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Tour de France 2023: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities
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 and on 30 September at 11.38PM

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 Départ will take place in the Bask country in Spain.

For what follows, Christian Prudhomme indicated some basic informations about the type of stages we can expect, but without giving any further details. In an interview ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2023
Added: monday 04 July 2022 at 16:33:00
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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Added: friday 01 July 2022 at 2:27:00
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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