Tour De France Paris Route
Tour de france officials unveiled an unconventional and challenging route for the 2020 grande boucle.
Tour de france paris route. Eleven of the 21 stages of the 2020 tour de france are described as hilly or mountainous and only nine stages as being flat. 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. Watching the tour de france in paris.
Edition 107 of the tour de france kicks into gear on 29 august in nice to finish in paris on 20 september. Enough with the history. Rambouillet paris sunday 28 july at 128 kilometres the final stage of the tour de france is the traditional parade race to the champs élysées in paris.
The overview of the route and the new dates are shown below. Tour de france 2019 route stage 21. Tour de france 2020 official site of the famed race from the tour de france.
Tour de france 2020 route perhaps the most striking feature of the route is the individual time trial racing to the summit of la planches de belles filles on the final day. The full route of the 2020 tour de france was announced on october 15 2019. The route follows a clockwise loop through the southern half of france.
From nice to paris the course of the 2020 tour de france will never cross any border of france. It has since been revised with the dates changed in reponse to the coronavirus pandemic. The first ever tour de france in 1903 ended for the first and only time at ville d avray in the west of paris.
8 mountain stages with mountain top finishes orcières merlette puy mary grand colombier méribel col de la loze 1 individual time trial stage. An updated guide to the route the main feature of the 2020 tour de france is that it is almost entirely in the southern half of france and that it will take in all the main mountain areas. Includes route riders teams and coverage of past tours.
My friend and fellow cyclist jacqui brown has this excellent first hand account of watching the tour de france in paris. A total of 6 regions and 32 departments will be travelled through. The last mountain test is an itt with a steep finish climb on la planche des belle filles.
After delays due to. Short is the new long.
