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Tour de France 2009

Date range:
July 4-26, 2009
  • Tour de France, France, GT
  • Stages. Expand the race menu

    • Stage 1

      Distance:
      15.5km
      Start location:
      Monaco
      End location:
      Monaco (ITT)

    • Stage 2

      Distance:
      187km
      Start location:
      Monaco
      End location:
      Brignoles

    • Stage 3

      Distance:
      196.5km
      Start location:
      Marseille
      End location:
      La Grande-Motte

    • Stage 4

      Distance:
      39km
      Start location:
      Montpellier
      End location:
      Montpellier (TTT)

    • Stage 5

      Distance:
      196.5km
      Start location:
      Le Cap d'Agde
      End location:
      Perpignan

    • Stage 6

      Distance:
      181.5km
      Start location:
      Gérone
      End location:
      Barcelone

    • Stage 7

      Distance:
      224km
      Start location:
      Barcelone
      End location:
      Andorre Arcalis

    • Stage 8

      Distance:
      176.5km
      Start location:
      Andorre-la-Vieille
      End location:
      Saint-Girons

    • Stage 9

      Distance:
      160.5km
      Start location:
      Saint-Gaudens
      End location:
      Tarbes

    • Rest day

      Location
      Limoges

    • Stage 10

      Distance:
      194.5km
      Start location:
      Limoges
      End location:
      Issoudun

    • Stage 11

      Distance:
      192km
      Start location:
      Vatan
      End location:
      Saint-Fargeau

    • Stage 12

      Distance:
      211.5km
      Start location:
      Tonnerre
      End location:
      Vittel

    • Stage 13

      Distance:
      200km
      Start location:
      Vittel
      End location:
      Colmar

    • Stage 14

      Distance:
      199km
      Start location:
      Colmar
      End location:
      Besançon

    • Stage 15

      Distance:
      207.5km
      Start location:
      Pontarlier
      End location:
      Verbier

    • Rest day

      Location
      Verbier

    • Stage 16

      Distance:
      159km
      Start location:
      Martigny
      End location:
      Bourg-Saint-Maurice

    • Stage 17

      Distance:
      169.5km
      Start location:
      Bourg-Saint-Maurice
      End location:
      Le Grand-Bornand

    • Stage 18

      Distance:
      40.5km
      Start location:
      Annecy
      End location:
      Annecy (ITT)

    • Stage 19

      Distance:
      178km
      Start location:
      Bourgoin-Jallieu
      End location:
      Aubenas

    • Stage 20

      Distance:
      167km
      Start location:
      Montélimar
      End location:
      Mont Ventoux

    • Stage 21

      Distance:
      164km
      Start location:
      Montereau-Fault-Yonne
      End location:
      Paris Champs-Élysées
  • Race history

July 26, Stage 21: Montereau-Fault-Yonne - Paris Champs-Élysées 164km

Tour ends with traditional parade into Paris

By:
Cyclingnews
Published:
June 30, 2009, 11:47,
Updated:
July 22, 2009, 07:34

Champs-Élysées beckons at last

'Tis done, the 96th Grande Boucle is over. The final stage into Paris has always meant success for some - as well as relief for many others - and the champagne will once again flow for all. There is one more treasure at stake today: the highly-valued stage win on the Champs-Élysées. With its false-flat uphill cobbles between the Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe, the 'world’s most beautiful avenue' is always a spectacular finish of the Tour, whether a sprinter or a puncher wins.

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Vaughters' views

Jonathan Vaughters Cavendish will have to win here if he wants to take the green back from the sprinter that survived the close-to-finish climbs in the middle of the race.

Cav does well under pressure, so I’m sure he can manage this feat.

Of course, I’m hoping for a little beginner’s luck for Tyler Farrar.