Le Tour

Le Tour…..

Oh yea……the 2007 Tour De France route has been released. Now all we have to do is count the days till the worlds toughest race gets underway. I can’t wait……

The route
Running from Saturday July 7th to Sunday July 29th 2007, the 94th Tour de France will be made up of a prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,550 kilometres. This will be the first time the tour comes to London and the first time the tour will begin anywhere in Britain.

These 20 stages have the following profiles
+ 11 flat stages
+ 6 mountain stages
+ 1 medium mountain stage
+ 2 individual time-trial stages

Distinctive aspects of the race
+ 3 mountain finishes
+ 2 rest days
+ 117 kilometres of individual time-trials (including the prologue)
+ 21 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed

12 new stop-over towns
+ London
+ Canterbury
+ Waregem
+ Villers-Cotterêts
+ Joigny
+ Chablis
+ Semur-en-Auxois
+ Tignes
+ Tallard
+ Mazamet
+ Cognac
+ Marcoussis
Complete 07 Tour Info (click image for better view)