The countdown to the departure of Tour de France 2025 from city of Lille has started, but, although it seems surprising, this past Tuesday the stopwatch also started running so that the The city of Barcelona will host the ‘Gran Départ’ on July 4, 2026.
In it Palace of Congressand over four hours, all details of 112th edition of the Tour de France, in an auditorium that was packed but not including the main stars of the peloton and the big names that have excited the ‘Grande Boucle’ in recent years such as Jonas Vingegaard, Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel, among others.
And among those present was a delegation from the Barcelona City Council, led by sports councilor of the city council of Barcelona, city that will host the ‘Grand Départ’ of the ‘Grande Boucle’ in 2026. Consequently, David Escude took the event well where the test route was presented and took advantage of the event to exchange opinions with cycling personalities such as Javier Guillén, director of La Vuelta either Rubèn Peris, director of La Volta Ciclista a Catalunya.
Already in an additional Tour key, Escudé recognized Christian Prudhomme, general director of the Tour de Franciin, and with Antoine Sillanihead of Sports for the Northern region of France, organizer of the 2025 Grand Départ, to see how the city of Lille is preparing to host the start of the most important cycling race in the world.
“We are taking advantage of the framework of the presentation of the 2025 Tour to hold various meetings and advance to the ‘Gran Départ’ of Barcelona in 2026,” explained to MD the sports councilor of the Barcelona city council David Escudé, who convinced of the success of the Grand Departure of the Tour from the Catalan capital. “The city is ready to host the best start of the Tour de France in history in 2026. Barcelona is a city that lives in cycling and we are here to find out how Lille is preparing to host the Gran Départ 2025 and share of experiences and knowledge in ” to prepare with the highest intention the departure from Barcelona of the most important cycling race in the world.”
We must remember that in the Catalan capital you can breathe cycling in every corner and that it has accepted the Grand Departure of La Vuelta in 2023.
Logically, at this point in the film, the design of the three stages of Grand Départ of the Tour of 2026 in the city of Barcelona They are more or less, waiting for an ASO delegation to travel to the Catalan capital to see them on a table and on a piece of land to start to close the circle.
Source: La Verdad
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