The route for the 2008 Tour de France was unveiled today in Paris.
The highlights
– 21 stages, with no prologue
– 2 individual time trials (again, no team trial)
– 9 mountain stages, including 4 mountaintop finishes among 5 high-mountain stages and 4 medium-mountain stages
– 19 climbs in the top three categories — H.C., Category 1 and Category 2
–10 flat stages
– 2,174 miles
– Stage 17 begins in Embrum and ends at Alpe d’Huez, with the 131-mile trek including Col du Galibier and Col de la Croix-de-Fer.
– The Tour begins in Brest and takes a counter-clockwise route with dips into Spain and Italy before ending of course in Paris on the Champs-Ãlysées.
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