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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| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: monday 10 August 2020 at 17:50:00
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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Added: tuesday 14 April 2020 at 12:41:00
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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