These stages have the following profiles:
9 flat stages;
4 medium mountain stages - one with a summit finish;
5 mountain stages - two with a summit finish;
2 individual time-trial stages;
1 prologue;
2 rest days
These stages have the following profiles:
9 flat stages;
4 medium mountain stages - one with a summit finish;
5 mountain stages - two with a summit finish;
2 individual time-trial stages;
1 prologue;
2 rest days
Tour de France (2012) Photos; Stage 0: Liége 6.4 km Prologue | ||
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| A reminder about pre-race photos: Cadel Evans at the teams presentation on Thursday (photos), was the last rider to start the prologue as last year's overall winner. And photos from the route presentation in October. | share this photo | |
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| 2004 Flashback: 23-year old Fabian Cancellara, riding for Fassa Bortolo at the time, on his way to his first Grand Tour "stage" win on the very same prologue course in Liège of the 2102 Grand Depart. | share this photo | |
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| Fast forward 8 years and now Fabian Cancellera is the focus of attention | share this photo | |
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| Fabian Cancellara still dominates in this event | share this photo | |
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| The crowd in Liége cheering on Cancellara | share this photo | |
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| 8 years after his first Liége win, Fabian CANCELLARA (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) wins again. 6.4 km in 7:13. | share this photo | |
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| Cancellara digging for the line | share this photo | |
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| Race favorite Bradley Wiggins (Sky) | share this photo | |
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| 2nd Bradley WIGGINS (SKY PROCYCLING) + 0:07 | share this photo | |
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| 3rd Sylvain CHAVANEL (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) had the best time until Bradley Wiggins broke it by fractions of a second | share this photo | |
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| 4th Tejay VAN GARDEREN (BMC RACING) + 0:10 and the best young rider today | share this photo | |
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| 5th Edvald BOASSON HAGEN (SKY PROCYCLING) + 0:11 had the best time until Chavanel broke it | share this photo | |
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| 6th Brett LANCASTER (ORICA - GREENEDGE) + 0:11 also had a early best time that lasted for awhile | share this photo | |
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| 9th Philippe GILBERT (BMC RACING), the Belgian National TT champ, + 0:13 put in a good performance in front of his home crowd | share this photo | |
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| 11th Christopher FROOME (SKY PROCYCLING) + 0:16 | share this photo | |
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| 13th Cadel EVANS (BMC RACING) + 0:17. Notice he elected not to wear the Yellow Jersey as previous winner's often do on the first day. | share this photo | |
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| 14th Vincenzo NIBALI (LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE) + 0:18 | share this photo | |
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| The Giro winner, Ryder HESJEDAL (GARMIN - SHARP) out of the gates on his way to 15th + 0:18 | share this photo | |
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| 22nd George HINCAPIE (BMC Racing) + 0:20 setting a record with his 17th Tour de France start | share this photo | |
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| Your prologue winner... | share this photo | |
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| ... Fabian Cancellara will once again start the Tour de France with the leader's jersey | share this photo | |
Tour de France (2012) Photos; Stage 0: Liége 6.4 km Prologue | ||
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Prologue 6.4 km ITT Results SUI 1 CANCELLARA, Fabian (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) 7:13 GBR 2 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) + 7 FRA 3 CHAVANEL, Sylvain (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) USA 4 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 10 NOR 5 BOASSON HAGEN, Edvald (SKY PROCYCLING) + 11 AUS 6 LANCASTER, Brett (ORICA - GREENEDGE) GER 7 GRETSCH, Patrick (ARGOS-SHIMANO) + 12 RUS 8 MENCHOV, Denis (KATUSHA) + 13 BEL 9 GILBERT, Philippe (BMC RACING) UKR 10 GRIVKO, Andriy (ASTANA) + 15 GBR 11 FROOME, Christopher (SKY PROCYCLING) + 16 SVK 12 VELITS, Peter (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) + 17 AUS 13 EVANS, Cadel (BMC RACING) ITA 14 NIBALI, Vincenzo (LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE) + 18 CAN 15 HESJEDAL, Ryder (GARMIN - SHARP) GBR 16 MILLAR, David (GARMIN - SHARP) GBR 17 CUMMINGS, Stephen (BMC RACING) GER 18 VOIGT, Jens (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) + 19 GER 19 KLÖDEN, Andreas (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) BEL 20 NUYENS, Nick (SAXO BANK - TINKOFF BANK) + 20 SUI 21 ALBASINI, Michael (ORICA - GREENEDGE) USA 22 HINCAPIE, George (BMC RACING) NZL 23 HENDERSON, Greg (LOTTO BELISOL) NED 24 WESTRA, Lieuwe (VACANSOLEIL-DCM) GER 25 KITTEL, Marcel (ARGOS-SHIMANO) + 21
