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2017 Tour de France
2017 UCI World Tour, race 25 of 38
Map of France showing the showing the path of the race starting in Germany, going through Belgium and Luxembourg, then around France.
Route of the 2017 Tour de France
Race details
Dates1–23 July
Stages21
Distance3,540 km (2,200 mi)
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The 2017 Tour de France is the 104th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The race commenced with an individual time trial in Düsseldorf, Germany on 1 July, and will conclude with the Champs-Élysées stage in Paris on 23 July 2017. A total of 198 riders from 22 teams entered the race.

Teams

As the Tour de France is a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Four UCI Professional Continental teams were announced as wildcard teams on 26 January 2017, and thus completing the 22-team peloton.[1] Of these teams, You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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Pre-race favourites

The main pre-race favourites are Chris Froome, Richie Porte, Nairo Quintana and Alberto Contador. Other general classification contenders are Fabio Aru, Jakob Fuglsang, Alejandro Valverde, Romain Bardet, Geraint Thomas, Esteban Chaves, Dan Martin, Louis Meintjes, Rafał Majka, Simon Yates and Thibaut Pinot.[5][6]

The top-ranked sprinters are Peter Sagan, Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel, André Greipel, John Degenkolb, Alexander Kristoff, Nacer Bouhanni and Arnaud Démare.[7]

Route and stages

Grand Départ

The German city of Düsseldorf hosted the Grand Départ of the race

The start of the 2017 Tour (known as the Grand Départ) was originally scheduled to be in London, England; this would have been the third time the Tour had visited London, following the 2007 and 2014 editions. In September 2015, a week before this was due to be announced, Transport for London pulled out of the bid.[8] It was later revealed that this was the decision of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, on the grounds of cost: hosting the Grand Depart would have cost £35 million.[9]

In December 2015, the ASO announced that the Grand Départ would take place with stages based in Düsseldorf in Germany; this will be the fourth time that the Tour has begun in Germany and the first since 1987. The bid to host the Tour was only narrowly approved by the city council. The return to Germany followed a resurgence in German cycling, with riders including Tony Martin, Marcel Kittel, André Greipel and John Degenkolb enjoying success.[10] On 14 January 2016, details of the opening two stages were announced. The first stage would be a 13-kilometre (8.1 mi) individual time trial in Düsseldorf itself. The second stage would also begin in Düsseldorf,[11] climb the Grafenberg climb after just 6 km (3.7 mi), revisit the city and then head off to another city for the finish.

Itinerary

The full route was announced by race director Christian Prudhomme on 18 October 2016 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.[12] It contains two time trial events, both of which are individual. The remaining nineteen stages are divided into four categories: flat stages, hilly stages, medium mountain stages, and mountain stages. Eight of the stages have been declared flat stages and three declared hilly. Of the eight remaining stages, three stages are designated medium mountain stages and five are ranked as mountain stages. Out of the mountainous stages, two have summit finishes: stage 12 to Peyragudes and stage 18 to the Col d'Izoard. Additionally, the hilly stage 3 has a hilltop finish in Longwy, and the medium-mountain stage 5 ends at La Planche des Belles Filles. The longest road stage is stage 19, at 220 km (137 mi), and the shortest is stage 14, at 100 km (62 mi). The two individual time trials have a combined length of 36 km (22.4 mi). When compared to the previous year's race, the race is 13 km (8.1 mi) shorter, contains the same amount of rest days and the same amount of time trial events.

The highest passage of the race will be the Col du Galibier, at 2,642 m (8,668 ft)

After the first time trial, the race will leave Germany during stage 2, and finishes in the Belgian city of Liège; although the area is known for hilly terrain, often utilised in the Liège–Bastogne–Liège classic, this stage will be flat. Stage 3 will head south, and after a brief passage through Luxembourg, will end with a climb in Longwy. After a transitional stage, which will include a symbolic passage through Schengen, stage 5 will see the first major climb; the finish at La Planche des Belles Filles, which is a steep climb with a ramp at 20%. The next two stages head south-west, before stage 8 gives another test for the contenders; a stage in the Jura Mountains, featuring three climbs, including the Montée de la Combe de Laisia Les Molunes, with it summit followed only by an 11 km (7 mi) flat section to the finish at the Station des Rousses, seen previously at the 2010 Tour, in a stage won by Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel. The ninth stage, the final before the rest day, was seen as one of the more difficult in the whole race. It includes the steep climbs of the Col de la Biche [fr], the Col du Grand Colombier with gradients of up to 22%, and, after a forty-two year absence, the Signal du Mont du Chat, its summit 25 km (15.5 mi) from the finish in Chambéry.

