{"id":749060,"date":"2026-08-25T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749060\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:46:13","slug":"tour-de-france-trophy-in-sheffield-ahead-of-2027-womens-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749060\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France trophy in Sheffield ahead of 2027 women&#8217;s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Tour de France Grand D\u00e9part Trophy has gone on display in Sheffield&#8217;s Meadowhall shopping centre ahead of the race coming to the region next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The South Yorkshire city will be the finish point of the second stage of the Tour de France Femmes event on 31 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The women&#8217;s Grand D\u00e9part will begin in Leeds in the preceeding day before ending in Manchester, with racers then heading across the Pennines to Sheffield on day two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheffield councillor Ben Miskell said the event was a &#8220;fantastic opportunity for our city&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 96-mile route from Manchester will pass through the Peak District before crossing the finish line at Attercliffe Common.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trophy will be on show at Hollister Link Bridge at the shopping centre from 10:00 BST on 25 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Major sporting events of this scale attract visitors, showcase Sheffield to a global audience and create valuable opportunities for local businesses, hospitality venues and the wider economy,&#8221; Miskell added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tour de France Grand D\u00e9part Trophy has gone on display in Sheffield&#8217;s Meadowhall shopping centre ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749060","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=749060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}