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TOUR DE FRANCE 2012

Running from Saturday June 30th to Sunday July 22th 2012, the 99th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,479 kilometres.

These stages have the following profiles:

Distinctive aspects of the race

  • 9 flat stages
  • 4 medium mountain stages - one with a summit finish
  • 5 mountain stages - two with a summit finish
  • 2 individual time-trial stages
  • 1 prologue
  • 2 rest days

9 new stage towns

Abbeville, Annonay Davézieux, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, La Planche des Belles Filles, Peyragudes, Porrentruy, Samatan, Tomblaine, Visé

 

Grand start 2012

2012 - PROVINCE DE LIÈGE
The 2012 Tour de France will set off from the Parc d’Avroy, in the heart of Liège. The launch ramp for this prologue will be set up on the Avenue Rogier. On a 6.1 km long flat course marked out in the city centre, …
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One of the most original forms of publicity in existence, the Tour de France caravan was originally created in 1930...
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Created by L’Auto magazine, Le Tour de France has from the outset been partly linked with the development of the print...
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Publicity caravan The media on the Tour Trips

Editorial

Christian Prudhomme - Directeur du Tour de France

Christian PRUDHOMME
Director of Tour de France

To love cycling, inevitably means to love geography and additionally, the different regions.
This will not please Mrs Boisseau, who encouraged the young pupil that I was to meticulously bury myself in all kinds of maps, but regular visits to…
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