After a transfer during the rest day, stage 10 is a stage in the Dordogne, between Périgueux and Bergerac. Stage 11 is a transitional stage, followed by two stages in the Pyrenees. Stage 12 starts from Pau and, after the climbs of the Col des Ares, Col de Menté, Port de Balès and Col de Peyresourde, ends at Peyragudes; when used in 2012, Alejandro Valverde won a stage which followed the same climbs, although noticeably shorter, and had them in a different order. The next stage is short, at 110 km (68 mi), but includes the climbs of the Col de Latrape, Col d'Agnes and Mur de Péguère, before a descent finish into Foix. The Mur features ramps at 18%, and, like the final climb on the previous stage, was most recently used in 2012; this, too, ends in Foix, where Luis León Sánchez took victory from a breakaway. After leaving the Pyrenees, the riders head northeast; stage 14 finishes with a climb towards the end of the stage. Stage 15 features the first appearance of the Col de Peyra Taillade; this climb averages 7.4% over 8.3 km (5 mi) and has a section at 14%. Its summit is reached with 31 km (19.3 mi) to go; the descent is long, and, after two small climbs, the stage concludes in Le Puy-en-Velay.

Stage 16, the first after the final rest day, is a transitional stage, heading east, towards the Alps. They are reached on stage 17; this stage includes the Col d'Ornon, Col de la Croix de Fer, Col du Télégraphe and the highest peak of the race, the Col du Galibier, before a descent finish into Serre Chevalier. Stage 18 is the final day of mountains; it has two climbs, the Col de Vars and the finishing climb, the Col d'Izoard. This will be the first time the Tour will finish on the 2,360 m (7,743 ft) high pass. After another transitional stage, heading south, stage 20 sees the final day of competition; a 23 km (14.3 mi) individual time trial in Marseille. Starting at the Orange Vélodrome, the course heads around the city, designated 2017 European Capital of Sport, before ending also at the Orange Vélodrome. The final stage starts in Montgeron, which hosted the start of the first Tour de France, before concluding with the traditional laps of the Champs-Élysées.

In the early stages, the race will also travel through Belgium and Luxembourg. For the first time since the 1992 edition, the route will include all five of France's mountainous regions; the Vosges, the Jura, the Massif Central, the Pyrenees and the Alps.[13][14] The Tour includes ten new start or finish locations: Düsseldorf, in stages 1 and 2; Mondorf-les-Bains, in stage 4; Nuits-Saint-Georges, in stage 7; Nantua, in stage 9; Eymet, in stage 11; Laissac-Sévérac-l'Église, in stage 15; Romans-sur-Isère, in stage 16; La Mure, in stage 17; Col d'Izoard, in stage 18; and Salon-de-Provence, in stage 19. The rest days are after stage 9, in the Dordogne, and 15, in Le Puy-en-Velay.

