Tour of Italy 2025
    You've already been able to discover the route of the Tour of Italy 2025 or Giro d'Italia 2025, but we haven't yet shared with you the official start list for the Giro d'Italia 2025 yet.
    
    In this article, you'll find the 23 participating teams, with the names and bib numbers of the 184 riders representing them (8 riders per team, one team more than last year), as well as their nationalities.
    The list of starters for the Giro d'Italia 2025
    Here is the official list of starters, team by team:
    Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe
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    this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2025
  - Added: Monday 21 April 2025 at 23h48
    The Flèche Wallonne 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
    It's time for the Ardennes classics, and this Wednesday it's the turn of Flèche Wallonne 2025, already the 89th edition of this classic. Its route changes from year to year, and the only thing that resembles last year's course is the final circuit, although it's a little different and will only be ridden 3 times instead of 4. There will thus also be 3 climbs of the dreaded Mur de Huy. A total distance of 205.1 kilometers awaits the 175 riders who will line up at the start for 25 different teams.
    
    In this publication, you'll find all the details of the Flèche Wallonne 2025 route, on an OpenStreetMap map, which can also be downloaded in Google Earth, the race profile, the hourly itinerary and the list of starting riders for the Flèche Wallonne 2025.
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  - Added: Sunday 20 April 2025 at 16h41
    Mattias Skjelmose surprises Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel and wins the Amstel Gold Race 2025! - the summary
    The Amstel Gold Race was probably the classic with the best field at the start of the race so far this season. There were several big names at the start, and when Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) broke away following an attack by Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) which he followed, it looked as if everything had already been decided.
    
    But Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) didn't let him get away with the win that easy, and launched an attack from behind, catching along Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) in the process. With around 8 km to go, the 3 riders joined forces and set off on the final climb of the Cauberg, which was topped 1.8 km from the finish. Remco Evenepoel was tricked into sprinting first, and Pogačar thought he'd won the race when he passed him. However, Mattias Skjelmose was not to be denied, and finally overtook him at the line!
    Amstel Gold Race 2025 summary
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  - Added: Saturday 19 April 2025 at 21h01
    The Amstel Gold Race 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
    This Sunday, it's time for the only Dutch classic, the Amstel Gold Race. This will be the 59th edition since the first was held in 1966, and will take place between the Markt in Maastricht and the Rijksweg in Vilt. Indeed, since 2013, the finish is no longer at the top of the Cauberg in Valkenburg, but at the same place as the finish of the 2012 World Championship races. However, in the final loop, the Cauberg makes its return this year for the first time in several years! Apart from that, the course for the Amstel Gold Race 2025 is fairly similar to that of last year. It features no fewer than 34 climbs, on this UCI WorldTour classified race (there has been a little variation in this number of climbs, with a minimum of 31 in 2010 and 2012 and a maximum of 35 in 2017 and subsequent years, 33 the past few years).
    
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  - Added: Wednesday 16 April 2025 at 21h46
    The Brabantse Pijl/Flèche Brabançonne 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
    Leaving Leuven behind, it's back to Beersel for the start of the Flèche Brabançonne on Friday, April 18, 2025. A homecoming, since this is where the race began in its early days, even if the starting point has regularly changed and in recent years has been located in Leuven. The first half of the race will therefore be totally different from last year's, and will take place to the north-west of Beersel (south-west of Brussels), before moving on to the second half, which riders will recognize with the long straight to Overijse and then the local circuit of some twenty kilometers, which will be completed 3 more times after the first crossing of the finish line. So that's it (pretty much) over with the cobbles for this season, on the Flèche Brabançonne it's mainly the hills that are on the programme .... before the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday, which is closer to the Flèche Brabançon ...
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  - Added: tuesday 15 April 2025 at 21h48
    The Tour of Limburg 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
    After Paris-Roubaix this weekend, we briefly return to Belgium for the Tour of Limburg 2025 (Ronde van Limburg), which takes place over 2 circuits, covering a distance of 176.8 km between Hasselt and Tongeren. Small among the classics, the Tour of Limburg is more suited to sprinters, even though it contains 4 different climbs that will be climbed a total of 9 times (the first circuit containing one climb is done twice, and the second circuit containing two climbs is done 3 times).
    
    Below you'll find all the information and details on the Tour of Limburg 2025, with an OpenStreetMap map, the race profile and its hourly itinerary, and the possibility of downloading the course in Google Earth and even the list of starters.
    The route of the Tour of Limburg 2025 on an OpenStreetMap map
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  - Added: Saturday 12 April 2025 at 20h31
    The official participants list of Paris-Roubaix 2025 and the bib numbers
    This Sunday, April 13, 175 riders will be at the start of Paris-Roubaix 2025, the 122nd edition of the Hell of the North, for 25 teams! With some very big names on the official start list, it promises to be a spectacle ... especially as nothing can be predicted in advance on Paris-Roubaix!
    
    In this article, you'll find the official list of starters for Paris-Roubaix 2025 and their bib numbers, so that you can identify the different riders on the road and on the cobbles, even if dust, mud and sand will have taken their place on their faces and outfits as the race progresses!
    The starting line-up for Paris-Roubaix 2025
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  - Added: Friday 11 April 2025 at 21h15
    The Paris-Roubaix 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, its cobble stones sectors and the other details of the 122th edition of the Hell of the North
    While the women will be shaking their bikes on the cobblestones of northern France tomorrow, it's the men's turn on Sunday April 13: it's already time for Paris-Roubaix 2025!
    
    With a slightly modified route, notably on the first cobblestone sectors, and with the introduction of a different approach before entering the Trouée d'Arenberg, this 122nd edition of the queen of classics promises yet more spectacle. With a little rain on Saturday night or Sunday morning, the cobbles could be a little muddier than in previous years!
    Course changes compared to last year
    Here are the main course changes for Paris-Roubaix 2025, compared with Paris-Roubaix 2024:
    - in Bertry, the riders will pass through the village instead of around it
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    - Added: tuesday 08 April 2025 at 11h38
      The Scheldeprijs/Grand Prix de l'Escaut 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
      After the Tour of Flanders 2025, dominated by Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG), the Scheldeprijs/Grand Prix de l'Escaut may not have the same allure. But it's still a Belgian classic (Dutch-Belgian, in fact), as the race was created 6 years **before** the Tour of Flanders, and is therefore already in its 113th edition!
      
      Since 2018, it has taken place between Terneuzen in the Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, and Schoten, in Belgium. This 113th edition will cover a total distance of 202.8 km, almost entirely on the flat, with a cobbled sector before the final circuit and another one in the final circuit, which will therefore be ridden 4 times. Seen as a sort of World Championship for sprinters, it will undoubtedly be a sprinter who wins the race again on Wednesday April 9!
      
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    - Added: Friday 04 April 2025 at 23h39
      The Tour of Flanders 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
      It's about time ... the eagerly-awaited Tour of Flanders 2025 will finally be here this Sunday! After A travers la Flandre/Dwars door Vlaanderen on Wednesday, marked by an unexpected finale in which Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) surprised Team Visma | Lease a Bike with its trio of Wout van Aert, Tiesj Benoot and Matteo Jorgenson, who had all the cards in their hands to play a winning strategy against the solo man in pink ... but were fooled in the sprint, it's already time for the Belgian classic which is somehow the high point of the Belgian classics season, the great mass (hoogmis), the Tour of Flanders 2025 (Ronde van Vlaanderen).
      
      The 2025 edition of "Flanders cutest" (Vlaanderen's mooiste) - another of the Tour of Flanders' nicknames - features a course of 268.9 kilomete ...
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    - Added: tuesday 01 April 2025 at 23h48
      The A travers la Flandre/Dwars door Vlaanderen 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
      When it comes to cycling races at this time of year, it's only logical that we're talking about the Belgian classics, and this time it's the turn of A travers la Flandre (or Dwars door Vlaanderen-A travers la Flandre as the race is officially called, with its title in both Flemish and Walloon) on Wednesday. And this of course before the Tour of Flanders 2025 which is highly expected and will take place this Sunday.
      
      A travers la Flandre 2025 features a course of 184.2 kilometers, with 10 climbs and several cobbled sectors. In this article, you'll find details of the A travers la Flandre 2025 route, on an OpenStreetMap map which is also available for download in Google Earth, the race profile, the hourly itinerary, and the list of starters in ...
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    - Added: Saturday 29 March 2025 at 10h43
      The Ghent-Wevelgem 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
      Ahead of Dwars door Vlaanderen / A Travers la Flandre next Wednesday and the eagerly awaited Tour of Flanders on Sunday next week, the next Belgian classic on the programme is Ghent-Wevelgem ... which actually takes place between Ypres (Ieper) and Wevelgem!
      
      In this article, you'll find details of the route of Ghent-Wevelgem 2025 (or officially Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields), on an OpenStreetMap map and also available for download in Google Earth, the hourly route, the profile, as well ...
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    - Added: Thursday 27 March 2025 at 22h32
      D-100 before the start of Tour de France 2025: discovering the finish of the first stage with Mondial Relay
      this article has not been translated in English, you can read it below in French
      
      Ça y est, on est à J-100 du départ du Tour de France 2025 dans le Nord de la France (Hauts-de-France), et plus précisément à Lille où la première étape se déroulera en boucle le 5 juillet 2025.
      
      Avec Mondial Relay, on a eu l'occasion de découvrir l'arrivée de la première étape au niveau du Boulevard Vauban près de la Citadelle à Lille. La ville s'est habillée aux couleurs du Tour de France et un compte à rebours a été installé devant la gare de Lille Flandres à cette occasion.
      Mondial Relay : le Tour de France à la maison
      Le siège de Mondial Relay, partenaire du Tour de France depuis l'année dernière, est basé à Villeneuv ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2025| Marketing
    - Added: Thursday 27 March 2025 at 01h24
      The E3 Saxo Classic 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
      After the Classic Bruges-La Panne -and its chaotic finale (see video and results on the race page)- won by Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates XRG), we continue this Friday with another Belgian classic, the E3 Saxo Classic 2025, starting and finishing in Harelbeke (historically, the race was called the E3 Harelbeke). The rest of the program includes Ghent-Wevelgem on Sunday ... before the pressure builds up to the Tour of Flanders the following Sunday!
      
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    - Added: Monday 24 March 2025 at 22h14
      The (Sprint) Classic Brugge-De Panne 2025 race route on an OpenStreetMap map and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
      After a short stopover in Italy for Milan-Sanremo and its thrilling finale, with Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) taking victory at the end, the classics season will come back in full swing in Belgium this week, with the Sprint Classic Brugge-De Panne on Wednesday, the E3 Saxo Classic on Friday and Ghent-Wevelgem on Sunday ... before the pressure mounts until the following Sunday for the ...
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    - Added: Saturday 22 March 2025 at 01h10
      The Milan-Sanremo 2025 race route on an OpenStreetMap map and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule, the race profile and the start list with bib numbers
      The Primavera is already here, this Saturday, March 22, 2025! Milan-Sanremo 2025 will be this Italian classic, which as usual finds its difficulty in its length (no less than 289 km) and in the climbs that complicate the final part of the race.
      
      In this publication you'll find the route of Milan-San Remo 2025, on an OpenStreetMap map - also downloadable in Google Earth - as well as the race profile, its hourly itinerary and ... its list of starters, rather impressive this year!
      The Milan-San Remo 2025 route on OpenStreetMap, route and race profile
      Milan-San Remo 2025 will start, as it did last year, in Pavia, south of Milan, from Piazza della Vittoria, immediately turning left onto the Strada Nuova. The riders then head north, but at Zeccone they turn left to reach Certosa di Pavia, before returning to Pavia. They then continue south and ...
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    - Added: Friday 21 March 2025 at 01h38
      The Bredene Koksijde Classic 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the race profile and the participants list
      It's time for another Belgian classic this Friday, March 21, 2025, and more precisely the Bredene Koksijde Classic 2025 (known until 2018 as the Handzame Classic because its finish then took place in Handzame). Only created in 2011, the race was previously part of the Three Days of West Flanders, being a stage of the latter.
      
      With a cancellation in 2020, the race is now in its 14th edition and, as its name suggests, takes place between Bredene and Koksijde.
      The route of the Bredene Koksijde Classic 2025 on an OpenStreetMap map and the race profile
      The Bredene Koksijde Classic 2025 starts in Bredene, a seaside suburb of Ostend, and soon heads inland. It passes through Lo-Reninge and bypasses Ypres via Vlamertinge to arrive at Reningelst, where the riders arrive at a surprising series of loops of which the reading is facilitated on the map by arrows of 3 colors: the first passage with the black arrows, the second with the ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: Classics| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
    - Added: Wednesday 19 March 2025 at 23h14
      Grand Départ 2027: the Tour de France 2027 and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2027 will start in Scotland (Edinburgh), followed by England and Wales!
      The rumours were going hard the past few days, but it's now official: the Tour de France 2027 will start in Schotland, and more precisely in Edinburgh. It'll however not stop there, because the Grand Départ of this 114th edition of the Tour de France will also visit 2 of the 3 other nations of the United Kingdom: Wales and England!
      
      For now, the details of the stages of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2027 have not yet been announced, most logically we'll get to know more in November this year.
      
      What's remarkable is that the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2027, 6th edition with this name, will follow its big brother in terms of Grand Départ, also with 3 stages in the United Kingdom, starting with Edinburgh in Schotland. ...
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    - Added: tuesday 18 March 2025 at 00h09
      The Milano - Torino 2025 race route, with a comeback at Superga, on an OpenStreetMap map and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile
      You've already been able to discover the detailed route of Danilith Nokere Koerse 2025, a race taking place this Wednesday, but on the same day, another race will be taking place, in Italy: Milano - Torino 2025, or Milan-Turin (or "MiTo"), which is already in its 106th edition, and in this publication you'll be able to discover all the details of the route of this Italian classic!
      The route of Milano - Torino 2025 on OpenStreetMap, the hourly itinerary and the race profile
      Milan-Turin is aptly named, insofar as the Italian classic connects the two big cities ... well, just about, as the start will be in Rho, but which is in the metropolis of Milan.
      
      From there, the race heads on a virtually flat profile, via Novara, Vercelli, Trino and Chi ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: Classics| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
    - Added: Monday 17 March 2025 at 00h48
      Paris-Nice 2025 - Matteo Jorgenson bis repetita, the summary of the 83rd edition of the Race to the sun
      this publication has not been translated in English, you can read it below in French
      
      Les années se suivent .. et se ressemblent un peu sur Paris-Nice !! L'année dernière comme cette année, la 7e étape était prévue entre Nice et Auron et son parcours a dû être modifié et l'an dernier comme ce jour, c'est Matteo Jorgenson (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) qui prend la victoire finale de la Course au soleil.
      
      Les choses ne se sont toutefois pas déroulées exactement de la même façon et c'est donc toutefois utile de regarder d'un peu plus près les faits marquants de ce Paris-Nice 2025, en résumé ...
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    - Added: Saturday 15 March 2025 at 22h48
      The Danilith Nokere Koerse 2025 race route on an OpenStreetMap map and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile
      This Wednesday, the eyes of cycling season followers will once again turn to Belgium (in addition to Italy, but this will be the subject of a dedicated publication) for the Danilith Nokere Koerse 2025.
      
      Between hills and cobbles, this 188.2 km Belgian race takes place in Flanders, between Deinze and Nokere. Below you'll find full details of the race, including an OpenStreetMap of the route, which can also be downloaded in Google Earth, the race profile and the timetable.
      Danilith Nokere Koerse 2025 course on OpenStreetMap, hourly itinerary and race profile
      Danilith Nokere Koerse 2025 will start in Deinze, and initially the race will go almost straight through Gavere towards Zottegem. Before reaching Zottegem, however, the riders will find the first cobbled sector, that of the Paddestraat (note: on the map below you can recognize the cobbled sectors precisely, with a cobbled icon at the start of the sector and the same ic ...
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    - Added: Friday 14 March 2025 at 22h41
      The race route of the 7th stage (Nice > Auron) of Paris-Nice 2025 modified: the updated map on OpenStreetMap, the time- and route schedule and the stage profile!
      Last year, the 7th stage of Paris-Nice already had to be modified because of snow in Auron, but this year it's the same old story: the route of the 7th stage of Paris-Nice 2025 has been modified once again.
      
      This time, the destination remains the same, as the finish will still take place in the resort of Auron.
      
      Below you'll find details of the changes, as well as the new map on OpenStreetMap and the updated stage profile and timetable for this 7th stage of > Read the whole story | no comments | shown 1590x
      
      this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2025| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
    - Added: Sunday 02 March 2025 at 19h55
      The detail of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2026 in Barcelona has been announced: a big zoom on the Montjuïc!
      While the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2026 was already announced to take place in Barcelona in June 2024, it's only this week that the details of the stages that make up this Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2026 have been announced!
      
      This will be the 3rd Grand Départ of the Tour de France in Spain, but the first in Barcelona 🇪🇸. Before discovering these stages in full detail on OpenStreetMap maps on velowire.com, I'd like to give you a short preview below, with maps and stage profiles in images.
      The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2026 in Barcelo ...
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    - Added: Saturday 01 March 2025 at 13h42
      The 2025 Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne race route on an OpenStreetMap map and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule, the race profile and the participants list
      After today's Omloop Nieuwsblad 2025 (see the Omloop Nieuwsblad 2025 route), the opening weekend of the classics continues with Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2025 this Sunday. The start and finish of this race is still on the Kuurne side (Kortrijk to be precise for the start), but it no longer pushes as far as a passage on the Brussels side despite its name.
      
      The Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2025 route is very similar to that of 2024, ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: Classics| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
    - Added: Friday 28 February 2025 at 22h56
      The 2025 Omloop Nieuwsblad race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule, the race profile and the participants list
      March is here ... and so is the classics season! This weekend, it's the turn of Omloop Nieuwsblad (yes, the word "Het" has been removed from the race title since last year, the race used to be called "Omloop Het Nieuwsblad") on Saturday and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne on Sunday.
      
      In this article, you'll find all the information you need about the first one, the Omloop Nieuwsblad 2025, including a map of the course in OpenStreetMap and downloadable in Google Earth, the route and profile of the race, and the list of starters.
      The Omloop Nieuwsblad 2025 course on OpenStreetMap, race profile and timetable
      First of all, we'd like to point out that on ...
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    - Added: tuesday 25 February 2025 at 23h30
      The O Gran Camiño 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedules and the stage profiles
      Alongside the smaller Tour of Rwanda and before the start of the classics season, the eyes of the cycling world will be on Portugal and Spain for O Gran Camiño - The Historical Route.
      
      O Gran Camiño, although officially known as The Historical Route, will only be held for the 4th time in 2025, following its launch in 2022. What's more historic about it is the fact that in the past, the Volta a Galiza (or Tour of Galicia) was held in this region of Galicia, with a non-continuous organization over time and a switch to amateur mode from 2002 onwards, but above all the fact that the race takes in part of the route leading to Santiago de Compostela.
      
      For the first time this year, the Spanish race will be exported abroad ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth| O Gran Camiño
    - Added: Friday 21 February 2025 at 12h41
      The Classic Var 2025 and Tour des Alpes-Maritimes race routes on OpenStreetMap maps, their time- and route schedules and the race and stage profiles
      While the Classic Var 2025 has already started at the time of publication of this article, the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes 2025 takes place this weekend in 2 stages.
      
      These races are run by the same organizer, so it's a long weekend of great racing in the Alpes-Maritimes and Var.
      
      In this article you'll find the detailed map of the Classic Var 2025, its hourly route and race profile, as well as detailed maps of the two stages that make up the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes 2025, their hourly routes and stage profiles.
      The Classic Var 2025 route on OpenSt ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth| Classic Var| Tour des Alpes-Maritimes
    - Added: Thursday 13 February 2025 at 20h27
      The Tour de la Provence 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedules and the stage profiles
      After the Etoile de Bessèges, which was a little further northwest, the Tour de la Provence is again closer to Marseille, where the Grand Prix Cycliste de Marseille La Marseillaise took place.
      
      The 3-day race will take in one of the latter's outstanding difficulties, the Col de l'Espigoulier, on its first stage, here on its most difficult side from Gémenos. In this article, you'll find the detailed routes of the 3 stages, the hourly itineraries and the profiles of the different stages of the Tour de la Provence 2025.
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    - Added: Wednesday 05 February 2025 at 11h18
      Le parcours de l'Etoile de Bessèges 2025 sur une carte OpenStreetMap et dans Google Earth, les itinéraires horaires et les profils des étapes
      Après le Grand Prix Cycliste de Marseille La Marseillaise remporté par Valentin Ferron (Cofidis), il est déjà temps de voir partir la première course par étapes du calendrier français : l'Etoile de Bessèges - Tour du Gard 2025 prendra son départ à Bellegarde ce jour et se déroulera en 5 étapes jusqu'à ce dimanche, quand il se terminera par un contre-la-montre individuel à Alès.
      
      Dans cet article, vous trouverez les parcours détaillés de ces 5 étapes, les itinéraires horaires ainsi que les profils des différentes étapes de l'Etoile de Bessèges - Tour du Gard 2025.
      Le parcours de l'Etoile de Be ...
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    - Added: Saturday 01 February 2025 at 18h15
      The Grand Prix de Marseille La Marseillaise 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the race profile and the time- and route schedule ... and the participants list
      It's already early February, the cycling season is well underway, including in Europe with the various Trofeos of the Challenge Mallorca (which, since 2015 open the cycling season in Europe), but in France that means the first race is on the program tomorrow, Sunday February 2, 2025. It is, of course, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Marseille La Marseillaise, which will also be the first round of the Coupe de France FDJ out of 18 in total. Because of the Marseille-Lyon match, the finish will not take place in front of the Orange Vélodrome as usual, but on the heights of the Parc national des Calanques.
      
      A new feature of the 2025 Coupe de France FDJ, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Marseille La Marseillaise will be one of ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: Grand Prix Cycliste la Marseillaise| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
    - Added: tuesday 28 January 2025 at 23h45
      The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth and its race profile ... but also of the Surf Coast Classic 2025
      After the Tour Down Under, won by Jhonatan Narvaez (UAE Team Emirates) ahead of Javier Romo (Movistar Team) and Finn Fisher-Black (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), the international teams' Australian campaign concludes this Sunday with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2025, preceded this Thursday by the Surf Coast Classic 2025.
      
      Both races take place at the southernmost point of Australia (further east than the Tour Down Under, which takes place around Adelaide), near Melbourne and Geelong, Victoria. In this article, you'll find the course of both races on OpenStreetMap maps, the profile of each race, and the pos ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
    - Added: Sunday 19 January 2025 at 00h26
      The Tour Down Under 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules ... and the participants list!
      January is already well under way, so it's almost time for the first UCI WorldTour race of the season. This calendar of the most prestigious cycling races features 36 races this year, 21 one-day and 15 stage races, and the first of these is - as usual - the Santos Tour Down Under 2025 in South Australia.
      
      6 stages between Tuesday January 21 and Sunday January 26 make up this race, which this year covers a distance of 820.5 kilometers around Adelaide, and in this article you'll find all the details of these stages, with their maps, stage profiles and hourly itineraries.
      The Tour Down Under 2025 route on OpenStreetMap
      1/ Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - Prospect > Gumeracha - 150.7 km
      Stage 1 starts in Prospect, just north of Ade ...
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    - Added: Sunday 05 January 2025 at 23h32
      The changes concerning cycling teams for 2025
      With the start of the 2025 cycling season still a few weeks away, we can - on this New Year's Eve - take a look at the main changes to the various cycling teams for the 2025 season. This year, unlike last year, velowire.com will not be changing outfits, but - unsurprisingly - several cycling teams will, as we'll see in this article!
      UCI WorldTeams
      In the first division, that of the UCI WorldTeams, we still find the same 18 teams, each with a license that will expire at the end of the season, as all UCI Women's WorldTour and UCI WorldTour licenses will be reallocated for the period 2026-2028.
      
      For 2025, the same teams will be involved, but for some of them, new sponsors have arrived and others have left (or moved down a notch, to no longer be title sponsors), and it's these ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: Marketing
    - Added: tuesday 29 October 2024 at 23h04
      The Tour de France 2025 has officially been announced: 100% French ... and 48% of transfers!
      While you've already been able to discover the route of the Tour de France 2025 being built up on the basis of rumours (we could have added "and 95% good" to the title, as only one stage won't actually take place as the most recent rumours predicted), it was, along with that of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2025, officially announced at the Palais des Congrès in Paris today.
      
      Here you'll find confirmation of the 21 different stages that make up the Tour de France 2025, as well as the first small details that have been revealed. It will be a 100% French > Read the whole story | 14 comments | shown 18761x
      
      this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2025
    - Added: Monday 28 October 2024 at 14h42
      Innovation Ekoï: the shoe-pedal combination PW8 will be available early 2025 ... will we see it being used in the Tour de France 2025?
      The automatic pedal has been around for 40 years, and was first used on the Tour de France in 1985 by, among others, Bernard Hinault, who won the last of his 5 Grandes Boucles with these pedals, manufactured by Look.
      
      Things have been refined since then, but you wouldn't necessarily expect a revolution in the automatic pedal. Yet that's exactly what Ekoï has done 40 years on, with the PW8 shoe pedal combination, which offers several advantages over the classic automatic pedal.
      
      Interview with Jean-Christophe Rattel, founder and CEO of the Ekoï brand.
      What makes the PW8 shoe-pedal combination different? - light weight, efficiency and aerodynamics
      The PW8 pedal-shoe combination was developed in collaboration with Philippe Gilbert on the basis of a patent purchased 3 years ago (at the time Gilbert was still active as a rider ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: Marketing| Tour de France 2025
    - Added: Monday 28 October 2024 at 11h26
      Tour de France 2025: the rumours and also what's sure about the race route and the stage cities of the 112th edition!
      We're in the first fortnight of September, it's thus high time to turn our attention to the rumours surrounding the route of the forthcoming edition of the Tour de France, the Tour de France 2025!
      
      Whereas last year I indicated that publication came a little early because there were quite some rumours, and because I'd had a little more time, this year it's quite the opposite! At the time of publication of the first version of this article, the number of rumours is still extremely low... and this is largely due to the fact that the Tour's organizer, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) is finalizing the route much later this year, due to a busy ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2025
    - Added: Friday 11 October 2024 at 00h58
      Are we going straight to a Tour de France 2025 with a record number of transfers? And if so, what impact would that have?
      For a few weeks now, velowire.com has been following the development of rumours about the route of the Tour de France 2025, and little by little we have discovered what the route of the Tour de France 2025 could be.
      
      At this stage, these are just rumours, and may therefore differ from the actual route, which will be announced on October 29, but with just under 3 weeks to go before the official announcement, we're beginning to get a good idea of what the route of the Tour might be, and therefore of the distances between the finish and start towns of the following stages.
      
      On that basis, we were already identifying a large number of major transfers... with today's latest information, it's getting even worse! So t ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2025
    - Added: Saturday 05 October 2024 at 23h54
      The Paris-Tours 2024 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the race profile and time- and route schedule ... and the participants list
      Time flies, autumn and October are already here and so it's already time to turn our attention to a French classic that's customary at this time of year, Paris-Tours! Already in its 118th edition in 2024, it takes place - as it has since 2018 - between Chartres and Tours.
      
      Also since 2018, the race finale has been enlivened by a series of climbs and vineyard paths, and this will also be the case for Paris-Tours 2024.
      
      In this publication you'll find the Paris-Tours 2024 route on an OpenStreetMap map, the race profile and hourly race itinerary, as well as the option to download the route in Google Earth. You'll also find the list of starters who will ...
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      this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Tours| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
    - Added: Saturday 28 September 2024 at 15h08
      The course of the men's road race of the Zurich 2024 Road World Championships and the starters list
      After last week's time trials, the 2024 Road World Cycling Championships in Zurich will come to a close with the road races. While the elite women's road race is underway at the time of writing, it's the men's turn tomorrow.
      
      Between Winterthur and Zurich they will cover a total of 273.9 km: around 85 km on the Winterthur section up to the first crossing of the finish line, then 189 km in 7 laps of the circuit around Zurich! (this same circuit is used for all races in line, including the elite women's race, who run it 4 times; it was also the circuit for the mixed relay).
      
      In this publication, you'll find the detailed route of this race in line on an OpenStreetMap map, the race profile and the list of starters.
      The course of the elite men's road race at the Zurich 2024 Road World Championships
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    - Added: Sunday 22 September 2024 at 01h25
      The time trial race routes women/men of the World Championships road cycling Zurich 2024 and the start order and -times
      The Road World Championships are *the* major event organized annually by the International Cycling Union (UCI) to determine who will wear the iridescent jersey for an entire year. The first rainbow jerseys will be handed out in the solo event: the time trial, which will take place this Sunday, September 22, 2024 for elite women and men.
      
      In this publication you'll find the detailed course of these time trials on an OpenStreetMap map, their profiles as well as the starting order and times. You'll also find the route of the mixed relay time trial.
      The Zurich 2024 World Championships time trial program
      Here's the program for the various time trials at the 2024 Road World Championships in Zurich:
      - Sunday, September 22, 2024 - 10:00 am - 11:30 am - para-cycling women B & para-cycling women C4-5
      - Sunday, September 22, 2024 - 11h51 - 14h15 - elite women
      - Sunda ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: World Championships Road Cycling| World Championships Zurich 2024| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Saturday 14 September 2024 at 01h48
        The race route of the road race of the 2024 European Championships road cycling in Limburg (Belgium) on Open Street Map and the participants list (women/men)
        After the individual and mixed relay team time trials, the 2024 European Road Cycling Championships come to a close this weekend with the road races.
        
