Hot! 2013 Tour De France To Start In Corsica

As final year, Christian Prudhomme will show full Tour de France route points in the Palais des Congr s on past due October

Mediterranean island a applicant to get Tour's 100th edition, possible go back to Mont Ventoux

Three years through now, your Tour de France will be going down to the 100th time, along with species organiser Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO) is actually absolute to lay away a unique itinerary for your celebration. The French push is already commenced for you to speculate regarding a 'Grand D part' - the particular start of the celebration - to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, really the only French location in which has not still hosted a new point on the Tour through its history.

According that will French classifieds Corse Matin, ASO officials will probably take a trip to help Corsica intended for an public reaching from October 21-23 to be able to explore your logistical concerns regarding consuming the competition to an island. The final time period your Tour get started began over European mainland had been around 2007, if your occasion commenced around London as well as the actual Tour caravan frequently went back for you to France over the Channel tunnel. Travel that will and from Corsica, however, could demand ferry and air transport.

Moreover, security will also work a difficulty because separatist moves happen to be haunting your island for some years.

The 2013 Tour could also consist of Provence's famous Mont Ventoux again, that has been very last presented this year. The 'bald giant' isn't visited by the race often, when affair director Christian Prudhomme believes it could eliminate its fable if this had been to be able to look very frequently.

But editors on the French web page Ventoux-Magazine.com are specific how the 100th copy of the race will certainly include the fabled clamber again, as Prudhomme as well as Claude Haut, us president with the standard suggest regarding Vaucluse, purportedly talk about an idea: a return to the actual Ventoux time period trial. The species contrary to the time clock up the particular hills on the 'windy mountain' solely occurred double with this story on the event; at the first try inside 1958 (Charly Gaul won), plus the very last occasion in 1987 (victory with Jean-Fran ois Bernard).

The final occasion a summit finish time frame sample occured for the Tour de France was with 2004, while Lance Armstrong earned onto L'Alpe d'Huez.

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