2012 Route
The route is in and it is quite daunting!!
The route
Running from Saturday June 30th to Sunday July 22th 2012, the 99th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,479 kilometres.
These stages have the following profiles:
- 1 prologue
- 9 flat stages
- 4 medium mountain stages – one with a summit finish
- 5 mountain stages – two with a summit finish
- 2 individual time-trial stages
- 1 prologue
- 2 rest days
Distinctive aspects of the race
The 2012 Tour de France will have 25 mountain level two, level one or highest level mountain passes or summit fi nishes.
They will be divided up geographically in the following way:
- 1in the Vosges
- 3in the Jura
- 4in the Swiss Jura
- 6in the Alps
- 11 in the Pyrenees