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Website & other coverage:

Official Tour website

Live coverage from Velonews.com

Rider diaries on Velonews.com

Live news, start list, interviews, previous winners and news on Cycling News

There’s also live coverage from the CSC team.

TV

ITV2: live feeds at the start and finish, plus nightly, hour-long highlights packages.
ITV: weekly highlights programmes.

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Stages:

Follow stage link for results on velonews

 

 

 

Date	Stage	Route	Distance km
Saturday, 3rd	Prologue – Individual Time Trial	Liège	6.1
Sun, 4th	Stage 1	Liège – Charleroi	202.5
Mon, 5th	Stage 2	Charleroi – Namur	197
Tues, 6th	Stage 3	Waterloo – Wasquehal	210
Weds, 7th	Stage 4 – Team Time Trial	Cambrai – Arras	64.5
Thurs, 8th	Stage 5	Amiens – Chartres	200.5
Fri, 9th	Stage 6	Bonneval – Angers	196
Sat, 10th	Stage 7	Châteaubraint – Saint-Brieuc	204.5
Sun, 11th	Stage 7	Lamballe – Quimper	168
Mon, 12th	Rest day in Limoges	N/A	N/A
Tues, 13th	Stage 9	Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat – Guéret	160.5
Weds, 14th	Stage 10	Limoges – Saint-Flour	237
Thurs, 15th	Stage 11		164
Fri, 16th	Stage 12	Castelsarrasin – La Mongie	197.5
Sat, 17th	Stage 13	Lannemezan – Plateau de Beille	205.5
Sun, 18th	Stage 14	Carcassonne – Nîmes	192.5
Mon, 19th	Rest day in Nîmes	N/A	N/A
Tues, 20th	Stage 15	Valréas – Villard-de-Lans	180.5
Weds, 21st	Stage 16 – Individual Time Trial	Bourg d’Oisans – L’Alpe d’Huez	15.5
Thurs, 22nd	Stage 17	Bourg d’Oisans – Le Grand-Bornand	204.5
Fri, 23rd	Stage 18	Annemasse – Lons-le-Saunier	166.5
Sat, 24th	Stage 19 – Individual Time Trial	Besançon – Besançon	55
Sun, 25th	Stage 20	Montereau – Paris (Champs Élysées)	163

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Teams:

• A2R –
  BRIOCHES LA BOULANGÈRE,
  FRA
• COF –

  COFIDIS – LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE,
  FRA

• C.A –

  CRÉDIT AGRICOLE,
  FRA

• DVE –
  DOMINA VACANZE,
  ITA

• EUS –

  EUSKALTEL – EUSKADI,
  SP

• FAS –

  FASSA BORTOLO,
  ITA

• FDJ –

  FDJEUX.COM,
  FRA

• GST –

  GEROLSTEINER,
  GER

• IBB –

  ILLES BALEARS – BANESTO,
  SP

• LST –

  LIBERTY SEGUROS,
  SP

• LOT –

  LOTTO-DOMO,
  BEL

• PHO –

  PHONAK HEARING SYSTEMS,
  SWI

• QSD –

  QUICK STEP-DAVITAMON,
  BEL

• RAB –

  RABOBANK,
  NED

• RAG –

  R.A.G.T. SEMENCES – MG ROVER,
  FRA

• SAE –

  SAECO,
  ITA

• CSC –

  TEAM CSC,
  DEN

• TMO –

  T-MOBILE TEAM,
  GER

• USP –

  US POSTAL – BERRY FLOOR,
  USA

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Race summary:

Distance: 3,395 km
Direction: Anti-clockwise
Stages: 20 – includes 6 mountain stages, three mountain finishes, 11 flat stages and 3 time trials (one team TT).
Climbing: 21 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes
Rest days: 2
New stop-over towns: Waterloo, Cambrai, Chartres, Lamballe, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, Guéret and Annemasse.

Prize money: €3 million total, €400,000 for the winner

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