Highlights: Barrenetxea sprints to victory at Boucles de l’Aulne<\/p>\n
Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n
The Grand Depart will take place in Reims, France, on Saturday, June 24, while the Olympics<\/a> is set to begin on July 14, with the Individual Time Trial on July 19.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Olympic Road Race is penciled in for July 23 – a week after the Tour’s final stage.<\/p>\n This means that Stages 20 and 21 will take place across the opening weekend of the LA Olympics on July 15 and 16, causing a conundrum for some of the world’s best riders.<\/p>\n Only six host towns for the 2028 Tour have been revealed so far, with all situated in the Grand Est region of France.<\/p>\n After beginning in Reims, the race heads to Charleville, Mezieres, Epernay, Verdun, Metz and Thionville.<\/p>\n Reims previously hosted the Grand Depart in 1956 and has been part of the men’s Tour route 20 times but not since 2019.<\/p>\n Epernay is a destination that will provide fond memories for Julian Alaphilippe, who claimed a stage three win, also in 2019.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Metz was the first foreign outpost on the route when it was part of Germany in 1906 before becoming part of France.<\/p>\n But for now, the focus is on this year’s Tour that begins on July 4<\/a>, with a Grand Depart in Barcelona.<\/p>\n There will be the introduction of a first team time trial in seven years and two separate ascents of Alpe d’Huez, with all the action live on TNT Sports and HBO Max.<\/p>\n The Tour comes to the United Kingdom next year<\/a>, with the Grand Depart set to take in three days of racing across Scotland, England and Wales.<\/p>\n This will include a 223km stage going from Keswick to Liverpool, while the women’s race takes in a route which starts in Leeds and finishes in London.<\/p>\n It will be the first time that both men’s and women’s Grands Departs have started in the same country outside of France.<\/p>\n Add TNT Sports as a preferred source here<\/a> to enjoy more content like this.Stream the 2026 cycling season live on TNT Sports and HBO Max<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highlights: Barrenetxea sprints to victory at Boucles de l’Aulne Video credit: TNT Sports The Grand Depart will take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,135345,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france-2026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}