Tour de France (2012) Photos; Stage 1: Liège → Seraing, 198 km | ||
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| The Tour de France expo at the start in Liége with banners of past champions including Greg Lemond (right) and Bernard Hinault (left) | share this photo | |
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| The Crédit Lyonnais teddy bear. If you don't win one then you can buy one here. | share this photo | |
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| First day in the White Jersey for Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing) as best young rider thanks to his fine 4th place finish in the Prologue | share this photo | |
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| Second in the prologue gives Bradley Wiggins the Green Jersey here signing in with Mark Cavendish | share this photo | |
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| Team Sky, leaders of the teams competition, acknowledging the crowd. They placed 2nd, 5th and 11th in the prologue. | share this photo | |
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| Peter Sagan about to sign an autograph once he's done with a pre-race photo-op. We'll see him again later. | share this photo | |
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| Stage 1 and local favorite Philippe Gilbert arriving with his baby boy. That looks like half of NBCSport's Craig Hummer on the left. | share this photo | |
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| Looks like they've done this before. This time Gilbert speaks to the Eurosport interviewer as he passes by. | share this photo | |
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| Race leader Fabian Cancellara rolling to the start | share this photo | |
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| The start scene in Liége | share this photo | |
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| The rollout from Liége for the first road stage of this year's Tour | share this photo | |
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| With a break up the road early on, RadioShack-Nissan set the pace at the front on a lumpy stage with 5 cat 4 KOMs | share this photo | |
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| Race leader Fabian Cancellara nestled behind his RadioShack-Nissan teammates | share this photo | |
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| Team Sky in the Yellow helmets. ASO has a new protocol where the leaders of the teams competition all wear a yellow helmet. Needless to say, it hasn't met with positive reaction from fans. | share this photo | |
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| A lackluster, six man break gained a maximum advantage of fours minutes before being reeled in well before the finish. Michael Morkov (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank), in the middle, won 3 of the 4 KOMs before the finish to claim the first Polka dot jersey at this year's Tour. | share this photo | |
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| Fabian Cancellara attacked with 1.5 km to go on the uphill finish and Peter Sagan wisely followed him | share this photo | |
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| According to RAI commentator, Paolo Savoldelli, Peter Sagan wanted to work with Cancellara, but his Liquigas-Cannondale team car told him not to. That's Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky), blurry in the background, about to bridge up | share this photo | |
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| Cadel Evans towing the rest up of the peloton to the line | share this photo | |
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| Peter Sagan easily won the three man bunch sprint | share this photo | |
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| Finish line panoramic | share this photo | |
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| It didn't take long for Peter Sagan to get his first Tour stage win | share this photo | |
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| Sagan celebrates, Cancellara drops his head and top 48 riders all finish in the same time | share this photo | |
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| Your stage 1 winner, Peter Sagan. At just 22 years-old, this could be a familiar scene for years to come. | share this photo | |
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| Race leader Fabian Cancellara getting looked after on the podium | share this photo | |
Tour de France (2012) Photos; Stage 1: Liège → Seraing, 198 km | ||
