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The 2022 Tour de France begins in Copenhagen on Friday July 1 and ends in Paris on Sunday July 24.

Copenhagen is the host of the opening day time trial. Two more Danish stages will take the peloton west and south towards the German border before a transfer day to Dunkirk.

The race then heads south via a Roubaix cobbled stage, a brief jaunt over to Belgium, and then the first summit finish on La Super Planche Des Belles Filles, a return to the scene of Tadej Pogačar’s usurping of Primož Roglič two years ago, albeit with a finish further up the mountain and without time trial bikes.

Then, after a foray into Switzerland, we arrive at the Alps. The Col du Granon Serre Chevalier, the Col de la Croix de Fer, the Galibier (twice) and, of course, Alpe d’Huez. Huge.

We then transfer westwards to the Pyrenees for a final mountain GC showdown with summit finishes at Peyragudes and Hautacam on the menu.

Finally, a relatively long penultimate stage time trial just to keep the nerves jangling amongst the overall contenders until the final kilometre of proper racing. A traditional Sunday finish on the Champs-Élysées wraps things up to celebrate the yellow jersey and give the sprinters a reward for three fairly inhospitable weeks for fast men at the French Grand Tour.

As Tadej Pogačar aims for a third yellow jersey in a row and potential dethroners line up behind him, countless storylines will unfold across three weeks of racing in Denmark, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Here is the route upon which all this will happen, the intricacies of each day, and the likely contenders for daily victory.

Nice one Christain Prudhomme, looks like it’s going to be, how you say, ‘un doozy’.

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