Saturday starts. The Tour de France number 112 begins. It starts from the North, from Lille, to arrive after 21 stages and over 3,300 kilometers, all on the streets of France, in Paris. CA va san d’Arn, Woe to touch the final sprint to the French on the Elisi fields that last year, given the Olympics, had moved to Nice and which this year, in the final stage, may not be “volatona” since the organizers inserted the climb of Montmartre who makes a little less walkway and adds a pinch of pepper to a race that the organizers hope that Tadej Pogacar does not immediately.
A 900 million dollar “affarone” The allure that this great event brings with translated into figures is impressive. After World Cup and the Olympics is the most followed sporting event, it is above all a deal where a lot is spent and much is collected that it moves a turnover of over 150 million euros, thanks to an audience of 3.5 billion of viewers connected in 190 countries. According to a report of data appeal, a company of the Almawave Group specialized in the collection and processing of the data collected on the net, the Grande Boucle will attract over twelve million presences with an estimated economic relapse in over 900 million dollars. This is a reduction figure that takes into account only the presences in the cities seat of the stage and not of the presences distributed along the way. This expense is dominated by catering, which represents 47%of the total, followed by hospitality (34%) and transport (19%),
All in the land of France. After the great great foreign departures of Copenhagen, Bilbao, Florence and waiting for what in 2026 was announced in Barcelona, this year’s tour completely completely on the French roads. We will return to climb that totem of fatigue, myth and tradition that is Mont Ventoux and will pay homage, passing on the streets of their countries and their businesses, to the great French cycling champions. And so you will touch Rouen, the city of Jacques Anquetil; We will go to Carloguen and Yffiniac, where he lives and where Bernard Hinault was born, from Saint-Méen-Le-Grand for the centenary of the birth of Louison Bobet, we will get to La Plagne where Laurent Fignon won twice (1984 and 1987). Final goal on the Champs-Elysées where the first yellow jersey was Bernard Thévennet exactly 50 years ago. And the cousins are good to keep the rites of the great boucle tight because the great events such become precisely because they bind to traditions that seem to be details but in reality they make the difference and history. And Winbledon, who is playing these days, teaches …
Pogacar was said. Obviously it is the favorite given the six mountain stages with five arrivals uphill and has several (but several) probability of reaching yellow in Paris. But it is equally obvious that organizers, fans, enthusiasts everyone hopes that someone makes his life a little more complicated starting with Jonas Vingegaard who will have an absolute squadron with Wout Van Aert and Simon Yates to finish (perhaps) to Remco Evenepotel and Primaz Roglic who, will not happen, but if he should happen, he could so get up. I remain, including a great Geraint Thomas who is at his latest adventure, chases at great distance. And if we Italians can hope for Filippo Ganna, for the French, for the French it is late at night seen desperately but in vain they seek someone who can make them dream. Bernard Hinault who is rough today as when he ran did not use many laps of words: “To see a Frenchman who wins the tour, everyone else should fall …”.
The runners at the start
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Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia)
Joao Almeida (Portugal)
Jhonatan Narvaez (Ecuador)
Nils Polytt (Germany)
Pavel Sivakov (France)
Marc Soler (Spain)
Tim Wellens (Belgium)
Adam Yates (United Kingdom)Team Visma | Lease in Bike
Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark)
Wout van aert (Belgium)
Edoardo Affini (Italy)
Tiesj Benood (Belgium)
Matteo Jornson (United States)
Though kuss (United States)
Victor Campenerts (Belgium)
Simon Philip Yates (United Kingdom)Soudal Quick-Step
Remco EvenePOEL (Belgium)
Mattia Cattaneo (Italy)
Pascal Eenkhorn (Netherlands)
Tim Merlier (Belgium)
Valentin Paret Peintre (France)
Maximilian Schachmann (Germany)
Bert Van Lerberghe (Belgium)
Ilan Van Wilder (Belgium)EF Education – EasyPost
Vincenzo Albanese (Italy)
Kasper Asgreen (Denmark)
Alex Baudin (France)
Ben Healy (Ireland)
