News

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy: the detailed maps on Open Street Maps

A few days ago, the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy was officially announced. On velowire.com, you were able to discover the 3 stages that make up this Grand Départ in the updated article presenting the rumors about it since a few months already.

Now we would like you to discover these 3 stages in detail on Open Street Maps (the equivalent of Google Maps, but as open source) on which are shown the race routes the riders will follow in Italy at end of June and early July 2024.

The programme of the Tour de France 2024 Grand Départ

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy! And the finish with a time trial Monaco > Nice!

The Tour de France 2023 race route has been presented: the Tour of all mountain areas!

Without much surprises if you have followed the search for the Tour de France 2023 race route on this website in the past few weeks, the 110th edition of the Grande Boucle will take place on a rather limited part of France after the Grand Départ in Bilbao and in the rest of the Spanish Bask country, but it does visit all French mountain areas.

Indeed, after the Grand Départ and a visit of the Pyrenees, the race will go up north up till Bordeaux before taking off, via Limoges, towards the Massif Central followed by the Jura to get to the Alps where the race will camp for several days before getting back on its steps, visit another part of the Jura and end off in the Vosges before the transfer towards Paris. Only one time trial, not without any difficulties, of 22 kilometers will be on the programme of this Tour!

The little details of the Tour de France 2023 race route:

Tour de France 2023: the rumours about the race route and the stage cities

The Tour of all the mountain areas!

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<

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

The Tour de France 2022 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

The month of July is about to start and with that also the 109th edition of the Grande Boucle. As usual, velowire.com allows you to consult the race route maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth of the Tour de France 2022, with all the details, but also the official time- and route schedules and the stage profiles of each of the stages, and finally a KMZ file which can be opened in Google Earth to see this Grand Tour as a whole or to do a virtual fly-over of one or more of the stages.

With the information in this article you'll be able to know all cities and all towns which will be visited by this Tour and you'll thus be able to prepare your visit of the race if you're one of the spectators on the side of the road or simply to better understand the race if you're not there!

A bit of information ...

The Critérium du Dauphiné 2022 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules and the participants list

With the Tour of Italy (and its last minute result with Jai Hindley's victory) now behind us, it's time already to see the Critérium du Dauphiné 2022 start from the Ardèche department and more precisely from Voulte-sur-Rhône. It'll be the 74th edition of this race which is considered by some riders as the ultimate preparation of the Tour de France with its "concentration of mountains" (others will prefer the Tour of Switzerland which starts on 12 June) and it's made up of 8 stages including one individual time trial (the 4th stage, in the middle of the week) for a total distance of 1194.9 kilometers.



Let's now look in detail all the stages of this Critérium du Dauphiné 2022 with the race route on ...

The Tour of Italy 2022 on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

The month May has started already and it is thus already the time for the comeback of the first Grand Tour of the year, with the Tour of Italy 2022, or Giro d'Italia as Italians say, which starts this Friday 6 of May: exceptionally on a Friday because of the start in Hungary, which leads to an additional transfer/rest day, right on Monday.

The Giro d'Italia 2022 will take place from Friday 6 May 2022 till Sunday 29 May 2022, over a total distance of 3445.6 km split out in 21 different stages. It'll be the 105th edition of this Italian Grand Tour. Let's now look in detail to the different stages of this Tour of Italy 2022 with the race routes on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

The Giro d'Italia 2022 race route on Open Street Maps

Team Jumbo-Visma presents an original jersey for the Tour de France 2022: The Masterpiece

Every year, the Dutch Team Jumbo-Visma needs to wear a special team shirt during the Tour de France. The usual team shirt, yellow with black accents, is indeed too similar to the Yellow jersey worn by the leader of the general classifications and during the French Grand Tour a solution thus needs to be found in the form of a specific team jersey.

The team could have simply develop a specific team shirt and wear that every year for the Tour, but instead of that, the team chose for a surprise and originality in every edition of the Grande Boucle. Let's no longer wait to have a look at how Primož Roglič, Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard and their team mates will be recognisable on the Tour de France 2022 roads: thanks to The Masterpiece!

Why a specific team shirt?