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Grand Départ Tour de France 2016 in Normandië
Gepost door TdJ
Normandy to host Grand Depart and opening stages
The 2016 Tour de France will start at the foot of the spectacular Mont-Saint-Michel monastery in Normandy on the northern coast of France.
Race organiser ASO announced that Mont-Saint-Michel and the surrounding Manche department will host the Grand Départ of the 103rd edition of the Tour de France during a press conference in Mont-Saint-Michel attended by race director Christian Prudhomme.
The opening stage will be held on Saturday July 2. There will be no prologue time time. The 2016 Tour de France begins with be a road race stage that follows the Normandy coast and finishes on Utah Beach in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, the site of the D-Day landings of World War II.
Stage two on Sunday July 3 will start in Saint-Lô and finish Cherbourg-Octeville, on the three-kilomtre Côte de la Glacerie climb behind the port.
Stage three will start in Granville but ASO did not reveal any further details.
Normandy has hosted stage finishes of the Tour de France 23 times since 1911 but has never hosted the Grand Départ. Mont-Saint-Michel hosted the finish of a 33km individual time trial stage in 2013, with Tony Martin winning the stage and Chris Froome extending his overall race lead.
Mont-Saint-Michel has been a monastery since the eighth century. It is built on a fortified island that is six hundred metres away from the Normandy coast and was protected by the strong currents and tides of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay.
It is connected by a permanent causeway but a new hydraulic dam is helping to clear the silt and a new footbridge will replace the elevated road. Mont-Saint-Michel is a Unesco World Heritage site and attracts three million visitors a year.
The 2015 Tour de France will start in Utrecht in the Netherlands on Saturday July 4.
Bron: www.cyclingnews.com
1 keer gewijzigd. Laatste wijziging: 09/12/2014 13:23 door TdJ.
The 2016 Tour de France will start at the foot of the spectacular Mont-Saint-Michel monastery in Normandy on the northern coast of France.
Race organiser ASO announced that Mont-Saint-Michel and the surrounding Manche department will host the Grand Départ of the 103rd edition of the Tour de France during a press conference in Mont-Saint-Michel attended by race director Christian Prudhomme.
The opening stage will be held on Saturday July 2. There will be no prologue time time. The 2016 Tour de France begins with be a road race stage that follows the Normandy coast and finishes on Utah Beach in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, the site of the D-Day landings of World War II.
Stage two on Sunday July 3 will start in Saint-Lô and finish Cherbourg-Octeville, on the three-kilomtre Côte de la Glacerie climb behind the port.
Stage three will start in Granville but ASO did not reveal any further details.
Normandy has hosted stage finishes of the Tour de France 23 times since 1911 but has never hosted the Grand Départ. Mont-Saint-Michel hosted the finish of a 33km individual time trial stage in 2013, with Tony Martin winning the stage and Chris Froome extending his overall race lead.
Mont-Saint-Michel has been a monastery since the eighth century. It is built on a fortified island that is six hundred metres away from the Normandy coast and was protected by the strong currents and tides of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay.
It is connected by a permanent causeway but a new hydraulic dam is helping to clear the silt and a new footbridge will replace the elevated road. Mont-Saint-Michel is a Unesco World Heritage site and attracts three million visitors a year.
The 2015 Tour de France will start in Utrecht in the Netherlands on Saturday July 4.
Bron: www.cyclingnews.com
1 keer gewijzigd. Laatste wijziging: 09/12/2014 13:23 door TdJ.
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