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Stage 1 Results SVK 1 SAGAN, Peter (LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE) 4:58:19 SUI 2 CANCELLARA, Fabian (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) NOR 3 BOASSON HAGEN, Edvald (SKY PROCYCLING) BEL 4 GILBERT, Philippe (BMC RACING) NED 5 MOLLEMA, Bauke (RABOBANK) ESP 6 VALVERDE BELMONTE, Alejandro (MOVISTAR) NED 7 GESINK, Robert (RABOBANK) IRL 8 MARTIN, Daniel (GARMIN - SHARP) CAN 9 HESJEDAL, Ryder (GARMIN - SHARP) BEL 10 DE WEERT, Kevin (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) BEL 11 VAN DEN BROECK, Jurgen (LOTTO BELISOL) FRA 12 CHAVANEL, Sylvain (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) AUS 13 GERRANS, Simon (ORICA - GREENEDGE) FRA 14 DUMOULIN, Samuel (COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE) ITA 15 NIBALI, Vincenzo (LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE) GBR 16 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) SLO 17 BRAJKOVIC, Janez (ASTANA) IRL 18 ROCHE, Nicolas (AG2R LA MONDIALE) FRA 19 ROLLAND, Pierre (EUROPCAR) AUS 20 EVANS, Cadel (BMC RACING) USA 21 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) AUS 22 ROGERS, Michael (SKY PROCYCLING) ITA 23 SCARPONI, Michele (LAMPRE - ISD) FRA 24 CHEREL, Mikael (AG2R LA MONDIALE) EST 25 TAARAMAE, Rein (COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE) General Classification after Stage 1 SUI 1 CANCELLARA, Fabian (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) 5:05:32 GBR 2 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) + 7 FRA 3 CHAVANEL, Sylvain (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) USA 4 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 10 NOR 5 BOASSON HAGEN, Edvald (SKY PROCYCLING) + 11
Tour de France (2012) Photos; Stage 2: Visé → Tournai, 208 km | ||
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| Race leader Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Nissan) seems to be pointing out that he shaved this morning or that yesterday's finish was a close shave? | share this photo | |
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| Cadel Evans (BMC) signing in | share this photo | |
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| Mark Cavendish looking focused. We'll see him again later. | share this photo | |
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| Yesterday's winner and wearer of the Green Jersey, Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) | share this photo | |
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| Philippe Gilbert and his young son on the handlebars again today | share this photo | |
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| The Caravan starts first | share this photo | |
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| The start scene in Visé, Belgium with massive crowds | share this photo | |
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| The stage 2 rollout | share this photo | |
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| Mark Cavendish possibly telling Peter Sagan that this is a stage for the pure sprinters | share this photo | |
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| The peloton climbing the cat 4 Citadelle de Namur at km 82, the only climb of the day | share this photo | |
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| Final kms: The Lotto Belisol leadout train at the front | share this photo | |
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| Mark Cavendish further back ready to move to the front | share this photo | |
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| The sprint finish in full-flight in Tournai, Belgium | share this photo | |
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| Three ex-Highroad teammates at the finish line. Mark Cavendish came around André Greipel to win by a wheel. Matt Goss was third. | share this photo | |
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| The photo finish photo | share this photo | |
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| Mark Cavendish celebrates his 21st career Tour de France stage win and his first this year | share this photo | |
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| Your stage 2 winner, Mark Cavendish | share this photo | |
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| Cavendish receives congratulations from the King of Belgium | share this photo | |
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| Fabian Cancellara receiving his third Yellow Jersey this year | share this photo | |
Tour de France (2012) Photos; Stage 2: Visé → Tournai, 208 km | ||
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Stage 2 Results GBR 1 CAVENDISH, Mark (SKY PROCYCLING) 4:56:59 GER 2 GREIPEL, André (LOTTO BELISOL) AUS 3 GOSS, Matthew Harley (ORICA - GREENEDGE) NED 4 VEELERS, Tom (ARGOS-SHIMANO) ITA 5 PETACCHI, Alessandro (LAMPRE - ISD) SVK 6 SAGAN, Peter (LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE) BLR 7 HUTAROVICH, Yauheni (FDJ-BIG MAT) ARG 8 HAEDO, Lucas Sebastian (SAXO BANK - TINKOFF BANK) AUS 9 RENSHAW, Mark (RABOBANK) USA 10 FARRAR, Tyler (GARMIN - SHARP) ESP 11 ROJAS GIL, Jose Joaquin (MOVISTAR) FRA 12 HINAULT, Sébastien (AG2R LA MONDIALE) SVK 13 VELITS, Peter (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) NED 14 VAN HUMMEL, Kenny Robert (VACANSOLEIL-DCM) JPN 15 ARASHIRO, Yukiya (EUROPCAR) ESP 16 FREIRE GOMEZ, Oscar (KATUSHA) SLO 17 BOZIC, Borut (ASTANA) AUT 18 EISEL, Bernhard (SKY PROCYCLING) NOR 19 BOASSON HAGEN, Edvald (SKY PROCYCLING) NED 20 DE KORT, Koen (ARGOS-SHIMANO) General Classification after Stage 2 SUI 1 CANCELLARA, Fabian (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) 10:02:31 GBR 2 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) + 7 FRA 3 CHAVANEL, Sylvain (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) USA 4 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 10 NOR 5 BOASSON HAGEN, Edvald (SKY PROCYCLING) + 11 RUS 6 MENCHOV, Denis (KATUSHA) + 13 BEL 7 GILBERT, Philippe (BMC RACING) AUS 8 EVANS, Cadel (BMC RACING) + 17 ITA 9 NIBALI, Vincenzo (LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE) + 18 CAN 10 HESJEDAL, Ryder (GARMIN - SHARP)