Thomas Vergouwen, the man who predicts the Tour de France route

In 2012, CW talked to enthusiast Thomas Vergouwen about beating the bigwigs to the draw, making an annual job of accurately mapping out the complete Tour de France route from painstaking research.

Thomas Vergouwen, Tour detective

A Dutch ex-pat living in Paris, Vergouwen plays part-detective, part-insider and part-journalist to tie together all the loose threads.

He brings together a rumoured Tour route on his website velowire.com, to the point that media are now clutching his map in the official presentation.

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