Tour de France: Christian Prudhomme announces: Nice is the starting point for 2020

The Tour de France 2020 will start in Nice on the Cote d’ Azur. Tour boss Christian Prudhomme announced one day after the end of the traditional long-distance trip Paris-Nice the choice of the southern French metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea as the venue of the Grand Depart in two years.

Nice will organise the start of the France tour for the second time after 1981. Most recently, the Grand Loop in Nice in 2013 was a guest on the island of Corsica after the opening event.

“Prudhomme said,”This news will be greeted with a smile by many cycling professionals, given the attractiveness of this popular holiday destination. The landscape around Nice is diverse and can provide exciting races, he said, and this is exactly the project for the Tour 2020. The start date of the 107. The 27th edition of the world’s most important cycling race was held in the 27th edition. June 2020. There was no further information on the stage design.

This year the Tour de France (7. till 29. In 2019, the Grand Boucle will be launched in honour of Eddy Merckx in the Belgian capital Brussels on 6 July. July.