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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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Added: saturday 29 June 2019 at 0:16:00
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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Added: thursday 06 June 2019 at 1:07:00
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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