the race will start from Lille in 2025 – Libération

After departures from abroad in 2022, 2023 and 2024, the Grande Boucle 2025 will depart from Lille (North), the organizer of the cycling competition announced this Tuesday, November 14.

Red brick houses, orange-crusted maroilles and cyclists in yellow jerseys. While the 2024 edition of the Tour de France will be mainly southern, with a start in Italy and an arrival in Nice, the 2025 competition will take off from Lille, in the North. The announcement was made this Tuesday, November 14 by Amaury sport organization (ASO), which organizes the competition, in a press release. The details of this “big departure” will be revealed during a press conference on Thursday November 30 at 11:30 a.m. at the Nord prefecture in Lille, ASO said.

After three consecutive editions marked by a start abroad, in Copenhagen in 2022, Bilbao in 2023 and Florence next year, the “grand departure” of the Tour will therefore return to France. For the fifth time since its creation in 1903, the Grande Boucle will start from the Hauts-de-France region, after the 1960 (Lille), 1969 (Roubaix), 1994 (Lille) and 2001 (Dunkirk) editions.

The Tour de France 2024 (June 29 – July 21), whose route is already known, will therefore begin in Italy, an unprecedented event, and will arrive in Nice, a new first, and not in Paris, as usual, due to the Olympic Games .