Male Team 26 Jun - 18 Jul
Tour de France
3413 Kilometers 21 Stages
As it’s been the case for already many years, all 21 stages of the TDF will be broadcast in full, with Eurosport and GCN as main broadcaster across our continent.
There will be 10-6-4″ available at every road stage finish, plus 8-5-2″ at the Bonus Sprints located in some of the main climbs of the race.
Seven overall victories and 34 stage wins are the legendary palmarès of the squads managed by José Miguel Echávarri and Eusebio Unzué –39th appearance in 2020– at the Tour de Francia. The full list can be checked out in our website’s History section.
Less than 10 months after the last edition to date, back to its early summer slot, the 108th edition of the Tour de France will again feature the Movistar Team, which reaches 39 appearances in the ‘Grande Boucle’ in 2021. Miguel Ángel López and Enric Mas will spearhead a strong roster, the Blues attempting to return to the top places of the French grandtour after Mas’ great progression last year, taking 5th overall.
The region of Brittany will be the venue for the opening four stages of this year’s race, with two hill-top finishes to start: Fosse-aux-Loups, in Landerneau on Saturday 26th, and Mûr-de-Bretagne, on Sunday 27th. The first crucial stage for the GC result, though -barring any first-week crashes, so usual in the Tour-, will be the ITT on day five (Wednesday 30th), a rolling 27km course from Changé to Laval, with three long slopes yet still very much suited to the specialists.
A long, brutal stage seven (Friday 2nd July), 249km in Bourgogne with five climbs -including Signal d’Uchon (Cat-2)- in the second half of the race, will be the grueling prelude to the Alps, covered this year in two stages. Saturday 3rd, the riders will get to Le Grand-Bornand after five rated ascents, with the brutal chain of Romme (Cat-1) and Colombière (Cat-1) before the finish. A day later (Sunday 4th), the race will finish in Tignes (Cat-1) after climbing Domancy (Cat-2), Saisies (Cat-1), Pré (HC) and Cormet de Roselend (Cat-2).
The second week of the race, with up to three chances for the sprinters, will have three crucial moments: the double ascent of the Mont Ventoux, yet without a mountain-top finish -the ‘arrivée’ placed in Malaucène-, on Wednesday 7th; a lumpy course on Saturday 10th, overcoming Saint-Louis (Cat-2) just 17km from Quillan; and the entrance to the Pyrenées on Sunday 11th, over the climbs of Mont-Louis (Cat-1), Puymorens (Cat-2), Envalira (Cat-1) and Beixalis (Cat-1), the latter just 15km from the finish in Andorra la Vella.
The last mountain block of the Tour will resume on France’s national holiday, Quatorze Juillet, with a great series of climbs: Peyresourde (Cat-1), Val Louron (Cat-1) and the Col du Portet (HC). On stage 18 (Thursday 15th), the final mountain stage awaits, with two huge efforts: the Col du Tourmalet (HC) and Luz Ardiden (HC). And the race decider, 24 hours before Paris (Sunday 17th), will be a return to the race: a second flat ITT, over 31km, just outside Bordeaux, from Libourne to Saint-Émilion.