Tour de France

Dates: June 27 to July 19, 2020
Stages: 21
Grand Départ: Nice, France
Finish: Paris, France
TV coverage (UK): Eurosport, ITV4

Key info: Tour de France 2020 route | Tour de France start list | Tour de France TV guide | Past winners | Jerseys

Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal on the final podium of the Tour de France (Photo: Yuzuru SUNADA)

Not much is yet known about the route of the 2020 Tour de France, though organisers ASO have confirmed the race’s Grand Départ will take place in Nice with two stages.

The race is then likely to spend some time in the west of the country, which wasn’t visited in 2019, before a trip to the Alps where the legendary Alpe d’Huez could feature as a summit finish.

The 2020 Tour’s final mountain stage will likely take place in the Pyrenees, having headed to the Alps in the third week this year.

The race will then take to its traditional finish in Paris along the Champs-Élysées.

Tour de France 2020 classifications

The standard classifications and jerseys will once again feature: yellow jersey for the overall classification, polka-dots for the mountains classification, green for the points classification and white for the best young rider classification.

A combativity prize will be awarded to the most aggressive rider each day, while a super-combativity prize will be awarded to a rider at the end of the Tour.

Bonus seconds will once again be distributed on the finish line with 10, six and three seconds available to each of the first three across the line on each stage.

The final jerseys podium of the 2019 Tour de France (Sunada)

Tour de France 2020 teams and riders

We’ll certainly see all the 2020 WorldTour teams at the Tour de France, though it is still unclear how many teams that will be. The organiser will still be able to invite wildcard teams to fill the remaining places.

Defending champion Egan Bernal (Team Ineos) will potentially return alongside four-time winner Chris Froome, who will be desperate to try and win a fifth title having missed the opportunity through injury in 2019. The 2018 winner Geraint Thomas could also be part of the formidable Ineos team.

Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) will almost certainly return to try and win an eighth green jersey having taken a record seventh in 2019.

French riders will also try to finally break their 35-year duck at the race, with Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) left with unfinished business following his abandonment on stage 19 of the most recent race.

Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) has already expressed his interest in other targets next year, so won’t try for an overall result at the Tour despite leading for 14 days in 2019.

Tour de France 2020 on TV

You’ll be able to catch the race live on Eurosport, ITV and S4C – and each channel will have an evening highlights package, too.

Tour de France 2020 stages