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<\/a>Map of the 2027 Tour de France. Image courtesy of ASO<\/p>\nThe flat roads matter just as much. Stage 7 is a fast 38 km individual time trial from Blois to Chambord, past the ch\u00e2teaux of the Loire. Stage 16 offers the time-trial specialists a second chance on a 33 km course in Toulouse. Together the two tests total 71 km, the most individual time trialing in a Tour since 2012.<\/p>\n
Any rider who gains time against the clock will have to defend it everywhere else. Stage 8 climbs the Signal d\u2019Uchon before finishing in Le Creusot, recalling the chaotic July 2021 stage that Matej Mohori\u010d won while Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel fought for position behind him and Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d lost time. A week later, stage 14 from Montpellier to Mende shows again that a committed attacker doesn\u2019t need the high mountains. The stage packs 4,300 meters of climbing through the C\u00e9vennes, makes the Tour\u2019s first visit to the Cirque de Navacelles, and finishes on the C\u00f4te de la Croix Neuve.<\/p>\n
Stage 10, from Annecy to Sallanches, climbs the C\u00f4te de Domancy twice. The same roads host the World Championships road races in late summer, on the climb where Bernard Hinault attacked to win the rainbow jersey in 1980. The final stage also looks ahead to the Worlds, starting in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, which will host the track championships.<\/p>\n
The sprinters get chances in Angers (stage 6), Valence (stage 12), Montpellier (stage 13), Pau (stage 17), and Libourne (stage 20). On the last day, they must survive the Montmartre circuit before contesting the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es finish, three weeks after the first sprint in Britain. Stage 15, from Rodez to Albi, is too hard for them and suits a breakaway.<\/p>\n
The pure climbers get three summit finishes and long, hard sequences of climbs. On stage 9, the Col du Berthiand and the Col de Richemond come before the finish on the Grand Colombier. On July 14, stage 11 crosses the Col du Pr\u00e9 and the Mont\u00e9e de Bisanne before finishing at Les Saisies, a regular Tour pass that hosts a stage finish for the first time. In the Pyrenees, stage 18 runs from Pau over the Soulor, the Col du Tourmalet (2,115 m), and the Hourquette d\u2019Ancizan to a summit finish on the Col du Portet (2,215 m), the first time the Tourmalet and the Portet have appeared on the same stage. Stage 19, the last mountain stage, starts in Hasparren in the Basque Country and builds to the Col de Marie-Blanque before descending to Laruns. The Pyrenees may decide the winner, but a contender could lose the Tour on almost any stage.<\/p>\n
L\u2019\u00c9tape du Tour de France 2027: To Les Saisies<\/p>\n
L\u2019\u00c9tape du Tour, the leading cyclosportive, brings 16,000 amateurs each year onto a Tour mountain stage a few days before the professionals ride it. The 35th edition takes place on July 11, 2027, on the route of stage 11 from Cluses to Les Saisies. The finish is new for both the Tour and L\u2019\u00c9tape.<\/p>\n
The amateur route covers 154 km and climbs 4,850 meters, including all five categorized climbs on the professionals\u2019 stage. The Col de la Colombi\u00e8re comes early, but the hardest climbing is in the last 50 km. The first of those climbs is the Col du Pr\u00e9, 12.6 km at 7.8 percent, which L\u2019\u00c9tape riders already climbed in 2025 on the way to La Plagne. The second is Bisanne, 12.4 km at 8.3 percent.<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s L\u2019\u00c9tape du Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift follows on August 8. Its 138 km route crosses the volcanic range around the Puy de D\u00f4me, a day after the professional women finish their race on the summit.<\/p>\n
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