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Tour de France 2011: rumours on the race route and the stages!

... and soon also on the Etape du Tour MondoVélo!

The 2010 Tour of Spain route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the route and time schedule

With the nightly team time trial in the streets of Sevilla, the 2010 Tour of Spain started in an original way tonight. In the collection of cycling race routes on Google Maps/Google Earth I hereby add the Vuelta a España 2010 route.

Below you can find the race route on Google Maps, the stage profile and the time- and route schedule for each of the stages. Furthermore, at the end of this article you'll soon be able to download a KML file which will allopw you to see the whole Vuelta route in Google Earth and thus for example to do a virtual fly-over of the race routes of this Spanish race.

For now, I've published 1 to 11, until just after the first rest day. In the upcoming days, the other stages will progressively be added here.

The stages of the 2010 Vuelta a España

The participating riders for the 2010 Tour of Spain and their numbers

Tonight at 10.04PM the Vuelta a España 2010 will start in Sevilla with a team time trial. Indeed, the Vuelta a España celebrates its 75th anniversary by starting with a nightly stage which will finish for the last team only at 11.42PM!!

In this article you'll find the list of participants à la 65ème édition du Tour of Spain !

22 teams participate in the Tour of Spain 2010 with each 9 riders (for a total of 198 riders). The participating teams are 17 of the 18 UCI ProTour teams (AG2R La Mondiale, Astana, Caisse d'Epargne, Euskaltel-Euskadi, Footon-Servetto, FDJ, Garmin-Transitions, Lampre-Farnese Vini, Liquigas-Doimo, Omega Pharma-Lotto, Quick Step, ...

Exclusive: the participants in the Tour du Limousin 2010!

A few days ago I already presented the 2010 Tour du Limousin route on Google Maps. Today, I present you exclusively, before the press conference this morning, the list of participating riders for this 43rd edition of the Tour du Limousin which will take place from 17 till 20 August.

A few surprises

The 2010 Tour du Limousin route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the route and time schedule

After the Tour de France, August reserves 3 stage races for the riders in France: in the order on the calendar that's the Tour de l'Ain (10 to 14 August), the Tour du Limousin (17 to 20 August) and the Tour international Poitou-Charentes (24 to 27 August). Like last year I'll again work for the Tour du Limousin to prepare some interesting contents for the official web site of the race and that's why I can now allow you to discover, as a prime before the publication on the official website, the route of the Tour du Limousin 2010 on Google Maps and in Google Earth!

It has now become quite usual for me to publish the race route of different cycling races on ...

2010 Tour de France: why Mark Cavendish didn't win the green jersey

Several people came to ask me about it in the past few days ... and several of my customers in the Tour de France 2010 were also wondering about the same question ... How come Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) wins 5 stages in a sprint (the small rider from the Isle of Man seems to have found back his sprinters legs he was looking for since the start of the season) while he didn't win the green jersey of best sprinter?

Indeed, Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) took - almost a week ago already - home the precious green tissue. How could Ale-Jet (who won "only" 2 stages) beat Cav like this?

The answer to this question could be very short and simple: simply because the Italian rider has shown a more regular performance than the British sprinter. Since I saw this question popp ...

2010 Tour de France: Fabian Cancellara wins the prologue in Rotterdam

This afternoon the prologue of the Tour de France 2010 took place in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. For the 4th time in the history of the Tour de France, Fabian Cancellara (Team Saxo Bank) won this initial individual time trial and thus took the first yellow jersey of the 97th edition of the Tour.

Partially run under the rain, this time trial has become more dangerous for some riders, but Spartacus was lucky ... the sun popped through again when he did his solitary effort.

The summary of the prologue of the Tour de France 2010

The list of participating riders for the 2010 Tour de France and their numbers

As you probably know by now, the Tour de France 2010 will start in Rotterdam on Saturday (see my article The 2010 Tour de France route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the route and time schedule for detailed information about the route). While the official website indicates the participating riders are not known yet, they actually are now ...

In this article you'll thus discover the list of riders who will come to the start of the Tour de France 2010 and who'll do all they can to finish the 3,642 kilometers up to Paris where they'll finish on Sunday 25 July 2010. You'll ...

2010 Tour de France teaser Dutch TV: a wheel on the Erasmusbridge

On Saturday, the Tour de France 2010 will start in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). The NOS, the Dutch equivalent of the BBC, is ready for it and announces this to the Dutch spectators with an original teaser ....

NOS 2010 Tour de France teaser

The 2010 Tour de France route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the route and time schedule

With only one week to go until the start of the Tour de France 2010 it definitely became urgent to provide you, as usual with the different cycling races and most specially for the Tour de France, the Tour de France 2010 route on Google Maps/Google Earth!

In this article you'll find the time- and route schedules, the stage profiles and the route of each of the stages on Google Maps. At the end of this article you can also download a file which allows you to view the whole Tour de France 2010 route in Google Earth and, if you want to, to make a virtual fly-over over one or more stages just lik ...