        In this publication you'll find the course for the road race. You'll also find the list of starters.
        The program for the weekend of the 2024 European Road Cycling Championships
        Here is the program for the weekend of Saturday September 14 and Sunday September 15, 2024:
        saturday september 14, 2024 - 9:00am-12:08pm - junior men
        Saturday, September 14, 2024 - 1:30 p.m.-5:21 p.m. - elite women
        sunday september 15, 2024 - 9:00 a.m.-11:04 a.m. - junior women
        sunday september 15, 2024 - 12:30 p.m.-5:36 p.m. - elite men
        The road race course
        The course, over a distance of 222.8 km for the elite men and 162 km for the elite women, will start from the brand-new Heusden-Zolder Velodrome in Limburg in Flanders, Belgium and then pass over Circuit de Zo ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: European Championships| European Championships 2024 (Limbourg, BE)| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth| Women's cycling
      - Added: Thursday 12 September 2024 at 12h29
        The race route of the mixed relay time trial of the European Championships road cycling 2024 in Limburg (Belgium) on Open Street Map and the participants list
        After yesterday's individual time trials (won for the men by Edoardo Affini for Italy, ahead of Stefan Küng [Switzerland] and Mattia Cattaneo [Italy], and for the women by Lotte Kopecky for Belgium, ahead of Ellen van Dijk [Netherlands] and Christina Schweinberger [Austria]), the 2024 European Road Cycling Championships continue today with the mixed relay time trial, which is a time trial by country teams.
        
        In this publication you'll find the course for this team time trial. You'll also find the start lists.
        The program for the mixed relay time trial day of the 2024 European Road Cycling Championships
        Here is the program for the mixed relay time trial day on Thursday, September 12, 2024:
        11:30am-1:39pm - juniors
        2:20pm-4:24pm - elite
        The principle of the mixed relay time trial
        The mixed relay time trial may still be a little-known event. Introduced in 2019 at the World and European Championships, the principle ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: European Championships| European Championships 2024 (Limbourg, BE)| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth| Women's cycling
      - Added: tuesday 10 September 2024 at 22h32
        The race route of the men/women individual time trial of the European Championships road cycling 2024 in Limburg (Belgium) on Open Street Map and the participants list
        Now that the Vuelta a España 2024 has come to an end with a well-deserved victory for Primož Roglič (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), the very last part of the cycling season has begun. And that also means it's time for the European Championships road cycling.
        
        In 2024, they take place from Wednesday September 11 to Sunday September 15 in Belgian Limburg (Flanders), starting with the individual time trial on Wednesday September 11. In this publication you'll find the course for this individual time trial, for elite men and women (U23 men and women as well as junior men ride the same course, while junior women remove part of the initial loop to reduce the distance to 13.3 km).
        You'll also find the start lists for both elite women and men.
        The program for the individual time trial day of the 2024 European Road Cycling Championships
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      - Added: Saturday 17 August 2024 at 16h19
        Team Visma | Lease a Bike is ready for the Tour of Spain 2024 - Sepp Kuss: 'I just have to be smart and strong in the right moments'!
        As the Vuelta a España 2024 gets underway with an individual time trial in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal, Team Visma | Lease a Bike is ready for the third and final Grand Tour of the season.
        
        During a press conference, Wout van Aert, who is new to the Tour of Spain, and Sepp Kuss, the outgoing winner of the race, review their objectives, their shape and their chances of success during this Vuelta a España 2024.
        Sepp Kuss, outgoing winner of last week's Tour de Burgos
        Faced with strong teams like Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe with Primož Roglič (already 3 times overall winner and 12 times stage winner, but still suffering from back pain following his crash at the Tou ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Vuelta a España| Vuelta a España 2024
      - Added: Saturday 03 August 2024 at 20h30
        The race in line women race for the Paris 2024 Olympics (road cycling) on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth and the participants list
        After the men's road race, magnificently won by Remco Evenepoel (Belgium), who doubled up in gold after the individual time trial and finished ahead of French duo Valentin Madouas and Christophe Laporte, who took silver and bronze respectively, the final road cycling event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be the women's road race this Sunday, August 4, 2024.
        
        They will compete in this event over a distance of 158 kilometers.
        
        Below you'll find details of the women's race route for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games road cycling road race. The map can be zoomed in to show exactly where the race will take place, which you can of course see for free except in the start/finish area between Trocadéro and th ...
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      - Added: Friday 02 August 2024 at 01h06
        The race in line men race for the Paris 2024 Olympics (road cycling) on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth and the participants list
        After the men's and women's time trials, won respectively by Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) and Grace Brown (Australia), it's already time for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games road race.
        
        The men will compete in this event on Saturday, August 3, over a distance of 273 kilometers, and the women on Sunday, August 4, over a distance of 158 kilometers.
        
        Below you'll find details of the men's race route for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games road cycling road race. The map can be zoomed in to show exactly where the race will take place, which you can of course see for free except in the start/finish area between Trocadéro and the Eiffel Tower (on the Pont d'Iéna).
        
        You'll also find the list of starters in the men's road race! Last but no ...
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      - Added: Friday 26 July 2024 at 10h54
        The individual time trial race route of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on an OpenStreetMap map and the start order and times for the ladies and the men
        With the Tour de France 2024 just over, with the impressive final victory (coupled with 6 stage wins! ... including the final time trial) of Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), it's already time to turn the gaze towards the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with the individual time trial on the program this Saturday, July 27, 2024.
        
        The course runs from the center of Paris, at Invalides, eastwards to Vincennes and its famous château and wood, before returning almost to the starting point, in this case for a finish on the Pont Alexandre III.
        
        Below you'll find not only the detailed map of the course for this Paris 2024 Olympic Games individual time trial, but also the list of starters, as well as their starting order and times.
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      - Added: Sunday 21 July 2024 at 01h23
        The start order and -times of the final individual time trial between Monaco and Nice in the Tour de France 2024
        While the general classification seems fixed with Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) at the first place, followed at 5'14" by Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) and 2'50" further on the best young rider of the Tour, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), the 141 remaining riders of the Tour de France 2024 will today get off for a solo solitaire, from Monaco, climbing up the heights of La Turbie and the Col d'Eze, and than back down towards Nice.
        
        From Davide Ballerini (Astana Qazaqstan Team) as the red lantern for last placed rider (he took this position from Mark Cavendish, by accompanying his leader in the difficult stages for the sprinter) to Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), it'll be from 2.40PM till 6.45PM that each o ...
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      - Added: Friday 19 July 2024 at 09h04
        Thierry Gouvenou, director of the race and architect of the Tour de France race route promises less sprinter stages in the future
        At the finish of the 18th stage of the Tour de France 2024, for Radio Sports I went to see Thierry Gouvenou, director of the race and responsible for the creation of the race route of the Tour de France. We quickly looked back on how the Tour de France 2024 went so far and looked forward to the 3 upcoming stages which will be extremely difficult, with the finish at Isola 2000 today, at the Col de la Couillole tomorrow and with the individual time trial between Monaco and Nice on Sunday to finish off with.
        
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      - Added: tuesday 09 July 2024 at 00h54
        Wat eet een renner van de Tour de France 2024? Dat vinden we uit met Team Visma | Lease a Bike, tot in precisie!
        Wat eet een renner van de Tour de France 2024? Zoals u weet verbrant een renner enorm veel energie tijdens een etappe van de Tour de France en de voeding (de juiste maaltijd op het juiste moment speelt dus een sleutelrol. Team Visma | Lease a Bike heeft dit perfect begrepen en is meester geworden in de kunst van de voorbereiding van goede maaltijden die de renners op prijs stellen en die de benodigde koolhydraten leveren aan de renners op het moment dat ziij die het hardste nodig hebben.
        
        Dit alles gekoppeld aan een mobiele app, The Athtlete's FoodCoach, zoals we hieronder in detail zullen zien.
        Het interview met Remco Henkes, één van de chefs van Team Visma | Lease a Bike
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      - Added: Saturday 06 July 2024 at 23h50
        The stage with the white roads awaits the riders of the Tour de France 2024 this Sunday ... a short insight with Thierry Gouvenou!
        This Sunday, July 7, 2024, the 9th stage awaits the riders of the Tour de France 2024. Special for several reasons: it starts and finishes in the town of Troyes, just 1.3 km apart, and contains no fewer than 14 white roads, for a total distance of 32.2 km, out of the 199 that make up the stage (i.e. 16.2% of the total distance).
        
        For Radio Sports, Thierry Gouvenou was kind enough to come and explain us the particularity and raison d'être of this stage, among the 21 that make up the Tour de France 2024. Find out more below!
        Thierry Gouvenou's interview about the 9th stage of the Tour de France 2024 between Troyes and Troyes and with 14 white / dirt roads
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      - Added: Friday 05 July 2024 at 01h38
        The start order and -times for the individual time trial between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Gevrey-Chambertin in the Tour de France 2024
        Today, the 174 remaining riders in the Tour de France 2024 will compete against the clock in the individual time trial between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Gevrey-Chambertin. From Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan Team) as the red lantern to Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), each rider will take the start of this stage from 1.05 p.m. to 5 p.m.
        
        You can find below the order and start times of each rider!
        Starting order and times for the individual time trial between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Gevrey-Chambertin on Friday, July 5, 2024
        The first riders will start minute by minute until the 58th, who is Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost), then go from 1'30" to 1'30" until Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) in 166th place. The last 8 riders will start every two minutes.
        
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      - Added: Friday 28 June 2024 at 13h31
        The participants list of the Tour de France 2024 and the bib numbers
        The 176 riders from 22 teams taking part in the Tour de France 2024 were presented yesterday at Firenze 🇮🇹 (Florence). While ultra-favorite Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) was presented with a collector's jersey by Krys, the partner of the best young rider's white jersey, celebrating his 72 consecutive white jersey awards (out of 75 in total; Pogačar has won the young rider's classification 4 years in a row), other big names such as Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), Primož Roglič (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) were all there, as was Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan Team), who will be looking for his 35th Tour de France stage win, to overtake Eddy Merckx for the all-time record.
        
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      - Added: Monday 24 June 2024 at 02h00
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2025 in the Nord department: detailed maps on OpenStreetMap
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France in the Nord department, and more precisely in Lille, has already been announced at the end of November 2023, but we still had to give you the detailed maps of the first 3 stages that have been announced in full, in addition to the start of the 4th stage in Amiens.
        
        In this publication, you can discover the details of these 3 stages in maps on OpenStreetMap (equivalent to Google Maps, but in free version) that show the route that the riders will follow in the Nord department early July 2025.
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      - Added: Wednesday 19 June 2024 at 09h25
        Tour de France 2026: the Grand Départ in Barcelona and more in Catalonia!
        With the 111th edition of the Tour de France, the Tour de France 2024, due to start in Italy in just over a week's time, Tour de France organizer Amaury Sport Organisation yesterday announced that the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2026 will take place in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸.
        
        Few details have yet been announced, but let's take a quick look at what is now official for what will launch the festivities of the 113th edition of the Tour de France, the Tour de France 2026.
        The Grand Départ of the Tour ...
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      - Added: Saturday 01 June 2024 at 23h41
        The Critérium du Dauphiné 2024 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the stage profiles and the time- and route schedules, and the participants list
        While velowire.com has just shed the pink color it donned for the Giro d'Italia 2024, which was brilliantly won by Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), it's already time to watch the Critérium du Dauphiné 2024 set off from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and more precisely from Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule in the Allier department.
        
        This will be the 76th edition of the race, which is considered the ultimate preparation for the Tour de France with its "mountain concentration" (other riders will be focusing on the Tour of Switzerland, which starts next week on June 9) and, as usual, comprises 8 stages including an individual time trial (stage 4, mid-week) for a total distance of 1,187.6 kilometers.
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      - Added: Monday 20 May 2024 at 23h32
        Tadej Pogačar a little bit less omni-present but still well placed: the summary of the 2nd week of the Tour of Italy 2024, with Jonathan Milan and the French at the party!
        This second week of the 107th Giro d'Italia 2024 saw luck smile on the French riders and on sprinter Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) before Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) extended his overall lead in the second time trial and yesterday's queen stage.
        
        On the occasion of today's second rest day, let's take a look back at the second week of the Giro d'Italia 2024, in 6 acts (or stages 😄).
        6 stages, including 2 with a French victory, 2 wins for Jonathan Milan and an overwhelming comeback by Tadej Pogačar
        With the riders finally resting again in Livigno, at the foot of the final climb of this Sunday's stage, let's take a look back at this second week, with a summary day by day.
        Tuesday May 14, 2024 - 10/ Pompei > Cusano Mutri (Bocca della Selva) - 142 km
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      - Added: tuesday 14 May 2024 at 01h57
        The Tour of Italy 2024: where are things standing after the first week?
        As you've seen, velowire.com is dressed in a touch of pink, in honor of the Giro d'Italia, as pink is the official color of the Tour of Italy or la corsa rosa.
        
        It seems like an eternity ago, but the Giro d'Italia 2024 started in Venaria Reale only 9 days ago, and so it was on Monday that the riders enjoyed their first rest day in Pompei, where they will set off on Tuesday May 14 for stage 10, heading for the summit finish at Cusano Mutri.
        
        Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) has already shown himself to be the absolute leader of this 107th Giro d'Italia!
        
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      - Added: Saturday 04 May 2024 at 00h05
        The Tour of Italy 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        May has come fast, and after the classics season you've been following on velowire.com, it's already time to turn to the Grand Tours ... and more precisely to Italy for the Giro d'Italia or Tour of Italy. The 2024 edition kicks off this Saturday, May 4 in Turin, and a total of 3,400.8 km is on the programme for the 176 riders representing the 22 teams at the start of this Giro d'Italia 2024.
        
        After the start in Turin, the race heads south on the west side of the country, passing through the center on stages 7 (the first individual time trial) and 8 after completing a stage with dirt roads on stage 6, then heading down the west side again as far as Naples. After the rest day, the race crosses the country definitively from west to east, without having re ...
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      - Added: Sunday 21 April 2024 at 16h55
        Without surprise: Tadej Pogačar wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2024, after a long solo-race!
        The 110th edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège was undoubtedly one of the coldest ever, with temperatures initially hovering around 4 to 6 degrees. The 9 frontrunners rode in dry conditions however, before being caught up by the peloton, and it was then with a solo raid from the Côte de la Redoute that Tadej Pogačar took victory in this Doyenne des classiques! Romain Bardet (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) took a neat second place.
        Summary of Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2024
        175 riders lined up at the start of Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2024 on the Quai des Ardennes in Liège, and it was almost from the start, at kilometer 2, that the day's leading group broke away from the peloton.
        
        It was a leading four, with Gil Gelders - neo-pro from the Soudal-Quick Step team who was discovering La Doyenne des classiques, Rémy Rochas for Groupama-FDJ, Lilian Calmejane from the Intermarché-Wanty team a ...
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      - Added: Saturday 20 April 2024 at 00h31
        The Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2024 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile
        This Sunday, April 21, 2024 will see the 110th edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, which also answers to the name of La Doyenne. Despite the number of editions, you're still wondering why this nickname? When we tell you that the very first edition took place in 1892, more than 130 years before Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2024, you'll understand why we talk about this Monument in this way!
        
        10 years ago, on the occasion of the 100th edition of the race, I published the history of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, so don't hesitate to read it again!
        
        Last year, the route was slightly modified, with the famous côtes de la Redoute, des Forges and de la Roche-aux-Faucons still in the finale, but after climbing the Redoute, the riders found the new côte de Cornémont, which may not be listed for the côte prize, but it does spice up the fin ...
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      - Added: Wednesday 17 April 2024 at 00h11
        The Flèche Wallonne 2024 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
        A new Wednesday during these times means a new classic ... and this time it's the turn of the Flèche Wallonne 2024, already the 88th edition of this classic. The route has changed this year, with a different final circuit and 4 climbs of the dreaded Mur de Huy, instead of 3 previously. A total distance of 198.6 kilometers awaits the 175 riders who will line up at the start for 25 different teams.
        
        In this publication, you'll find all the details of the Flèche Wallonne 2024 route, on an OpenStreetMap map that can also be downloaded in Google Earth, the race profile, the hourly itinerary and the list of starting riders for the Flèche Wallonne 2024.
        The Flèche Wallonne 2024 route on an OpenStreetMap map
        After the start in Charleroi, from the Place Vauban and the actual start 9.8 km further on, the riders pass through Sambreville and Fosses-la-Ville, before turning off at Denée to head for Rouillon and Godinne after crossing the Meuse.
        
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      - Added: Sunday 14 April 2024 at 17h41
        Surprise: Tom Pidcock wins the Amstel Gold Race 2024 ahead of Marc Hirschi and Tiesj Benoot - summary
        We saw an Amstel Gold Race today that remained exciting for a long time and was only really decided much later than in previous editions. Top favorite Mathieu van der Poel didn't get a role to play and in the end Tom Pidcock managed to win, ahead of Marc Hirschi and Tiesj Benoot!
        The summary of the Amstel Gold Race 2024
        This morning just before 11 o'clock, the Amstel Gold Race started from the Market in Maastricht, for a 253.6 km ride towards the finish in Berg & Terblijt, with 33 hills on the program.
        
        From the start we saw several attack attempts, but after the Maasberg and the Adsteeg, still no leading group was formed yet that stayed ahead. The next hill, the climb of the Bergseweg (3), was then dropped because due to a neutralization in the women's race, the ladies were stuck here, and the men rode around it, continuing immediately to the Korenweg (4). This thus reduced the total number of hills of the race to 32 and in the meantime a leading g ...
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      - Added: Saturday 13 April 2024 at 01h48
        The Amstel Gold Race 2024 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile
        This Sunday, it's time for the only Dutch classic, the Amstel Gold Race. This will be the 58th edition since the first was held in 1966.
        
        It will take place between the Markt in Maastricht and the Rijksweg in Vilt. Since 2013, the finish has no longer been at the summit of the Cauberg in Valkenburg, but at the same place as the finish of the 2012 World Championship races.
        
        However, the course of the Amstel Gold Race 2024 is identical to that of last year, when it was modified, notably in its first part. This time, only the fictitious start has been moved closer to the real one, to the Markt (Market), but otherwise the course is strictly identical. It still features no fewer than 33 climbs, on this UCI WorldTour classified race (there has been some variation in this number of climbs over the years, with a minimum of 31 in 2010 and 2012 and a maximum of 35 in 2017 and sub ...
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      - Added: tuesday 09 April 2024 at 23h24
        The Flèche Brabançonne 2024 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
        After the cobblestones, make way for the hills in the Flèche brabançonne/Brabantse Pijl this Wednesday, April 10, 2024 ... before the Amstel Gold Race this Sunday!
        
        A 195 kilometer classic is scheduled for 149 riders from the start in Leuven, a passage through Flemish Brabant and the finish in Overijse. No less than 21 hills are on this course, 4 of them in the final circuit which will be done four times.
        
        In this article you'll find all details about the Flèche brabançonne/Brabantse Pijl 2024 race route, on an OpenStreetMap map which is also available for download in Google Earth, the course profile, the time and route schedule and the list of starting riders in this race.
        The course of the Flèche brabançonne/Brabantse Pijl 2024 on an OpenStreetMap map
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      - Added: Sunday 07 April 2024 at 17h16
        Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) again wins Paris-Roubaix - the summary of Paris-Roubaix 2024
        He was the arch-favorite even before the start, he was the outgoing winner, he was the one looking for the Tour of Flanders - Paris-Roubaix double, and it was Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) who won Paris-Roubaix 2024, the 121st edition of the race!
        
        Having broken away from his group with around 60 kilometers to go, van der Poel completed the last 1h30 of the race in a solo raid, before going on to win it solo ... for another speed record-breaking edition!
        The curse of the Visma | Lease a Bike team, or the law of series?
        Already decimated, with the absence of Wout van Aert following his crash on A travers la Flandre (Dwars door Vlaanderen), the Team Visma | Lease a Bike expected to line up at the start of the race with Dutch Champion Dylan van Baarl ...
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      - Added: Saturday 06 April 2024 at 21h05
        The participants list for Paris-Roubaix 2024 and the bib numbers
        This Sunday, April 7, 175 riders will line up at the start of Paris-Roubaix 2024, the 121st edition of the Hell of the North!
        
        With the absence of Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), who had planned his season preparation around the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix so that he could finally win one of these monuments, Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) is the overwhelming favorite ... but he'll have a few rivals, and of course nothing can be predicted in advance on Paris-Roubaix!
        
        In this article, you'll find the list of starters for Paris-Roubaix 2024 and their bib numbers, so that you can identify the different riders on the road and on ...
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      - Added: Saturday 06 April 2024 at 14h23
        The Paris-Roubaix 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, its cobble stones sections and the other details of the 121st edition of the Hell of the North
        While the women are shaking their bikes today on the cobblestones of the Nord department, it's the men's turn tomorrow, Sunday April 7, 2024: indeed Paris-Roubaix 2024 is already here!
        
        With a slightly modified route, notably in the first cobblestone sectors, and with the introduction of the now famous chicane before entering the Trouée d'Arenberg, this 121st edition of the queen of classics promises spectacle as usual. With the weather forecast to be dry, and just a little rain in the middle of the night after a hot day today, we're likely to see more dust than mud on the cobbles tomorrow!
        The 29 cobbled sectors of Paris-Roubaix 2024
        With a slightly different route to that of 2023, the cobbled sectors vary slightly, especially on the first ones, which will be the source of repeated shaking of the riders' bikes in this classic. As a result, the total distance covered on the cobbles increases ...
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      - Added: tuesday 02 April 2024 at 01h31
        The Scheldeprijs/Grand Prix de l'Escaut 2024 on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
        While the Scheldeprijs may not sound like a Belgian classic, it was created 6 years before the Tour of Flanders, whose 108th edition was won by Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) on Sunday. It'll thus already see it's 112th edition this year!
        
        Since 2018, it takes place between Terneuzen in the Netherlands, in the province of Zealand, and Schoten in Belgium. This 112th edition will cover a total distance of 205.3 km, almost entirely on the flat, with a cobbled sector before the final circuit and another in the final circuit, which will therefore be ridden 4 times. Seen as a sort of World Championship for sprinters, it will undoubtedly be a sprinter who wins the race again this Wednesday, April 3!
        
        In this article, you'll find all the details of the route of the Scheldeprijs/Grand Prix de l'Escaut 2024, on an Open Street Maps map which is also available for download in Google Earth, the race profile, the hourly itinerary, and the list of starters for this race.
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      - Added: Saturday 30 March 2024 at 19h43
        The Ronde van Vlaanderen/Tour of Flanders 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
        After A travers la Flandre/Dwars door Vlaanderen on Wednesday, marked by the crash of several riders including Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek), Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) and Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies), it's already time for the next Belgian classic, the highlight of the Belgian classics season, the great mass (Hoogmis), the Tour of Flanders 2024 (Ronde van Vlaanderen).
        
        And on this Easter weekend, the high mass once again promises to be a spectacle, even if Wout van Aert has once again seen his dream of winning this race (or Paris-Roubaix) dashed 😥.
        
        The Tour of Flanders 2024 features a 270.8-kilometer course, with 17 climbs and several cobbled sectors, between Antwerp and Oudenaarde. In this article, you'll find details of the route of the Tour of Flanders 2024, on an Open Street Maps map which is also available for d ...
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      - Added: Wednesday 27 March 2024 at 00h17
        The Dwars door Vlaanderen-A travers la Flandre 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
        When talking about the next cycling race currently, we're most probably talking about the next Belgian classic, and that's the case again with Dwars door Vlaanderen-A travers la Flandre 2024 on Wednesday (as the race is officially called, with its title in both Flemish and Walloon), before the Tour of Flanders on Sunday.
        
        As with Ghent-Wevelgem last Sunday, outgoing winner Christophe Laporte is absent due to illness. Wout van Aert will be there on Wednesday, but the Belgian rider and his Team Visma | Lease a Bike have had rather bad luck in their Belgian classics campaign so far. Mathieu van der Poel will be absent, so it's sprinter Jasper Philipsen who the Alpecin-Deceuninck team can count on. Later in the article, you'll find the full list of starters for Dwars door Vlaanderen-A travers la Flandre 2024.
        
        Dwars door Vlaanderen-A travers la Flandre 2024 features a 188.6-kilometer course, with 12 climbs and several cobbled sectors. In this article, you'll find details of the Dwar ...
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      - Added: Sunday 24 March 2024 at 00h12
        The Ghent-Wevelgem 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
        In the Belgian classics season, we've come to Ghent-Wevelgem 2024, which takes place this Sunday, with a combination of distance (253.1 km), a few cobbles (relatively few for a Belgian classic), plugstreets (a kind of white road) and a passage through hill country!
        
        With outgoing winner Christophe Laporte - who crossed the line with Wout van Aert last year, absent due to illness, and Mathieu van der Poel already in fine form - as seen again in this week's E3 Saxo Classic, one wonders with whom the most Belgian of the Dutch will be vying for victory at Ghent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields in 2024!
        The Ghent-Wevelgem 2024 route on Open Street Maps
        From the start in Ypres, the course heads east towards Kortrijk, before returning to Moorslede. It's here that we've chosen to alternate dark blue for purple on the map, because for a short stretch, the riders will take the same route as on the outward journey, but this time in the opposite direction. The race ...
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      - Added: Friday 22 March 2024 at 11h46
        The E3 Saxo Classic 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile ... and the participants list!
        We're running in continuous mode for the production of contents currently, so once again this publication is done the day of the race itself!
        
        After the Classic Bruges-La Panne, won by Jasper Philipsen, we continue today with another Belgian classic, the E3 Saxo Classic 2024, starting and finishing in Harelbeke. The rest of the program includes Ghent-Wevelgem on Sunday ... before the pressure builds up to the Tour of Flanders the following Sunday!
        
        In this article, you'll find details of the route of the E3 Saxo Classic 2024, on an Open Street Maps map, also available for download in Google Earth, as well as the list of starters in the Belgian race.
        The route of the E3 Saxo Classic 2024 on Open Street Maps
        After the start in Harelbeke, the race heads east on the upper part of the course, as shown on the map below, heading towards Waregem and Oudenaarde before reaching the first cobbles and climbs (Beaucarnestraat cobbles, the Katteberg and the Hol ...
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      - Added: Thursday 21 March 2024 at 17h20
        Tour de France 2024 - D-100: listen to the dedicated radio show with Radio Sports, Christian Prudhomme, Jean-Paul Ollivier and velowire!
        It's today: we're just 100 days away from the start of the Tour de France 2024 in Firenze (Florence), Italy 🇮🇹 !
        
        (reminder: at any time you can find out how long it will be until the start of the 111th edition of the Grande Boucle, thanks to the counter in the top right-hand corner of velowire.com [on computer only, on mobile this information is not displayed])
        
        To mark the occasion, we launched a dedicated live broadcast with Radio Sports yesterday, which I suggest you listen to in replay if you weren't able to hear it live! Sorry, it's in French only 🇫🇷🤷🏻‍♂️
        The Tour de France 2024 D-100 show on Radio Sports
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| the page dedicated to the Tour de France 2024 in the UCI cycling calendar.">Tour de France 2024| Radio Sports
      - Added: Wednesday 20 March 2024 at 00h53
        The Classic Brugge-De Panne 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the profile of the race ... and the participants list!
        After a short excursion to Italy for Milan-Sanremo, won by Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), the classics season is back in full swing in Belgium this week, with the Classic Brugge-De Panne on Wednesday, the E3 Saxo Classic on Friday and Ghent-Wevelgem on Sunday ... before the pressure mounts until the following Sunday for the Tour of Flanders!
        
        In this article, you'll find details of the Classic Brugge-De Panne 2024 route, on an Open Street Maps map, also available for download in Google Earth, as well as the list of starters in the Belgian race.
        The route of the Classic Brugge-De Panne 2024 on Open Street Maps
        After the start in Bruges (Brugge) and a short tour of the city around the Market, it's on a long straight stretch to when they cross the E40/A10 freeway where the riders will take the real start, heading to Zedelgem, Aartrijke and Ichtegem before heading to the coast.
        
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      - Added: Saturday 16 March 2024 at 12h30
        The Milano-Sanremo 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile
        La Primavera, the nickname for Milan-Sanremo, already started at 10:00 this morning, but we're taking advantage of the length of this classic of classics (another of its nicknames, La Classicissima, linked to its exceptional length: it's the longest professional one-day race) to publish in extremis the course of Milano-Sanremo 2024 on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, so that you can find out all about the 288 kilometers that the riders of this Italian classic are currently covering!
        
        In this article, you'll discover the route of Milano-Sanremo 2024 on an Open Street Maps map, the hourly race itinerary and its profile showing the various bumps, particularly in the second half of the course. Finally, you'll find a KML file enabling you to explore the Milan-Sanremo 2024 course in Google Earth, for example, with a virtual flyover!
        The Milan-Sanremo 2024 route on Open Street Maps
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      - Added: Sunday 10 March 2024 at 20h32
        The summary of Paris-Nice 2024: Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike) flies away with victory!
        In the end, the 82nd edition of the Race to the Sun, as Paris-Nice is known, saw very little sunshine.
        
        On the other hand, as is often the case in this race, the overall victory of Paris-Nice 2024 was decided by a matter of seconds, and it was on the last day that the Yellow Jersey changed shoulders, finally landing on the shoulders of Matteo Jorgenson, the young American rider from Team Visma | Lease a Bike having shown himself to be very consistent and ultimately stronger than his long-time friend, Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates), his compatriot!
        This week's summary of Paris-Nice 2024
        Olav Kooij for sprint victory on stage 1, the favourites are already showing up!
        It all began with a looping stage around Les Mureaux, in the Yvelines region, which was a classic affair, with a breakaway being caught up wi ...
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      - Added: Saturday 09 March 2024 at 00h46
        The modified race route of the 7th stage of Paris-Nice 2024 due to snow in Auron!
        For the first time, the 7th stage of Paris-Nice 2024 was due to finish at altitude in the ski resort of Auron. This was not to be the case, however, as snow put a spanner in the works for this unprecedented finish!
        
