So far only the first three stages for the Tour de France 2015 have been announced. For those of you who can’t wait until the official announcement on October 22nd we have been on the lookout for rumors on the following stages. We know that the race will start in the Netherlands with the first two stages and continue onto Belgium for another two before arriving in France. Once in France, the race will go through northern France, followed by 3 stages in Brittany. It will then continue towards the Pyrenees and onto the Alps.

Tour de France dates & rumored cities

 

stage	date	start	finish
1	07/04	Utrecht (NL)	Utrecht (NL)
2	07/05	Utrecht (NL)	Neeltje Jans (NL)
3	07/06	Anvers (BE)	Liège or Huy (BE)
4	07/07	Seraing (BE)	Cambrai
5	07/08		Amiens
6	07/09	Abbeville	Le Havre
7	07/10	Livarot	Fougères
8	07/11	Rennes	Mûr-de-Bretagne
9	07/12	Vannes	Plumelec
R1	07/13	Rest day in Pau
10	07/14	Tarbes	Arette La Pierre Saint-Martin
11	07/15	Pau	Lourdes
12	07/16	Lannemezan	Plateau de Beille
13	07/17	Revel or Castres	Rodez
14	07/18	Rodez	Mende – Montée Jalabert
15	07/19	Mende	Valence
16	07/20	Bourg-de-Péage or Valence	Gap
R2	07/21	Rest day in Gap/Digne-les-Bains
17	07/22	Digne-les-Bains	Pra-Loup
18	07/23	Gap	Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne or La Toussuire
19	07/24	Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne	La Toussuire
20	07/25	Modane	L’Alpe d’Huez
21	07/26		Paris Champs-Elysées

Notable stages

One of the rumors for the choice of Pra-Loup as a stage finish is to commemorate Eddy Merckx’s defeat in 1975. Merckx dominated the Tour de France from 1969 to 1974, in 1975 on the stage that went from Nice to Pra-Loup Merckx’s had a healthy lead but overestimated his strength and attacked with 63 kilometres to go. On the climb to the ski station at Pra-Loup  he suddenly went into slow motion out of exhaustion and the lead was taken by Bernard Thevenet. Merckx carried on valiantly to Paris to finish second.

Alpe d’Huez seems to be back on the route, the ski resort tends to appear on alternate years and it offers a classic summit finish. But there has been talk of a summit finish on the Col de la Bonette, 2,715 metres above sea level, that would make it the highest ever finish on the Tour de France. The current record for the highest finish being the Col du Galibier.

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