2010 Tour de France

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2009 Tour de France

On Wednesday, October 14, the 2010 Tour de France route was presented.

Stages with important summit profiles

The 2010 edition will start with a prologue time trial at Rotterdam and will then head through Belgium and land in France at the end of the third stage. That third stage will have 7 cobbled sectors totaling 13.2 kilometers.

The 2010 edition moves clockwise and will be Alps first. Then it will spend 4 days in the Pyrenees, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Tour's inclusion of high Pyrenean climbs. The Tourmalet will be climbed twice, including a hilltop finish with only 3 stages to go. The penultimate stage will be a 51-kilometer individual time trial at Bordeaux. It appears that the Tour will continue to de-emphasize time trialing, given that with the Prologue, there are only 59 kilometers of riding against the clock. Like last year, there won't be time bonuses for the intermediate sprints or for stage wins.

In summary the Tour will have:

1 prologue time trial plus 20 stages

9 flat stages, 6 stages in the high mountains, 3 of them hilltop finishes

4 stages of medium mountains

23 ascents rated second category, first category and HC

and be approximately 3,600 kilometers long

The stages:

Prologue, Saturday July 3: Rotterdam - Rotterdam 8 km individual time trial

Stage 1, Sunday July 4: Rotterdam - Brussels, 224 km

Stage 2, Monday July 5: Brussels - Spa, 192 km

Stage 3, Tuesday July 6: Wanze - Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, 207 km

Stage 4, Wednesday July 7: Cambrai - Reims, 150 km

Stage 5, Thursday July 8: Épernay - Montargis, 185 km

Stage 6, Friday July 9: Montargis - Gueugnon, 225 km

Stage 7, Saturday July 10: Tournus - Station des Rousses, 161 km

Stage 8, Sunday July 11: Station des Rousses - Morzine-Avoriaz, 189 km

Rest Day, Monday July 12: Morzine-Avoriaz

Stage 9, Tuesday July 13: Morzine-Avoriaz - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, 204 km

Stage 10, Wednesday July 14: Chambéry - Gap 179 km

Stage 11, Thursday July 15: Sisteron - Bourg-lès-Valence, 180 km

Stage 12, Friday July 16: Bourg-de-Péage - Mende, 210 km

Stage 13, Saturday July 17, Rodez - Revel, 195 km

Stage 14, Sunday July 18, Revel - Ax-3 Domaines, 184 km

Stage 15, Monday July 19, Pamiers - Bagnères-de-Luchon, 187 km

Stage 16, Tuesday July 20: Bagnères-de-Luchon - Pau, 196 km

Rest Day, Wednesday July 21: Pau

Stage 17, Thursday July 22: Pau - Col du Tourmalet, 174 km

Stage 18, Friday July 23: Salies-de-Béarn - Bordeaux, 190 km

Stage 19, Saturday July 24: Bordeaux - Pauillac 51 km individual time trial

Stage 20, Sunday July 25: Longjumeau - Paris Champs-Élysées, 105 km