Tour de france klassement. Official route of Tour de France 2020

• He said he had used skin cream containing to treat
• A snowstorm at the start area led to a shortening of the stage from 190 kilometres 120 mi to just 46 kilometres 29 mi
• Reporting was left to Lefèvre, whose idea it had been, who followed the race by bike and by train
• Unlike other cycle races, it would also be run largely without pacers
• When Roche won the World Championship later in the season he became only the second rider after Merckx to win cycling's Triple Crown which meant winning the Giro, the Tour and the World road race championship in the same year
• In the lead up to the 2017 Tour de France, Team Sky was seen by many as the top pre-race favourite for the
• The Tour originally ran around the perimeter of France
• Twice the Tour was won by a racer who never wore the yellow jersey until the race was over
• The Tour and its first Italian winner, , are mentioned at the end of 's

• Exchanging a damaged bicycle for another was allowed only in 1923
• The former television presenter —he commentated on the Tour among other events—replaced Leblanc in 2007, having been assistant director for three years
• The 21- race took place across 3,540 km 2,200 mi , commencing with an in , Germany on 1 July, and concluding with the in Paris on 23 July
• While the global awareness and popularity of the Tour grew during this time, its finances became stretched
• Bardet, the 2017 Tour runner-up, placed sixth overall in the Dauphiné, with his best other result sixth in the race
• Despite a pending appeal by the , Contador finished 5th overall in the , but in February 2012, Contador was suspended and stripped of his 2010 victory
• Thomas lost twenty seconds on the group and lost the yellow jersey to teammate Froome
• Henri Desgrange planned a Tour for 1940, after war had started but before France had been invaded