CYCLING The starting signal will be delivered in France for the first time since 2011 …
The Tour de France 2016 will start in the department of Manche in Normandy, announced Monday the organization of the most famous bicycle race in the world. Since 1903, the year of its creation, the test was never part of the Channel, where is located one of the major French monuments, Mont-Saint-Michel
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However, the Manche department has hosted the Tour 23 times between 1911 (Cherbourg) and 2013 year the last of the race came on the occasion of an individual played against the clock between Avranches and Mont Saint-Michel.
This is also the “wonder of the West “, designated World Heritage Site by Unesco, the details of the grand start of the 103rd edition of the Tour will be announced on 9 December at a press conference.
The announcement, made on the television channel France 3, formalizes the first Grand departure in France after a hiatus of five years from the Vendée in 2011.
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The Belgian city of Liege (2012), Corsica (2013) for the memorable 100th edition, the English Province of Yorkshire (2014), welcomed the first laps of the pack waiting Utrecht, the city Dutch where the Tour will start on July 4.
For the construction of the course, the positioning of the Channel in the north-west quarter of France, leaves wide open the field of possibilities . Whether to quickly reach the Pyrenees or -scénario more likely if one relies on the alternation in the order massive montagneux- to head east and go in the direction of clockwise by first crossing the Alps and the Pyrenees.
The course 2016, the team led by Christian Prudhomme must establish still not be known until October. But the director of the Tour will unveil at least as early as December 9 detail of the first steps, including holding or not an against the clock inaugural and sites selected for this unique Grand departure.
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