July 4- 26, 21 Stages, 2 rest days
The line between insanity and genius is said to be a fine one, and in early 20thcentury France, anyone envisaging a near-2,500-km-long cycle race across the country would have been widely viewed as unhinged. So call shot gun for the lazy boy, its going to be a long month of television!
Running from Saturday July 4th to Sunday July 26th 2009, the 96th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,500 kilometres.
These 21 stages have the following profiles:
- 10 flat stages,
- 7 mountain stages,
- 1 medium mountain stage,
- 2 individual time-trial stages,
- 1 team time-trial stage.
Resources
- Versus – http://www.versus.com/tdf
- Velonews – http://tour-de-france.velonews.com/
- Cycling News – http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/96th-tour-de-france-gt
- Tour de France Official Website – http://www.letour.fr/us/homepage_horscourseTDF.html
- Bicycling – http://www.bicycling.com/tourdefrance
- Lance Armstrong Foundation – http://livestrong.org
- Livestrong.com – http://livestrong.com
- Mellow Johnny’s – http://mellowjohnnys.com/
- @lancearmstrong Lance Armstrong
- @levi_leipheimer Levi Leipheimer
- @hornerakg Chris Horner
- @janibrajkovic Jani Brajkovic
- @carlossastre Carlos Sastre
- @ghincapie George Hincapie
- @mickrogers Michael Rogers
- @dzabriskie David Zabriskie
- @ChristianVDV Christian Vande Velde
- @christianmeier Christian Meier
- @ivanbasso Ivan Basso
- @TheRealFloydL Floyd Landis
- @SamBewley Sam Bewley
- @taylorphinney Taylor Phinney
- @BenKing89 Ben King
- @trainright Chris Carmichael
- @johanbruyneel Johan Bruyneel
- @axelmerckx Axel Merckx
- @RobbieVentura Robbie Venturay
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