Le Tour de France
One week from now the Tour the France of 2023 will start.
Le grand boucle is the biggest cycling event of the year.
The first edition of the Tour de France dates from 1903.
This year 176 riders from 22 teams wil try to conquer the 3.448 kilometer over 21 stages in three weeks.
Stages
In this round there will be seven flat, five hilly, one timetrial and eight mountain stages.
An interesting fact is that the riders will climb all France's mountain ranges this year;
the Alps, Pyrenees, Jura, Vosges and the Massif Central.
| Stage | Date | Distance | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 juli | Bilbao - Bilbao | 182 km | hills |
| 2 | 2 juli | Vitoria Gasteiz - San Sebastian | 209 km | hills |
| 3 | 3 juli | Amorebieta-Etzano - Bayonne | 185 km | flat |
| 4 | 4 juli | Dax - Nogaro | 182 km | flat |
| 5 | 5 juli | Pau - Laruns | 165 km | mountains |
| 6 | 6 juli | Tarbes - Cauterets Cambasque | 145 km | mountains |
| 7 | 7 juli | Mont-de-Marsan - Bordeaux | 170 km | flat |
| 8 | 8 juli | Libourne - Limoges | 201 km | flat |
| 9 | 9 juli | Saint-Léonard-De-Noblat - Puy de Dôme | 184 km | mountains |
| Rest | 10 juli | |||
| 10 | 11 juli | Vulcania - Issoire | 167 km | hills |
| 11 | 12 juli | Clermont-Ferrand - Moulins | 180 km | flat |
| 12 | 13 juli | Roanne - Belleville-en-Beaujolais | 169 km | hills |
| 13 | 14 juli | Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne - Grand Colombier | 138 km | mountains |
| 14 | 15 juli | Annemasse - Morzine | 152 km | mountains |
| 15 | 16 juli | Les Gets - Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc | 180 km | mountains |
| Rest | 17 juli | |||
| 16 | 18 juli | Passy - Combloux | 22 km | Time trial |
| 17 | 19 juli | Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc - Courchevel | 166 km | mountains |
| 18 | 20 juli | Moûtiers - Bourg-en-Bresse | 186 km | flat |
| 19 | 21 juli | Moirans-en-Montagne - Poligny | 173 km | flat |
| 20 | 22 juli | Belfort - Le Markstein | 133 km | mountains |
| 21 | 23 juli | Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Parijs | 115 km | flat |
Favorites
Everyone will expext a duel between the winner of the edition of 2022; Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar. UAE Team Emirates have built a better team around Pogačar who was in a good shape earlier in the season until he got injured in a crash. But he will be fit just in time to join the tour.
Vingegard has shown his form in the Dauphiné by winning the toughest mountain stage there.
But there are also outsiders as Enric Mas, Richard Carapaz and maybe former winner Egan Bernal.
Cycling community and the Tour de France on Hive
There must be more Tour de France fans on Hive. Cycling fans can check out the Hive Cycling Community and post about the Tour de France and other cycling related subjects there.
You can also have a discussion in the Cycling Community chat (in the PeakD interface) or Discord: https://discord.gg/9rJZUqabvH
You can also create some Leofinance threads and Ecency waves with the hashtag during the Tour de France. We could use the hashtag #TDF for that.
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