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Added: saturday 23 September 2023 at 16:27:00
Tour de France 2024: the rumours and also what's sure about the race route and the stage cities of the 111th edition!
initially published on 4 September 2023 at 10.20PM, updated on 8 September at 3.05PM, on 11 September at 11.54PM, on 12 September at 8.34AM, on 18 September at 10.47PM and on 23 September at 4.27PM

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 ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2024
Added: monday 17 July 2023 at 19:25:00
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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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2023
Added: saturday 01 July 2023 at 00:37:00
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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