        As a result, the stage was shortened: identical to the route initially planned over its first 88 kilometers, the riders finally branch off towards Utelle at Saint-Jean-la-Rivière, to head for the finish at La Madone d'Utelle.
        
        In this article, you'll find the new route of this 7th stage of Paris-Nice 2024 in detail!
        The route of the 7th stage of Paris-Nice 2024 - Nice > La Madone d'Utelle - 103.7 km
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      - Added: Sunday 03 March 2024 at 01h42
        The Paris-Nice 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules ... and the participants list
        The race to the sun ... that's the nickname of Paris-Nice. And right now, in Paris, that's exactly what we'd like to do: go racing towards the sun!
        
        And we're lucky, because Paris-Nice 2024, the 82nd edition of the race, gets underway this Sunday (March 3, 2024)!
        
        1220.6 km await the riders, and to find out all about it in detail, you've come to the right place, because below you'll find the Paris-Nice 2024 route on Open Street Maps and as a download in Google Earth here. You can also check out the list of starters for Paris-Nice 2024, to find out who will be at the start today!
        The Paris-Nice 2024 route on Open Street Maps
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      - Added: Friday 01 March 2024 at 18h16
        The Strade Bianche 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth
        One of the most recent classics is the Strade Bianche, a large quarter of which takes place on dirt roads in Italy. Despite its young age, it has already become a true classic, recognized in the world of pro cycling and attracting leading riders (for example, names such as Tadej Pogacar, Tom Pidcock, Christophe Laporte, Marc Hirschi, Simon Yates, Matej Mohoric, Sepp Kuss and Neilson Powless are on the entry list for the 2024 edition of the Strade Bianche).
        
        In this article you'll find the detailed route of the Strade Bianche 2024, which takes place tomorrow, Saturday, March 2, 2024, with detailed information on the 15 sectors of white roads (the strade bianche precisely).
        The Strade Bianche 2024 route on Open Street Maps
        As always, the Strade Bianche 2024 will start and finish in Siena, Tuscany, but this year's route features the addition of a loop to the north of Siena, bringing the total distance of the Strade Bianche in 2024 to 215 kilomet ...
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      - Added: Sunday 25 February 2024 at 23h37
        The Le Samyn 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth
        After the opening weekend of the Belgian races (in Flanders), consisting of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, with two victories for Team Visma | Lease a Bike (Jan Tratnik and Wout van Aert respectively), the Walloon season opens this Tuesday with Le Samyn, which also answers to the nickname "La plus flandrienne des wallonnes".
        
        In this article you'll discover the course of Le Samyn 2024 in detail.
        Le Samyn 2024 race route on Open Street Maps
        The start of Le Samyn 2024, as usual in Quaregnon on the Grand Place, begins with a short loop through the village streets, before heading north. It's after crossing the canal in Ghlin that the riders will be able to launch their first attacks as they cross the canal dock just beyond.
        
        After passing through Baudour, Hautrage and Grandglise, they turn right towards Moulbaix.
        
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      - Added: Saturday 24 February 2024 at 21h20
        The Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2024 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth
        After today's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad won by Jan Tratnik (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), the first weekend of Belgian classics continues tomorrow with Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.
        
        In this article you'll discover the route of Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2024 in detail. Unfortunately, the list of starters is not available on the official website at the time of publication, so we can't present it here.
        The Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2024 route on Open Street Maps
        Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2024 starts at the market (Grote Markt) in Kortrijk. 7 kilometers further on, the actual start takes place on the territory of Kuurne, and the riders head east towards the first of the 13 mountains, Tiegemberg (1400 m / 4%).
        
        After passing through Oudenaarde, they find 5 climbs in relatively quick succession: Volkegemberg (1000 m / 5.1%), Lepelstraat (2100 m / 3.4%), Bossenaarstraat (1300 m / 5.6%), Berg ten Houte (1100 m / ...
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      - Added: Monday 12 February 2024 at 21h41
        The changes concerning cycling teams for 2024
        As the European cycling season got underway at the end of January, let's take a quick look at the main changes to the various cycling teams, for the 2024 season. As velowire.com did (see here) on the occasion of the new year, many teams are also seeing name and sponsor(s) changes when a new season comes around. In this article, we list the most important of these changes. We won't, however, touch on all the outfit changes, nor the marginal changes (such as adding spaces or hyphens or slashes, or deleting or moving elements of this type)!
        UCI WorldTeams
        In the first division, the UCI WorldTeams, we find 18 teams, as last year. These are the same teams, but for some of them, new sponsors have arrived and others have left (or moved down a notch, to no longer be title sponsors), and it's these changes we'll be looking at here.
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      - Added: Sunday 31 December 2023 at 19h21
        velowire gets a facelift and is now perfectly accessible on mobile!
        Pretty much similarly to cycling teams often changing their outfits starting a new year (whether due to a change of sponsor(s) or simply to modernize their outfits), velowire has also chosen the new year to change its outfits.
        
        Well, finally, you'll tell me, and I understand! I've been planning to change everything for some time, but I just didn't have enough time! So the time has finally come for the site to be updated with a design more compatible with the times and ... at the same time automatically adapted to mobile display, so you can consult the content from anywhere (computer, mobile or tablet).
        A dated design!
        Unchanged for at least fifteen years*, velowire.com's design was ... to say the least ... out of date!
        
        * When paris.thover.com became velowire.com in June 2011, the design was already identical, only the colors had been modifi ...
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      - Added: Saturday 30 December 2023 at 18h33
        The Tour of Spain 2024: a difficult race for the Spanish Grand Tour, after 3 days in Portugal
        The 3rd Grand Tour of the year, the Vuelta a España, or Tour of Spain in English, will take place in 2024 between Saturday August 17 and Sunday September 8.
        With a 3-stage Grand Départ in Portugal, followed by 18 stages covering both the south and north of Spain, this is a race without respite, in search of the many difficulties that the riders will have to climb. Let's review the route of the Vuelta a España 2024, presented some ten days ago.
        The route of the Tour of Spain 2024 in detail
        21 stages will include 2 individual time trials over a total of 34 km, starting in Lisbon, Portugal and finishing in Madrid, 1 flat stage, 5 medium mountain stages, 8 mountain stages and ...
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      - Added: Thursday 30 November 2023 at 23h36
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2025 in Lille and in the Hauts-de-France region: 4 stages with the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Somme departments on the map
        It's been an open secret since mid-October, as you may have already read here: the Tour de France 2025 is heading for the North of France, and more specifically Lille and the Metropole Européenne de Lille, for its Grand Départ, which will of course honor the entire Hauts-de-France region. Now, all the elements of this Grand Départ have been announced, and it will be a Grand Départ made up of 3 stages taking place entirely in the Hauts-de-France region, as well as the start of stage 4. Let's take a closer look!
        A Grand Départ in the Hauts-de-France region, but most importantly a rendez-vous in the Nord department ...
        Lille< ...
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      - Added: Wednesday 25 October 2023 at 23h37
        The Tour de France 2024 race route has been presented: all things new between Italy and Nice, via summits, gravel roads and without any rest moment!
        It's early September, so a little earlier than in recent years, velowire.com is once again featuring the "rendez-vous annuel" article on the search for the route of the forthcoming Tour de France, based on rumours.
        
        In this case it's the Tour de France 2024 and the article is being published a little early because I was able to work on it a little bit earlier than usual and also because there are quite a few rumours that seem to be getting pretty solid already, compared with previous years.
        
        The official presentation of the route of the Tour de France 2024 as well as the 3rd edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (which will start in the Netherlands with 3 stages around the city of Rotterdam, during the first 2 days of the event, which this ti ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| the page dedicated to the Tour de France 2024 in the UCI cycling calendar.">Tour de France 2024
      - Added: tuesday 24 October 2023 at 08h31
        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: Monday 17 July 2023 at 19h25
        The start order and times for the Passy > Combloux time trial of the Tour de France 2023
        At the start of the last week of the Tour de France 2023 and in the middle of the Alps programme of this race (see the Tour de France 2023 race route on Open Street Maps), an individual time trial between Passy and Combloux, over a distance of 22.4 km could well become decisive for the candidates for the general classification, in the fight for the Yellow jersey!
        
        The day before this time trial, you can find in this article the start order and -times for the different riders, in the opposite order of the general classification. At first, the riders will start every minute, later on every minute and a half and finally every two minutes, according to the start times shown below.
        
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      - Added: Saturday 01 July 2023 at 00h37
        The participants list of the Tour de France 2023 and the bib numbers
        This Saturday sees the start of the Tour de France 2023 in Bilbao, in Spain's Basque Country.
        
        Having already discovered the route of the Tour de France 2023 in great detail on Open Street Maps and Google Earth, velowire.com now presents the list of starters for the 110th edition of the Grande Boucle.
        The list of Tour de France starters and their bib numbers
        The 176 starters of the Tour de France 2023 in 22 teams in statistics
        22 teams, each with 8 riders, will line up at the start of this edition of the Grande Boucle. Among them are 27 nationalities, of which France will be the most strongly represented, with 32 riders. Belgium (21), Spain and the Netherlands (14), Australia (12), Denmark (11) and Norway (8) follow. Australia is also at 8, while Italy is under-represented compared to usual, with 7 rid ...
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      - Added: Sunday 25 June 2023 at 19h46
        The Tour de France 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        July is fast approaching, and so is the 110th edition of the Grande Boucle. As usual, velowire.com offers you Open Street Maps/Google Earth views of the Tour de France 2023 stages, with all the details, as well as the official timetable and profile of each stage, and a KMZ file which can be opened in Google Earth to visualize the whole of this Grand Tour, or to fly over the stages.
        
        With the information in this article, you'll know every little corner, every town and every village crossed by this Tour, over its 3399.7 km, and so be able to prepare your visit on the spot if you're one of the spectators at the side of the road, or simply understand the race better if you're not there!
        A little bit of information ...
        Before discovering the details of all the stages of the Tour de France 2023 let's have a look a ...
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      - Added: Saturday 03 June 2023 at 13h13
        The Critérium du Dauphiné 2023 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, the stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        With the Giro d'Italia (and its last-minute denouement with the victory of Primož Roglič [Jumbo-Visma]) now behind us, it's already time to see the Critérium du Dauphiné 2023 set off from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and more precisely from Chambon-sur-Lac in the Puy-de-Dôme département.
        
        This will be the 75th edition of the race, considered by some riders as the ultimate preparation for the Tour de France with its "mountain concentration" (others will prefer the Tour de Suisse which starts on June 11) and, as usual, it consists of 8 stages including an individual time trial (stage 4, in the middle of the week, which is likely to have a major impact on the overall race classification) for a total distance of 1212.2 ...
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      - Added: Saturday 06 May 2023 at 00h49
        The Tour of Italy 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        initially published on 6 May 2023 at 0.49AM with the first 10 stages, updated with the stages 11 to 15 on 15 May at 2.34PM and with the remaining stages on 22 May at 3.21PM
        We are already in the month of May and this Saturday the first Grand Tour of the season will already start. It is of course the Giro d'Italia or Tour of Italy, which will start in Abruzzo with a time trial before heading south, crossing from east to west to turn around Naples. Then back to the north but also back to the east before ending the first week with another time trial.
        After a transfer, the race then heads to the north of Italy, which will be visited from west to east, combined with a small visit to Switzerland. From the very northeast corner of Italy, the Giro d'Italia 2023 then ends with a transfer to Rome. A transfer that could almost be considered incomprehensible or at least not eco-responsible, knowing that the Giro d'Italia does not always end in the same city (in t ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2023| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Saturday 22 April 2023 at 14h19
        The Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2023 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, the race profile and the time- and route schedule
        The very first edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège took place in 1892. It is therefore quite logical that the race was given the nickname La Doyenne. That was thus over 130 years ago already and this year it's the 109th edition of the Belgian classic which will take place between Liège, Bastogne and ... Liège (the race had its finish in Ans from 1992 till 2018 but since 2019 it again takes place in Liège). You can read about the history of Liège-Bastogne-Liège in the article in which I wrote about it, with the race route of the 100th edition in 2014.
        
        The race route has again been modified a little bit in 2023. In the final we find the famous climbs of la Redoute, des Forges and la Roche-aux-Faucons, but after having climbed la Redoute, the riders will find a new climb with the côte de Cornémont, which is not ref ...
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      - Added: Friday 14 April 2023 at 16h34
        The (modified!) race route of the Amstel Gold Race 2023 on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile
        The Dutch classic, the Amstel Gold Race, will take place this Sunday 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 races of the Championnats du Monde 2012 finished.
        
        However, the race route of the Amstel Gold Race 2023 has been modified compared to previous years, especially in the first part. It contains 33 climbs, for this 57th edition of the UCI WorldTour race (the number of climbs varies a little bit from time to time, with a minimum of 31 in 2010 and 2012 and a maximum of 35 in 2017 and during the years which followed). In this article you'll find the time- and route schedule and the race route on Open Street Maps (similar to Google ...
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      - Added: Saturday 08 April 2023 at 15h44
        Paris-Roubaix 2023: its race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, its cobble stones sections and the other details of the 120th edition of the Hell of the North
        The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2023, will take place this Sunday 9 April. For the 120th edition of the race, the organisor decided to modify the race route just a little bit compared to last year, for the cobble stones sections between Saint-Martin-sur-Écaillon and Thian: the sections Haussy and Saulzoir (which made its comeback last year) are removed, and the section from Haspres to Thiant (#21) is added. The race thus goes from 30 to 29 cobble stones sections and there will be 54.5 kilometers of cobbles which await the riders (compared to 54.8 last year). The total distance of the race is 256.6 kilometers.
        
        In the Hell of the North a very small thing can come ruin the race for a rider or come at hand for another. Nothing's thus decided upfront, it'll be this Sunday on the cobbles that the whole story will be written!
        The 29 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix 2023
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      - Added: Saturday 01 April 2023 at 21h32
        The Ronde van Vlaanderen/Tour of Flanders 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth ... and the participants list
        The first Belgian classics already took place and now we're early April, it's time for Flanders beauty, one of the nicknames of the Ronde van Vlaanderen/Tour of Flanders. Organised for the first time in 1913 and interrupted only during the First World War makes the Tour of Flanders a real monument among the Belgian classics.
        
        With the trio Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) being present, this edition promises to be a nice spectacle!
        
        The race has been won by a foreign rider for 5 years in a row, but Belgium still is the country with the biggest number of race wins, 69 out of 106. For the first time since 2017 this 107th edition starts in van start in Bruges (Brugge), but the finish sitll is in Oudenaarde of course, after a total distance of 273.4 kilometer. Let's no longer wait to have a look in detail at the Tour of Flanders 2023 race route, which you can find below in Open S ...
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      - Added: tuesday 28 March 2023 at 22h48
        The Dwars door Vlaanderen 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth ... and the participants list
        After the Classic Brugge De Panne (won by Jasper Philipsen), the E3 Saxo Classic (in which the victory was for Wout van Aert) and Ghent-Wevelgem this weekend (won by Christophe Laporte, in a perfect teamwork with his Jumbo-Visma team mate, Wout van Aert), the Belgian classics will continue this Wednesday with Dwars door Vlaanderen, a 183.7 kilometer long race which contains in its second part several climbs and cobble stones sections which might be decisive for the race.
        
        In this article you'll find the race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth for Dwars door Vlaanderen 2023.
        The Dwars door Vlaanderen 2023 race route on Open Street Maps
        This Wednesday morning, the riders and followers of the classics will meet in Roeselare for the start of Dwars door Vlaanderen 2023.
        
        From there, they'll go on to Ardooie and Rijsseleind before continuing south, via Ingelmunster, a ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth| Classics
      - Added: Sunday 26 March 2023 at 00h53
        The Ghent-Wevelgem 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth ... and the participants list
        After the Classic Brugge De Panne (which was won by Jasper Philipsen) and the E3 Saxo Classic (in which the win went to Wout van Aert the day before yesterday), the Belgian classics today continue with Ghent-Wevelgem, a 260.9 kilometer long race which visits the hill country in the second part of the race with the hills which usually are very important in the race, and the "Plugstreet"-roads which were introduced in 2017.
        
        In this article you'll find the race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth for Ghent-Wevelgem 2023.
        The Ghent-Wevelgem 2023 race route on Open Street Maps
        This morning the riders and the followers of the classics willget together in .. Ieper for the start of Ghent-Wevelgem. As many races, this race also carries the name of its historical start city but since 2004 it doesn't start in Ghent anymore.
        
        From Ieper the riders go east via Wervik, Menen, ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Classics| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Saturday 04 March 2023 at 23h00
        The Paris-Nice 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules ... and the start list
        Even though you wouldn't say, looking at the current temperatures, and even though the riders might go through some episodes of rain, the time has come already for the Race to the sun, or by its official name, Paris-Nice. The 81st edition will start tomorrow, Sunday 5 March 2023, from La Verrière in the Yvelines department and the riders will have 1201 kilometers to ride before they cross the finish line of the last stage, on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.
        
        For the first time, either in a very long time or in the history of Paris-Nice (not easy to check!), a team time trial will be on the program of Paris-Nice 2023, on the third stage where each of the 22 teams will race a time trial in the form of a triangle on the map. A particularity of this team time trial is ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2023| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Thursday 29 December 2022 at 16h11
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy: the detailed maps on Open Street Maps
        A few days ago, the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy was officially announced. On velowire.com, you were able to discover the 3 stages that make up this Grand Départ in the updated article presenting the rumors about it since a few months already.
        
        Now we would like you to discover these 3 stages in detail on Open Street Maps (the equivalent of Google Maps, but as open source) on which are shown the race routes the riders will follow in Italy at end of June and early July 2024.
        The programme of the Tour de France 2024 Grand Départ
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 follows a classic schedule: ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| the page dedicated to the Tour de France 2024 in the UCI cycling calendar.">Tour de France 2024| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Wednesday 21 December 2022 at 23h36
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy! And the finish with a time trial Monaco > Nice!
        initially published on 12 October 2022 at 11.49PM, updated on 1 December 2022 at 12.47PM, on 3 December 2022 at 10.14PM and on 21 December at 11.36PM
        
        In June already, La Gazzetta dello Sport announced the news and it came back up several times since ... the Tour de France 2024 would have its Grand Départ in Italy and would end ... not as usual on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, but in Nice, most probably on the Promenade des Anglais!
        
        UPDATE 21 December 2022 at 11.36OM: while the finish of the last stage in Nice and its start in Monaco have already been announced and integrated in the versions early December of this article, Amaury Sport Organisation today officially announced the Grand Départ in Italy, with 3 stages, in a broadcast of the sports news on Italian TV. The information below thus now show what was in the official announce ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| the page dedicated to the Tour de France 2024 in the UCI cycling calendar.">Tour de France 2024
      - Added: tuesday 22 November 2022 at 23h18
        La soirée de remise des trophées de la Coupe de France FDJ 2022 a eu lieu vendredi, retour en images et en interview
        C'était vendredi soir, au siège de la FDJ, qu'a eu lieu la soirée de remise des trophées de la Coupe de France FDJ .. pardon, des Coupes de France FDJ car pour la première fois cette année la version masculine a vu la naissance de sa petite soeur avec la version féminine !
        
        Nous vous proposons un petit retour en images sur cette soirée, qui clôture réellement la saison 2022.
        Qu'est-ce la Coupe de France FDJ ?
        La Coupe de France, créée en 1992, regroupe des courses d'un jour françaises sur un calendrier unique auquel est associé un certain nombre de classements (classement individuel, classement des jeunes et classement par équipes). Les 15 coureurs les mieux placés dans chacune de ces courses obtient des points, variant entre 50 pour le premier et 3 pour le 15e.
        
        En 2022, la Coupe de France FDJ (après avoir été sponsorisé un certain temps par le PMU, c'est la FDJ qui a repris le flambeau au cours ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Coupe de France
      - Added: Monday 31 October 2022 at 23h18
        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!
        The little details of the Tour de France 2023 race route: ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2023
      - Added: Wednesday 26 October 2022 at 21h24
        Tour de France 2023: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities
        The Tour of all the mountain areas!
        --Pyrenees, Massif Central, Jura, Alps and Vosges will be on the programme! --
        
        initially published on 19 September 2022 at 11.45PM, updated on 21 September at 11.12PM, on 25 September at 4.22PM, on 27 September at 11.56PM, on 29 September at 1.12PM on 30 September at 11.38PM, on 3 October at 11.42PM, on 4 October at 10.22PM, on 12 October at 1.23PM and at 11.57PM, on 13 October at 11.49PM, on 15 October at 9.52PM, on 17 October at 10.48PM, on 22 October at 3.09PM, on 24 October at 10.52PM, on 25 October at 11.59PM and on 26 October at 9.24PM
        
        The month September is quite advanced already and it's just more than time to have a detailed look at the rumours about the Tour de France 2023 race route. We now know that the official presentation will take place on Thursday 27 October 2022 and we also know that the Grand Dépar ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2023
      - Added: Friday 19 August 2022 at 21h55
        Le parcours du Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine 2022 sur Open Street Maps et dans Google Earth, profils d'étapes et itinéraires horaires
        La fin du mois d'août s'approche et c'est donc déjà le Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine qui pointe le bout de son nez ! Cette course par étapes, dont le classement général se décide souvent au cours du contre-la-montre du jeudi après-midi, se déroulera cette année du mardi 23 au vendredi 26 août 2022, entre Chauray et Poitiers.
        
        5 étapes en 4 jours composent cette course régionale à l'allure internationale à laquelle participent des équipes WorldTeams telles que Groupama-FDJ, AG2R Citroën Team, Cofidis ou encore Trek-Segafredo se déroulera sur une distance totale de 685,8 km.
        
        Dans cet article, découvrez le parcours détaillé de ces étapes, sur des cartes très détaillées sur Open Street Maps et téléchargeables dans Google Earth.
        Le parcours du Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine 2022 sur Open Street Maps
        N'attendons plus pour regarder tout cela en détail !
        1/ mardi 23 août 2022 - Chauray > Périgny - 193,1 km
        La première étap ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Poitou-Charentes| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Monday 04 July 2022 at 16h33
        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!
        The programme of the Grand Départ< ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2023
      - Added: Friday 01 July 2022 at 02h27
        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
        Positive Covid-19 tests have had some impact on the peloton of the Tour de France 2022 even before the start, with some luck for the brand new French Champion Florian Sénéchal (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022
      - Added: Saturday 25 June 2022 at 20h10
        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!
        A bit of information ...
        Some ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Saturday 18 June 2022 at 18h21
        Le parcours des Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route 2022 sur des cartes Open Street Maps et dans Google Earth
        La fin du mois de juin s'approche déjà et c'est donc déjà cette semaine qu'auront lieu les Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route. Organisés comme d'habitude par la Fédération Française de Cyclisme (FFC) et la Ligue Nationale de Cyclisme (LNC), ils auront pour leur édition 2022 lieu à Cholet. Les Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route 2022 se dérouleront entre ce jeudi 23 juin 2022 et ce dimanche 26 juin 2022.
        
        Découvrez en détail et en exclusivité les différents parcours, des contre-la-montre et des courses en ligne, dans cet article sur velowire.com !
        Le programme des Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route 2022
        Sur une durée de 4 jours, le programme des Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route 2022 se présente ainsi : ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: French championships| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Saturday 04 June 2022 at 23h28
        The Critérium du Dauphiné 2022 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules and the participants list
        With the Tour of Italy (and its last minute result with Jai Hindley's victory) now behind us, it's time already to see the Critérium du Dauphiné 2022 start from the Ardèche department and more precisely from Voulte-sur-Rhône. It'll be the 74th edition of this race which is considered by some riders as the ultimate preparation of the Tour de France with its "concentration of mountains" (others will prefer the Tour of Switzerland which starts on 12 June) and it's made up of 8 stages including one individual time trial (the 4th stage, in the middle of the week) for a total distance of 1194.9 kilometers.
        
        Let's now look in detail all the stages of this Critérium du Dauphiné 2022 with the race route on ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Criterium du Dauphiné| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Thursday 05 May 2022 at 23h32
        The Tour of Italy 2022 on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        The month May has started already and it is thus already the time for the comeback of the first Grand Tour of the year, with the Tour of Italy 2022, or Giro d'Italia as Italians say, which starts this Friday 6 of May: exceptionally on a Friday because of the start in Hungary, which leads to an additional transfer/rest day, right on Monday.
        
        The Giro d'Italia 2022 will take place from Friday 6 May 2022 till Sunday 29 May 2022, over a total distance of 3445.6 km split out in 21 different stages. It'll be the 105th edition of this Italian Grand Tour. Let's now look in detail to the different stages of this Tour of Italy 2022 with the race routes on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.
        The Giro d'Italia 2022 race route on Open Street Maps
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        this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2022| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Thursday 21 April 2022 at 00h10
        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?
        According to article 1.3.051 of the ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022| Marketing
      - Added: Thursday 14 April 2022 at 00h42
        Paris-Roubaix 2022: its race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, its cobble stones sections and other details of the Hell of the North
        The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2022, will take place this Sunday 17 April. For the 119th edition of the race, the organisor decided to modify the race route just a little bit compared to last year, for the first cobble stones sections: the Vertain (# 26) section finds back its longer version, just like the Saulzoir (# 24) section. The number of sections remains the same however (30) and 54.8 kilometers of cobble stones will be awaiting the riders. The total distance of the race will be 257.2 kilometers.
        
        In the Hell of the North a very small thing can come ruin the race for a rider or come at hand for another. Nothing's thus decided upfront, it'll be this Sunday on the cobbles that the whole story will be written!
        The 30 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix 2022
        With a race route which is just a little bit different from the one in 2021, the cobble stones sections are a bit different as ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Roubaix| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Saturday 09 April 2022 at 21h21
        The Amstel Gold Race 2022 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth and the time- and route schedule
        The Dutch classic, the Amstel Gold Race, will take place between Maastricht and ... the Rijksweg in Vilt tomorrow. Indeed, since 2013, the finish is no longer on top of the Cauberg in Valkenburg but at the same location as where the races of the Championnats du Monde 2012 finished.
        
        The race route of the Amstel Gold Race 2022 - which will be the 56th edition - contains 33 mounts, in this UCI WorldTour race (the number of mounts varies a bit, with a minimum of 31 in 2010 and 2012 and a maximum of 35 in 2017 and during the following years). In this article you'll find the time- and route schedule, the race route on Open Street Maps (similar to Google Maps) and you can also download the race route in Google Earth so you can for example do a virtual flyover of ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Classics| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Sunday 03 April 2022 at 18h06
        Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) wins the Tour of Flanders 2022 in an incredible final!
        Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix), already the winner in 2020 and 2nd last year, managed to win his second "Flanders Finest"! This was however far from sure when he was in the last kilometer towards the finish, in a duo with Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates). Indeed, at the last moment they were taken back by a chasing duo with whom they'd been in the breakaway before. In the end, it thus turns out to be possible to end 4th in a sprint à deux because Pogačar got stuck and thus ended 4th, behind Dylan van Baarle (INEOS Grenadiers) and Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ)!
        The summary of the Tour of Flanders 2022
        After the start in Antwerp at 10AM and the real start 9.3 kilometers further at 10.21AM, we saw several breakaway attempts but it was only around kilometer 15 that today's breakaway was formed by 9 riders, of 9 different teams: Stan Dewulf (AG2R Citroën Team), Sébastien Grignard (Lotto-Soudal), Lindsay de Vylder (Sport Vlaand ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Classics
      - Added: Saturday 02 April 2022 at 20h11
        The Tour of Flanders 2022 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, profile and time- and route schedule
        The first Belgian classics have already taken place and now we're early April, it's already time for Flanders' Finest (Vlaanderens Mooiste), one of the nicknames the Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen) carries. Organised for the first time in 1913 and only temporarily stopped for the First World War, this race of course is a real monument among the Belgian classics.
        
        Now Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) is absent due to a Covid19 infection, his main competitors are probably very happy and started dreaming of a potential victory since chances are now higher for them!
        
        One Belgian candidate for the race win less but - even though the last 4 years it was always a winner from another country- Belgium still is the country with the biggest number of wins, 69 out of 105. As usual since 2017, the 106th edition will take place tomorrow between Antwerpen and Oudenaarde, over a total distance of 272.5 kilometers. Let's now have a detailed look at the race route of the T ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Classics| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: tuesday 29 March 2022 at 22h47
        L'actu des partenaires du Tour de France : lastminute.com fait voyager le Tour pendant 3 ans, Jules l'habille ces 4 prochaines années, Tourtel donne un nouveau twist et Strava part sur les routes du Tour !
        initialement publié le 7 mars 2022 à 15h40, mis à jour le 29 mars 2022 à 22h47
        
        Comme tous les ans, on voit quelques changements dans les partenaires du Tour de France et 2022 ne fait pas exception sur ce principe.
        
        Toutefois, 4 5 nouveaux partenaires la même année, c'est du jamais vu ces derniers temps et pourtant ce sera le cas en 2022 car après Santini, Tourtel Twist et Jules dont l'arrivée était déjà annoncée à l'occasion de la présentation du parcours du Tour de France ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022| Marketing
      - Added: tuesday 08 March 2022 at 22h09
        Søren Kragh Andersen with a maximum force at the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2022
        A breakaway of three riders created the main interest for the stage of the day in Paris-Nice 2022, but in the final circuit final, while there was still around 25 kilometers to go, their adventure came to an end.
        
