{"id":415471,"date":"2026-01-15T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415471\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:37:08","slug":"tour-de-france-2027-mens-and-womens-events-to-start-in-edinburgh-and-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415471\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2027: Men’s and women’s events to start in Edinburgh and Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

2027 will be the first time both the men’s and women’s Grand Departs have taken place in the same country outside France.<\/p>\n

It will mark the first time the Tour de France Femmes has ever started outside mainland Europe.<\/p>\n

The Tours are the world’s biggest free-to-watch sporting events and British Cycling says it is looking to recruit 7,000 volunteers to help with route operations, spectator support and community engagement. <\/p>\n

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said staging the races is forecast to boost the UK economy by \u00a3150m.<\/p>\n

“Together the races will be the most accessible major sporting spectacle ever held in Britain,” the DCMS said.<\/p>\n

Sports minister Stephanie Peacock has announced \u00a332m of funding to support the staging of the Grand Departs and their legacy.<\/p>\n

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy said the races will “will unite the nations and show off the best of Britain” and “give people reason to feel proud of where they live”.<\/p>\n

British Cycling chief executive Jon Dutton said he hopes the six stages can boost the sport’s popularity and “create lasting change for communities right across Britain”.<\/p>\n

In December, the organisation’s latest company accounts revealed its member count had fallen by more than 11,000 people in a year., external<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2027 will be the first time both the men’s and women’s Grand Departs have taken place in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-415471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}