Tour de France to start in Belgium

NEXT year’s Tour de France will start in Belgium, officials have revealed.

Published Friday 17 February 2017 - 11:07 Modified Friday 17 February 2017 - 11:07

It will head off from Liège on June 30. The route then passes west to Boulogne-sur- Mer and around the coasts of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy, before heading east towards Lorraine and from there on a clockwise loop around France.

It will include a single day in the Alps, and two in the Pyrenees before heading to Paris via Brive-la-Gaillarde, Limousin. The Côte d'Azur and the west, apart from a detour to Pau are left out.