Neilson Powless (United States)
Harrison Sweeny (Australia)
Michael Valgren (Denmark)
Marijn Van Den Berg (Netherlands)Intermarce because – Wanty
Biniam GirMay (Eritrea)
Louis Barre (France)
Vito Braet (Belgium)
Hugo Page (France)
Laurenz Rex (Belgium)
Jonas Rutsch (Germany)
Roel Van Speemaartensdijk (Netherlands)
Georg Zimmermann (Germany)Bahrain Victorious
Santiago Buitrago (Colombia)
Phil Bauhaus (Germany)
Kamil Gradek (Poland)
Jack Haig (Australia)
Lenny Martinez (France)
Matej Mohoric (Slovenia)
Robert Stannard (Australia)
Fred Wright (United Kingdom)Ineos Grenodiers
Carlos Rodriguez (Spain)
Thymen Arensman (Netherlands)
Tobias Svendsen Foss (Norway)
Filippo Ganna (Italy)
Axel Laurance (France)
Geraint Thomas (United Kingdom)
Ben Swift (United Kingdom)
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Primaz Rogl (Slovenia)
Florian Lipowitz (Germany)
Gianni Moscon (Italy)
Laurence Pitie (New Zealand)
Mick Van Dijke (Netherlands)
Danny Van Poppel (Netherlands)
Aleksandr Vlasov (Russia)
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Simone Consonni (Italy)
Jonathan Milan (Italy)
Thibau Nys (Belgium)
Quinn Simmons (United States)
Edward Theuns (Belgium)
Toms Skujins (Latvia)
Jasper Stuyven (Belgium)Groupama-Fdj
Guillaume Martin Guyonnet (France)
Lewis Askey (United Kingdom)
Cyril Barthe (France)
Romain Gregoire (France)
Valentin Madouas (France)
Quentin Pacher (France)
Paul Penhoet (France)
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Matieu van der poel (Netherlands)
Silvan Dillier (Swiss)
Kaden Groves (Australia)
Xandro Meurisse (Belgium)
Jasper Philipsen (Belgium)
Jonas Rickaert (Belgium)
Gianni Vermeersch (Belgium)
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Julian Alaphilippe (France)
Alberto Dainese (Italy)
Marco Haller (Austria)
Marc Hirschi (Swiss)
Fabian Lienhard (Swiss)
Marius Mayrhofer (Germany)
Michael Storer (Australia)
Matteo Trentin (Italy)Jayco Alula Team
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Edward Dunbar (Ireland)
Luke Durbridge (Australia)
Dylan Groenewegen (Netherlands)
Luka Mezgec (Slovenia)
Lucas Plapp (Australia)
Elmar Reinders (Netherlands)
Mauro Schmid (Swiss)Arkea-B & B Hotels
Kévin Vauquelin (France)
Mathis Le Berre (France)
Arnaud Demare (France)
Raul Garcia Pierna (Spain)
Cristian Rodriguez (Spain)
Ewen Costouou (France)
Clement Venturini (France)
Amaury Capiot (Belgium)Movistar Team
Enric Mas (Spain)
William Barta (United States)
Pablo Castrillo Zapater (Spain)
Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spain)
Gregor Mühlberger (Austria)
Nelson Oliveira (Portugal)
Ivan Romeo Abad (Spain)
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Felix Gall (Austria)
Bruno Armiral (France)
Clément Berthet (France)
Stefan Bissegger (Swiss)
Oliver Nasen (Belgium)
Aurélien Paret Peintre (France)
Callum Scotson (Australia)
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Emanuel Buchmann (Germany)
Bryan Coquard (France)
Ion Izagirre (Spain)
Alexis Renard (France)
Dylan Teuns (Belgium)
Benjamin Thomas (France)
Damien Touze (France)XDS Astana Team
Harold Tejada (Colombia)
Davide Ballerini (Italy)
Cees Bol (Netherlands)
Clément Champoussin (France)
Yevgeniy Fedroov (Kazakhstan)
Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Colombia)
Mike Teunissen (Netherlands)
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Anthony Turgis (France)
Mathieu Burgaudeau (France)
Steff Cras (Belgium)
Alexandre DeleTre (France)
Emilien Jeanniere (France)
Jordan Jegat (France)
Matteo Vorcher (France)
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Oscar Onley (United Kingdom)
Warren Barguil (France)
Pavel Bittner (Czech Republic)
Sean Flynn (United Kingdom)
Tobias Lund Andresen (Denmark)
Niklas Märkl (Germany)
Tim Naberman (Netherlands)
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Pascal Ackermann (Germany)
Peter Joseph Blackmore (United Kingdom)
Guillaume Boivin (Canada)
Matis louvel (France)
Alexey Lutsenko (Kazakhstan)
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Thomas Jake Stewart (United Kingdom)LOT
Lennert Van Eetvelt (Belgium)
Jenno Berckmoes (Belgium)
Jasper de Buyst (Belgium)
Arnaud de Lie (Belgium)
Jarrad Drizners (Australia)
Sébastien Grignard (Belgium)
Eduardo Sepulveda (Argentina)
Brent Van Moer (Belgium)An-X Mobility
Tobias Johannessen (Norway)
Jonas Abrahamsen (Norway)
Magnus Cort (Denmark)
Stian Edvardsen-Fredheim (Norway)
Markus Hoelgaard (Norway)
Anders Halland Johannessen (Norway)
Andreas Leknecond (Norway)
Soren Werenskjold (Norway)