Le-Tour 2009 Route

Doobz

Does anyone know when the 2009 route gets announced?

iainf72

End of October.

Not sure exact date.

Doobz

kk cool thanks mate - trying to plan a cycling holiday next year and have been offered a challet in alps.. Cant wait

iainf72

There are some rumours about the Alpine stages. I think there's talk of a TT in the Alps next year.

Kléber

Yes, there will be a TT around Lake Annecy, one lap of the lake with a detour via the Col de Bluffy.

Doobz

the place we have been offered is in Megeve town so should be close to one or two stages

Anna Robic

Lots of rumours here:

http://paris.thover.com/story.php?l=en&ID=131

Could all be rubbish though?

knedlicky

The Monaco-directly-into-the-Alps idea was voiced many months ago; if it comes from Prudhomme, I like his willingness to try something different.

If stages 3-5 come about as per the Anna Robic link, it could be a very interesting start, if 'dark horses' for the yellow jersey take advantage of the terrain and the common reluctance of the main contenders to show themselves much n the opening week..

blazing_saddles

Mont St Clair at Sete.....Andorra and maybe even a trip all the way to Barcelona. The Languedoc starts and finishes are already known......allegedly.

blazing_saddles

Here, you go, the ship is leaking.....

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id= ... sep04news2

blazing_saddles

http://paris.thover.com/story.php?l=en&ID=131
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Pinerolo (I) (5)
Sisteron (6)
Aubenas (7)
La Grande-Motte (
clm ind. entre Montpellier et Sète (9)
Perpignan (10)
Amélie-les-Bains - Barcelona (E) (11)
Gerona (E) - Andorra (AND) (12)
Repos-transfert (13)
Issoudun (14)
Auxerre (15)
Vittel (16)
Vittel - Contrexéville (17)
Colmar (1
Verbier (19)
Repos (20)
Morzine ou le Grand-Bornand (21)
La Toussuire Les Sybelles (22)
St-Jean-de-Maurienne - Annecy (23)
clm ind. autour du lac d'Annecy (24)
étape en vallée de Saône ou centre-Bourgogne (25)
Paris (26)

Doobz

thanks bud

mididoctors

2009 Vuelta to tackle La Redoute

Next year's Vuelta a España will start in the Netherlands, and cross over to southern Belgium on stage three to use the roads of famous Spring Classic Liège-Bastogne-Liège. As Grand Tour director Victor Cordero said to Sportwereld on Wednesday, the race organiser plans to make the riders take on the legendary La Redoute climb.

"We want to ride the last 110 kilometres of the old Liège-Bastogne-Liège route, the one on which Eddy Merckx distinguished himself," Cordero said. "With the finish on the mythical Boulevard de la Sauvinière."

The 2009 Vuelta will start with a prologue on the time trial course of Assen, Netherlands. The first stage will take the riders from Assen to Emmen, with the second stage starting in Zutphen and finishing in Venlo. Stage three will depart from Venlo, and cross the Belgian border into the Ardennes region to finish in Liège.

the vuelta starting in the netherlands and visting ASO terrain I see.