The Tour de France is set to visit the Pyrenees ahead of the Alps for a third successive edition, with a possible first-week summit finish in the Vosges, as rumours and details of the 2017 route continue to emerge.
The full route for the 104th edition of the Grande Boucle will be officially unveiled in Paris on October 18, but that hasn’t stopped regional media outlets from trying to assemble various pieces of the jigsaw. As is the case every year, the Velowire website has collected all the existing information to form an outline of the route, which always proves pretty reliable.
It has already been confirmed that the 2017 Tour will start on German soil in Dusseldorf on July 1 with a flat 13km time trial, which could give German Tony Martin the chance to pull on the yellow jersey. The second stage is confirmed to start in Dusseldorf as well, but the finish location has not yet been announced.
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Between the Grand Départ and the habitual finish on the Champs Elysees in Paris, nothing has been confirmed, but the dots are starting to be joined.
Although the organisers regularly swap the order of the race’s two major mountain ranges, in 2017 the Alps are set to feature in the third and final week of the race, following the Pyrenees, for the third consecutive edition.
The first proper summit finish and general classification test, however, could come in the Vosges mountains as early as stage 5, with France Bleu reporting a finish at La Planche des Belles Filles, where Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins took stage honours and the yellow jersey respectively in 2012. Vincenzo Nibali also won there, and took yellow, in 2014.
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