Friday, November 1, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Lance Armstrong has noticed something about the Tour de France route. The fallen cycling hero believes that the journeys between the stages are very large. “The riders and staff will go crazy about this,” he says on his Instagram.
The movements between the stages are not immediately noticeable when you look at the route map of the Tour de France. If you take a little longer to look at it, you will see it. More than once the travel time between the finish of a stage and the start of the next stage is two hours or more. For example, the move from stage two to stage three already takes two hours, while the stages take place in the same regions. Because stage two ends in Boulogne-sur-Mer and the day starts later in Valenciennes, there is still quite a bit of traveling to be done.
Later in the Tour the travel time will only increase. The travel time between the eighth and ninth stages is notable (also two hours without traffic jams, around three hours with traffic) and the move from the ninth to the tenth stages. The travel time for the last two stages of the Tour is even 2.5 hours and 5.5 hours.
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Movement record
Velowire calculated that the ASO will break a displacement record in 2025. In total, the teams have to travel more than 3,000 kilometers between stages. That’s almost an entire Tour de France. Only two stages are within fifty kilometers of each other.
This year the Tour de France will visit almost every corner of France. In recent years, the Tour de France has taken place more clustered in certain parts of France. That is why travel times in those editions were a lot lower than in 2025.
The WielerFlits Podcast on Thursday also discussed the long journeys in the Netherlands Tour de France van 2025:
