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Tour de France 2010
Running from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010, the 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,600 kilometres.
Distinctive aspects of the race
- le Tourmalet climbed twice,
- a hint of the Classics and cobblestones,
- 2 rest days,
- 23 level 1, level 2 and highest level mountain passes.
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A hint of the Classics and cobblestones
This 3rd stage, Wanze-Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, will include 7 cobbled sectors over a total distance of 13,2 kilometres, divided up as follows:
- 3 sectors over a total distance of 2,2 kilometres in Belgium,
- 4 sectors over a total distance of 11 kilometres in France.
The last five times that cobbled sectors were included on the Tour programme, the total number of kilometres was as follows: 1982: 16,9 km - 1983: 28,4 km - 1985: 10,5 km - 1989: 8,5 km - 2004: 3,9 km.
The stages
Stage
| TYPE
| Date |
Start and finisch
| Distance |
|
| P |
Prologue |
Saturday 3 July |
Rotterdam > Rotterdam |
8 km |
|
| 1 |
Plain |
Sunday 4 July |
Rotterdam > Bruxelles |
224 km |
|
| 2 |
Hilly |
Monday 5 July |
Bruxelles > Spa |
192 km |
|
| 3 |
Plain |
Tuesday 6 July |
Wanze > Arenberg Porte du Hainaut |
207 km |
|
| 4 |
Plain |
Wednesday 7 July |
Cambrai > Reims |
150 km |
|
| 5 |
Plain |
Thursday 8 July |
Épernay > Montargis |
185 km |
|
| 6 |
Plain |
Friday 9 July |
Montargis > Gueugnon |
225 km |
|
| 7 |
Medium mountains |
Saturday 10 July |
Tournus > Station des Rousses |
161 km |
|
| 8 |
High Mountains |
Sunday 11 July |
Station des Rousses > Morzine-Avoriaz |
189 km |
|
| R |
Rest Day |
Monday 12 July |
Morzine-Avoriaz |
|
|
| 9 |
High Mountains |
Tuesday 13 July |
Morzine-Avoriaz > Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne |
204 km |
|
| 10 |
Medium mountains |
Wednesday 14 July |
Chambéry > Gap |
179 km |
|
| 11 |
Plain |
Thursday 15 July |
Sisteron > Bourg-lès-Valence |
180 km |
|
| 12 |
Hilly |
Friday 16 July |
Bourg-de-Péage > Mende |
210 km |
|
| 13 |
Plain |
Saturday 17 July |
Rodez > Revel |
195 km |
|
| 14 |
High Mountains |
Sunday 18 July |
Revel > Ax-3 Domaines |
184 km |
|
| 15 |
High Mountains |
Monday 19 July |
Pamiers > Bagnères-de-Luchon |
187 km |
|
| 16 |
High Mountains |
Tuesday 20 July |
Bagnères-de-Luchon > Pau |
196 km |
|
| R |
Rest Day |
Wednesday 21 July |
Pau |
|
|
| 17 |
High Mountains |
Thursday 22 July |
Pau > Col du Tourmalet |
174 km |
|
| 18 |
Plain |
Friday 23 July |
Salies-de-Béarn > Bordeaux |
190 km |
|
| 19 |
Individual time-trial |
Saturday 24 July |
Bordeaux > Pauillac |
51 km |
|
| 20 |
Plain |
Sunday 25 July |
Longjumeau > Paris Champs-Élysées |
105 km |
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The 2010 Tour de France will include a total of 23 mountain passes or summit finishes classified level one, level two and highest level.
They are divided up as follows:
- 1 in the Jura
- 8 in the Alps
- 2 in the Cévennes
- 12 in the Pyrenees
In the five previous editions of the race, the total was as follows: 23 in 2005, 22 in 2006 and 2007, 17 in 2008 and 20 in 2009.
A vivid, clear-cut image, like a vision: hundreds of thousands of jubilant spectators gathered in closed, uninterrupted ranks at the heart of Rotterdam, clapping and cheering at the Tour Start. An absolute certainty: at the beginning of July 2010, our Dutch friends will welcome the Tour de France with fervour and enthusiasm in a magnificent popular celebration on a par with last year’s festivities – even more spectacular than usual – for the length of the race route, and for a full three weeks.
This passion for the Tour is deeply rooted. If it has traversed the years and braced all hurdles, it is thanks to Henri Desgrange and his organising team. One hundred years ago it was their heroic audacity – or their folly or recklessness, dependent on opinion – that perfected the structure, the backdrop to the event, by adding an element that to this day no-one has ever wanted to remove: mountains! In this way, reaching the summits seven years after its creation, the Tour rose to new heights.
After climbing the peaks of the Jura and the Alps, we will pay tribute to our magnificent Pyrenees with four key stages in the third week of the race. On the programme: the hitherto legendary mountain passes of 1910, with the mythical Tourmalet in pole position, but also more recent 21st century conquests, like the Pailhères and the Port de Balès, confirmation of the Tour’s constant forward shift.
Prior to this, the riders will already have encountered an element that should add particular spice to this year’s race: cobblestones, divided into seven sectors and thirteen kilometres that will, evidently, delight some and terrify others. Imagining that the 2010 Tour could also – and why not? – be played out on the flat is a manner of saluting and celebrating, one hundred years later, the history of the Tour and the “invention” of high mountains…
Christian PRUDHOMME
Director of the Tour de France
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