2008 Tour de France
July 5 - July 27, 2008

Thursday, October 24: The Tour de France revealed the 2008 route. Running from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2008, the 95th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,500 kilometres.

The time-trialing is reduced and there will be no prologue time trial to start the Tour.

These 21 stages have the following profiles:

10 flat stages,

5 mountain stages,

4 medium mountain stages,

2 individual time-trial stages.

Distinctive aspects of the race

4 mountain finishes,

2 rest days,

82 kilometres of individual time-trials,

19 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed.