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VIDEO: Tour de France – Stage 3 preview

The 2014 Tour de France moves on to stage three on Monday with riders to race 155km from Cambridge to London. It's set up for an exciting sprint finish on the famous Mall. Watch a video of the preview of the final stage in the UK before the peleton heads to France.

Published: 7 July 2014 10:11 CEST
VIDEO: Tour de France - Stage 3 preview
Stage 3 of the Tour de France from Cambridge to London. Photo: LeTour.com

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Tour de France riders will race for the third and final stage on British soil on Monday, which sees the peleton take on the 155km route from Cambridge to London. 

The course is fairly flat and set up for an exciting sprint finish on The Mall in the heart of the capital.

Here's a video preview of the stage, thanks to Cyclingnews.com website. For more information on the stage you can visit the official Tour de France website.

In stage two on Sunday Vincenzo Nibali rode himself into the yellow jersey after a daring late break to win the second stage of the Tour de France on Sunday.

The Italian champion pointed to the national flag on his Astana team jersey after winning his first Tour stage at the fourth attempt.

The 29-year-old former Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana champion finished two seconds clear of the field at the end of a punishing 201km ride from York to Sheffield in northern England.

Belgian Greg Van Avermaet was second with Michal Kwiatkowski of Poland in third.

Van Avermaet moved up to third in the overall standings with Peter Sagan, who was fourth on this stage and second on Saturday's opening stage from Leeds to Harrogate, moved into second overall.

The Slovak, winner of the green jersey the last two years, had been the favourite to win this stage but was left behind by Nibali's break.

Sprinter Marcel Kittel, who started the day in yellow after winning Saturday's stage, finished almost 20 minutes behind in a group of sprinters.

It was a thrilling finish to an exciting stage that featured nine categorised climbs which eventually made the difference.

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SPORT

Inaugural Women’s Tour de France to start at Eiffel Tower

The route for the inaugural women's Tour de France was unveiled on Thursday with eight stages, embarking from the Eiffel Tower on July 24th next year.

Published: 14 October 2021 16:04 CEST
French cyclist Marion Rousse delivers a speech next to Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme during the presentation of the first edition of the Women's Tour de France cycling race.
French cyclist Marion Rousse delivers a speech next to Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme during the presentation of the first edition of the Women's Tour de France cycling race. Photo: Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP.

The first complete edition of the women’s version of cycling’s iconic race starts on the day the 109th edition of the men’s Tour ends.

After a route that winds through northern France, the race culminates in the Planche des Belles Filles climb in the Vosges mountains.

Danish cyclist Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig said she was over the moon to be taking part.

“I want it to be July now so we can get stared,” she said actually jumping up and down.

“The Tour de France is a reference and when you say you are a cyclist people ask about that. Now I can say I race the Tour de France,” she said after the presentation.

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Race director Marion Rousse, a former French cycling champion and now a TV commentator, told AFP it would be a varied course that would maintain suspense over the eight days.

“It is coherent in a sporting sense, and we wanted to start from Paris,” she said of the 1,029km run.

“With only eight stages we couldn’t go down to the Alps or the Pyrenees, the transfers would be too long.

“The stages obviously are shorter for the women than for the men’s races. The men can go 225 kilometres. For the women the longest race on our roster is 175km and we even needed special dispensation for that,” she said. “But it’s a course I love.”

Christian Prudhomme, the president of the Tour de France organisers, was equally enthusiastic.

“The fact it sets off from Paris the day the men’s race ends gives the new race a boost because it sets the media up to follow it more easily.

“It also means that with the Tour de France starting on July 1st and the women’s race ending on the 31st, there will be cycling on television every day of July.”

The men’s race is broadcast in around 190 countries.

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