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Added: saturday 03 June 2023 at 13:13:00
The Critérium du Dauphiné 2023 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, the stage profiles and time- and route schedules
With the Giro d'Italia (and its last-minute denouement with the victory of Primož Roglič [Jumbo-Visma]) now behind us, it's already time to see the Critérium du Dauphiné 2023 set off from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and more precisely from Chambon-sur-Lac in the Puy-de-Dôme département.

This will be the 75th edition of the race, considered by some riders as the ultimate preparation for the Tour de France with its "mountain concentration" (others will prefer the Tour de Suisse which starts on June 11) and, as usual, it consists of 8 stages including an individual time trial (stage 4, in the middle of the week, which is likely to have a major impact on the overall race classification) for a total distance of 1212.2 ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: saturday 06 May 2023 at 0:49:00
The Tour of Italy 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
initially published on 6 May 2023 at 0.49AM with the first 10 stages, updated with the stages 11 to 15 on 15 May at 2.34PM and with the remaining stages on 22 May at 3.21PM
We are already in the month of May and this Saturday the first Grand Tour of the season will already start. It is of course the Giro d'Italia or Tour of Italy, which will start in Abruzzo with a time trial before heading south, crossing from east to west to turn around Naples. Then back to the north but also back to the east before ending the first week with another time trial.
After a transfer, the race then heads to the north of Italy, which will be visited from west to east, combined with a small visit to Switzerland. From the very northeast corner of Italy, the Giro d'Italia 2023 then ends with a transfer to Rome. A transfer that could almost be considered incomprehensible or at least not eco-responsible, knowing that the Giro d'Italia does not always end in the same city (in t ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2023| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: saturday 22 April 2023 at 14:19:00
The Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2023 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, the race profile and the time- and route schedule
The very first edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège took place in 1892. It is therefore quite logical that the race was given the nickname La Doyenne. That was thus over 130 years ago already and this year it's the 109th edition of the Belgian classic which will take place between Liège, Bastogne and ... Liège (the race had its finish in Ans from 1992 till 2018 but since 2019 it again takes place in Liège). You can read about the history of Liège-Bastogne-Liège in the article in which I wrote about it, with the race route of the 100th edition in 2014.

The race route has again been modified a little bit in 2023. In the final we find the famous climbs of la Redoute, des Forges and la Roche-aux-Faucons, but after having climbed la Redoute, the riders will find a new climb with the côte de Cornémont, which is not ref ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Classics| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
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