discover the route of the Tour de France 2020

The Tour de France 2020 will start earlier this year (from June 27 to July 19) because of the Tokyo Olympics, which start the following week. This is the only notable change in an event that will feature a lot of finishes at the top (half a dozen) of mountain stages (10) and still as few time trials (only one timed race). about 35 km uphill). Here's what to remember from the course unveiled Tuesday, October 15 by Christian Prudhomme, the boss of the event, and presented below in a zoomable map.

Usually, the Great Loop offers alternation between the editions concentrated on the west of France and those that make the most of the east. This year, the southern half is spoiled while the northern half will see the event on television (or the Champs-Elysees).

This can be explained by the location of the departure city (in Nice) and the very, very mountainous course of the 2020 edition. A 1,500-meter climb is scheduled from the second day of the race, and the first arrival at the summit is expected from the fourth stage in the resort OrcieresMerlette (Hautes-Alpes). You will spend a lot of time in front of the TV because there is really only one tunnel of stages of plain, the sequence between the island of Oleron, the island of Re and the Poitou, in the middle of the 'test.

Note that the 14th of July will see a stage 100% Isere between La Tour-du-Pin and Villard-de-Lans, which promises a bit of a climb to the committed on this day of national holiday. The novelty of this 107th edition is the Col de la Loze, with its very particular profile made of very steep slopes and very short intersections, which will put the riders' thighs to the test.

If the organizers could not jostle the course to pay tribute to Jacques Chirac, who died on September 26, a passage was programmed in the village of Sarran (300 inhabitants), in Correze, epicenter of Chiraquie, in the middle of the test. The idea was rather to celebrate with an arrival the 20 years of the museum dedicated to the former head of state.

Among the key stages of the edition, the time trial organized the day before the arrival in the Jura will give pride to Thibaut Pinot since the Great Loop will make a passage in his city of Melisey (Haute-Saone), where he has lived forever, before arriving at the top of the Planche des Belles Filles, with formidable percentages.