        Since the sprinters teams had been working for a big part of the day to come back on the leading trio, a sprint became unevitable and in the long straight line, slightly uphill, towards the finish line, Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) managed to make the difference and win this stage.
        The summary of the third stage of Paris-Nice 2022: Vierzon > Dun-le-Palestel
        At the end of the morning today the third stage of Paris-Nice 2022 started in Vierzon, for a stage without any real difficulties, of 191 kilometers towards Dun-le-Palestel.
        
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2022
      - Added: Monday 07 March 2022 at 22h05
        Second stage of Paris-Nice: sprint victory from a reduced peloton for Fabio Jakobsen
        The second stage of Paris-Nice 2022 ended in a sprint, but not without the wind taking its role to reduce the number of pretendants!
        
        In the end it was Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) who took the victory, while Christophe Laporte finished almost immediately behind him, thus maintaining his leader position in the general classification. The French rider of the Dutch Jumbo-Visma team will thus again wear his yellow jersey tomorrow!
        The summary of the second stage of Paris-Nice 2022: Auffargis > Orléans
        It was between Auffargis in the Yvelines and Orléans in the Loiret department that the second stage of Paris-Nice 2022 took place this afternoon.
        
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2022
      - Added: Sunday 06 March 2022 at 19h11
        The demonstration by Jumbo-Visma in the final part of the first stage of Paris-Nice: victory for Christophe Laporte
        A team time trial? No, that was not what was on the programme of the first Paris-Nice 2022 stage today. However, 3 riders of the Jumbo-Visma team arrived together in a breakaway on the finish line and the trio decided to leave the victory to Christophe Laporte!
        The summary of the first stage of Paris-Nice 2022: Mantes-la-Ville > Mantes-la-Ville
        The first stage of Paris-Nice 2022 started in Mantes-la-Ville early this afternoon for a loop in the Val d'Oise and in the Yvelines before a final short loop of 17.7 km around the finish city (total distance of the stage: 159.8 km). While the first stage of Paris-Nice often ends in a bunch sprint, it was going to be totally different today!
        
        At kilometer 4, the first attack was launched by Matthew Holme ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice 2022| Paris-Nice
      - Added: Sunday 13 February 2022 at 21h24
        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
        Indeed, the maximum number of participating teams is decided by the International Cycling Union (UCI) and is currently fixed at 22. This organisation which governs the cycling sport also details further rules among those 22 teams which can participate in t ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022
      - Added: Saturday 16 October 2021 at 18h44
        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.
        
        Indeed, this Tour will be one with some original stuff, a very international Tour with no less than 4 countries being visited and a rather mountaineous Tour with no less than 5 moun ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022
      - Added: Wednesday 13 October 2021 at 17h03
        Tour de France 2022: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities
        initially published on 9 September at 1.46AM, updated on 9 September at 8.54PM, on 10 September at 10.24PM, on 15 September at 8.34AM, on 22 September at 0.27AM, on 25 September at 6.36PM, on 30 September at 10.48AM, on 2 October at 8.45PM and at 11.48PM, on 5 October at 11.16PM, on 6 October at 0.51AM, on 8 October at 0.05AM and at 9.07PM, on 9 October at 3.04PM, on 11 October at 10.24AM and at 10.58PM and on 13 October at 5.03PM
        
        It's early September, it's thus really time to get a closer look to the rumours on the Tour de France 2022 race route. We now know that the official presentation will take place on Thursday 14 October 2021 and we also know that the Grand Départ will take place in Denmark.
        
        For what follows, Christian Prudhomme has confirmed that a visit of the Nord department was planned, and this was already a rumour which had become almost sure. After ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022
      - Added: tuesday 12 October 2021 at 00h08
        Santini is the new sponsor for the distinctive jerseys of the Tour de France and theTour de France Femmes avec Zwift
        While you may have discovered last night already here that Le Coq Sportif has left the Tour de France through a small door, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) today announced the new partner providing the official distinctive jerseys of the Tour de France, of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift and oof the Etape du Tour will be Santini Cycling Wear.
        Santini gets in the Grande Boucle .. after having provided the Tour of Spain before
        Starting from 2022 and for at least 5 years (up to 2026 included), Santini Cycling Wear will equip the leaders of the different classifications of the Tour de France and of the Tour de Fran ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022| Marketing
      - Added: Monday 11 October 2021 at 00h14
        Marion Rousse director of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the sponsors and ... the end of the Le Coq Sportif sponsorship?
        While she was commenting Paris-Tours on France Télévisions, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organisor of the Tour de France and starting next year also of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, announced that Marion Rousse becomes the director of this new feminin version of the race.
        
        On RMC, Christian Prudhomme commented this announcement and also discussed the financial question of female races and thus necessarily the question about sponsors. And that gives us the occasion to talk about Le Coq Sportif as well .. or rather about its removal as a sponsor of the Tour, in a difficult financial context for the French brand.
        Marion Rousse, director of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift
        If you are only a bit interested in cycling, you most probably know already that starting from 2022, the Tour de France Femmes will make its bi ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022| Women's cycling| Marketing
      - Added: Friday 20 August 2021 at 23h23
        Le parcours du Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine 2021 sur Open Street Maps et dans Google Earth, profils d'étapes et itinéraires horaires
        La fin du mois d'août s'approche et c'est donc déjà le Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine qui pointe le bout de son nez ! Cette course par étapes, dont deux des trois dernières éditions ont été remportées par Arnaud Démare alors qu'elle se décide souvent au cours du contre-la-montre du jeudi après-midi, se déroulera cette année du mardi 24 au vendredi 27 août 2021.
        
        5 étapes en 4 jours composent cette course régionale à l'allure internationale à laquelle participent des équipes WorldTeams telles que Groupama-FDJ, AG2R Citroën Team, Cofidis ou encore Israel Start-Up Nation se déroulera sur une distance totale de 687,2 km.
        
        Dans cet article, découvrez le parcours détaillé de ces étapes, sur des cartes très détaillées sur Open Street Maps et téléchargeables dans Google Earth.
        Le parcours du Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine 2021 sur Open Street Maps
        N'attendons plus pour regarder tout cela en détail !
        1/ mardi 24 août 2021 - P ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Poitou-Charentes| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Monday 12 July 2021 at 19h57
        Tissot est le chronométreur officiel du Tour de France, mais comment cela se passe-t-il ?
        Depuis 2016, Tissot est à nouveau le chronométreur officiel du Tour de France. La même année, la marque d'horlogerie est également devenue chronométreur officiel de la Vuelta a España et en 2020 Tissot est devenu maître absolu en chronométrage dans les Grands Tours, en rajoutant le Giro d'Italia à la liste. La particularité de Tissot est que l'horlogiste n'associe pas juste son nom à ce rôle mais effectue réellement la prestation de chronométrage, comme on le verra dans cet article.
        Les contraintes et les conditions du chronométrage sur le Tour de France
        Quand on dit chronométrage, on dit précision et Tissot a donc sa réputation à défendre dans ce contexte. Sur un événement itinérant comme le Tour ce sont pas moins de 8 chronométreurs, et des chronométreurs sup ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2021| Marketing
      - Added: Friday 25 June 2021 at 20h39
        The participants list of the Tour de France 2021
        It's time already for the Tour de France 2021 tomorrow, which will start in Brest for a total of 3,414.4 kilometers up till the finish on the Champs-Elysées in Paris (click here to see the race route in detail). The Grand Départ covers the whole region of Brittany (Bretagne), with no less than 4 stages, each of which taking place in one of the departments of Brittany.
        
        Hereunder you'll find the participants list for this 108th edition of the Tour de France: a total of 184 riders from 23 teams will get to the start in Brest.
        
        Even though it's difficult to guess who will win a Grand Tour because of the fact that many things can h ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2021
      - Added: Monday 21 June 2021 at 01h05
        The Tour de France 2021 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        This information is not yet available in English. You can read it in French below in the mean time.
        
        Publication initiale le 26 mai 2021 à 8h58, mis à jour et totalement terminé le 21 juin 2021 à 01h05.
        
        Alors que le Giro d'Italia 2021 n'est même pas encore terminé au moment de la première publication de cet article, et avant même que les informations concernant le parcours des étapes soient publiées officiellement par l'organisation, velowire.com vous propose de découvrir en détail le parcours de cette 108ème édition de la Grande Boucle, du moins en ce qui concerne les 5 premières étapes dans un premier temps. Vous trouverez ainsi des cartes Open Street Maps/Google Earth du Tour de France 2021, qui seront ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2021| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 00h25
        Les Championnats de France 2021 auront lieu à Epinal (Vosges) - découvrez les parcours en détail sur Open Street Maps/Google Earth
        La Fédération Française de Cyclisme (FFC) et la Ligue Nationale de Cyclisme (LNC) organisent comme d'habitude les Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route qui, pour leur édition 2021, auront lieu à Epinal dans les Vosges. Le départ des épreuves contre-la-montre auront lieu à Thaon les Vosges. Les Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route 2021 se dérouleront entre demain, le jeudi 17 juin 2021, et ce dimanche 20 juin 2021.
        
        Découvrez en détail et en exclusivité les différents parcours, des contre-la-montre et des courses en ligne, dans cet article sur velowire.com !
        Le programme des Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route 2021
        De retour sur une durée de 4 jours (l'année dernière le programme avait exceptionnellement été condensé sur 3 jours, avec le vendredi en premier jour et donc sans journée de coupure), le programme des Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route 2021 se présente ainsi : ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: French championships| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Friday 07 May 2021 at 23h39
        The Tour of Italy 2021 on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        This publication is unfortunately not available in English. You can however read the French version below.
        
        Le mois de mai 2021 est entamé et - avec un retour sur la programmation habituelle - on retrouve donc déjà le Tour d'Italie 2021, ou Giro d'Italia comme on dit en langue locale en Italie.
        
        Le Giro d'Italia 2021 aura lieu du samedi 8 mai 2021 jusqu'au dimanche 30 mai 2021, sur une distance totale de 3479,9 km répartis sur 21 étapes différentes. Il s'agira de la 104e édition de ce Grand Tour italien. Regardons en détail l'ensemble des étapes de ce Tour d'Italie 2021 avec les cartes Open Street Maps/Google Earth.
        Le parcours du Giro d'Italia 2021 sur Open Street Maps
        1/ Torino (Turin) > Torino (Turin) - contre-l ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2021
      - Added: Friday 05 February 2021 at 00h43
        Les Grands Tours 2021 avec 23 équipes, le Tour de France annonce sa sélection d'équipes
        Le Tour de France 2021 aura lieu entre le 26 juin et le 18 juillet prochains, entre Brest et les fameux Champs-Elysées à Paris. Comme tous les ans, il fallait que l'organisateur du Tour de France - Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) - annonce la sélection des équipes qui y participent et c'est désormais chose faite. Une particularité attire le regard, le nombre d'équipes y figurant.
        
        Ce nombre d'équipe, plus important qu'à l'habitude, est le fruit de négociations initiées par la Ligue Nationale de Cyclisme, en collaboration avec ses homologues italien et espagnols et les fédérations des trois pays concernés.
        En 2021, les Grands Tours se distinguent : 23 équipes au rendez-vous !
        C'est la Ligue Nationale du Cyclisme qui communique sur le sujet ce jeudi soir puisque c'est elle qui est à l'origine du plus grand nombre d'équipe ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2021
      - Added: Monday 02 November 2020 at 22h35
        The Tour de France 2021 race route has been presented: a Tour with less climbing but more transfers
        It's been almost a month since you progressively discovered it through the rumours, but last night during a TV show dedicated to the Tour de France 2021 race route it has been officially presented. And it turns out that what already started to become clear in the rumours indeed becomes truth. Indeed, this Tour will be more classical, less mountaineous but filled up with quite important transfers between the stages!
        
        Let's now have a look at all this more in detail.
        The little details of the Tour de France 2021 race route: from Brest to Paris for the 108th edition
        The Tour de France 2021 in numbers
        First of all, as usual, let's have a look at the statistics to present this new edition of the ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2021
      - Added: Sunday 01 November 2020 at 12h02
        Tour de France 2021: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities
        initially published on 7 October at 11.20PM, updated on 8 October at 9.26AM, on 9 October at 6PM, on 13 October at 11.23PM, on 14 October at 9.21PM, on 17 October at 2.04AM, on 20 October at 10.06PM, on 21 October at 10.13PM, on 22 October at 11.02PM, on 25 October at 9.50PM, on 26 October at 10AM, on 27 October at 10.24AM and at 6.40PM, on 28 October at 8.27AM and at 12.11PM, on 29 October at 9.30PM, on 30 October at 11.52PM and on 1 November at 12.02PM
        
        Is it possible that Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organisor of the Tour de France, really does everything to prevent me from finding the Tour de France 2021 race route based on the rumours? Going as far as organising the Tour de France 2020 in September right in the middle of the usual timespan in which the race route starts to build up in the publication which is now usual on velowire.com where you can find the rumours about next year's Tour de France race route since 2007?
        
        Going as far ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2021
      - Added: tuesday 25 August 2020 at 02h19
        The Tour de France 2020 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        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!
        A little bit of initial information ...
        Some first pr ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2020| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Monday 10 August 2020 at 17h50
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2021 will take place in Brittany, avec les premiers coups de pédale à Brest !
        A follow-up of date changes following the health crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic led to a change in the place where the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2021 will take place. Next year, the Tour de France will thus not start in Copenhagen in Denmark as initially planned (being prepared since June 2016 and officially announced in February 2019) but in Brittany. The first kilometers of this 108th edition of the Grande Boucle will take place in Brest in the Finistère department.
        The date changes which prevent the Tour to start in Copenhagen in 2021
        The coronavirus thus came to bother the plans of Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O., the organ ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2021| Olympic Games
      - Added: Monday 06 July 2020 at 11h36
        Les Championnats de France 2020 auront lieu à Grand-Champ - découvrez les parcours en détail sur Open Street Maps/Google Earth
        La Fédération Française de Cyclisme (FFC) et la Ligue Nationale de Cyclisme (LNC) ont annoncé ce jour que les Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route 2020 auront lieu à Grand-Champ dans le Morbihan en Bretagne. Le départ des épreuves contre-la-montre auront lieu à Locminé.
        
        Découvrez en détail et en exclusivité les différents parcours, des contre-la-montre et des courses en ligne, dans cet article sur velowire.com !
        Grand-Champ après l'abandon de Plumelec
        Alors que Plumelec, ville où les Championnats de France de cyclisme sur route 2020 devraient initialement être organisés, a renoncé à l'organisation des Championnats à cause des conditions sanitaires suite à la crise COVID-19, c'est la commune de Grand-Champ - localité de près de 6000 habitants seulement - qui s'est rapidement portée candidate. Son maire Yves Bleunven doit être content que la commune ait bien obtenu l'organisation de ces Championnats car ce passionné de cyclisme va pouvoir vivre 3 jours de ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: French championships| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: tuesday 14 April 2020 at 12h41
        Coronavirus: the Tour de France 2020 to be rescheduled, but when? - from 29 August till 20 September
        It was more and more likely over the past few weeks, but after the announcements made by Emmanuel Macron in his speech last night, it has become mandatory to cancel the Tour de France 2020 at its initial dates, which were from Saturday 27 June 2020 till Sunday 19 July 2020.
        
        Cancelation at these dates, but maybe followed by a rescheduled edition? Let's have a look in detail at the different aspects around rescheduling the event!
        Why should the Tour de France 2020 be rescheduled?
        Several answers to this question!
        
        First of all because the initial dates won't work anymore. The Tour de France 2020 was planned to have its Grand Départ in Nice on Saturday 27 June 2020, preceded by the usual programme of pre-race operations starting on Wednesday 24 June 2020 with the opening of the Perma ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2020
      - Added: Saturday 07 March 2020 at 23h25
        The Paris-Nice 2020 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        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 ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2020| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Wednesday 16 October 2019 at 00h17
        Het parcours van Tour de France 2020 officieel aangekondigd: klimmen, klimmen, klimmen!
        dit artikel wordt binnenkort in het Nederlands vertaald; in de tussentijd kunt u het hieronder in het Frans lezen
        
        Alors que vous avez pu vivre sur velowire.com la découverte progressive du parcours du Tour de France 2020 sur la base des rumeurs depuis mi-septembre, celui-ci a été officiellement dévoilé en début de cet après-midi au Palais des Congrès à Paris par son organisateur, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.).
        
        Particulièrement montagneux dès le début, à cause du départ au sud - à Nice - mais aussi grâce aux choix de l'organisateur, A.S.O. n'a pas particulièrement cherché à compenser ce côté montagneux par ailleurs. On se retrouve donc avec un très beau parcours qui est clairement fait pour des coureurs costauds, qui ont intérêt à assurer tous les jours pendant ces 21 étapes ! En ce qui concerne les sprinteurs, là aussi ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2020
      - Added: Monday 14 October 2019 at 18h20
        Tour de France 2020: the rumours on the race route and the start and finish cities!
        this article has not been translated in English and will probably not be; you can read it below in French
        
        article publié initialement le 15 septembre 2019 à 17h41, mis à jour le 15 septembre à 20h56, le 16 septembre à 10h03 et à 19h06, le 18 septembre à 21h04, le 20 septembre à 17h37, le 22 septembre à 23h20, le 24 septembre à 11h00, à 12h18 et à 18h11, le 30 septembre à 23h03, le 1er octobre à 17h05, le 3 octobre à 11h11 et à 12h46, le 7 octobre à 11h18 et à 19h50, le 8 octobre à 22h50, le 9 octobre à 22h54, le 12 octobre à 19h09 et le 14 octobre à 13h05 et à 18h20
        
        Alors que l'annonce officielle n'aura lieu que le mardi 15 octobre prochain au Palais des Congrès à Paris, événement au cours duquel Christian Prudhomme présentera les villes départ et arrivée, les difficultés et les grandes lignes du parcours, vous avez l'habitude de retrouver ici en septembre/octobre les premières rumeurs sur le parcours du ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2020
      - Added: Saturday 05 October 2019 at 20h58
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2020 in detail: the 2 first stages on Open Street Maps with a main role for Nice
        While the full Tour de France 2020 race route will only be announced on 15 October and even though this website already provides you loads of informations about the Tour de France 2020 race route based on rumours, velowire.com now exclusively allows you to discover in detail the two stages which make up the Grand Départ of the 107th Tour de France in Nice, in detail on Open Street Maps.
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2020 in Nice - the detailed race route of the two first stages
        The programme of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2020 starts right from Wednesday 24 June 2020 when the permanence and press center open in the P ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2020
      - Added: Saturday 24 August 2019 at 22h56
        The Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        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 ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Poitou-Charentes| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Friday 05 July 2019 at 01h58
        The participants list of the Tour de France 2019 and their bib numbers
        This Thursday, 22 teams of the Tour de France 2019 have been presented to the Brussels public on the Grand-Place in the capital of Belgium.
        
        There will be no less than 30 nationalities at the start of this 106th edition of the Grande Boucle, for a total of 176 riders (8 per team).
        
        France is the best represented country, with a total of 34 riders at the start (19%), followed by Belgium with 21 riders and Italy with 15 riders. The top 5 is completed by Spain with 11 riders and ex aequo for Germany and The Netherlands with each 11 riders.
        
        Kazakhstan, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Argentinia, Russia, Latvia and Erythrea are the less well represented countries, with each only one rider in the peloton of the Tour.
        
        Hereunder you'll find the complete list of participating riders for t ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019
      - Added: Saturday 29 June 2019 at 00h16
        The Tour de France 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        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 ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Thursday 06 June 2019 at 23h16
        Envie de vivre l'étape du Tourmalet du Tour de France 2019 en VIP ? Yelloh ! Village vous invite !
        Vous êtes un grand fan du Tour de France ? Nous aussi ;-). Vous souhaitez vivre l'une des plus belles étapes du Tour de France 2019 en mode VIP ? C'est possible : velowire.com a le plaisir de vous faire profiter d'une collaboration avec Yelloh ! Village qui organise un jeu concours permettant de gagner un accès VIP au "Relais Etape" de l'étape qui arrive au sommet du col du Tourmalet le samedi 20 juillet prochain et pas que ...
        Mais qu'est-ce donc Yelloh ! Village ?
        Vous ne connaissez pas Yelloh ! Village ? Il s'agit d'un réseau de campingsvillages créé en 2000 et devenu depuis LA référence dans l'hôtellerie de plein air haut de gamme en France, en Espagne et au Portugal.
        
        Découvrez plus d'informations sur Yelloh ! Village plus loin dans cet article, mais tout d'abord ... ne tardons pas à découvrir le jeu concours car il ne ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019| Marketing
      - Added: Thursday 06 June 2019 at 01h07
        The Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        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 ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Criterium du Dauphiné| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Friday 10 May 2019 at 22h26
        The Tour of Italy 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        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.
        
        Let's now look in detail all stages of this Tour of Italy 2019 with the maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.
        The Giro d'Italia 2019 race route on Open Street Maps
        1/ Saturday 11 May 2019 - Bologna > Bologna - individual time trial - 8 km
        The first stage of this Tour of Italy 2019 is a timed races in the streets of the city ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2019| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Saturday 13 April 2019 at 23h00
        The Paris-Roubaix 2019 participants lists and their bib numbers
        The 117th edition of Paris-Roubaix will take place tomorrow and 175 riders will come to the start, for 25 teams of 7 riders who will participate in Paris-Roubaix 2019. In this article you'll find there names and the corresponding bib numbers.
        The Paris-Roubaix 2019 race route and its 29 cobble stones sections in detail
        You can find all the details about the 257 kilometers long race route and the 54.5 kilometers of cobble stones in the article:
        
        >> Paris-Roubaix 2019: its race route, its cobble stones sections and other details of the Hell of the North
        Bora-Hansgrohe
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Roubaix| Classics
      - Added: tuesday 09 April 2019 at 23h59
        Paris-Roubaix 2019: its race route, its cobble stones sections and other details of the Hell of the North
        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
        With a slightly modified race route compared to 2018, the cobble stones sections have also been m ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Roubaix| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth| Classics
      - Added: Saturday 23 March 2019 at 21h30
        The last wildcards have been announced, here are the teams which will participate in the Tour de France 2019
        While Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) already announced the participation of a Belgian team (Wanty-Groupe Gobert) and a French team (Cofidis, solutions crédits) next to the 18 UCI WorldTeams on 10 January, the organisor of the Tour de France yesterday announced the last two wildcards concerning the participation in the Tour de France 2019 which will start in Brussels in 106 days (on Saturday 6 July 2019).
        
        Find out which are the 22 teams which will participate in this 106th edition of the Grande Boucle.
        The 18 UCI WorldTeams
        The UCI WorldTeams, a total of 18 teams, are invited by default to participate in the Tour de France. This year, the teams which were sure to participate thus are: ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019
      - Added: Saturday 09 March 2019 at 00h03
        The Paris-Nice 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        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.
        
        In this article, you'll find the usual presentation of the Paris-Nice 2019 race route with maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.
        
        Let's now have a detailed look on the 8 stages of this Paris-Nice:
        1/ Sunday 10 March 2019 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye > Saint-Germain-en-Laye - 138.5 km
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2019| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Wednesday 20 February 2019 at 22h03
        The Tour de France will start in Copenhagen in Denmark, ~~but when?~~ in ~~2021~~ 2022
        initially published on Monday 20 June 2016 at 9.50PM, updated on 25 January 2017 at 7.30PM, on 20 February 2019 at 10.03PM and on 10 August 2020 at 11.28PM
        A press release from Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organisor of the Tour de France, announced tonight that the city of Copenhagen in Denmark became a candidate to receive the Grand Départ of the Tour, with a 3 days long programme.
        
        Nothing's sure about whether this will become reality, but A.S.O. never before sent a press release about a candidate without making it happen in the end!
        Copenhagen's proposal
        The city of Copenhagen thus officially became a candidate, to organise the Grand Départ of the Tour de France somewhere between 2019 and 2021, in collaboration with its surrounding islands.
        
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022
      - Added: tuesday 01 January 2019 at 17h29
        The race route of the first stages of the Tour de France 2019 on Open Street Maps/Google Earth
        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!
        
        You might have beebn waiting for it since the official announcement of the Tour de France 2019 stages, the maps with the detailed race route of the first Tour de France 2019 stages are finally available here!
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2019
        Brussels, in Belgium, will receive the ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Sunday 28 October 2018 at 02h19
        Tour de France 2019 : le parcours présenté - montagneux sur un fond de 100 ans du Maillot Jaune
        C'est jeudi en début d'après-midi que le parcours du Tour de France 2019 a enfin été présenté ! Enfin, car sur velowire.com vous aviez pu le découvrir en entier et 100% conforme à la version qui a été présentée ce jeudi (contrairement à de nombreux média qui ont fait fausse route cette année).
        
        Une course qui va tutoyer la montagne dès les Vosges lors des 5ème et 6ème étapes, ainsi que dans le Massif Central, avant même d'arriver dans les Pyrénées et de terminer par les Alpes. Le nombre d'éléments en référence directe aux 100 ans du Maillot Jaune est finalement assez faible, même si on devine quelques petits clins d'oeil ainsi que des références aux 50 ans de la première des 5 victoires d'Eddy Merckx, dont le départ à Bruxelles en Belgique !
        Le Tour de France 2019 en quelques chiffres
        Commençons tout d'abord, comme d'habitude, avec quelques statistiques et autres chiffres sur le ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019
      - Added: tuesday 23 October 2018 at 22h04
        Tour de France 2019: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities!
        initially published on 24 September at 1.28AM, updated on 25 September at 11.14PM, 1st of October at 4.10PM and 2 October at 11.53PM, 3 October at 9.11AM, 5 October at 0.31AM, 7 October at 7.58PM, 14 October at 7.03PM, on 17 October at 10.14PM, on 20 October at 3.17PM and on 23 October at 10.05AM and at 10.04PM
        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 r ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019
      - Added: Saturday 18 August 2018 at 16h41
        Le parcours du Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2018 sur Google Maps/Google Earth
        La 32ème édition du Tour du Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine qui sillonnera comme d'habitude les départements de Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres et Vienne, aura lieu du mardi 21 au vendredi 24 août 2018.
        
        4 jours de course avec 5 étapes (le jeudi les coureurs effectueront une courte étape en ligne le matin et un contre-la-montre individuel l'après-midi) seront au programme pour une distance d'un peu plus de 660 kilomètres après le départ de Jonzac.
        
        Découvrez ci-dessous le parcours en détail sur Google Maps ou, si vous le souhaitez, dans Google Earth.
        Le parcours du Tour du Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2018 sur Google Maps
        1/ mardi 21 août 2018 - Jonzac > Cognac - 194,2 km
        La première étape connaîtra son départ à Jonzac, au tout nouveau Centre des Congrès et sera longue de 194,2 kilomètres jusqu'à l'arrivée dans l'Avenue Victor Hugo à Cognac.
        
        L'étape passera par Marcillac où les ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Poitou-Charentes| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Friday 06 July 2018 at 18h59
        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 ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018
      - Added: Monday 02 July 2018 at 23h50
        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:
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Sunday 03 June 2018 at 01h51
        The Critérium du Dauphiné 2018 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, the time- and route schedules, profiles and maps
        This Sunday 3 June, the 70th edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné starts in Valence. 153 riders will get to start the race with a solo effort for the prologue of the 2018 edition of the race and 7 other stages will be awaiting them afterwards. Over a total of 958.6 kilometers, they'll see that especially the second half of the week will be decisive in this race, with important mountain parts in the stages.
        
        In this article you'll find the maps, profiles and time- and route schedule of each of these stages, the maps of course being on Google Maps/Google Earth as you're used to find on velowire.com!
        THe Critérium du Dauphiné 2018's race route on Google Maps
        Let's now have a look at the different stages one by one:
        P/ Sunday 3 June 2018 - Valence > Valence - 6.6 km
        It'll all start w ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Criterium du Dauphiné| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Sunday 08 April 2018 at 20h11
        Paris-Roubaix 2018 remporté par Peter Sagan, devant Silvan Dillier rescapé de l'échappée du jour
        Il en a fallu du temps avant que l'échappée du jour se forme sur Paris-Roubaix aujourd'hui .. mais l'un des coureurs qui y était présent a assuré jusqu'au bout pour se disputer le sprint pour la victoire, Silvan Dillier (AG2R La Mondiale). Tombé sur plus fort que lui, c'est Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) qui remporte la course !
        Le résumé de Paris-Roubaix 2018
        C'est sous le soleil que les 175 coureurs de la 116ème édition de Paris-Roubaix ont pris le départ ce matin à Compiègne.
        
        Après un passage devant la Clairière de l'Armistice en commémoration des 100 ans de l'Armistice 1918 dans le défilé neutralisé en direction du départ réel, on a vu plusieurs tentatives d'échappées - en solitaire ou en groupe - dans les premiers kilomètres mais elles restaient sans succès jusqu'à celle d'un groupe de 6 après une quarantaine de kilomètres. On ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Roubaix
      - Added: Thursday 05 April 2018 at 10h48
        Paris-Roubaix 2018: its race route, cobble stones sections and other details of the Hell of the North
        The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2018, will take place this Sunday. For the 116th edition of the race, the organisor decided to slightly modify last year's race route: the start has been modified, as well as the first cobble stones sections, with for example the comeback of the Saint-Python section. We still have the same number of cobble stones sections (29) but the total distance on cobbles is a little bit lower than last year, 54.5 kilometers instead of 55. The total number of kilometers of the race remains identical, 257 kilometers, but that's also due to the fact that the kilometer 0 of the race is a bit further from the start location!
        
