Cycling-Route for the 2014 Tour de France
PARIS, July 2 (Reuters) - Route for the 2014 Tour de France which starts on Saturday: Saturday, July 5* - Stage 1: Leeds to Harrogate, 19.5 km (flat) Sunday, July 6* - Stage 2: York to Sheffield, 201 km (hilly) Monday, July 7* - Stage 3: Cambridge to London, 155 km (flat) Tuesday, July 8 - Stage 4: Le Touquet-Paris-Plage to Lille, 163.5 km (flat) Wednesday, July 9 - Stage 5: Ypres (Belgium) to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, 155.5 km (flat, cobbles) Thursday, July 10 - Stage 6: Arras to Reims, 194 km (flat) Friday, July 11 - Stage 7: Epernay to Nancy, 234.5 km (flat) Saturday, July 12 - Stage 8: Tomblaine to Gerardmer, 161 km (hilly) Sunday, July 13 - Stage 9: Gerardmer to Mulhouse, 170 km (hilly) Monday, July 14 - Stage 10: Mulhouse to La Planche des Belles Filles, 161.5 km (mountainous, summit finish) Tuesday, July 15 - Rest day in Besancon Wednesday, July 16 - Stage 11: Besancon to Oyonnax, 187.5 km (flat) Thursday, July 17 - Stage 12: Bourg en Bresse to St Etienne, 185.5 km (hilly) Friday, July 18 - Stage 13: St Etienne to Chamrousse, 197.5 km (mountainous, summit finish) Saturday, July 19 - Stage 14: Grenoble to Risoul, 177 km (mountainous, summit finish) Sunday, July 20 - Stage 15: Tallard to Nimes, 222 km (flat) Monday, July 21 - Rest day in Carcassonne Tuesday, July 22 - Stage 16: Carcassonne to Bagneres de Luchon, 237.5 km (mountainous) Wednesday, July 23 - Stage 17: St Gaudens to St Lary Soulan, 124.5 km (mountainous, summit finish) Thursday, July 24 - Stage 18: Pau to Hautacam, 145.5 km (mountainous, summit finish) Friday, July 25 - Stage 19: Maubourguet to Bergerac, 208.5 km (flat) Saturday, July 26 - Stage 20: Bergerac to Perigueux (flat individual time trial), 54 km Sunday, July 27 - Stage 21: Evry to Paris, Champs Elysees (flat), 137.5 Total distance: 3,664 km * First three stages in England (Reporting by Julien Pretot, editing by Tony Jimenez)
