Tour De France Cycling Race
The tour de france french pronunciation.
Tour de france cycling race. Includes route riders teams and coverage of past tours. Staged for three weeks each july usually in some 20 daylong stages the tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of 9 riders each and covers some 3 600 km. Virtual tour de france and virtual l etape du tour de france are part of tour de france united a large campaign raising money for a small group of cycling focused charities.
Four froome took his first tour de france title in 2013 and after crashing out in 2014 he followed that up with three straight victories in 2015 2016 and 2017. A total of 16 teams with 64 riders started the race with four laps of the watopia circuit set to decide the first yellow jersey of the virtual tour de france. After delays due to.
The tour de france will now take place from august 29 to september 20 of this year. Tour de france the world s most prestigious and most difficult bicycle race of the three foremost races the others being the giro d italia and the vuelta a españa the tour de france attracts the world s best riders. Rather than time the race is decided.
In the meantime however there is a virtual tour de france starting over the fourth of july weekend. Cycling enthusiasts will be able to ride the same course as part of virtual l etape du tour de france a three stage virtual event spread over the same three weekends. Organisers of the tour de france amaury sport organisation aso have revealed the route of the 2020 tour de france at the palais des congrès in paris on tuesday october 15.
Tom dumoulin has yet to race in 2020 and has not yet competed with his tour de france co leaders primož roglič and steven kruijswijk but the dutchman is becoming more optimistic that racing will. Like the other grand tours the giro d italia and the vuelta a españa it consists of 21 day long stages over the course of 23 days it has been described as the world s most prestigious and most.
