CYCLING
Tour de France 2017 Stage profiles
By Phil Bainbridge
July 1, 2017 - July 23, 2017 - The Tour de France, cycling’s premier stage race and principal of the three Grand Tours, begins in Düsseldorf, Germany and ends in Paris three weeks later.
The 21 stages in this year’s Tour will comprise nine sprint stages, two individual time trials, a hill stage and nine mountain stages taking in all five of France’s main mountain regions: the Alps, Pyrenees, Jura, Massif Central and Vosges.