        In the Hell of the North, any small detail can however come disturb the race for one of the riders or maybe the contrary, help another rider. So, nothing's sure beforehand: Sunday, everything will be decided on the cobbles ... with the Quick-Step riders being t ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Roubaix| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Monday 12 March 2018 at 22h34
        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, ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2020
      - Added: Sunday 11 March 2018 at 23h13
        Paris-Nice 2018: sunshine for the Spanish riders David De La Cruz and Marc Soler in the final stage
        The sun was definitely missing from the final part of Paris-Nice 2018 in Nice (despite the nickname of the race, the Race to the sun), with this stage of 110 kilometers which took place under the rain. If there were any sunrays, those were for the two Spanish riders who managed to get some good results out of this stage, David De la Cruz (Sky) for the stage win in a duo sprint and Marc Soler (Movistar) who wins the race thanks to the delay of the yellow jersey and the bonus seconds!
        The summary of the 8th and final stage of Paris-Nice 2018: Nice > Nice
        In this last stage, we had to wait until the climb of the Côte de Levens and the twentieth kilometer to see the first attacks, but this first breakaway didn't really work out. Once the bunch got back together, it fell apart in two parts, with a group of 24 riders ahead.
        
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2018
      - Added: Saturday 10 March 2018 at 23h13
        Paris-Nice 2018: Simon Yates solo and with a double win in the 7th stage!
        The forelast stage of Paris-Nice 2018, who partly took place in the rain, was a difficult stage with several climbs. Simon Yates is the one who managed to be the last one to get away, in the final climb towards the mountain top finish and that's how the English rider not only won the stage but also took the jersey of the general classification!
        The summary of the 7th stage of Paris-Nice 2018: Nice > Valdeblore La Colmiane
        Apparently the Race to the sun, the nickname of Paris-Nice, doesn't really respect its nickname this year. Indeed, the forelast stage of Paris-Nice 2018 started in Nice under the pouring rain today!
        
        No breakaway attempts before the first climb of the day, the Côte de Gattières, but in this climb we saw sever ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2018
      - Added: Friday 09 March 2018 at 23h13
        Paris-Nice 2018: Rudy Molard solo at the end of the 6th stage!
        After the time trial in Saint-Etienne won by Wout Poels (Team Sky) and the 5th stage of Paris-Nice 2018 won in a solo victory by Jérôme Cousin (Direct Energie), it was again a solo victory which concluded the 6th stage in Vence today. Indeed, Rudy Molard (Groupama-FDJ) went off alone just before the last kilometer and won the stage in this way!
        The summary of the 6th stage of Paris-Nice 2018: Sisteron > Vence
        At the start in Sisteron and despite several attempts to break away, we had to wait for about twenty kilometers before we saw a group get away. Rather quickly this group was joined by a second group and thus formed a big breakaway of no less than 13 riders: Lars Bak (Lotto Soudal), Amaël Moinard (Fortuneo-Samsic), Paul Martens (Lotto NL-Jumbo), Cyril Lemoine (Cofidis), Tom Scully (EF Education First-Drapac), ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2018
      - Added: tuesday 06 March 2018 at 22h24
        Paris-Nice 2018: Jonathan Hivert goes on till the end with the breakaway and wins the 3rd stage
        A stage for breakaway riders today in Paris-Nice 2018 and that's what we've seen, starting with a first breakaway right from the first kilometer and than, once this leading trio falls apart after an accelleration by Fabien Grellier (Direct Energie) in this group, a second leading trio got set up after the first crossing of the finish line, in the final circuit. This leading trio went on until the finish and battled for the stage win, taken by Jonathan Hivert (Direct Energie)!
        The summary of the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2018: Bourges > Châtel-Guyon
        Just before 11.30AM the race started in Bourges and right from the first kilometer, 3 riders got away from the peloton, more precisely Jay Thomson (Dimension Data), Fabien Grellier (Direct Energie) and Przemyslaw Kasperkiewicz (Delko Marseille Provence KTM). Very quickly, these breakaway riders managed to extend ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2018
      - Added: Monday 05 March 2018 at 19h16
        Paris-Nice 2018: Dylan Groenewegen strong sprinter in the 2nd stage
        The second stage of Paris-Nice 2018 between Orsonville and Vierzon didn't present any climbs and it was thus almost sure that it would end in a bunch sprint. The breakaway took some time to get off and the speed in today's stage was quite low all the way long, but in the end we saw a classical set-up for such a stage: a breakaway of 6 riders which was quickly reduced to two, taken back at 4 kilometers from their goal, after which a bunch sprint was prepared. In that bunch sprint Dylan Groenewegen showed his strong legs by starting off his sprint quite early and winning the stage!
        The summary of the 2nd stage of Paris-Nice 2018: Orsonville > Vierzon
        The weather was a bit better than yesterday when the second stage of Paris-Nice 2018 set off from Orsonville in the Yvelines department early this afternoon ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2018
      - Added: Monday 05 March 2018 at 00h03
        Paris-Nice 2018: Arnaud Démare the best puncher of the sprinters at the finish of the first stage
        154 riders came to the start of the first stage of Paris-Nice 2018 in Chatou early this afternoon. This first stage took place in the rain and as usual we saw a breakaway being formed but as usual it was vowed to fail in a stage like this. In the final part of the stage, Alexis Vuillermoz (AG2R La Mondiale) went off alone and first in the climb towards the finish, but the peloton was too strong behind him and despite the expectations it was a big group of riders which went on to the finish. However, only the strongest managed to get a spot in the head of the peloton and among them the champion of France, Arnaud Démare (FDJ), turned out to be the strongest of all!
        The summary of the first stage of Paris-Nice 2018: Chatou > Meudon
        A small peloton started in this first stage in Chatou this afternoon. Indeed, a reduced peloton because only 7 riders were allowed per team. With 22 teams that thus makes ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2018
      - Added: Sunday 04 March 2018 at 11h21
        The Paris-Nice 2018 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
        The day after the selection of the teams for Paris-Nice 2018 on Monday 8 January, the Paris-Nice 2018 race route got announced. Unfortunately velowire.com has not been able to present you the race route of the 2018 edition of the Race to the sun at that time, but we catch up now with the usual presentation of the race route with detailed maps on Google Maps/Google Earth!
        
        The 76th edition of Paris-Nice which starts this Sunday is made up of 8 stages (including 1 time trial) for a total distance of 1,198.9 km, visiting no less than 16 French departments and containing 27 climbs.
        
        Let's ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2018
      - Added: Monday 08 January 2018 at 23h44
        La sélection des équipes pour le Tour de France 2018, pour Paris-Nice et le Critérium du Dauphiné
        Comme vous le savez, le peloton du Tour de France est composé des 18 UCI WorldTeams et une sélection de 4 équipes UCI Continentales Pro, invitées sur base de "wildcard".
        
        Et c'est aujourd'hui - particulièrement tôt comparé aux années précédentes - qu'Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), l'organisateur du Tour a annoncé la sélection des équipes pour le Tour de France 2018 et donc plus particulièrement ces 4 équipes qui bénéficient d'une invitation.
        
        Egalement organisateur d'autres courses telles que Paris-Nice et le Critérium du Dauphiné, A.S.O. a au ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018| Paris-Nice| Criterium du Dauphiné| Paris-Nice 2018
      - Added: Wednesday 27 December 2017 at 21h07
        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. ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019
      - Added: tuesday 26 December 2017 at 20h46
        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 ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: UCI ProTour| Tour de France| Giro d Italia| Vuelta a España
      - Added: Wednesday 18 October 2017 at 01h00
        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' ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018
      - Added: Monday 16 October 2017 at 22h32
        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 ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018
      - Added: Sunday 27 August 2017 at 19h08
        Bretagne Classic-Ouest France 2017: yet another victory for Elia Viviani!
        The Bretagne Classic-Ouest France 2017, 2nd edition of the new format of the fomer Grand Prix de Plouay, ended - not surprisingly - in a bunch sprint. In this sprint, the Italian rider Elia Viviani of Team Sky showed his supremacy which we already saw the whole week long, after a victory in Hamburg last Sunday and 2 stage wins in a bunch sprint in the Tour du Poitou-Charentes.
        The summary of the Bretagne Classic-Ouest France 2017
        The race started 8 minutes late for the peloton of the Bretagne Classic-Ouest France, at 11.08AM in Plouay for a race over 239.7 kilometers around Plouay, with two climbs in Mûr-de-Bretagne and a final circuit of 13.9 kilometers (see the Bretagne Classic-Ouest France 2017 race route).
        
        Rapidly after the start, a breakaway with 7 riders was formed by Natnael Berhane (Dimension Data), ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Grand Prix de Plouay
      - Added: Monday 21 August 2017 at 23h37
        Le parcours de la Bretagne Classic-Ouest France 2017 sur Google Maps et sur Kinomap
        mis à jour le 26 août 2017 à 19h05 avec la liste des partants
        "La Bretagne Classic-Ouest France" je vous entends déjà dire : "mais qu'est-ce donc ?"
        
        Et pourtant, cela fait depuis l'année dernière que le "Grand Prix de Plouay" a changé son nom pour devenir une "classique" à travers la Bretagne, pour maintenir sa place dans l'UCI WorldTour !
        
        Contrairement à ce qui était le Grand Prix de Plouay, la Bretagne Classic se déroule sous forme d'une course en ligne, suivi par un tour du circuit autour de la ville de Plouay. Tous les ans, la partie en ligne est appelée à évoluer et ça a également été le cas entre l'année dernière et cette année.
        
        Découvrons ci-dessous le parcours de la seule course bretonne de l'UCI WorldTour !
        Le parcours de la Bretagne Classic 2017
        Après le départ de Plouay, les coureurs partiront vers le no ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Kinomap| Grand Prix de Plouay
      - Added: Sunday 20 August 2017 at 11h09
        Le parcours du Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2017 sur Google Maps/Google Earth
        Comme tous les ans, velowire.com assurera cette année à nouveau la gestion du contenu du site web du Tour du Poitou-Charentes et donc entre autres la production des cartes Google Maps des 5 différentes étapes.
        
        Pourquoi donc ne pas vous les proposer également ici ?
        
        C'est pour cela que vous trouverez ci-dessous le parcours du Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2017 sur Google Maps/Google Earth, les itinéraires horaires et les profils des 5 étapes qui auront lieu de ce mardi 22 août au vendredi 25 août (5 étapes en 4 jours, le jeudi étant une journée avec une courte étape en ligne le matin et un contre-la-montre l'après-midi).
        Le parcours du Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2017 sur Google Maps
        Ce sont 658,3 kilomètres qui sont au programme du 31ème Tour du Poitou-Charentes la semaine prochaine, répartis en 5 étapes dont 4 ét ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Poitou-Charentes| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Saturday 22 July 2017 at 09h41
        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!
        
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      - Added: Friday 30 June 2017 at 19h00
        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
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      - Added: Saturday 24 June 2017 at 19h50
        The Tour de France 2017 race route in Google Maps/Google Earth
        As usual, velowire.com allows you to discover in detail the race route of this 104th edition of the Grande Boucle, on Google Maps/Google Earth at one week before the start of the Tour de France 2017.
        
        With the informations from this article you'll know all the tiny details, all cities and villages the Tour will visit and you'll thus be able to prepare your trip to the race if you're one of the 12 million spectators on the side of the road, or simply be able to follow the race in a better way if you're not!
        Some information first ...
        Here is some additonal information you need to know before we get into detail about the different stages of the Tour de France 2017:
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      - Added: Friday 23 June 2017 at 21h27
        The Tour de France 2018 will start one week later .. and with less riders!
        It was the surprise announcement made by the UCI yesterday and it was confirmed to velowire.com by A.S.O. today: the Tour de France 2018 will start one week later than planned and it will thus take place from 7 till 29 July 2018. Furthermore, the UCI announced that the number of riders will be reduced to 8 instead of 9 per team, as asked for by A.S.O. for 2017 already ...
        The dates of the Tour de France 2018: from Saturday 7 till Sunday 29 July 2018
        As usual, the Professional Cycling Council (PCC), of which Christian Prudhomme is one of the members, not directly in his role as the director of the Tour de France but in this case as a "Member designated by the other organisors of the UCI WorldTour, member of the AIOCC", which defines the calendar of the ...
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      - Added: Wednesday 21 June 2017 at 20h33
        Les nouvelles des partenaires du Tour de France 2017
        On est à 10 jours du départ du Tour de France 2017 à Düsseldorf en Allemagne et c'est donc l'occasion de regarder, comme d'habitude, quelles sont les nouvelles qu'annonçent les différents partenaires du Tour de France, tout en faisant bien sûr le point sur les nouveaux partenaires et ceux qui n'ont pas renouvellé leur contribution à la Grande Boucle !
        L'évolution de la liste des partenaires du Tour de France pour l'édition 2017
        Pour la 104ème édition du Tour de France, on voit comme d'habitude quelques évolutions dans la liste des partenaires qui contribuent au bon fonctionnement de la course.
        
        Dans les diffuseurs officiels (France 2, France 3 et Eurovision) et le Club du Tour (LCL, Carrefour, Škoda, Vittel et Krys), pas de changemen ...
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      - Added: Thursday 04 May 2017 at 23h39
        The Tour of Italy 2017 (100th Giro) race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        This Friday, 5 May 2017, the Tour of Italy 2017 (or Giro d'Italia 2017) will start on the island Sardinia south of Corsica, with three stages in line on the island followed by a transfer towards the mainland. All the other details about the race route, the roads the riders will follow, the time- and route schedules, the stage profiles and the race route on Google Maps/Google Earth can be discovered in this article, so you can follow the battle for pink with all the knowledge of the race you need!
        
        Due to a lack of time and since the conception of these maps requires quite a lot of work, velowire.com offers you to start with the race route of the 9 first stages, knowing that the following stages will be published progressively as soon as I finish them, but in any case always quite some time before they'll take place! ...
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      - Added: Saturday 22 April 2017 at 00h11
        The Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2017 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth: the 103rd 'Doyenne'!
        In 1892 the very first edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège took place, which logically gives this race the nickname La Doyenne (the oldest one). That was 125 years ago and this year we'll see the 103rd edition of the Belgian classic which will take place between Liège, Bastogne and ... Ans (finish location of the race since 1992). You can always read the history of Liège-Bastogne-Liège which I published in the article about the race route of the 100th edition in 2014.
        
        The race route has been modified quite a bit in 2017, especially due to roadworks which prevent the race to go through Stavelot.
        In this article you'll find all the details of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2017 race route with the road map on Google Maps/Google Earth, the ...
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      - Added: Friday 14 April 2017 at 20h38
        The Amstel Gold Race 2017 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the time- and route schedule
        This Sunday, the only Dutch classic, the Amstel Gold Race, which 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 races of the 2012 World Championships took place.
        
        The race route of the Amstel Gold Race 2017 - the 52nd edition of the race - is a little bit different from last year and the race now contains two additional climbs (and one less climb of the Cauberg, which brings the total number of climbs to 35), in the race route of this race which is part of the UCI WorldTour (in 2011 the number of climbs went up from 31 to 32 and in 2012 it went back down to 31, before going up to 34 in 2013 and now thus 35 in 20 ...
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      - Added: Sunday 09 April 2017 at 20h27
        Paris-Roubaix 2017 : Greg van Avermaet remporte l'Enfer du Nord !
        Un Paris-Roubaix 2017 plein de suspense encore aujourd'hui, avec un dénouement seulement dans les 40 derniers kilomètres, a vu Greg van Avermaet s'imposer, après une saison de classiques belges déjà très réussi !
        Le résumé de Paris-Roubaix 2017 : la victoire pour Greg van Avermaet
        Dès le départ de cette 115ème édition de Paris-Roubaix on a vu plusieurs attaques mais avec une vitesse élevée ça avait tout de même du mal à sortir. Après un peu plus d'une dizaine de kilomètres, 8 coureurs réussissent néanmoins à sortir du peloton et on trouve alors à l'avant Patrick Bevin et William Clarke (Cannondale-Drapac), Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo), Kenneth van Bilsen (Cofidis, solutions crédits), Pierre-Luc Périchon (Fortunéo-Vital Concept), Brian van Goethem (Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij), Ivan Garcia (Bahrain-Merida) et Matteo Bono (UAE Team Emirates).
        
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      - Added: Saturday 08 April 2017 at 23h52
        The participants list for Paris-Roubaix 2017
        This article has not been translated into English, but you'll find below the list of 199 participants in Paris-Roubaix 2017, with their names, nationalities and bib numbers.
        
        La 115ème édition de Paris-Roubaix partira demain matin de Compiègne, pour 257 kilomètres de course en direction du vélodrome de Roubaix. 55 kilomètres de pavés feront vibrer les 199 coureurs qui se présenteront au départ demain matin pour les 25 équipes qui participent à l'Enfer du Nord !
        
        Dans cet article vous trouverez l'ensemble des coureurs partants ainsi que leur numéro de dossard pour chacun d'entre eux.
        La liste des partants de Paris-Roubaix et les numéros de dossard
        Le vainqueur sortant, Matthew Hayman (Orica-Scott) portera le dossard numéro un et le coureur le plus titré qui fait toujours parti du peloton, Tom Boonen (Quick-Step Floors) avec 4 victoires à son nom (2005, 2008, 2009 et 2012), porte ...
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      - Added: tuesday 04 April 2017 at 23h17
        Paris-Roubaix 2017: its race route, its cobble stones sections and the other details of the Hell of the North
        The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2017, will take place this Sunday. For the 115th edition of the race, the organisor decided to change the race route slightly compared to last year: the start is slightly different and two cobble stones sections which were not part of the race route since 1987 make their comeback. These additional sections, Briastre and Solesmes, make the total number of cobble stones sections grow to 29 and the number of cobbled kilometers to 55. However, since they are located quite early in the cobble stones programme of the race, this change should however not have any impact on the result of the race.
        
        In the Hell of the North, any small detail can however come disturb the race for one of the riders or maybe the contrary, help another rider. So, nothing's sure beforehand: Sunday, everything will be decided on the cobbles ...
        The 29 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix ...
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      - Added: Sunday 02 April 2017 at 18h45
        Philippe Gilbert wins the Tour of Flanders 2017 with a long final solo!
        The 101st edition of the Tour of Flanders didn't work out as usual ... Indeed, even though as usual we saw a first leading group going off rather quickly, the Wall of Geraardsbergen (Mur de Grammont) saw the race explode and Philippe Gilbert ended up in the right chasing group behind the leading group.
        
        Once in the lead with the initial breakaway, Gilbert decided to attack in the "Oude Kwaremont" and he ended up alone leading the race at a bit over fifty kilometers from the finish! Despite that huge remaining distance, the Belgian Champion manages to resist to the chasing riders behind him and he thus wins this race for the first time in his career!
        The summary of the Tour of Flanders 2017
        Today the 101st edition of the Tour of Flanders (or Ronde van Vlaanderen as it's called locally!) took place.
        
        During the presentation of the different participating teams on the Market in Antwerp, Tom Boonen (Quick-Step Floors) was received with a "Viking Clap" for the start ...
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      - Added: Saturday 25 March 2017 at 15h35
        The Ghent-Wevelgem 2017 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        After "A Travers les Flandres" (won by Yves Lampaert) and the E3 Harelbeke (won yesterday by Greg van Avermaet), the Belgian classics continue this Sunday with Ghent-Wevelgem, a 249.2 kilometer long race (6.4 more than last year) which will come through a hilly area which often decides the outcome of the race in the second part of it.
        
        In this article you'll find the race route on Google Maps/Google Earth for Ghent-Wevelgem 2017 and that race route is slightly different from last year!
        The Ghent-Wevelgem 2017 race route on Google Maps
        On Sunday morning, the riders and followers of the classics will meet up in .. Deinze for the start of Ghent-Wevelgem. Indeed, like many other races this race also carries the name of its historical start location but since 2004 already, the race doesn't start from Ghent anymore.
        
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      - Added: Saturday 18 March 2017 at 20h46
        Laurent Pichon wins the Classic Loire-Atlantique 2017 ahead of Thomas Boudat - summary
        It doesn't happen very often that the Classic Loire Atlantique ends in a bunch sprint, but that's what almost happened this afternoon in La Haye Fouassière, even though Laurent Pichon (Fortuneo-Vital Concept) didn't want that to happen when he got away from the peloton in the last few kilometers, to finally win the race with only a few meters ahead on the second placed rider, Thomas Boudat (Direct Energie)!
        The summary of the Classic Loire-Atlantique 2017
        The 18th edition of the Classic Loire-Atlantique was 182.8 kilometers long, in 11 laps on a circuit around La Haye Fouassière, as usual these past few years. The race thus as usual started and finished in La Haye Fouassière, not far from Nantes. La Haye Fouassière would like to get the French cycling championships to come their way in 2019!
        
        Quite quickly after the start, in the first lap, Marc Fournier (FDJ) broke away from the peloton, joined in his effort by Kévin Le Cunff (HP BTP-Auber 93) and Beno ...
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      - Added: Sunday 12 March 2017 at 23h13
        Paris-Nice 2017 : suspense jusqu'au bout, David de la Cruz remporte la dernière étape, Sergio Henao la course
        La dernière étape de Paris-Nice 2017 a toujours réservé autant de suspense que les précédentes, notamment grâce à la tentative d'Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) de prendre la victoire finale de la course. Même s'il n'y arrive pas, cela a permis d'animer la fin d'étape, qui a été remportée par David de la Cruz (Quick-Step Floors). Contador échoue finalement à 2 secondes derrière Sergio Henao (Team Sky) qui remporte la 75ème édition de cette course.
        Le résumé de la 8ème étape de Paris-Nice 2017 : Nice > Nice
        C'était une étape courte, de 115,5 kilomètres, mais intense qui était au programme de Paris-Nice aujourd'hui.
        
        A l'approche de la première difficulté, la Côte de Levens, aucune échappée n'arrive à se former. Ce n'est donc que dans cette montée qu'un groupe de 4 coureurs se détache, pendant que les sprinteurs se voien ...
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      - Added: Saturday 11 March 2017 at 22h02
        Richie Porte takes the victory in the 7th stage of Paris-Nice, Sergio Henao takes yellow
        Another mountain stage full of surprises in Paris-Nice today, in the area around Nice. After a long breakaway, especially for Lilian Calmejane who was taken back only in the final climb (which allowed him to take the polka dot jersey of the King of the Mountains classification), the favourites of the race came up in the final part of the stage and Richie Porte (BMC Racing Team) finally won it. Sergio Henao (Team Sky) also had a good day since he took the lead in the general classification.
        The summary of the 7th stage of Paris-Nice 2017: Nice > Col de la Couillole
        In the area behind Nice, a stage towards the Col de la Couillole was on the programme of Paris-Nice 2017 today, 177 kilometers long and full of climbs all the way long ...
        
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      - Added: Friday 10 March 2017 at 17h28
        Simon Yates vainqueur en haut du Mur de Fayence sur Paris-Nice 2017
        La première étape de montagne de ce 75ème Paris-Nice a tenue toutes ses promesses, avec une étape à rebondissements, qui a donné lieu à une belle victoire de Simon Yates en haut du Mur de Fayence, là où Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) était content de pouvoir remettre une fois de plus le maillot jaune !
        Le résumé de la 6ème étape de Paris-Nice 2017 : Aubagne > Fayence
        La 6ème étape de Paris-Nice 2017 s'est déroulée aujourd'hui sous un beau soleil entre Aubagne et le Mur de Fayence et il s'agissait de la première des 3 étapes de montagne qui clôturent cette 75ème édition de Paris-Nice.
        
        Dès le début de l'étape, les coureurs montaient le Col de l'Espigoulier, premier col de première catégorie de la course et depuis le peloton ce sont deux coureurs qui se sont élancés en p ...
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      - Added: Thursday 09 March 2017 at 19h57
        The victory in the last sprinters stage of Paris-Nice 2017 for André Greipel
        The 5th stage of Paris-Nice 2017 was not only the longuest of this 75th edition of the race, but also the last one which could work out for the sprinters. The peloton thus perfectly managed the early breakaway and caught it back in time for the bunch sprint to take place. This time André Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) ended victoriously in this game, for the second time in his career in the Race to the sun!
        The summary of the 5th stage of Paris-Nice 2017: Quincié-en-Beaujolais > Bourg-de-Péage
        After the short but intense time trial yesterday, brilliantly won by Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) ahead of Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo), the longuest stage was on the programme of Paris-Nice 2017 today, with 199.5 kilometers between Quincié-en-Beaujolais and Bourg-de-Péage.
        
        After a bit over 6 kilometers the race really got away with Axel Domont (AG2R La Mondiale), Natnael B ...
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      - Added: tuesday 07 March 2017 at 22h38
        Sam Bennett at the end of a 3rd stage led by two riders in Paris-Nice 2017
        And the start order and times as well as a video of the race route of the individual time trial at the end of the article.
        The third stage of Paris-Nice 2017 could have seen the breakaway decide for the stage victory but in the it was caught back only in the last kilometer and the two survivors of the initial leading trio thus realised that the stage victory would be decided in a bunch sprint once again and this time it was Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe)'s turn to win it!
        The summary of the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2017: Chablis > Chalon-sur-Saône
        The 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2017, 190 kilometers long, started 5 minutes later than planned in Chablis because of the wind going in the direction of the race which meant that the anticipated average speed was quite important.
        
        This apparently gave some ideas to get off right from the first kilometer to Pierre Latour ( ...
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      - Added: Monday 06 March 2017 at 16h41
        Summary 2nd stage Paris-Nice 2017: a split peloton stage which ends in a sprint won by Colbrelli
        The second stage of Paris-Nice 2017 saw the peloton being divide into several groups, because of the high speed and the effect of the weather conditions, but despite the fact that a group of 5 riders survived from the big peloton leading the race since the start of the stage, the stage finally finished in a bunch sprint which took place in Amilly and Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain-Merida) won it!
        The summary of the second stage of Paris-Nice 2017: Rochefort-en-Yvelines > Amilly
        Just after noon, the peloton of 171 riders of the 75th edition of Paris-Nice started the second stage of the race and this stage again almost completely took place in the cold and under the rain.
        
        While approaching the Côte des Granges-le-Roi, the only difficulty of the day - of the 3rd category -, a group of 9 riders got away from the peloton, includin ...
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      - Added: Sunday 05 March 2017 at 17h57
        Summary 1st stage Paris-Nice 2017: victory for Arnaud Démare, Romain Bardet excluded!
        Difficult weather conditions marked the first stage of Paris-Nice 2017 and were the reason why the peloton got reduced rather quickly after the start of the stage. Despite the presence of several sprinters in the group which survived these weather conditions, the victory was finally decided in a duo sprint, thanks to a surprise attack by Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) in the short climb leading to the finish. Followed only by Arnaud Démare (FDJ), the last mentioned rider managed to win the stage and thus take the first yellow jersey.
        The summary of the stage between Bois d'Arcy and Bois d'Arcy
        The biggest part of the first stage of Paris-Nice 2017 with start and finish in Bois d'Arcy took place under quite bad weather conditions, over a distance of 148.5 kilometers (two laps on a circuit west of t ...
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      - Added: Saturday 04 March 2017 at 17h19
        The Paris-Nice 2017 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, profiles and time- and route schedules
        It's already the start of Paris-Nice 2017 tomorrow, the 75th edition of the "race to the sun", in Bois d'Arcy in the Yvelines department. 1,233.5 kilometers will be on the programme of this 5th race of the UCI WorldTour, with only one individual time trial, partly uphill with the finish on the Mont Brouilly.
        
        This edition of Paris-Nice will reach summits which have never been reached in this race, with the Col de la Couillole which will be the finish location of the forelast stage next Saturday. So, on this race route, who will follow up on Geraint Thomas?
        
        In any case, this article will provide you all the informations about the race route and you'll get to know it in detail, with the race route on ...
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      - Added: tuesday 28 February 2017 at 21h23
        The details of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2018 in the Vendée department in France
        After the initial announcement of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2018, the 105th edition of the Tour, in the Vendée departement and more largely in the Pays de la Loire region, today's press conference provided the details of this Grand Départ, in presence of Bryan Coquard (Direct Energie).
        
        Usually we get to know the detail of one or two stages and the start of the second or third stage, this time there will be 3 stages which will entirely take place in the Pays de la Loire region, as well as the start of the fourth stage. In this article you'll thus find these stages in detail, with the official map of each of them!
        
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      - Added: Monday 27 February 2017 at 22h38
        Team selections for the WorldTour races in France - A.S.O. (Tour de France, Paris-Nice and Critérium du Dauphiné) and in Italy - RCS (Giro d’Italia, Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico and Milano-Sanremo)
        The 2017 cycling season is alive and kicking already and there have already been 4 UCI WorldTour* races this year and there are still 34 to come.
        
        As you know, the UCI WorldTour races can invite, in addition to the 18 UCI WorldTeams, other continental pro teams, with a so called wildcard. And all those races of course do that to come up with a nice and dense peloton starting in all of the races.
        
        The French (organised by A.S.O.) and Italian races (organised by RCS Sport) have already announced which teams they invited this year and hereunder you'll find the list for each of them.
        
        * yes indeed, in addition to the Santos Tour Down Under, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race is now the second Australian race on this prestigious calendar, and the Abu Dhabi Tour the third one, despite the fact that for the ...
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      - Added: Wednesday 15 February 2017 at 10h15
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2018 in the Vendée department in France
        Initially published on 12 February 2017 at 5.41PM, updated on 15 February at 10.15AM
        Usually, the Grand Départ of the Tour de France is announced in November/December in the year which precedes the announcement of the race route (which means one year and a half before the start of the event). For the Tour de France 2018 nothing had however been announced so far and the rumours were not very precise concerning the possible locations for this Grand Départ.
        
