Articles tagged ‘prologue’

Tour de France Prologue photos

By Chris | July 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

A huge crowd turned out in London this afternoon to line the route of the Tour de France Prologue. In a lot of places I saw it was four and five deep which meant those at the back only got a glimpse of the riders speeding past. I eventually got a pretty good spot by [...]

 

London Tour de France schedule

By Chris | July 3rd, 2007 | Add a Comment »

The Tour de France rolls into London this Friday and hopefully the weather will improve for the big race. Anybody watching Wimbledon will know that London’s had incessant rain showers, some of them very heavy for the last month. The Tour is in London for three days and despite the lousy weather hundreds of thousands [...]

 

Getting ready for the Tour de France start in London

By Chris | June 11th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

With just over three weeks to go before the Tour de France begins in London the organisers have been detailing some of the activities for spectators coming to London for the Prologue and Stage 1 of the Tour.
Le Grand Depart, as the start of the Tour de France is known, begins on Friday 6 July [...]

 

Tour de France in London

By Chris | October 26th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

The route of the 2007 Tour de France was announced in Paris today with London hosting the first two stages. On the 6 July they’ll be an opening ceremony for the Tour then on the 7th the Prologue time trial will take place.
This is a short 7.9km race against the clock where each of the [...]