TOUR DE FRANCE 2022. Expected event every year, the Tour de France starts on Friday July 1, in exactly 100 days. Will Tadej Pogacar win the Tour de France for the third time in a row? List of stages, dates… Discover the route that awaits the peloton next summer.
100 days before the start of the 109th edition of the Tour de France in Copenhagen, the Danish capital is already ready for the event. In October 2021, the route for this 2022 edition was unveiled by Christian Prudhomme, director of the Tour, in the company of Prince Frederik of Denmark.
The Grande Boucle starts on Friday July 1 with a time trial in Copenhagen. The peloton will start from Denmark before going through the cobblestones and theAlpe d’Huez especially. If 18 World Tour teams will participate in the Tour de France such as Movistar, Ineos Grenadiers or UAE Team Emirates, six French “teams” will take the start: Cofidis, AG2R Citroën Team, Groupama FDJ, Team Arkea-Samsic and two invited by the organizers: B&B Hotels KTM and Total Energies.
Christian Prudhomme did not hesitate to invite the two French teams to participate in the Tour de France 2022: “No, everything seemed obvious to us. With Jean-René Bernaudeau, the boss of TotalÉnergies, we have there the beautiful pages of the Tour, in the time of Thomas Voeckler and now with Peter Sagan. He is a charismatic character. Beyond of his huge track record, he is one of the rare runners who is followed at each of his appearances.With B&B Hotels by Jérôme Pineau (the manager), we have the team with the smallest budget on the Tour but we have not forgotten either the aggressiveness and the price of the super-combative Franck Bonnamour, present all the time at the front in July last year, nor the strong history of Pierre Rolland with the Tour. It all weighed.”
Favorite to his own estate, will Tadej Pogacar achieve the treble after 2020 and 2021, a performance achieved by six cyclists in the history of the Grande Boucle (Louison Bobet, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain and Christopher Froome)? His Slovenian compatriot Primoz Roglic will try to win his first Tour de France after his second place in 2020. Egan Bernal, victim of a violent accident in training on January 24 and operated on, has not yet announced his withdrawal. Among the other cyclists candidates for the yellow jersey on the Champs-Elysées, the Norwegian Jonas Vingegaard, 2nd last year, will do everything to counter Pogacar and win the final victory. On the French side, the reigning double world champion Julian Alaphilippe will want to repeat his performance in 2019 where he wore the yellow jersey for 14 days.
Grandson of Raymond Poulidor, Mathieu van der Poel will be present on the Tour this year. After having retired last year before the 9th stage, the rider of the Alpecin-Fenix team will participate in the Giro before taking the start of the Grande Boucle: “Regarding the Tour de France, I wanted to finish it last year. I announced that this year there was no question of giving up after ten days. I intend to finish both the Giro and the Tour this year.”
The Tour de France 2022 is launched after the presentation of the detailed route, on Thursday October 14, 2021, by Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Grande Boucle. After the Grand Départ in Denmark, the peloton will enter the national territory via the Nord department, with in particular a stage comprising cobbled sections, before heading for the East of the country (La Planche des Belles Filles), then the Alps (with a finish in Alpe d’Huez), a passage through Lozère (Mende), the Pyrenees, and a time trial in Rocamadour the day before the finish in Paris.
Here is the map of this 109th edition of the Tour de France cyclist, which therefore gives pride of place to the North and East of the country, as well as to the Pyrenees:
The Tour de France traditionally takes place in the first three weeks of July. Only the 2020 edition deviated from the rule, the coronavirus epidemic having forced the organizers to postpone the race to September. For the 2022 edition, departure abroad obliges, the departure will not take place on a Saturday but on a Friday, the July 1, 2022. Arrival will be judged the Sunday July 24, 2022.
Here is the list of the stages of this Tour de France 2022 of cycling, which will connect Copenhagen to Paris:
- July 1: 1st stage Copenhagen – Copenhagen, 13 km (individual time trial)
- July 2: 2nd stage Roskilde (Denmark) – Nyborg (Denmark), 199 km
- July 3: 3rd stage Vejle (Denmark) – Sönderborg (Denmark), 182 km
- July 4: transfer
- July 5: 4th stage Dunkirk – Calais, 172 km
- July 6: 5th stage Lille Métropole – Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, 155 km
- July 7: 6th stage Binche (Belgium) – Longwy, 220 km
- July 8: 7th stage Tomblaine – La super Planche des Belles Filles, 176 km
- July 9: 8th stage Dole – Lausanne (Switzerland), 184 km
- July 10: 9th stage Aigle (Switzerland) – Châtel, 183 km
- July 11: rest in Morzine
- July 12: 10th stage Morzine – Megève, 148 km
- July 13: 11th stage Albertville – Col du Granon, 149 km
- July 14: 12th stage Briançon – Alpe d’Huez, 166 km
- July 15: 13th stage Bourg d’Oisans – Saint-Etienne, 193 km
- July 16: 14th stage Saint-Etienne – Mende, 195 km
- July 17: 15th stage Rodez – Carcassonne, 200 km
- July 18: rest in Carcassonne
- July 19: 16th stage Carcassonne – Foix, 179 km
- July 20: 17th stage Saint-Gaudens – Peyragudes, 130 km
- July 21: 18th stage Lourdes – Hautacam, 143 km
- July 22: 19th stage Castelnau-Magnoac – Cahors, 189 km
- July 23: 20th stage Lacapelle-Marival – Rocamadour, 40 km (individual time trial)
- July 24: 21st stage Paris La Défense Arena – Paris Champs-Elysées, 112 km