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Added: sunday 26 March 2023 at 0:53:00
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| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: monday 13 March 2023 at 14:24:00
The race route of the two last stages of the Tour de France 2024 have been announced: Nice, col de la Couillole and Monaco on the map!
After the announcement of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy, for which we have been able to present you detailed race route maps on Open Street Maps, Amaury Sport Organisation today announced the details of the two last stages of the Tour de France 2024 which, due to the Olympic Games of Paris, won't allow the riders to visit the Champs-Elysées in Paris but rather go to Nice and Monaco as announced since early December 2022.

Nice > Col de la Couillole with a mountaineous race route and a time trial which will also not be easy betw ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2024| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: saturday 04 March 2023 at 23:00:00
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| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
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