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

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!

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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?

Paris-Roubaix 2022: its race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, its cobble stones sections and other details of the Hell of the North

The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2022, will take place this Sunday 17 April. For the 119th edition of the race, the organisor decided to modify the race route just a little bit compared to last year, for the first cobble stones sections: the Vertain (# 26) section finds back its longer version, just like the Saulzoir (# 24) section. The number of sections remains the same however (30) and 54.8 kilometers of cobble stones will be awaiting the riders. The total distance of the race will be 257.2 kilometers.

In the Hell of the North a very small thing can come ruin the race for a rider or come at hand for another. Nothing's thus decided upfront, it'll be this Sunday on the cobbles that the whole story will be written!

The 30 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix 2022

The Amstel Gold Race 2022 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth and the time- and route schedule

The Dutch classic, the Amstel Gold Race, will take place between Maastricht and ... the Rijksweg in Vilt tomorrow. Indeed, since 2013, the finish is no longer on top of the Cauberg in Valkenburg but at the same location as where the races of the Championnats du Monde 2012 finished.

The race route of the Amstel Gold Race 2022 - which will be the 56th edition - contains 33 mounts, in this UCI WorldTour race (the number of mounts varies a bit, with a minimum of 31 in 2010 and 2012 and a maximum of 35 in 2017 and during the following years). In this article you'll find the time- and route schedule, the race route on Open Street Maps (similar to Google Maps) and you can also download the race route in Google Earth so you can for example do a virtual flyover of ...

Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) wins the Tour of Flanders 2022 in an incredible final!

Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix), already the winner in 2020 and 2nd last year, managed to win his second "Flanders Finest"! This was however far from sure when he was in the last kilometer towards the finish, in a duo with Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates). Indeed, at the last moment they were taken back by a chasing duo with whom they'd been in the breakaway before. In the end, it thus turns out to be possible to end 4th in a sprint à deux because Pogačar got stuck and thus ended 4th, behind Dylan van Baarle (INEOS Grenadiers) and Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ)!

The summary of the Tour of Flanders 2022