With less than a month to go and Cadel taking stage 1 at Dauphine,Time to get a
Tour de France 2012 thread going.
The route
Running from Saturday June 30th to Sunday July 22th 2012, the 99th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,479 kilometres.
These stages have the following profiles:
9 flat stages
4 medium mountain stages - one with a summit finish
5 mountain stages - two with a summit finish
2 individual time-trial stages
1 prologue
2 rest days
Tour de France 2012 - The Tour 2012
Over 100km of individual TT and only 3 summit finishes. Without a doubt, Bradley Wiggins has to be the major threat to Evans.
Also on tour related news...
Andy Shleck was awarded the 2010 crown a few days ago.
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Would really like to see green edge get up there , first Aussie team , that'll get the world talking
sprint are going to be interesting with ex team mates renshaw and cavendish and goss going up against each other