        Only Ouest France vaguely mentioned the Vendée department when the newspaper announced last week that the Tour ...
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      - Added: Friday 10 February 2017 at 11h39
        Les 20 ans de l'équipe cycliste FDJ
        C'était le jeudi 26 janvier déjà, mais revenons rapidement sur la soirée des 20 ans de l'Equipe Cycliste FDJ. En effet, cela fait 20 ans que Marc Madiot a créé - avec l'aide de la Française des Jeux - son équipe cycliste qu'il dirige toujours, avec toujours le même sponsor !
        
        Un tel engagement aux côtés d'une équipe cycliste vaut le coup d'être fêté et en présence des grands noms du sport français et du sponsor c'est donc ce qu'a fait l'équipe cycliste ce 26 janvier.
        Un sponsoring particulier
        Contrairement à la plupart des sponsors des équipes cyclistes, la Française des Jeux, n'est pas juste devenu un partenaire financier de l'équipe, mais un partenaire dans tout ce que l'équipe fait. En effet, l'entreprise de l'état n'est pas juste un sponsor mais en plus propriétaire de l'équipe. Lors de la création de celle-ci en 1996, la Française des Jeux a en effet créé une filiale afin de représenter dans le sport cycliste les valeurs de l'entreprise, engagement, respo ...
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      - Added: Saturday 14 January 2017 at 22h03
        The Tour Down Under 2017 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        ... and the stage profiles
        It's almost mid-January and the 2017 cycling season is thus about to begin, more particularly with the Santos Tour Down Under, as usual the first UCI WorldTour race of the year. This year it will take place from Tuesday 17 till Sunday 22 January 2017!
        
        In this article you'll find all information about the Santos Tour Down Under 2017 race route, including the race route on Google Maps/Google Earth with all of the stages and the profile of each of these stages.
        The Tour Down Under 2017 race route on Google Maps
        Sunday 15 January 2017 - People's Choice Classic - criterium - 50.6 km
        As usual, this race will be pre ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Down Under| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth| Tour Down Under 2017
      - Added: Thursday 05 January 2017 at 00h44
        The Paris-Nice 2017 race route presented: higher than ever before!
        A bit over 60 days before the start of the 75th edition of Paris-Nice, the race route of the 2017 edition of the "Race to the sun" has been presented this Tuesday in Versailles.
        
        With only one time trial, in the middle of the week, and with a finish on the highest point ever reached by this race, we can expect quite a battle for the yellow jersey at the end of the week when the race will exceptionally not finish on the Promenade des Anglais, out of respect for the victims of the terrorist attack on 14 July last year.
        The Paris-Nice 2017 race route
        Let's now have a look at the different stages of Paris-Nice 2017:
        1/ Sunday 5 March 2017 - Bois-d'Arcy > Bois-d'Arcy - 148.5 km
        As usual since 2010, the start of Paris-Nice 2017 will take place in the Yve ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice 2017| Paris-Nice
      - Added: Saturday 03 December 2016 at 17h52
        One less rider in the Grand Tours (TDF, Vuelta, Giro) and the classics .. or not?
        Through a common press release sent out on 25 November around 7PM, the three big cycling race organisors:
        - Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O., organisor of the Tour de France, Paris-Nice, Paris-Roubaix, the Critérium du Dauphiné and Paris-Tours to mention just a few),
        
        - RCS Sport (the Italian organisor of the Giro d'Italia, Tirreno Adriatico, Milan Sanremo and Il Lombardia for example) and
        
        - Flanders Classics (the Belgian organisor of numerous classics: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Dwars door Vlaanderen [A travers la Flandre], Gent-W ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: UCI ProTour| Tour de France| Vuelta a España| Giro d Italia| Classics
      - Added: tuesday 18 October 2016 at 18h56
        The Tour de France 2017 race route presented: twice the Alps, the intermediate mountains honored!
        Early afternoon, in the Palais des Congrès in Paris, this Tuesday 18 October 2016 the Tour de France 2017 race route was officially announced. Not only you could follow it live on velowire.com, but you have also discovered it before the official announcement in the rumours about the Tour de France 2017 race route.
        
        As predicted, the intermediate mountains (Vosges, Jura and Massif Central) are honoured, just like the Alps which see double with a first visit in Chambéry, followed by a transfer and a descente towards the Pyrenees followed by transition stages back to the Alps. The Tour will still end in Paris, but we'll get to know who's the winner of this 104th edition of the Grande Boucle in Marseille, since that's where the time trial the day before ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2017
      - Added: Monday 17 October 2016 at 19h43
        Tour de France 2017: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities!
        article initially published on 23 September at 8.10AM, updated on 25 September at 10.36PM, on 27 September at 7.34AM, 8.20AM and 9.58PM, on 28 September at 7.45AM and at 2.15PM, on 4 October at 10.25PM, on 5 October at 8.55AM, on 6 October at 10.40AM, on 7 October at 12.15PM, on 11 October at 10.05PM, on 13 October at 10.10PM, on 14 October at 9.25AM, on 15 October at 12.45PM, on 16 October at 2.30PM and on 17 October at 9.47AM and at 7.43PM
        
        While the official presentation will only take place on 18 October in the "Palais des Congrès" in Paris, you are used to find here early September the first rumours about the race route of the Tour de France to come, in this case the Tour de France 2017 which will take place from Saturday 1st of July till Sunday 23 July 2017. This year this article has been publish ...
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      - Added: Monday 17 October 2016 at 00h46
        The World Championships road cycling in Europe in the next 3 years!
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      - Added: Sunday 16 October 2016 at 16h19
        The race route of the first stages of the Tour de France 2017 on Google Maps
        While we're at only two days from the presentation of the Tour de France 2017 race route, which you of course already discovered at velowire.com based on the rumours, I now offer you the opportunity to watch closer in detail the two first stages of this 104th edition of the Grande Boucle, with the first stage completely and the first part of the second stage.
        The race route of the individual time trial and of the first part of the 2nd stage of the Tour de France 2017
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2017| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Wednesday 05 October 2016 at 22h50
        The Paris-Tours 2016 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        This Sunday 9 October 2016 it's already time for the end of season classic in France, the 110th edition of Paris-Tours, which has the nickname of the classic of the falling leaves, just like its big brother Il Lombardia which took place last week. This year it will take place between Dreux in the Eure-et-Loir department and the Avenue de Grammont in Tours.
        
        As usual, this classic is one of the last races of the season in France and the riders will thus be willing to show what they're capable of once more just before we get in the winter rest period.
        
        In this article you'll find all you need to know about this end of season classic: the race route on Google Maps, and a downloadable version in Google Earth, the profile and the time- and route schedule.
        The Paris-Tours 2016 race route
        After what was most probably the start location the farthest away from Paris for ...
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      - Added: Saturday 20 August 2016 at 18h00
        The participants list of the Tour of Spain 2016, their numbers and the time trial start order and -times
        Tonight, the Tour of Spain, the Vuelta a España 2016, will start, with a 29.4 kilometer long team time trial, in the province of Ourese.
        
        In this article, you'll find the start order and -times of the different teams for this time trial, as well as the complete participants list with all the riders of the different teams with their bib numbers.
        The start order and -times for the team time trial - Ourense, Thermale station of Laias > Parque Náutico de Castrelo de Miño
        The first stage, which will thus take place tonight, will be a race against the clock, for each of the 22 teams which participate in this Tour of Spain.
        
        Here's their start order and -time for each of these teams:
        
        1 BORA-ARGON 18 18h26
        2 DIRECT ENERGIE 18h30
        3 LOTTO SOUDAL 18h34
        4 ASTANA PRO TEAM 18h38
        5 LAMPRE-MERIDA 18h42
        6 DIMENSION DATA 18h46
        7 IAM CYCLING 18h50
        8 CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA 18h54
        9 FDJ 18h58
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        this article appears in the following categories: Vuelta a España| Vuelta a España 2016
      - Added: Friday 19 August 2016 at 22h33
        The Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2016 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
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        The list of participating riders for the Tour de France 2016 and their bib numbers
        Tomorrow the Tour de France 2016, 103rd edition of the Grande Boucle, will start at the foot of the Mont-Saint-Michel, in the Manche department which organises the Grand Départ this year.
        
        198 riders will be at the start of the race and in this article you'll find all of them, with their bib numbers so you can identify them in the race.
        
        Here's the list of participating riders for the Tour de France 2016, from Chris Froome to Florian Vachon, from the youngest rider of the Tour (the Norwegian Sondre Holst Enger, 22 years old) up to Matteo Tossato, who, at 42 years old, will participate in a Grand Tour for the 34th time, via the 32 riders who will participate, just like Sondre Holst Enger, in the Tour de France f ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2016
      - Added: Thursday 30 June 2016 at 00h05
        News from the sponsors of the Tour de France 2016
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      - Added: Saturday 25 June 2016 at 16h44
        The Tour de France 2016 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, profiles and time- and route schedules
        As usual, velowire.com allows you to discover in detail the race route of this 103rd edition of the Grande Boucle, with maps on Google Maps/Google Earth. The first maps were available on the French version of the website 3 weeks before the start of the Tour de France 2016 already and these have been progressively completed since. All stages are now online, with the English translation.
        
        With the informations in this article you'll get to know all tiny details, all cities and villages which will be visited by the Tour and you'll thus be able to prepare your visit of the Tour if you plan to go there, or simply better understand the race if you're staying home!
        Some preliminary information ...
        Here is some preliminary information which is important to know before you get to discover the details of all the ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2016| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: tuesday 24 May 2016 at 23h28
        A 23rd team in the Tour de France 2016: the GIGN
        In March, the 22 teams selected for participation in the Tour de France have been announced by Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organisor of the Tour.
        
        This list was not surprising at that time because we found exactly the same teams as last year. Today, it has been announced that a 23rd team will be added to this selection ...
        The terrorist threat: the Interior Ministry takes exceptional measures
        Of course this is not really a 23rd cycling team which will be added to the start list of the Tour in addition to the 22 others. Indeed, we're talking here about the presence of the GIGN (the Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale, the French anti terrorism intervention team) which has been announced today among the special measures taken in the c ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2016
      - Added: Thursday 05 May 2016 at 14h57
        The Tour of Italy 2016 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        This Friday, the 6th of May 2016, the Tour of Italy 2016 (or Giro d'Italia 2016) will start in Apeldoorn in The Netherlands with an individual time trial. All the other details about the race route, the roads the riders will follow, the time- and route schedules, the stage profiles and the race routes on Google Maps/Google Earth are available in this article, so you can follow the "fight for pink" in the best possible conditions, knowing what the riders will face!
        
        Due to a lack of time and because the creation of these maps represents a big amount of work, velowire.com offers you the race routes of the 6 first stages to start with, knowing that the others will be published progressively while I'm working on them but in any case always before they'll take place! The race routes of all stages are now online, as ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2016| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Sunday 24 April 2016 at 17h08
        Wout Poels wins a monument: Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2016 partially in the snow!
        The 102nd edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège took place in quite heavy weather conditions, with snow, rain and a very low temperature. After a long lasting breakaway with 8 riders, the two final climbs finally forced the destiny in this race and the favourites didn't get a chance to battle for victory when the race was won by the Dutch rider Wout Poels (Team Sky)!
        The summary of Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2016
        200 riders started this morning in Liège for the 253 kilometers which made up the Liège-Bastogne-Liège race route this year, under almost freezing temperatures, around one degree, and with some snow flakes.
        
        Despites the difficult weather conditions, a group of 7 riders got away from the peloton after only a bit more than ten kilometers: Pavel Brutt (Tinkoff), Paolo Tiralongo (Astana), Nicolas Edet (Cofidis), Thomas de Gendt (Lotto-Soudal), Cesare Benedetti (Bora-Argon 18), Alessandro De Marchi (BMC Racing Team) and Jérémy Roy ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Classics
      - Added: Saturday 09 April 2016 at 21h33
        The participants list for Paris-Roubaix 2016 and their bib numbers
        Tomorrow, 199 riders of 25 different teams will start in Compiègne for 257.5 kilometers of racing, including 52.8 kilometers on cobble stones (see the Paris-Roubaix 2016 race route on Google Maps). This will be the 114th edition of Paris-Roubaix and it will start without last year's winner, John Degenkolb ...
        
        Starting in Compiègne, the weather should be dry but potentially still with some fog which will disappear progressively. While early this week the weather reports still mentioned rain during the race (which would have been a first since several years!), this will finally not be the case and the riders will thus get on the cobbles towards Roubaix under a dry sky, but without much sun.
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      - Added: tuesday 05 April 2016 at 23h05
        Paris-Roubaix 2016: its race route, its cobble stones sections and the other details of the Hell of the North
        The queen of the classics,; Paris-Roubaix 2016, will take place this Sunday. For the 114th edition of the race, the organisor chose to keep a similar route as the 2015 race route (which was identical to the 2013 race route) when the race was won by John Degenkolb, but there's one modification: the cobble stones section number 22, Verchain-Maugré, has been turned in for the Capelle-Ruesnes section which is partially uphill at the "Hameau du Buat". Situated in the first part of the cobble stones programme, this change shouldn't have a real impact on the result of the race.
        
        In the Hell of the North all small things can however come disturb the race for one of the riders or maybe the contrary, help another one. So, nothing's sure beforehand: Sunday everything will be decided on the cobbles ...
        The 27 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix 2016
        With an almost identical race route as in 2015, the cobble ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Roubaix| Classics| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Monday 04 April 2016 at 23h28
        Producttest Bontrager Flare R Tail Light (visible by daylight)
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      - Added: Friday 01 April 2016 at 09h36
        The Tour of Flanders 2016 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, the profile and the time- and route schedule
        In the middle of the classics season, the Tour of Flanders this weekend is a real monument among the Belgian classics. Created in 1913 and only interrupted during the First World War, it celebrates a particular edition this year, the 100th, and the race saw all the big classics names win it, from Henri Suter to Alexander Kristoff via Walter Godefroot, Eddy Merckx, Roger de Vlaeminck and Johan Museeuw or Fabian Cancellara.
        
        With 68 victories out of 99, Belgium is the record holder of the number of victories in the Tour of Flanders but we'll see this Sunday whether the Tour of Flanders 2016 race route which you'll find below on Google Maps/Google Earth will again deliver a Belgian winner or not.
        The Tour of Flanders 2016 race route on Google Maps
        With the changes compared to 2015, mainly in the first part of the race route which will bring the riders from the start in Bruge ...
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      - Added: Saturday 26 March 2016 at 18h00
        The Ghent-Wevelgem 2016 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile
        The Belgian classics continue this Sunday with Ghent-Wevelgem, a 242.8 kilometer long race which will come through a hilly area which often decides the outcome of the race in the second part of it.
        
        In this article you'll find the race route on Google Maps/Google Earth for Ghent-Wevelgem 2016 and that race route is slightly different from last year!
        The Ghent-Wevelgem 2016 race route on Google Maps
        On Sunday morning, the riders and followers of the classics will meet up in .. Deinze for the start of Ghent-Wevelgem. Indeed, like many other races this race also carries the name of its historical start location but since 2004 already, the race doesn't start from Ghent anymore.
        
        The race route of this race has been slightly modified compared to 2015 and even the climbs are not exactly the same. Enough changes to force me to completelty redraw the map!
        
        From Deinze the ...
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      - Added: Thursday 24 March 2016 at 23h10
        The E3 Harelbeke 2016 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the participants list
        Time flies and it's already about time for the first Belgian paved classic of the UCI WorldTour, which will take this Friday, the Grand Prix E3 Harelbeke.
        
        As a real introduction to the classics season after "A travers la Flandre" which was won by Jens Debusschere (Lotto-Soudal) who managed to beat Bryan Coquard (Direct Energie) on the line last Wednesday in a particular context after the terrorist attacks in Brussels, the Grand Prix E3 Harelbeke will have a modified race route which contains a concentration of no less than 15 "mounts" mainly in the middle of the race (compared to 17 last year). Hereunder you can discover this race route in detail on Google Maps, the profile of the race and the possibility to download the race route in Google Earth with a KML file and the participants list.
        The E3 Harelbeke 2016 race route on Google Maps
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      - Added: Sunday 20 March 2016 at 20h42
        Rudy Barbier (Roubaix) wins the sprint in Cholet-Pays de Loire 2016
        After a race which was mainly animated by a 4 men breakaway, the 39th edition of Cholet-Pays de Loire saw the peloton coming back together even before the race got on the final circuit around Cholet and despite an attempt by Blel Kadri (AG2R La Mondiale) and several Belgian riders, the victory was decided in a bunch sprint. After a crash at 150 meters from the finish line, several sprinters and mainly Bryan Coquard (Direct Energie) were not able to battle for this sprint and Rudy Barbier (Roubaix Métropole Européenne de Lille) won the race by crossing the line first.
        The summary of Cholet-Pays de Loire 2016
        Under the sun 122 riders got away for 210 kilometers of racing around Cholet.
        
        Right from the start we saw several breakaway attempts but the one from Maxime Daniel (AG2R La Mondiale), Murilo Fischer (FDJ), Ryan Anderson (Direct Energie) and Yannis Yssaad (Armée de Terre) at kilometer 18 turned out to be the right one. One rider (Jaap d ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Cholet-Pays de Loire
      - Added: Saturday 19 March 2016 at 19h53
        Anthony Turgis (Cofidis) wins the Classic Loire Atlantique 2016 solo!
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      - Added: Thursday 17 March 2016 at 23h03
        The Classic Loire Atlantique and Cholet-Pays de Loire 2016 race routes on Google Maps
        After Paris-Nice last week and in the same weekend as Milan-Sanremo this weekend will also, as usual, see two French one day races take place: the Classic Loire Atlantique on Saturday and Cholet-Pays de Loire on Sunday, respectively the 2nd and 3rd race of the Coupe de France PMU calendar after the Grand Prix La Marseillaise.
        
        In this article you'll find all the details about these two races: the Classic Loire Atlantique, organised around La Haye-Fouassière, at about fifteen kilometers south-east of Nantes, and Cholet-Pays de Loire which turns around Cholet.
        
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      - Added: tuesday 15 March 2016 at 22h14
        The Milan-Sanremo 2016 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        The Primavera will take place this Saturday already! The 107th edition of Milan-Sanremo (or Milano-Sanremo in Italian of course) will take place on Saturday again this year and not on Sunday like the last three years.
        
        Translating "primavera" from Italian to English we obtain "spring" and looking at the weather conditions for this Saturday we see that this pretty much corresponds to what spring should look like (not like last year). So the weather conditions are pretty good but there will still be around 300 kilometers to rider (291 to be precise) ...
        
        So will it end in a sprint or not? We'll see on Saturday who will be the winner of the 2016 edition of Milan-Sanremo, after John Degenkolb last year, who will not be present following the accident of the Giant-Alpecin stage on training in Calpe.
        
        In this article you'll find all the details about the 2016 Milan-Sanremo race route on Maps, the time- and route schedule of the race and its profile showing the different cl ...
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      - Added: Sunday 13 March 2016 at 21h34
        Paris-Nice 2016: Contador lightens up the 7th stage, victory for Wellens, the general for Thomas
        The last stage of Paris-Nice 2016 was quite exciting till the end, especially thanks to Alberto Contador (Tinkoff) who tried once again to get rid of his competitors in the hilly back-country of Nice but he finally ended at 4 seconds from Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) in the general classification. The stage victory was for Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal) who thus showed off the colours of Lotto-Fix ALL on the finish line in Nice.
        The summary of the 7th stage of Paris-Nice 2016 - Nice > Nice
        It was a short stage, of 134 kilometers, with start and finish on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice which was on the programme of this last day of Paris-Nice 2016 today, with no less than 6 difficulties in this relatively short distance.
        
        After about ten kilometers in the race we saw today's breakaway go off and since Thomas de Gendt (L ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2016
      - Added: Saturday 12 March 2016 at 17h14
        Ilnur Zakarin wins Paris-Nice 2016's queen stage, yellow for Geraint Thomas
        A 9 rider strong breakaway lightened up today's queen stage in Paris-Nice 2016 between Nice and La Madone d'Utelle. Antoine Duchesne (Direct Energie) was again present in this breakaway, like yesterday, and went off to collect some points for the King of the mountains classification, which allowed him to put on the polka dot jersey at the end of the afternoon. The stage victory was decided in the final climb and a small group of favourites battled for it in the last few kilometers. The rider who won the stage was however probably the one we expected the less in this group, the Russian rider Ilnur Zakarin (Team Katusha). Geraint Thomas ended the stage at the second place and takes the first place in the current general classification provisoire, the day before the final stage!
        The summary of the 6th stage of Paris-Nice 2016: Nice > La Madone d'Utelle
        The queen stage was on the programme of ...
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      - Added: Friday 11 March 2016 at 18h28
        Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) takes a solo win in the city of Nostradamus!
        The 5th stage of Paris-Nice 2016 was particularly animated between Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Salon-de-Provence today. A group of 8 riders controlled the race until the climb of the Mont Ventoux where the group fell apart. One of the survivors of the breakaway, Antoine Duchesne (Direct Energie), finally went off alone, before being taken back and dropped by Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) who managed to stay ahead of the peloton until the finish and thus won the stage in a solo win.
        The summary of the 5th stage of Paris-Nice 2016: Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux > Salon-de-Provence
        Right from the first kilometer, a group of 5 riders got away from the peloton, before being joined by 3 other riders. That's how a 8 rider breakaway was set up: ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2016
      - Added: Thursday 10 March 2016 at 18h26
        Nacer Bouhanni takes his revenge: winner of the sprint for the Paris-Nice stage win in Romans-sur-Isère
        A bit as usual in this Paris-Nice 2016, we saw a 4 men breakaway being formed early in the stage and staying in front for several tens of kilometers. There was a bit more animation in this stage though than in the previous days and another breakaway stayed in front until the last kilometer. However, in the end the stage ended in a sprint and that's where Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis, solutions crédits) took revenge on the tumultuous sprint two days ago, by winning the sprint with one bike length ahead on Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo) this time.
        The summary of the 4th stage of Paris-Nice 2016: Juliénas > Romans-sur-Isère
        The weather conditions were completely different this morning then yesterday when the stage was stopped after about one hundred kilometers in the race (the organisor of the race has already announced today that the 2017 edition of ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2016
      - Added: Wednesday 09 March 2016 at 10h26
        A preview of the final circuit of Paris-Nice 2016's third stage with the Mont Brouilly in video
        Today it's already the third stage which is on the programme of Paris-Nice 2016, from Cusset (close to Vichy) and the Mont Brouilly.
        
        Thanks to Kinomap and Hubert Dupont (AG2R La Mondiale), you can already discover the race route of this final circuit in video with the never before climbed final climb (as a reminder, you can also see the complete race route on Google Maps here).
        
        The weather conditions will however be much worse than what you can see in the video because rain is expected at the finish, with a very cold wind and maybe even some snow!
        
        Hubert Dupont (AG2R La Mondiale) thus did a recognition ride on this final circuit and that's what you can discover in the video below ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2016
      - Added: tuesday 08 March 2016 at 19h04
        Nacer Bouhanni disclassified after a non regulatory sprint against Michael Matthews
        Not surprisingly, the victory of the second stage of Paris-Nice 2016 in Commentry was decided in a sprint today. After the longest stage of this 74th edition of the Race to the sun, Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis, solutions crédits) seemed to go straight off to victory. However, since he left his straight line and went off to the left he thus prevented Michael Matthews (Orica-GreenEDGE), the yellow jersey, from doing his sprint correctly. The French rider thus compromised his stage victory and was declassified at the last place of his group (which means he was 3rd of the stage), the victory thus being for Matthews.
        The summary of the 2nd stage of Paris-Nice 2016: Contres > Commentry
        213.5 kilometers were on the programme of the second Paris-Nice 2016 stage today and this made it the longest stage of the race.
        
        While the stage fi ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2016
      - Added: Monday 07 March 2016 at 18h39
        Arnaud Démare (FDJ) wins the sprint for the first stage of Paris-Nice 2016
        The first stage of Paris-Nice 2016 offered 198 kilometers of racing between Condé-sur-Vesgre and Vendôme, with a final circuit which the riders had to do twice and which contained two sand roads of which one going uphill. Finally, these sand roads didn't really influence the result of the stage, which ended in a bunch sprint. This sprint was won by the French rider Arnaud Démare (FDJ) ahead of Ben Swift (Team Sky) and Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis).
        The summary of the first stage of Paris-Nice 2016: Condé-sur-Vesgre > Vendôme
        At the start in Condé-sur-Vesgre this morning, the 175 riders of the Paris-Nice 2016 peloton respected one minute of silence in honour of Romain Guyot (Vendée U) who lost his life in a road accident during his training.
        
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      - Added: Monday 07 March 2016 at 10h42
        The sand roads of the circuit of Paris-Nice 2016's first stage in video
        After yesterday's prologue, the first stage of Paris-Nice will take place today between Condé-sur-Vesgre and Vendôme over a distance of 198 kilometers.
        
        The last part of these 198 kilometers will take place on a circuit which the riders will do two times and this circuit contains two sand roads. Thanks to Jérémy Roy and Kinomap, you can discover these sand roads before the race gets there because the rider of the FDJ team, who doesn't participate in Paris-Nice 2016, got out on his bike and filmed the final circuit!
        
        Two sand roads will be on the programme of this first stage, which doesn't please to everyone as we can see in ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2016
      - Added: Sunday 06 March 2016 at 08h36
        A video preview of the Paris-Nice 2016 prologue's race route
        In a few hours, the first rider (Rémy Di Gregorio, at 11.44AM) will start his prologue of Paris-Nice 2016, on the Seine river side in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
        
        You might have already discovered the race route on Google Maps and in Google Earth as well as the participants list and the list with the start order and -times of this prologue of 6.1 kilometers.
        
        This article will allow you to discover this prologue even further since Kinomap allows you to discover its race route in a video next to the map showing the race route!
        
        You'll see that this is a very urban race rou ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2016
      - Added: Saturday 05 March 2016 at 19h23
        The start list of Paris-Nice 2016 and the start order and -times of the prologue
        Tomorrow, Paris-Nice 2016 will start with the 6.1 kilometer long prologue in the streets of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, followed by 7 stages in line which will bring the riders to the usual finish in Nice (see the Paris-Nice 2016 race route on Google Maps).
        
        Except unexpected circumstances, 175 riders will come to the start (22 teams of 8 riders each, except for Lotto-Soudal which has one less) tomorrow and in this article you'll find all of them, including their bib numbers, but also the start order and -times of the prologue in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
        The participants list of Paris-Nice 2016
        175 riders coming from 35 different countries (the main nationalities are: 40 French riders, 16 Belgian riders, 16 Spanish riders, 15 Dutch riders and 8 Italian riders) will ge ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2016
      - Added: Friday 04 March 2016 at 22h11
        The Paris-Nice 2016 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        This Sunday Paris-Nice 2016 will start in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine with a prologue of 6,1 kilometers. A total of 1290 kilometers will be on the programme of this 74th edition of the Race to the sun, which will be in Nice on Saturday already but which will finish there only on Sunday 13 March.
        
        In this article you'll find all information about the Paris-Nice 2016 race route, on Google Maps/Google Earth, with the time- and route schedules and the profiles of each of the 7 stages and of the prologue.
        The Paris-Nice 2016 race route on Google Maps
        P/ Sunday 6 March 2016 - Conflans-Sainte-Honorine > Conflans-Sainte-Honorine - 6.1 km
        Paris-Nice 2016 will start with a prologue, of 6.1 kilometers, which will take place in the streets of ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2016| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Wednesday 02 March 2016 at 23h12
        The teams selection for the Tour de France 2016: like last year
        The 22 teams selected to participate in the Tour de France 2016 have been announced this morning. In addition to the 18 UCI WorldTeams, 4 wildcards have been awarded ... to the same teams as last year!
        The 18 UCI WorldTeams
        Thanks to their UCI WorldTeam status, 18 teams are automatically invited to participate in the Tour de France 2016 since it's a UCI WorldTour race (one should keep in mind that following the fact that A.S.O. does not agree with the reform of the professional cycling as decided by the UCI [mainl ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2016
      - Added: Sunday 31 January 2016 at 01h19
        The Tour of Spain Espagne 2016 race route announced: mountaineous with a visit to France!
        A few weeks ago, the race route of the Tour of Spain 2016, the Vuelta a España 2016, has been officially presented in Santiago de Compostela.
        
        The 71st edition of the Vuelta a España, which will start on 20 August 2016 from the province of Ourense will have a total of 3,277 kilometers across 16 Spanish provinces, but also in the French Pyrenees, with a finish on top of the Col de l'Aubisque!
        
        No less than 12 high mountain stages will be surrounded by 7 flat stages and 2 time trial stages in a race which, as usual, mainly concentrates on the northern part of Spain.
        The Tour of Spain 2016 race route in detail
        1/ Saturday 20 August 2016 - Ourense termal. Balneario de Laias > Parque Náutico Castrelo de Miño - team time trial - 29.4 km
        The 71st edition of the ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Vuelta a España| Vuelta a España 2016
      - Added: Wednesday 20 January 2016 at 20h53
        Team Direct Energie 2016: have fun and win many races!
        Last Friday 15 January 2016 the Team Direct Energie was presented to the press. The team with its new sponsor will continue where Team Europcar stopped and according to Jean-René Bernaudeau (manager of the team) the main goal of the professional team of the "Vendée Cyclisme" structure remains to have fun.
        
        Presentation of the new jersey, the riders of the team - from Thomas Voeckler to the comeback of Sylvain Chavanel, via the new young recruits of the Vendée U team - and the staff, let's have a look at how Team Direct Energie presents itself for 2016!
        The new sponsor: Direct Energie
        We already knew since October 2014 that Europcar would stop its sponsoring of the team with the same name at the end of 2015. We thus knew that, after having found Europcar as a last minute new sponsor after Bouygues Télécom left the team, Jean-René Bernaudeau again had to find a new sponsor in a bit less than one year, in order to have its file ready for the 2016 registration.
        
        Several r ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Cycling general (except Tour de France)| Marketing
      - Added: tuesday 29 December 2015 at 05h42
        The 18 UCI WorldTeams for 2016 and the other teams
        As usual at the end of the year, the licence commission of the International Cycling Union (UCI) gave its verdict a few weeks ago, thus awarding the UCI WorldTeam level to 18 teams, but also awarding the Pro Continental status for the teams of the second division and the Continental status for the teams of the third division.
        
        In this article you'll mainly find the list of UCI WorldTeams but also some information about the two other divisions!
        
        The UCI WorldTeams get a licence for one or more years and these licences are awarded based on sports, financial, ethical and administrative criteria which are evaluated every year, even if a team still has a vali ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: UCI ProTour
      - Added: tuesday 22 December 2015 at 12h38
        It's now official: Düsseldorf will have the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017!
        The rumours were quite present already since London announced it withdraw for the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017: Düsseldorf had the biggest chances to win it, as you could read in the article The Tour de France 2017 is being worked on already: the Grand Départ in Düsseldorf (Germany)? on 24 November.
        
        Today it's finally official and the details will be announced in January ...
        The official announcement of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017 in Düsseldorf (Germany)
        With a press release, and the publication of a website dedicated to the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017 in Düsseldorf this has all been made offici ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2017
      - Added: Friday 18 December 2015 at 00h50
        The Paris-Nice 2016 race route announced: mountaineous and original!
        Last Thursday, the race route of Paris-Nice 2016, the 74th edition of the race which is nicknamed "The race to the sun", has been officially announced (much earlier than usual). Original and with influences from other races, Paris-Nice will this year be mountaineous and difficult and in order to win the race the riders have to be in shape from start till finish!
        The Paris-Nice 2016 race route in detail
        Paris-Nice 2016 will be made up of a prologue in the streets of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine of 6.1 km and of 7 stages in line bringing the riders from Condé-sur-Vesgre to the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. In total, 1,290.1 kilometers will be on the programme of the race.
        
        A prologue and a stage with dirt roads in the final part
        
        It all st ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2016
      - Added: tuesday 24 November 2015 at 21h24
        The Tour de France 2017 is being worked on already: the Grand Départ in Düsseldorf (Germany)?
        It was the news of the day on Monday 28 September: London had said "no" to the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017! We knew that there were different candidates in Germany and the city Düsseldorf voted a bit less than 3 weeks ago for the organisation of the Grand Départ of the 104th edition of the Grande Boucle.
        
        The official announcement of the location of the Grand Départ has still not been done however, but that's quite normal, for 2016 the Grand Départ in the Manche department was only announced on 24 November as well.
        
        Other cities are willing to organise this same Grand Départ ... or one of the next ones!
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017 in Düsseldorf (Germany)?
        This is the most serious rumour: a Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2017 in ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2017
      - Added: tuesday 10 November 2015 at 10h54
        Flashback on the prize award ceremony of the Coupe de France PMU 2015
        Last Friday, Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis, solutions crédits) was rewarded with a prize as the winner of the Coupe de France PMU 2015 (a calendar which gathers 16 one day races in France). After 2012 with Samuel Dumoulin, who also won it in 2013 for the AG2R La Mondiale team, and Julien Simon last year - this prize thus remains in the Cofidis team.
        
        During the prize award ceremony night organised by the French National Cycling League at the Hippodrome of Vincennes (in collaboration with the PMU as a sponsor), velowire.com created some videos, of the prize award ceremony itself and an interview with Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis, solutions crédits), but also quite some photos of the main actors of the Coupe de France PMU 2015. You'll discover all of them in this article!
        The prize award ceremony of the Coupe de France PMU 2015
        The even started with the prize award ceremony of the Coupe ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Coupe de France
      - Added: tuesday 20 October 2015 at 19h02
        The Tour de France 2016 race route: difficult from start till finish!
        article updated on 27 October 2015 with the videos of the official presentation!
        
        This Tuesday, the race route of the Tour de France 2016, 103rd edition of the Grande Boucle, has been officially presented at the Palais des Congrès by Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.). A race route of 21 stages including 2 individual time trials of which one uphill, which will require the riders who want to be on the top step of the podium to show a good performance during almost the whole Tour!
        
        A nice race route, with quite a lot of new things, that's what A.S.O. offers us for 2016. Let's now discover it in detail!
        Christian Prudhomme: "quite a few changes into perspective"!
        In the introduction to the race route of the 103rd edition of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme, its director, ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2016
      - Added: Sunday 18 October 2015 at 20h40
        Tour de France 2016: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities!
        initially published on 23 August 2015 at 0.04AM, updated on 4 September at 10.30PM, on 9 September at 10.15AM, on 12 September at 9.45PM, on 13 September at 3.20PM and at 10.55PM (addition of the map), on 14 September at 12.30PM, on 17 September at noon, on 24 September at 9AM and at 1.30PM, on 27 September at 4.05PM, on 30 September at 10.40PM, on 6 October at 9.50AM, on 7 October at 10.25AM and at 9.05PM, on 8 October at 3.48PM, on 10 October at 3.03PM and at 5.53PM, on 12 October at 9.58PM, on 13 October at 9.10PM, on 15 October at 5PM, on 16 October at 10.34PM, on 17 October at 2.17PM, on 18 October at 2.40PM and at 8.40PM
        
        While the official announcement is only planned for Tuesday 20 October at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, you are used to find here early September (and this year even a bit before for the French version) the first rumours about the Tour de France race rout ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2016
      - Added: Sunday 11 October 2015 at 18h23
        Matteo Trentin (Etixx-QuickStep) wins Paris-Tours 2015!
        After 231 kilometers and a long breakaway, Matteo Trentin (Etixx-QuickStep) showed he was the strongest this afternoon in the Avenue de Grammont in Tours and thus won the 109th edition of Paris-Tours ahead of Tosh van der Sande (Lotto-Soudal).
        The summary of Paris-Tours 2015
        Very quickly after the start of this 109th edition of Paris-Tours at the end of the morning in Chartres a breakaway with no less than 31 riders was formed, after an attack from Alexis Gougeard (AG2R La Mondiale).
        
        With the wind in the back, the average speed was quite high (this edition of the race actually had the fastest average speed in the history (49.677 km/h), and this group managed to extend its gap above 4 minutes. The Cofidis team did a lot of work leading the peloton, trying to bring down the gap on the breakaway, but at 31 and with a good collaboration between the different riders, this was an almost impossible ta ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Tours
      - Added: Friday 09 October 2015 at 22h47
        The Paris-Tours 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the participants list
        This Sunday 11 October 2015, it's time for the usual end of the season classic in France already, the 109th edition of Paris-Tours, which is also known as the classic of the falling leaves, just like its big brother Il Lombardia which took place last week. This year it'll take place between Chartres and the Avenue de Grammont in Tours.
        
        As usual, this classic is one of the last races of the season in France and the riders will thus want to show off before they get to their winter rest period.
        
        In this article you'll find all you need to know about this end of the 2015 season classic: the race route, the map on Google Maps and a downloadable version in Google Earth of the race route, the profile and the time- and route schedule. You'll also find the participants list with the bib numbers.
        The Paris-Tours 2015 race route
        After most probably the furthest start from Paris we've seen in the ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Tours| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Friday 02 October 2015 at 22h24
        The Tour of Lombardy 2015 on Google Maps/Google Earth, profile and time- and route schedule
        Now the World Championships in Richmond in the United States are over, the Italian classics made their comeback with the Tre Valli Varesini which was won by Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Pro Team) on Wednesday, Milan-Turin won by Diego Rosa (Astana Pro Team) yesterdag, the GranPiemonte won by Jan Bakelants (AG2R La Mondiale) today and the UCI WorldTour race, Il Lombardia or the Tour of Lombardy 2015, this Sunday, the day before the official presentation of the Giro d'Italia 2016 race route.
        
        Il Lombardia, the 109th edition of the race, will have a modified race route, which keeps the start and finish cities of last year, but the other way around with start in Bergamo and finish in Como. Hereunder you'll find the ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth| Il Lombardia
      - Added: Sunday 27 September 2015 at 16h35
        Video and photo flashback on the Grand Prix d'Isbergues 2015
        It was last week, the forelast race of the Coupe de France PMU 2015 took place in and around Isbergues in the north of France. The 69th edition of the Grand Prix d'Isbergues saw several breakaways give it a try, but finally it ended in a bunch sprint which decided the race's result and Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) turned out to be the fastest rider in this sprint on the finish line.
        
        You might have already read the summary of the Grand Prix d'Isbergues 2015 last week and you might have already discovered the photos of the race early this week.
        
        If this isn't the case, you can start this flashback in images with the selection of 107 photos of the race:
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        this article appears in the following categories: Grand Prix d'Isbergues| Coupe de France
      - Added: Sunday 20 September 2015 at 19h07
        Grand Prix d'Isbergues 2015: Nacer Bouhanni winner and new leader of the Coupe de France PMU!
        The 69th edition of the Grand Prix d'Isbergues took place under a bright blue sky today, starting at the end of the morning, for a bit over 200 kilometers on the roads of the north of France. While several breakaways animated the race, the victory was finally decided in a bunch sprint and Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) was the one who won it.
        
        The rider of the team which is based in the Nord department also took the lead in the individual classification of the Coupe de France PMU (of which the Grand Prix d'Isbergues was the forelast race), passing upfront Baptiste Planckaert (Roubaix Lille Métropole) and Pierrick Fédrigo (Bretagne-Séché Environnement) who led the classification before this race!
        The summary of the Grand Prix d'Isbergues 2015
        Without the last winner - Arnaud Démare (FDJ), who won the race in the Frenc ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Grand Prix d'Isbergues| Coupe de France
      - Added: Thursday 17 September 2015 at 21h52
        Richmond 2015: the race routes of the World Championships Road Cycling on Google Maps/Google Earth
        This weekend, the World Championships Road Cycling will start in Richmond (Virginia) in the United States. After the team time trials (for brand teams) this weekend, the nation dedicated races will start with the individual time trials, which will take place for all categories on the same circuit except for the Elite Men who will have a dedicated circuit, followed by the races in line which will all use a single circuit.
        
        In this article, you'll discover the different race routes on Google Maps/Google Earth and the profiles of the different races.
        The programme of the World Championships Road Cycling 2015
        The whole week, the environments of Richmond, in the state of Virginia, not far from the east coast, will thus receive these World Championships Road Cycling 2015, based on the following programme: ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: World Championships Richmond 2015| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Thursday 13 August 2015 at 23h06
        African cycling: as the world celebrates recent successes are its very roots under threat?
        African cycling under threat
        MTN-Qhubeka's recent success at the Tour de France has catapulted Africa cycling into the limelight. The 'David and Goliath' exploits of African riders have showcased the continent's potential as a source of top-level athletes. In addition, their attacking style has thrilled fans and won them respect within and outside the European peloton. This is perhaps best exemplified by Eritrean rider Daniel Teklehaimanot, the outright winner of the 'Mountains Classification' at the Critérium du Dauphiné and holder of the 'mountains jersey' for the first week of the Tour de France. African cycling's success is unquestionably underpinned by the w ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Behind the scenes of MTN-Qhubeka
      - Added: Saturday 01 August 2015 at 16h06
        Participate in the La Madeleine cyclosportive, velowire.com offers your places!
        ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Cycling general (except Tour de France)
      - Added: tuesday 21 July 2015 at 16h07
        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: Friday 17 July 2015 at 19h32
        Senseo is one of the Tour's sponsors, win your limited edition Senseo Viva Britto! (France only)
        ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2015| Marketing
      - Added: Monday 13 July 2015 at 16h33
        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: Monday 06 July 2015 at 19h51
        The state of the 6 French cobble stones sections of the 4th Tour de France 2015 stage
        This article has not been translated in Dutch but you can read it below in French and/or watch the photos of the different cobble stones sections
        
        Demain, la 4ème étape du Tour de France 2015 se déroulera entre Seraing en Belgique et Cambrai en France. Entre les deux, les coureurs passeront pas moins de 7 secteurs pavés, dont un en Belgique et six en France.
        
        Pour velowire.com, Sébastien Barre a fait la reconnaissance des 6 secteurs pavés en France qui feront peur aux coureurs au départ de l'étape de demain !
        
        Je vous livre ci-dessous ses impressions des secteurs ainsi que trois photos pour chacun des secteurs afin que vous puissiez vous y rendre virtuellement dès maintenant !
        
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      - Added: Friday 03 July 2015 at 20h18
        The participants list of the Tour de France 2015 and the time and start order for the time trial
        This Saturday the Tour de France 2015 will start in Utrecht, with a 13.8 kilometer long time trial.
        
        In this article, you'll find the participants list of the 102nd edition of the Grande Boucle and the start order and times for the time trial in Utrecht.
        The participants list for the Tour de France 2015
        At the start of the Tour de France 2015 we'll find 198 riders in 22 teams.
        
        Together they'll represent 32 countries, the majority coming from France (41 riders), and then from the host country of the Grand Départ, The Netherlands (20 riders), from Italy (16 riders), Spain (15 riders), Belgium (11 riders) and Germany, Australia, Great-Britain and Switzerland, who all bring 10 riders.
        
        Here's the participants list for the Tour de France 2015: ...
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        this article appears in the following categories:
      - Added: Sunday 28 June 2015 at 11h20
        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| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Saturday 27 June 2015 at 21h33
        The start of the Tour of Italy 2016 in The Netherlands officially presented
        We already knew it since one year: the Giro d'Italia 2016 will start in The Netherlands. At that time, it was not clear yet where the pink jersey race would start, but the details of the Grand Start of the Tour of Italy 2016 have been announced yesterday!
        The Tour of Italy 2016: 3 days in the province of Gelderland
        For its 99th edition, the Giro d'Italia chose to start abroad, for the 12th time in the history of the race and for the 3rd time from The Netherlands (after Groningen in 2002 and Amsterdam pour for the Giro d'Italia 2010).
        
        The Netherlands are made up of 12 provinces and one of these provinces, the biggest ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2016
      - Added: tuesday 23 June 2015 at 18h58
        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| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Monday 22 June 2015 at 09h21
        The race routes of the French Championships 2015 in Chantonnay on Google Maps/Google Earth
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        this article appears in the following categories: French championships| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Wednesday 17 June 2015 at 21h43
        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: Friday 05 June 2015 at 20h15
        The Critérium du Dauphiné 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        This Sunday, the 67th edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné will start in Ugine (Savoie) for a mountaineous ride of 1,212.5 kilometers.
        
        Some sort of a mini Tour de France, as a preparation on the Grande Boucle which will start in Utrecht in less than 30 days! A few elements of the Tour will be present in this Critérium du Dauphiné 2015 including mainly the climb of the already famous Lacets de Montvernier and the stage Digne-les-Bains > Pra Loup!
        
        In this article you'll discover all the details of the race route of this Dauphiné, including the time- and route schedules, the stage profiles and the race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, which wi ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Criterium du Dauphiné| Critérium du Dauphiné 2015| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Saturday 09 May 2015 at 03h08
        The Tour of Italy (Giro d'Italia) 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        Today, Saturday 9 May 2015, the Tour of Italy 2015 (or Giro d'Italia 2015) starts in San Lorenzo Al Mare with a team time trial which will mainly take place on ... a bike path! All the other details about the race routes, the roads the riders will follow, the time- and route schedules, the stage profiles and the race route on Google Maps/Google Earth are available in this article and will allow you to follow the fight for pink in the best possible circumstances with the knowledge of the race!
        The Giro d'Italia 2015 race route on Google Maps
        In total, 3,486 kilometers are on the programme, of which 77 kilometers in the time trials (1 team time trial of 17.6 km as the opening stage and an individual time trial over a distance of 59.4 km halfway the race): 19 stages will entirely take place in Italy and two stages will ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2015| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Sunday 26 April 2015 at 21h33
        Video and photo flashback on the Tro Bro Léon 2015
        One week ago, the riders have been doing quite some kilometers on the ribins - the sand/stone roads - of the Tro Bro Léon 2015, 32nd edition of the race which is often compared to Paris-Roubaix and which thus carries the nickname of Hell of the West.
        
        You probably discovered the summary of the race last week and you maybe also saw the photos.
        
        In this article, we watch back on this great race between land and sea in Brittany, in order to share some filmed images with you in a summary video, but also the dedicated photo section of the Tro Bro Léon 2015 on this website!
        The video summary of the Tro Bro Léon 2015
        Let's start with the video summary of the race. You'll discovered the different landscapes which the race offers to the peloton after the start from Lannilis, with the first small breakaway which was ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tro Bro Léon| Coupe de France| Catching up with Jérémy Roy
      - Added: Sunday 19 April 2015 at 19h55
        Alexandre Geniez takes the victory in the Tro Bro Léon 3 days after his anniversary
        Alexandre Geniez (FDJ) celebrated his birthday 3 days ago at the Grand Prix de Denain. In the breakaway during that race in the north of France, the rider from the south of France didn't manage to take the race victory as his birthday present. By getting in the breakaway of the day and being present in almost all the right attacks, the rider of the FDJ team offered himself a birthday present 3 days late!
        The summary of the Tro Bro Léon 2015
        Under a generous sun, the Tro Bro Léon 2015 got off from Lannilis late this morning. Rapidly, three riders attacked, Dan Craven (Team Europcar), Benjamin Giraud (Team Marseille 13-KTM) and Julien Duval (Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre) but this leading trio didn't manage to stay ahead for long.
        
        A group of 15 riders got away at kilometer 33 of the race and when 4 other riders joined this breakaway we got today's breakaway with 19 men in the lead: Jimmy Turgis and Florian Sénéchal (Cofidis), A ...
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      - Added: Saturday 18 April 2015 at 09h39
        The Tro Bro Léon 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and its 'ribins'
        This weekend there will not only be the Amstel Gold Race (on Sunday), but also the Tour du Finistère today and the Tro Bro Léon tomorrow!
        
        For this last mentioned race this article contains the race route on Google Maps, the time- and route schedule, the profile and the possibility to download the race route to open it in Google Earth. You'll also find a description of all the ribins ... and velowire.com will be present on this race in Brittany to share the race with you in photos and in a written summary and early next week in video!
        The Tro Bro Léon 2015 on Google Maps
        The Tro Bro Léon is some sort of a bis repetita of Paris-Roubaix. Without really comparing both races, where the second part of the Hell of the North's race route is full o ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth| Tro Bro Léon| Coupe de France
      - Added: Thursday 16 April 2015 at 20h42
        The Amstel Gold Race 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and its time- and route schedule
        This Sunday, the 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 races of the 2012 World Championships finished.
        
        The Amstel Gold Race 2015 race route - for its 50th edition! - is a bit different from last year but the race still includes 34 climbs for this UCI WorldTour race (in 2011 the number of climbs went up from 31 to 32 and in 2012 again down to 31, before going up to 34 in 2013). In this article you'll find the time- and route schedule and the race route on Google Maps and you can also download the race route in Google Earth for example if you want to do a virtual fly-over.
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      - Added: Sunday 12 April 2015 at 19h11
        John Degenkolb wins the 'pavé' of Paris-Roubaix 2015!
        John Degenkolb (Team Giant-Alpecin) probably dreamed as much of it as Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky). While the British rider would have hoped to end his professional cycling career on a victory at Paris-Roubaix, the Germand rider kept in mind the bad taste of the second place last year. As one of the riders in a small groupe of 7 riders at the entrance of the Vélodrome in Roubaix, John Degenkolb showed his sprinters qualities and thus managed to cross the finish line first when the breakaway crossed it for the second time on the track!
        The summary of Paris-Roubaix 2015
        After several unsuccessful breakaway attempts,, nine riders formed today's breakaway after an attack at kilometer 34 under the sun which was shining on the roads of Paris-Roubaix 2015 today!
        
        In this group we found Gregory Rast (Trek Factory Racing), Adam Bly ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Roubaix| Classics
      - Added: Saturday 11 April 2015 at 21h30
        The participants list for Paris-Roubaix 2015 and their bib numbers
        Alexander Kristoff (Team Katusha), Niki Terpstra (Etixx-QuickStep), Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky), Sep Vanmarcke (Team LottoNL-Jumbo), Greg van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team), Sebastian Langeveld (Team Cannondale-Garmin), Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) or Lars Boom (Astana Pro Team) or even some other outsider ... the list of potential winners of Paris-Roubaix 2015 is quite long since there's no real favourite.
        Kristoff is a serial winner these past few weeks but will the Norwegian rider also be able to perform on the cobble stones of the Hell of the North? (see the Paris-Roubaix race route and all the details of the 27 cobble stones sectors here)
        
        Without any distinction, without announcing a favourite, you'll thus find below the partici ...
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      - Added: Wednesday 08 April 2015 at 20h43
        Paris-Roubaix 2015: its race route, its cobble stones sections and the other details of the Hell of the North
        One of the most famous classics races, Paris-Roubaix 2015, will take place this Sunday. For this 113th edition of the race, the organisor chose to repeat the 2013 race route when it was won by Fabian Cancellara who got the double win of the Tour of Flanders - Paris-Roubaix.
        
        This year, Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) made the race his biggest goal, just before he says goodbye to his professional road cycling career. If there's a double win with the Tour of Flanders again this year, Alexander Kristoff (who also won the Grand Prix de l'Escaut/Scheldeprijs today) would win the race, but is the Norwegian rider of Team Katusha able to be the first out of the cobbles and on the velodrome of Roubaix?
        
        In the Hell of the North, even a small thing can come disturb the race for one or several riders. Therefore, nothing's sure beforehand, we'll see this Sunday on the cobble stones what the race will bring ...
        The 27 c ...
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      - Added: Sunday 05 April 2015 at 17h25
        Alexander Kristoff wins the Tour of Flanders 2015, first Norwegian victory
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      - Added: Friday 03 April 2015 at 21h01
        The Tour of Flanders 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        While the classics season is in full swing, the Tour of Flanders which will take place this weekend is a real monument among the Belgian classics. Created in 1913 and only interrupted during the First World War, the race will have its 99th dition in 2015 and it saw all the big names among the classics riders win it, from Henri Suter to Fabian Cancellara via Walter Godefroot, Eddy Merckx, Roger de Vlaeminck or Johan Museeuw.
        
        With 68 victories out of 99, Belgium is the record holder of number of victories in the Tour of Flanders but we'll see this Sunday whether the Tour of Flanders 2015 race route which you'll find below on Google Maps/Google Earth will again deliver a Belgian winner or not. With Tom Boonen (Etixx-QuickStep) and Fabian Cancellara (Trek Factory Racing) being absent, Zdenek Stybar (Etixx-QuickStep) is one of the big favorites but the Belgian fans will no doubt hope for Sep Vanmarcke (T ...
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      - Added: Friday 27 March 2015 at 20h36
        The Ghent-Wevelgem 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, its time- and route schedule and profile
        The Belgian classics continue this Sunday with Ghent-Wevelgem, a 239 kilometer long race which visits in its second half a zone with several mounts which often have some influence on how the race develops.
        
        In this article you'll find the race route of Ghent-Wevelgem 2015 on Google Maps/Google Earth.
        The Ghent-Wevelgem 2015 race route on Google Maps
        This Sunday morning, the riders and followers of the classics come back together in .. Deinze for the start of Ghent-Wevelgem. Indeed, like many races, this race still carries the name of its historical start city but since 2004 it no longer starts in Ghent.
        
        From Deinze the riders go west via Tielt, Kortemark and Diksmuide, towards the feeding zone in Veurne. They'll then continue south down to Oost-Cappel where they'll cross the border with France and go on until Wormhout. They'll then continue on their way sout ...
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      - Added: Friday 27 March 2015 at 08h42
        The E3 Harelbeke 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the participants list
        Time flies and today's already the day that the first paved Belgian classic of the UCI WorldTour will start, the Grand Prix E3 Harelbeke.
        
        As a real introduction to the classics season after A travers la Flandre (Dwars door Vlaanderen) which was won by Jelle Wallays (Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise) on Wednesday, the Grand Prix E3 Harelbeke follows a race route which has a collection of no less than 17 mounts mainly concentrated halfway the race. Hereunder you can discover this race route in detail on Google Maps, with the profile of the race, the possibility to download the race route in Google Earth with a KML file and the participants list.
        The E3 Harelbeke 2015 race route on Google Maps
        The Grand Prix E3 Harelbeke will start at the same place as where we'll know the winner of the race at the end of the afternoon, in the Stasegemsesteenweg in Harelbeke, and ...
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      - Added: Sunday 22 March 2015 at 20h09
        Pierrick Fédrigo holds on till the finish in Cholet Pays de Loire 2015
        In the 38th edition of Cholet Pays de Loire, a very big breakaway group was formed early in the race and the riders who were not part of this group saw their possible hopes for victory go away rather quickly. Indeed, all the teams were part of this breakaway and there was thus not much chasing going on. After different attacks from the breakaway, Pierrick Fédrigo (Bretagne-Séché Environnement) finally got off alone in the final circuit and the French rider managed to win the race, 10 years later ...
        The summary of Cholet Pays de Loire 2015
        The 3rd race of the Coupe de France PMU 2015, Cholet Pays de Loire took place today under a pretty cloudy sky. With 137 riders at the start, the race went off for 208 kilometers north of the city of Cholet.
        
        After a first attempt by Quentin Jauregui (AG2R La Mondiale), 19 riders got away from the peloton and before they reached the kilometer 50 ...
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      - Added: Saturday 21 March 2015 at 18h13
        Bis repetita for Alexis Gougeard in the Classic Loire Atlantique
        Last year, Alexis Gougeard (AG2R La Mondiale) won the Classic Loire Atlantique getting a way from a big breakaway a few kilometers from the finish. The rider who was then neo pro almost repeated this operation, this time however leaving the breakaway closer to the finish line, to win the Classic Loire Atlantique for the second year in row.
        The summary of the Classic Loire Atlantique 2015
        The first part of the race, which started just before noon in La Haye Fouassière, was a bit disturbed by some rain and right from the first lap, the peloton broke up in two. Despite an initial junction, the peloton split up again in the 3rd lap, before a small breakaway got away with Hugo Houle (AG2R La Mondiale), Kévin Reza (FDJ),Bryan Nauleau (Europcar) and Julien Duval (Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre). These four riders were joined by Julien Guay (Auber 93) and then taken back by a first part of the peloton to form a group of about fifteen riders ...
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      - Added: Friday 20 March 2015 at 23h37
        The Classic Loire Atlantique and Cholet-Pays de Loire 2015 race routes on Google Maps
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      - Added: Friday 20 March 2015 at 22h13
        The Milan-Sanremo 2015 race route in Google Maps/Google Earth
        The Primavera will take place on Sunday already! The 106th edition of Milan-Sanremo (or Milano-Sanremo in Italian of course) will this year again take place on Sunday, just like the two past years.
        
        If you translate "primavera" from Italian, you get the English equivalent "spring" but the weather conditions will not really be spring like this Sunday (with fine fine rain and storm wind). Less daunting conditions than in Tirreno Adriatico thus but still almost 300 kilometers to ride ...
        
        So, will it end in a sprint or not? We'll see that on Sunday and we'll get to know who'll be the winner of the 2015 edition of Milan-Sanremo!
        
        In this article you'll find a detailed presentation of the Milan-Sanremo 2015 race route, on Google Maps, with the time- and route schedule and its profile which shows the different climbs, mainly in the second part of the race. Finally, you'll also find a KML file which allows you to explore the Milan-Sanremo 2015 race route in Google Earth in ...
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      - Added: Wednesday 18 March 2015 at 23h31
        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: Sunday 15 March 2015 at 16h39
        Richie Porte wins Paris-Nice 2015 by beating everyone else on the Col d'Eze
        The very last stage of Paris-Nice 2015 took place this afternoon under a bit of rain on the climb of the Col d'Eze as an individual time trial of 9.5 kilometers starting in Nice.
        
        Separated for 36 seconds from the yellow jersey Tony Gallopin (Lotto-Belisol) at the start, Richie Porte was despite this gap the big favourite to win the race, like in 2013 when he already won the Race to the sun.
        The summary of the 7th stage of Paris-Nice 2015: the individual time trial Nice > Col d'Eze
        The first rider to start at 12.31OPM was Stijn Vandenbergh (Etixx-QuickStep) and the Belgian rider clocked in a time of 23'37" on top, while Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky), the World Champion time trial, decided not to give another ride to the Jaguar with the rainbow colours: indeed, the British rider didn't start the race today.
        
        Several riders went under this first time and Sergio Paulinho (Tinko ...
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      - Added: Sunday 15 March 2015 at 00h04
        The start order and -times for the Paris-Nice 2015 time trial
        Starting at 12.31PM, the 106 remaining riders of Paris-Nice 2015 (the 73rd edition of the Race to the sun) will get off one by one to the ascent of the Col d'Eze in the closing individual time trial of the race, starting in Nice.
        
        In this article you'll find the start order and -times for each of the riders.
        
        In the beginning the riders will start every minute, knowing that the 10 best places riders in the general classification will start every 2 minutes.
        
        The first rider to start will be Stijn Vandenbergh (Etixx-QuickStep) who has been at the service of his leader Michal Kwiatkowski all week long. The Belgian rider will start at 12.31PM for an individual effort over a 9.5 kilometer long race route. The last rider to start will of course be the rider who too ...
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      - Added: Saturday 14 March 2015 at 19h32
        Tony Gallopin goes double by winning the stage in Nice in Paris-Nice 2015!
        This article has not been translated in English. You can read it below in French.
        
