The route
Running from Saturday July 4th to Sunday July 26th 2009, the 96th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,500 kilometres.
These 21 stages have the following profiles:
* 10 flat stages,
* 7 mountain stages,
* 1 medium mountain stage,
* 2 individual time-trial stages,
* 1 team time-trial stage.
Distinctive aspects of the race
* 3 mountain finishes,
* 2 rest days,
* 55 kilometres of individual time-trials,
* 20 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed.
8 new stop-over towns
Brignoles, Gérone (Espagne), Issoudun, Martigny (Suisse), Saint-Fargeau, Tonnerre, vatan, Verbier (Suisse).
Follow the Tour de France - featuring commentary, recaps, predictions, news and interviews by Jeff Cutler. Jeff is a veteran content creator and journalist, and has been to the Tour de France in various capacities on four separate occasions.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The Tour in a nutshell
According to Le Tour, here is the breakdown of the 2009 Tour de France...
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