Stage characteristics and winners[15]
Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner
1 1 July Düsseldorf (Germany) 14 km (9 mi) Individual time trial  Geraint Thomas (GBR)
2 2 July Düsseldorf (Germany) to Liège (Belgium) 203.5 km (126 mi) Flat stage  Marcel Kittel (GER)
3 3 July Verviers (Belgium) to Longwy 212.5 km (132 mi) Summit finish
4 4 July Mondorf-les-Bains (Luxembourg) to Vittel 207.5 km (129 mi) Flat stage
5 5 July Vittel to La Planche des Belles Filles 160.5 km (100 mi) Summit finish
6 6 July Vesoul to Troyes 216 km (134 mi) Flat stage
7 7 July Troyes to Nuits-Saint-Georges 213.5 km (133 mi) Flat stage
8 8 July Dole to Station des Rousses 187.5 km (117 mi) Summit finish
9 9 July Nantua to Chambéry 181.5 km (113 mi) Mountain stage
10 July Dordogne Rest day
10 11 July Périgueux to Bergerac 178 km (111 mi) Flat stage
11 12 July Eymet to Pau 203.5 km (126 mi) Flat stage
12 13 July Pau to Peyragudes 214.5 km (133 mi) Summit finish
13 14 July Saint-Girons to Foix 101 km (63 mi) Mountain stage
14 15 July Blagnac to Rodez 181.5 km (113 mi) Hilly stage
15 16 July Laissac-Sévérac-l'Église to Le Puy-en-Velay 189.5 km (118 mi) Medium-mountain stage
17 July Le Puy-en-Velay Rest day
16 18 July Le Puy-en-Velay to Romans-sur-Isère 165 km (103 mi) Flat stage
17 19 July La Mure to Serre Chevalier 183 km (114 mi) Mountain stage
18 20 July Briançon to Col d'Izoard 179.5 km (112 mi) Summit finish
19 21 July Embrun to Salon-de-Provence 222.5 km (138 mi) Hilly stage
20 22 July Marseille 22.5 km (14 mi) Individual time trial
21 23 July Montgeron to Paris (Champs-Élysées) 103 km (64 mi) Flat stage
Total 3,540 km (2,200 mi)

Race overview

Classification leadership

There are four main individual classifications being contested in the 2017 Tour de France, as well as a team competition. The most important is the general classification, which is calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage, with time bonuses deducted at the end of every stage apart from the two individual time trials. The first three riders get 10, 6 and 4 seconds, respectively. If a crash happens within the final 3 km (1.9 mi) of a stage, not including time trials and summit finishes, the riders involved will receive the same time as the group they were in when the crash occurred. The rider with the lowest cumulative time will be the winner of the general classification and the overall winner of the Tour. The rider leading the classification wears a yellow jersey.

Points classification points for the top 15 positions by type[16]
Type 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Flat stage 50 30 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Medium mountain stage 30 25 22 19 17 15 13 11 9
High mountain stage 20 17 15 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Individual time trial
Intermediate sprint
Classification leadership by stage
Stage Winner General classification
A yellow jersey.
Points classification
A green jersey.
Mountains classification
A white jersey with red polka dots.
Young rider classification
A white jersey.
Team classification
A white jersey with a yellow number bib.
Combativity award
A white jersey with a red number bib.
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Notes

  1. ^ a b In stage 2, Vasil Kiryienka, who was third in the points classification, wore the green points jersey, because Geraint Thomas (in first place) wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification during that stage. Stefan Küng, who was second in the points classification, wore the white jersey as young rider classification leader.

References

  1. ^ Roadbook 2017, p. 5.
  2. ^ Wynn, Nigel (26 January 2017). "Tour de France 2017 wildcard teams announced". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. UK. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Fortuneo-Vital Concept loses sponsorship". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Team Fortuneo-Oscaro reveal new name and kit ahead of 2017 Tour de France". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 1 July 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
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  6. ^ "Tour de France 2017: the favourites, the outside bets, the young talents – France 24". 30 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Tour de France 2017: Favourites". Cyclingstage.com.
  8. ^ "London says no to hosting 2017 Grand Depart". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  9. ^ Clarke, Stuart (29 September 2015). "Boris Johnson reveals he pulled the plug on London's Tour de France bid". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. UK. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  10. ^ Hood, Andrew (22 December 2015). "2017 Tour to begin with Dusseldorf time trial". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  11. ^ "2017 Tour to begin with Dusseldorf time trial". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  12. ^ "2017 Tour de France: The Road Just Got Steeper". Le Tour. 18 October 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  13. ^ "Tour de France 2017 route presented". Cycling News. 18 October 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  14. ^ Leicester, John (18 October 2016). "2017 Tour will scale all of France's mountains". AP. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  15. ^ Roadbook 2017, p. 3.
  16. ^ Race regulations 2016, p. 29.

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