        Alors qu'un très grand groupe d'échappés a animé la course en tête, c'est finalement sur une tentative de Michal Kwiatkowski (Etixx-QuickStep) d'élargir son avance sur Richie Porte (Team Sky) que Tony Gallopin arrive à se glisser dans une contre-attaque qui arrive à revenir sur ce qui restait de ce groupe de tête, pour enfin passer à l'attaque et rester à l'avant jusqu'à l'arrivée. Le coureur français s'empare ainsi également de la première position au classement général à la veille de la dernière étape de ce Paris-Nice 2015 qui aura lieu sous forme de contre-la-montre individuel sur le Col d'Eze demain.
        Le résumé de la 6ème étape de Paris-Nice 2015 : Vence > Nice
        Au départ de l'étape du jour à Vence, 184,5 kilomètres attendaient les 148 coureurs restant sur ...
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      - Added: Friday 13 March 2015 at 23h49
        Paris-Nice 2015: a classical race route - on Google Maps/Google Earth
        initially published on 12 February at 11.14PM, updated on 23 February at 11.25PM with the complete map of stage 4 and on the 4th and 5th of March with the remaining maps, the time- and route schedules and the video of the prologue and on 13 March with a last minute update of stage 6
        
        A bit over a week ago, A.S.O. finally announced the Paris-Nice 2015 race route. velowire.com already provided most of the details a week earlier and in order to provide you some further information today, we thought it was a good idea to provide you with the race route of the different Paris-Nice 2015 stages at Google Maps/Google Earth.
        
        ~~Since A.S.O. has still not published~~ ...
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      - Added: Friday 13 March 2015 at 17h16
        Paris-Nice: Thomas de Gendt sees the victory fly away to Davide Cimolai in Rasteau
        A breakaway which almost lasted till the finish: that's what happened for Thomas de Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) who was in the lead all day long, together with 4 others, and who was the last to be taken back in the last few hundreds meters before the finish in Rasteau in the 5th stage of Paris-Nice 2015 today. That's how, like in 2006, the stage victory was decided in a bunch sprint and, almost out of the blue, Davide Cimolai (Lampre-Merida) won the sprint, beating Bryan Coquard (Team Europcar) on the finish line.
        The summary of the 5th stage of Paris-Nice 2015: Saint-Etienne > Rasteau
        At 11.17AM 154 riders got away for the 5th stage between Saint-Etienne and Rasteau. Ramon Sinkeldam (Giant-Shimano, sick) and Adam Hansen (Lotto-Soudal, who crashed yesterday) didn't come to the start of this stage with an identical race route as in 2006 between th ...
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      - Added: Thursday 12 March 2015 at 18h56
        Richie Porte attacks right on time in the climb of the Croix de Chaubouret!
        A 3 riders strong breakaway, with Thomas de Gendt (Lotto-Soudal), Antoine Duchesne (Europcar) and Chris-Anker Sørensen (Tinkoff-Saxo), animated the 4th stage of Paris-Nice 2015, the queen stage with its 8 difficulties including the mountain top finish which had never been part of the race before, at the Croix de Chaubouret. When they were taken back in the final part of the stage, the favourites of the race showed up in front, with Team Sky seeming to be stronger than the others. Richie Porte and Geraint Thomas got away together and Richie Porte won the stage. Michal Kwiatkowski (Etixx-QuickStep) finished at the 3rd place at 8 seconds and thus took back the yellow jersey he lost in yesterday's stage, now being 1 second ahead of Porte!
        The summary of the 4th stage of Paris-Nice 2015: Varenne-sur-Allier > Croix de Chaubouret - 204 km
        The riders reached the km 0 of the 4th stage of Paris-Nice 2015 a ...
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      - Added: Wednesday 11 March 2015 at 17h51
        And Bling, Michael Matthews raffles all in the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2015
        The 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2015 again saw a breakaway with a rider of the Bretagne-Séché Environnement team, this time the local rider of this stage Florian Vachon, who got company from Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing Team). They were joined later by Thomas Voeckler (Team Europcar), but the leading trio saw the peloton come back rather quickly in the last 30 kilometers. Little by little they were thus taken back by the peloton and a new leading group didn't manage to stay away for a long time. The Australian team Orica-GreenEDGE then controlled the race and Michael Matthews, nicknamed Bling, thus deservedly won this 3rd stage of the Race to the sun in the sprint.
        The summary of the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2015: Saint-Amand-Montrond > Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule - 179 km
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      - Added: tuesday 10 March 2015 at 17h53
        The gorilla strikes in Saint-Amand-Montrond: stage victory for André Greipel in Paris-Nice
        In today's 2nd stage of Paris-Nice 2015 between the ZooParc de Beauval and Saint-Amand-Montrond we again saw a breakaway, this time with Arnaud Gérard (Bretagne-Séché Environnement), and a peloton which progressed at a relatively slow pace. The solo breakaway was taken back only in the final circuit and the stage ended - as expected - in a bunch sprint. At the start we saw numerous animals at the ZooParc, including gorillas, tonight it was the Gorilla - André Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) - who won the stage in the sprint!
        The summary of the 2nd stage of Paris-Nice 2015 - ZooParc de Beauval (Saint-Aignan) > Saint-Amand-Montrond
        At the start of the stage at the ZooParc de Beauval (Saint-Aignan), there was one minute of silence in honour to the victims of the tragical accident in Argentina (among whom the swimmer Camille Muffat, the boxer Alexis Vastine and the navigator Florence Art ...
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      - Added: Monday 09 March 2015 at 17h57
        Alexander Kristoff continues his victories in the sprint at the 1st stage of Paris-Nice 2015
        Today's stage started with a solo breakaway by Jonathan Hivert (Bretagne-Séché Environnement), which allowed him to take the polka dot jersey of the climbers classification on the first short climb at the very start of the stage. A new breakaway was then set up as a duo with Thomas Voeckler (Team Europcar) and Anthony Delaplace (Bretagne-Séché Environnement) and just before the finish this leading duo was taken back by the peloton and the stage thus ended, as expected, in a sprint.
        
        Alexander Kristoff (Team Katusha), who already won 4 times in the Tour of Oman and the Tour of Qatar early this season, again showed he's the strongest, beating Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) and Bryan Coquard (Europcar) easily on the finish line in Contres.
        The summary of the 1st stage of Paris-Nice 2015: Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse > Contres
        A stage of 196.5 kilometers between Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse and Contres was awaiting the riders who participate ...
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      - Added: Saturday 07 March 2015 at 19h44
        The participating riders in Paris-Nice 2015 and their numbers + start order prologue
        This Sunday 8 March 2015, Paris-Nice 2015 will start in Maurepas with a prologue which precedes a race route made up of 7 stages with a total distance of 1134 kilometers!
        
        In this article you'll find the official participants list, with their bib numbers and nationality. During the week you'll find many photos and at least one article a day with the summary of the stage on velowire.com!
        
        Here are the participants per team:
        AG2R La Mondiale
        Since Carlos Betancur was last year's winner of Paris-Nice, the Race to the sun which will this year take place under the sun at least for the start in the Yvelines department(!), the AG2R La Mondiale team got the first bib numbers. Carlos Betancur will not participate in the race however and Jean-Christophe Péraud, who finished 2nd in the ...
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      - Added: Friday 27 February 2015 at 21h12
        The Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne 2015 race routes on Google Maps/Google Earth
        This weekend, the Belgian classics will take over the reigns of the de UCI cycling calendar again. 2015's classics season starts - as usual - with the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday. For some people, the cycling season really only starts when it's the Omloop. Although the season has been ongoing for weeks now, the season will now really start for them this weekend as well!
        
        Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne didn't take place in 2013 due to snow but in 2014 the race was won by Tom Boonen (Mark Cavendish won the race in 2012) and we'll thus see this Sunday who will follow up on the Belgian sprinter. Concerning the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Ian Stannard is the last winner of the race after a duo sprint with Greg van Avermaet last year.
        
        In this article you'll find the time- and route schedules, the profiles with the different mounts and the maps with the race routes of these two Belgian classics on ...
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      - Added: Thursday 19 February 2015 at 22h53
        The Tour du Haut Var 2015 race route in Google Maps/Google Earth
        This Saturday, the Tour du Haut Var 2015 will take place in the south of France. As usual, this will be a 2 day race, with one stage between Le Cannet des Maures and Seillans and one stage with start and finish in Draguignan.
        
        In this article you'll find all the details of this race, with the time- and route schedules, the profiles and the race route of the stages on Google Maps/Google Earth.
        The Tour du Haut Var 2015 race route in Google Maps
        The Tour du Haut Var 2015, officially called the Tour Cycliste International du Haut Var-matin will contain a stage of 164.6 and a stage of 194.7 kilometers and Sunday at the end of the afternoon, we'll thus know - after 359.3 kilometers - who will succeed to Carlos Betancur (AG2R La Mondial ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour du Haut Var| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Monday 02 February 2015 at 22h25
        The Etoile de Bessèges 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        This Wednesday, the first French stage race of the 2015 season, the Etoile de Bessèges, will start in Bellegarde and it will finish in Alès on Sunday.
        
        3 of the 5 stages of this 45th edition of the Etoile de Bessèges are identical to the Etoile's race route in 2013 but since last year, the race only has 5 stages, of which one is an individual time trial, on the last day. In this article you'll find the race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and even for the identical stages, the race route has been re-drawn more precisely and presented in a better way (with color codes).
        
        The race will take place from Wednesday 4 till Sunday 8 February 2015. Often dominated by the sprinters in the different stages in line, the race's classification could be largely influenced by the uphill time trial as the final stage. 622 kilometers a ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Etoile de Bessèges| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Sunday 01 February 2015 at 17h33
        Pim Ligthart wins the Grand Prix La Marseillaise 2015 in a sprint
        A 5 rider strong breakaway was active in the Grand Prix Cycliste La Marseillaise 2015 today, the first road cycling race of the season in France and also the first race of the Coupe de France PMU 2015. After having created quite a comfortable gap, these 5 riders started losing lots of time in the 3 difficulties of the race around Marseille and in the climb of the Gineste their adventure came to an end. A new breakaway didn't manage to work together correctly and the race was thus decided in a sprint, which was won by Pim Ligthart (Lotto-Soudal).
        The summary of the Grand Prix Cycliste La Marseillaise 2015
        Rapidly after the start, two riders got away at the head of the race. These riders were Clément Saint-Martin of the Team Marseille 13-KTM and the neo pro Pierre-Roger Latour of the AG2R La Mondiale team, but their adventure only lasted for a few kilometers before the bunch came back ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Grand Prix Cycliste la Marseillaise| Coupe de France
      - Added: tuesday 27 January 2015 at 22h50
        The stage cities of the Paris-Nice 2015 race route: official before the press conference!
        Many of you are looking for information about the race route of Paris-Nice 2015. As usual, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) announces the race route quite late, more precisely 33 days before the start (like last year), on 3 February.
        
        Anyone who does some basic research however manages to get together the different bits of information to get to know the race route and that's what did Le blog de l'Ardoisier. If you find an article dedicated to the Paris-Nice 2015 race route today there must be a reason ... Indeed, it's simply because as of today, the information can be confirmed .. based on a 100% sure source!
        What has been officially announced
        The information about the start of the 73rd edition of the Race to the sun, the nickname of ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2015
      - Added: Sunday 25 January 2015 at 21h22
        A look behind the scenes of the Tour Down Under 2015 by Jérémy Roy (FDJ)
        Last year we discovered several videos created by professional cyclists, thanks to a camera on their bike, often directly supplied (including the editing of the video) by Shimano. Jérémy Roy of the FDJ team, rider and engineer and interested by new technologies, was one of the first users of such an onboard camera and the French rider thus regularly asks for an authorisation to use a camera inside the race.
        
        He also did this in the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 which just ended today and in this article you can discover or re-discover the different videos he published.
        The authorisation
        As explained in the introduction of this article, Jérémy Roy requested an authorisation to be able to use an onboard camera during a UCI offici ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Down Under| Tour Down Under 2015| Catching up with Jérémy Roy
      - Added: Sunday 25 January 2015 at 14h33
        Rohan Dennis wins the Tour Down Under 2015, Wouter Wippert the last stage
        The last stage of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 took place on a 4.5 kilometers long circuit in the center of Adelaide and the riders had to do it 20 times. A bunch sprint was expected at the finish but a small group finally battled for the sprint due to a crash in the forelast lap. Wouter Wippert (Drapac Professional Cycling) crossed the finish line first, ahead of Heinrich Haussler (IAM Cycling), and he almost seemed to be the one who was most surprised!
        
        Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing Team) didn't see his first place in the general classification being threatened by Richie Porte (Team Sky) and thus won the first UCI WorldTour race of the 2015 season.
        The summary of the 6th stage of the Tour Down Under 2015: Adelaide > Adelaide - 90 km
        The 4.5 kilometers long circuit in the streets of Adelaide was a b ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Down Under| Tour Down Under 2015
      - Added: Saturday 24 January 2015 at 15h43
        Richie Porte repeats his victory on Willunga Hill in the Tour Down Under 2015 but doesn't take the jersey!
        The 5th stage of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 today was the famous Willunga Hill stage which is traditionally part of the Tour Down Under since 2003 and which often has a big influence on the final general classifiction. This was also the case when Richie Porte (Team Sky) won the stage in a solo attack today, but Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing Team) again showed he's very strong and managed to keep the first place in the general classification!
        The summary of the 5th stage of the Tour Down Under 2015: McLaren Vale > Willunga Hill - 151.5 km
        The winner of the first stage, Jack Bobridge (UniSA Australia) was very active at the start of the stage and after a neutralised att ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Down Under| Tour Down Under 2015
      - Added: Friday 23 January 2015 at 09h11
        Steele von Hoff wins the 4th stage of the Tour Down Under 2015 in a crash disturbed sprint
        The 4th stage of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 didn't see one but two breakaways on the Australian roads. At 9 kilometers from the finish, the peloton however came back together and the stage would thus have ended in a bunch sprint with the best sprinters of the peloton of the South-Australian race. A crash however disturbed some of them to be part of the battle for the stage victory and in the end Steele von Hoff (UniSA Australia) won the sprint of a small group of survivors. There were no noticeable changes in the general classification except for Daryl Impey climbing up to the 4th place by winning one of the two intermediate sprints and finishing second in the stage.
        The summary of the 4th stage of the Tour Down Under 2015: Glenelg > Mount Barker - 144.5 km
        In the first 20 kilometers of the 4th stage of the Santos ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Down Under| Tour Down Under 2015
      - Added: Thursday 22 January 2015 at 10h00
        Stage victory and the jersey for Rohan Dennis at the 3rd stage of the Tour down Under 2015
        A long breakaway initiated and assumed until the end by William Clarke (Drapac) didn't manage to hold on until the end in the 3rd stage of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 today but, as expected, the stage victory wasn't decided in a sprint. Rohan Dennis turned out to be the strongest in the climb which led to the finish and the Australian rider also takes the leader's jersey in the general classification.
        The summary of the 3rd stage of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015: Norwood > Paracombe - 143.2 km
        After an unsuccessful attempt by Martin Kohler (Drapac), it was up to William Clarke to attack early in the stage. The Australian rider, who was part of the AG2R La Mondiale team in the past, was joined by 3 other riders, Lasse Norman Hansen (Cannondale-Garmin), Calvin Watson (Trek Factory Racing) and Axel Domont (AG2R La Mondiale) and their gap went up to 3'30" ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Down Under| Tour Down Under 2015
      - Added: Wednesday 21 January 2015 at 09h17
        Juan José Lobato sprints to victory in the second stage of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015
        The stage between Unley and Stirling in the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 was promised to the sprinters and the victory was indeed decided in a sprint today. Juan José Lobato of the Movistar Team turned out to be the fastest and wins this second stage of the Tour Down Under 2015.
        Jack Bobridge keeps the ochre leader's jersey of the general classification, with a 3 seconds gap on Lobato.
        The summary of the second stage of the Tour Down Under 2015: Unley > Stirling
        Despite a big number of attempts in the 20 first kilometers, a group of 3 riders really got away from the peloton only at that point. Those riders were Campbell Flakemore (BMC Racing Team), Thomas de Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) and Cameron Meyer (Orica-GreenEDGE).
        
        Their gap reaches its maximum value in the only difficulty of the day, Basket Range after 29.8 kilometers in the race, at 3'35". On the top of the c ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Down Under| Tour Down Under 2015
      - Added: tuesday 20 January 2015 at 09h26
        Jack Bobridge wins the first stage of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 for UniSA Australia
        The first stage of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 took place between Tanunda and Campbelltown today. Today's breakaway didn't even need the climb of Checkers Hill to get away from the peloton and manage to stay ahead of the peloton which came rather close at the finish, thus allowing Jack Bobridge (UniSA Australia), the fastest rider of the four leading riders, to win this first stage. Bobridge also took the ochre leader's jersey of the South-Australian race.
        The summary of the first stage of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015: Tanunda > Campbelltown - 132.5 km
        Almost immediately after the start three riders broke away and Luke Durbridge (Orica-GreenEDGE), Lieuwe Westra (Astana) and Maxim Belkov (Katusha) rapidly got company from Jack Bobridge (UniSA Australia).
        
        While their gap came close to 3 minutes, Jack Bobridge won the first intermediate sprint in the first ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Down Under| Tour Down Under 2015
      - Added: Monday 19 January 2015 at 23h25
        The participating riders in the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 and their numbers
        It'll now be the 8th year that the Santos Tour Down Under is the opening race of the UCI WorldTour (which will end with the Tour of Lombardy on 4 October this year). The Santos Tour Down Under 2015 will start this Tuesday 20 January from Tanunda for 6 stages down to Adelaide.
        
        Hereunder you'll find the list of participating riders in this race, with their bib numbers.
        Reminder: the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth
        On 26 December already, velowire.com showed you the detailed race route of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015 in Google Maps/Google E ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Down Under| Tour Down Under 2015
      - Added: Saturday 17 January 2015 at 18h25
        The Vuelta a España celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2015 with yet another difficult race route
        This article is not available in English. You can read it in French below.
        
        Cette année la Vuelta a España fête son 80ème anniversaire avec sa 70ème édition, le Tour d'Espagne 2015. Ce sont neuf arrivées au sommet qui marqueront la course, en plus du contre-la-montre par équipes d'ouverture, un seul contre-la-montre individuel à 5 jours de l'arrivée.
        
        Ci-dessous velowire.com retrace les principales informations disponibles sur le parcours présenté dimanche dernier.
        Le Tour d'Espagne 2015 en quelques chiffres
        Commençons par regarder quelques chiffres de cette Vuelta a España 2015 :
        > 80 : cette année le Tour d'Espagne fête son 80ème anniversaire, avec sa 70ème édition (la course n'ayant pas eu lieu entre 1937 et 1940 à cause de la guerre civile ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Vuelta a España| Vuelta a España 2015
      - Added: Thursday 15 January 2015 at 22h29
        Tour de France 2016: after the Manche department, down to Andorra!
        While the Tour de France 2015 is only about to start in 170 days and the official presentation of the Tour de France 2016 race route is only planned for 20 October 2015, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) already announced that the 103rd edition of the Tour de France will visit Andorra!
        The Tour de France in Andorra during 3 days!
        The last time the Tour de France visited Andorra was on Friday 10 July 2009 when a stage which started in Barcelona had its finish at Andorra Arcalis, and that stage was won with a solo win by Brice Feillu, at that time riding for the Agritubel team (detail photo of Brice Feillu's fi ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2016
      - Added: Wednesday 14 January 2015 at 23h20
        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| Paris-Nice 2015| Critérium du Dauphiné 2015
      - Added: Wednesday 07 January 2015 at 22h43
        Tour Med 2015: will it take place .. or not?
        This Wednesday, France and the rest of the world have discovered a horrible terrorist act against the satiric newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Of course this act can only be condemned and our thoughts go out to the families and friends of the victims and to the journalists of Charlie Hebdo.
        
        ---
        
        Since the second half of November, several media published about the Tour Méditerranéen Cycliste Professionnel 2015, more commonly called "Tour Med", being threatened while it would organise its 42nd edition this year.
        
        Since we didn't have any news since that time and since the race still hadn't been registered in the UCI cycling calendar, it seemed to be clear that the race wouldn't take place, but the organisor seems to continue to indicate the contrary ... Let's check the details!
        The Tour Med 2015 being threatened
        As far as I know, ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Med
      - Added: Friday 26 December 2014 at 13h14
        The Tour Down Under 2015 race route in Google Maps/Google Earth
        ... and the stage profiles
        While 2014 is getting to an end and the different teams get presented these last days of the year or get ready to do say early next year, velowire.com already offers you the opportunity to discover the race route of the first race of the new edition of the UCI WorldTour, the Santos Tour Down Under 2015, which will take place from 20 till 25 January 2015!
        
        In this article you'll find all information about the race route of the Santos Tour Down Under 2015, with the stages on Google Maps/Google Earth and the profiles of each of the stages.
        The Tour Down Under 2015 race route on Google Maps
        Sunday 18 January 2015 - ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour Down Under| Tour Down Under 2015| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Thursday 18 December 2014 at 00h36
        The race route of the first Tour de France 2016 stages in Google Maps/Google Earth
        Last week, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) and the Manche department, officially announced (at the Mont-Saint-Michel ) the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2016 in the Manche and more precisely at the Mont-Saint-Michel!
        
        As usual, since velowire is always trying to provide you all the details, you can now discover the precise race route of the first two stages and the start of the third stage on Google Maps/Google Earth and maybe even get a first idea of the finish city of the 3rd stage?!
        The race route of the first two stages of the Tour de France 2016 on Google Maps
        The programme of the Grand Départ of the ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2016| OpenStreetMap/Google Maps/Google Earth
      - Added: Thursday 11 December 2014 at 01h14
        The 17 UCI WorldTeams announced for 2015: OK for Astana, not for Europcar
        While the UCI announced 15 teams which had been qualified to receive a "UCI WorldTeam" licence for 2015 early December, allowing those teams to participate in the UCI WorldTour race, the status of the Astana and Europcar teams remained to be confirmed.
        
        The UCI promissed to provide the answer on 10 December latest and that's what they finally did late Wednesday night when we discovered that the Astana team was rewarded the licence while that's not the case for the Europcar team! Therefore, we'll have only 17 teams in the first division in 2015 and not 18 as usual.
        
        The UCI WorldTeams (apparently the new name of the first division teams) obtain a licence for one or several years and these licences are awarded based on sports, financial, ethical and administrative criteria, kno ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: UCI ProTour| Cycling general (except Tour de France)
      - Added: tuesday 09 December 2014 at 16h49
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2016 officially announced: 3 days in the Manche department
        It's been quite a while since it was first rumoured and it had been confirmed by the organisor on 25 November already, the Tour de France 2016 will have its Grand Départ in the Manche departement.
        
        Rapidly after that official announcement it became clear that the first stage will start at the foot of the Mont-Saint-Michel, well known touristical spot in the department, and today all the other details fo the Grand Départ have been announced.
        The details of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2016
        At the Mont-Saint-Michel a press conference was organised early this afternoon, with Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France and of cycling at A.S.O. (Amaury Sport Organisation) and Jean-François Le Grand, the president of the Conseil Général de la Manche announcing all the details.
        
        The Permanence will be situated in the city of ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2016
      - Added: Monday 08 December 2014 at 22h41
        The reform of professional cycling: the latest news
        The last time we provided you with information about the the reform of professional cycling 2015-2020 was in April 2014, following the publication of the first edition of the "reform info" newsletter.
        
        Since then, we had the right to a complete radio silence about this topic, even though this is of interest for all actors of professional cycling, including the fans in the first place.
        
        In the most recent communication by the UCI we didn't get any further details, but velowire.com was able to find some further information anyway, which you can find exclusively in this article.
        The reform of professional cycling 2015-2020 goes on in the shadow
        In March, the first edition of the newsletter "Reform In ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Cycling general (except Tour de France)| UCI ProTour
      - Added: tuesday 25 November 2014 at 09h00
        The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2016 from the Manche department finally confirmed!
        initially published on 24 November 2014 at 8.24PM, updated on 25 November at 9.00AM
        
        We already discussed it in October, following an announcement by the Basse-Normandie region, and it finally gets confirmed today: the Tour de France 2016 will have it's Grand Départ in the La Manche department (50).
        
        As usual in November, the information arrived today - through a short press release by Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) - about the place where the Grand Départ of the Tour de France to come in two years will take place. Concerning the 103rd edition, which should start on Saturday 2 July 2016, it'll indeed be in the La Manche depa ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2016
      - Added: Friday 21 November 2014 at 22h56
        MTN-Qhubeka – An insiders view of the 2014 Vuelta
        The 2014 cycling season has now come to an end and while the African MTN-Qhubeka team is about to start preparing the 2015 season with a training camp from 23-30 November at the Spier Wine Farm in the Western Cape of South Africa, we felt it would be good to get back on how the team performed in its first Grand Tour, the Vuelta a España 2014.
        
        With a new UCI Pro Continental Team licence for the team, for the 3rd year in a row, the African team is hoping to participate in the Tour de France this year and the invitation for the Tour of Qatar and for the Tour of Oman by A.S.O. (the same organisor as the Tour) might be a good start towards this goal.
        MTN-Qhubeka in the 2014 Tour of Spain
        On 23rd August MTN-Qhubeka made history as the first Afri ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Behind the scenes of MTN-Qhubeka| Vuelta a España 2014
      - Added: Thursday 13 November 2014 at 00h31
        Prize award ceremony Coupe de France PMU 2014: interviews with Julien Simon & Samuel Dumoulin
        Last Friday, Julien Simon (Cofidis, solutions crédits) received his prize as winner of the Coupe de France PMU 2014. That's how - after 2012 with Samuel Dumoulin, who also won it in 2013 for the AG2R La Mondiale team - this prize came back to the Cofidis team.
        
        During the prize award ceremony organised by the Ligue Nationale de Cyclisme at the Hippodrome of Vincennes (in collaboration with PMU of course), velowire.com realised some videos, of the speeches but also with interviews of Samuel Dumoulin (AG2R La Mondiale) and Julien Simon, respectively number 2 and 1 of the individual classification of the Coupe de France PMU 2014. You can find these videos in the article below!
        Marc Madiot: "I hope we'll be even more in the future"
        As usual, the introduction of the award ceremony was done by Marc Madiot, not in his role as the manager of the FDJ.fr team of course but in his role as th ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Coupe de France
      - Added: Sunday 09 November 2014 at 20h01
        Product test: CUCU Barcelona cycling jersey
        From time to time, velowire.com tests and presents you a new product or an original and interesting product which is already available on the market, in the product test section of the website*. This is also the case today with the "Tourmalet" cycling jersey by CUCU Barcelona.
        
        In this article you'll discover this cycling jersey with a nice retro design which is part of a series of other jerseys dedicated to the Hautacam or the Plateau de Beille.
        The "Tourmalet" cycling jersey by CUCU Barcelona
        CUCU Barcelona is a newcomer on the relatively saturated market of cycling wear. ...
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        this article appears in the following categories: Product test
      - Added: Wednesday 22 October 2014 at 23h59
        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

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The route of the Bredene Koksijde Classic 2025 on an OpenStreetMap map and the race profile

Grand Départ 2027: the Tour de France 2027 and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2027 will start in Scotland (Edinburgh), followed by England and Wales!

The Milano - Torino 2025 race route, with a comeback at Superga, on an OpenStreetMap map and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile

The route of Milano - Torino 2025 on OpenStreetMap, the hourly itinerary and the race profile

Paris-Nice 2025 - Matteo Jorgenson bis repetita, the summary of the 83rd edition of the Race to the sun

The Danilith Nokere Koerse 2025 race route on an OpenStreetMap map and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile

Danilith Nokere Koerse 2025 course on OpenStreetMap, hourly itinerary and race profile

The race route of the 7th stage (Nice > Auron) of Paris-Nice 2025 modified: the updated map on OpenStreetMap, the time- and route schedule and the stage profile!

The Paris-Nice 2025 race route on an OpenStreetMap map and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedules, the stage profiles and the participants list with the bib numbers

Paris-Nice 2025 starters list

The Strade Bianche 2025 race route on an OpenStreetMap map and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile and the participants list

The detail of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2026 in Barcelona has been announced: a big zoom on the Montjuïc!

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The 2025 Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne race route on an OpenStreetMap map and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule, the race profile and the participants list

The 2025 Omloop Nieuwsblad race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule, the race profile and the participants list

The Omloop Nieuwsblad 2025 course on OpenStreetMap, race profile and timetable

The O Gran Camiño 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedules and the stage profiles

The Classic Var 2025 and Tour des Alpes-Maritimes race routes on OpenStreetMap maps, their time- and route schedules and the race and stage profiles

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The Tour de la Provence 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedules and the stage profiles

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Le parcours de l'Etoile de Bessèges 2025 sur une carte OpenStreetMap et dans Google Earth, les itinéraires horaires et les profils des étapes

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The Grand Prix de Marseille La Marseillaise 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth, the race profile and the time- and route schedule ... and the participants list

The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap and in Google Earth and its race profile ... but also of the Surf Coast Classic 2025

The Tour Down Under 2025 race route on OpenStreetMap maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules ... and the participants list!

The Tour Down Under 2025 route on OpenStreetMap

1/ Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - Prospect > Gumeracha - 150.7 km

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**The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2026 in Barcelo** ...
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The Paris 2024 Olymp ...
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The schedule for the ...
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The Grand Départ of the Tour ...
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