The 95th Tour de France will run from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2008. It will be made of 21 stages and covers a total distance of 3,500 kilometres.
These 21 phases have the following profiles:
10 flat stages,
5 mountain stages,
4 medium mountain stages,
2 individual time-trial stages.
Distinctive aspects of the race:
4 mountain finishes,
2 rest days,
82 kilometres of individual time-trial,
17 category 1, category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed.
Google is covering Tour de France 2008 with a 360 degree view of the entire tour route. You can actually travel the entire route on the map and see the photographs of the different stages. Go here.
To know more about he history of Tour de France, read this article on Wikipedia.
Updates
Romain Feillu (France) leads the standings after the 3rd stage results were declared.
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