Hot! 2013 Tour De France To Start In Corsica

As last year, Christian Prudhomme will show you the entire Tour de France route information in the Palais des Congr s upon later October

Mediterranean area a candidate regarding Tour's 100th edition, likely come back to Mont Ventoux

Three several years through now, your Tour de France might be going on for any 100th time, and race organiser Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO) is actually certain to place out there a new particular itinerary regarding your celebration. The French press has already been began to be able to theorize in relation to a 'Grand D part' - the start of the event - upon the actual Mediterranean snowdonia associated with Corsica, really the only French place that has not necessarily still hosted a new phase of the actual Tour all the way through it's history.

According to French paper Corse Matin, ASO officials will traveling to be able to Corsica for a strong official meeting from October 21-23 that will examine that logistical issues of acquiring that contest to be able to a great island. The previous period a Tour start started off the European mainland is at 2007, should the event began with London and the Tour caravan always went returning in order to France from the Channel tunnel. Travel that will and from Corsica, however, might require ferry in addition to weather transport.

Moreover, reliability may in addition end up being a problem when separatist routines include happen to be haunting the region for a lot of years.

The 2013 Tour might also incorporate Provence's well-known Mont Ventoux again, which in turn appeared to be continue highlighted the following year. The 'bald giant' seriously isn't visited by simply the contest often, when event director Christian Prudhomme thinks it'd hurt it has the misconception in the event that it were being appearing far too frequently.

But publishers in the French internet site Ventoux-Magazine.com are generally selected how the 100th format on the race will add the fabled conquer again, when Prudhomme plus Claude Haut, president in the standard suggest involving Vaucluse, purportedly discuss an idea: a returning to the Ventoux moment trial. The kind from the call upwards that inclines belonging to the 'windy mountain' exclusively developed twice within the record from the event; the first time in 1958 (Charly Gaul won), plus the continue occasion with 1987 (victory regarding Jean-Fran ois Bernard).

The previous time period a new summit finish time period demo appeared to be used for the Tour de France appeared to be inside 2004, as soon as Lance Armstrong picked up the best of L'Alpe d'Huez.

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