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2021 Tour de France route unveiled

After a rescheduled autumn Tour de France this year, organisers are hopeful that next year's race will not have to move from its usual slot around Bastille Day. The 2021 edition will start slightly earlier than usual, however, in order to avoid clashing with the Tokyo Olympics and is currently set to get under way on 26th June before concluding in the capital on 18th July.

Copenhagen had been due to host the Grand Départ, but has pulled out because of a clash with the rescheduled Euro 2020 football tournament. The Danish capital will instead now host the race in 2022. With concerns lingering over the potential impact of the ongoing coronavirus crisis, next year's Grand Tour will now take place entirely in France; one stage in the Pyrenees is due to pass through Andorra. Rather than heading to Scandinavia, the race will instead begin in Brest, with @LeTour (Twitter) Brittany hosting the first four stages. The Portet. There will be one stage for the to lead what probably remains the strongpeloton will then head through central climbers between the two mountain rang- est team in the peloton. The two BritFrance to the Alps, then along the south es when the peloton visit Provence and ish riders will also have to contend with coast to the Pyrenees. For local cycling will have to climb the formidable Mont four-time Tour de France champion Chris fans, the closest the race comes this year Ventoux not once, but twice in a single Froome who has joined new team Israel is a stage finish in Châteauroux on 1st day. Start-Up Nation with the express intenJuly and the penultimate day time trial in This year's three Grand Tours were tion of targeting the 2021 race and joining Saint-Emillion on 17th July. heavily impacted by schedule changes and Eddy Merckx, Miguel Indurain, Bernard

Organisers faced a degree of criticism outbreaks of Covid-19 amongst the teams Hinault and Jacques Anquetil as the only for this year's race which was widely and backroom support staff, but did create men to win the race five times. seen as too geared towards the climbers, another British cycling star in the shape French interest will once again focus but the sprinters will have more stages in of Tao Geoghegan Hart. The 25-year-old on Julian Alaphilippe who will take part their sights next year. The route has just Ineos rider from East London was the in the 2021 race wearing the world chamtwo fully mountain stages in the Alps and surprise winner of the Giro d'Italia and pion's rainbow jersey. For the past three four more in the Pyrenees, including the will be vying with 2018 winner Geraint years, he has won at least one stage - two climbs of Tourmalet, Peyresourde and Thomas and 2019 champion Egan Bernal in 2018, two in 2019, and one in 2020. ■

Foreign driver crackdown

France is continuing its crackdown on foreign drivers, with the British among the worst offenders. Figures released for 2019 show that one in five speeding offences were committed by drivers in cars on foreign plates. Of the 2.5 million fines handed out to foreign drivers, almost 450,000 were issued to British drivers.

Foreign drivers have long been a problem on the country's roads. Although they make up around 5 per cent of all traffic, in summer foreign drivers account for as many as 50 per cent of driving offences and a disproportionately large percentage of accidents.

In 2015, a pan-European agreement came into force allowing countries to impose fines cross-border with more countries signing up to the scheme each year. Today France has reciprocal deals for crossborder fines with the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Italy, Luxembourg, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Portugal and Switzerland. ■

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