Stage 1: Leeds Stage 2: York-Sheffield Stage 3: Cambridge – London Stage 4: Le Touquet-Paris-Plage – Lille Stage 5: Ypres – Arenberg Stage 6: Arras – Reims Stage 7: Epernay – Nancy Stage 8: Tomblaine – Gerardmer Stage 9: Gerardmer – Mulhouse Stage 10: Mulhouse – La Plance des Belles […]
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A Tour for Climbers says Team Trek
Trek Factory Racing has released the nine names that will take the ‘Grand Départ’ in Yorkshire for the 2014 Tour de France. Keeping in mind the team’s two main goals – finishing top 10 in the general classification and pocketing a stage win – the 13 rider long list was […]
Team Saxo Comments on the 2014 Tour route
Tour de France route presented Today, next year’s Tour de France route was presented, and organizers have a very diverse race. After the start in England the race transfers to northern France, where the fifth stage featuring the cobblestones which were part of the route in 2010. In addition, there […]
Claudio Corti attends Tour de France presentation in Paris
Team Colombia’s General Manager Claudio Corti took part on Wednesday, October 23rd to the official presentation in Paris of the 101st Tour de France, starting in Yorkshire (Great Britain) on July 5th, 2014, and finishing in the French capital after three weeks, on Sunday July 27th. The new Tour de […]
Team Argos-Shimano reaction to Tour de France 2014 route
Today was the official unveiling of the 2014 Tour de France and quadruple stage winner in 2013, Marcel Kittel (GER), and Team Argos-Shimano general manager, Iwan Spekenbrink (NED), were there to take it all in. The race gets underway in the UK on July 5, in Yorkshire, where the first […]
TOUR DE FRANCE 2014: THREE MOUNTAIN RANGES!
© A.S.O. In front of more than 4,000 spectators, including some who are pretenders for victory, the route for the Tour de France 2014 was unveiled at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. From the county of Yorkshire to the Champs-Elysées, the 101th edition could be won or lost at […]
Jan Bakelants in Yellow
With 1800 meters to go Jan Bakelants seized the moment to attack his breakaway group and challenge for the win in the 100th Tour de France. Known as a rider who always attacks and willingly takes his chances, Bakelants, 27, took the win by one second and in doing so, […]
National Teams vs Trade Teams at the Tour?
From 1930 to the late 1960s the Tour de France was raced by national teams. David Lappartient, president of the FFC, is proposing to the Tour de France organizers to go back to national teams. His hope that it would help in the fight against doping. He thinks that […]
Col de Mente Scene
Here is a typical scene from the French Pyrenees that you can expect to see in the upcoming Tour de France.