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By Graham Jones and Barry Boyce
CyclingRevealed Historians
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Tour de France Champions Living and Dead
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Tour de France 2007: Preview and Profile
Saturday, July 7th Prologue: London-London (England) 7.9 Km Individual Time Trial |
London joins Amsterdam (1954), Brussels (1958), Berlin (1987), Luxembourg (1989 & 2002) and Dublin (1998) as the sixth European capital to host the Tour's Le Grand Depart . The Prologue will have as its backdrop many of the most famous London landmarks. In fact the stage finishes on ‘The Mall' with Buckingham Palace behind the riders and Admiralty Arch and Trafalgar Square ahead of them.
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Stage Schedule
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Start Time |
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Prologue Route |
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Average speed |
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London - London (England) |
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first rider |
last rider |
| 7.9 |
0.0 |
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Whitehall |
Start |
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15:00 |
18:08 |
| 7.5 |
0.4 |
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Parliament Street |
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15:00 |
18:08 |
| 7.3 |
0.6 |
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Parliament Square |
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15:01 |
18:09 |
| 7.2 |
0.7 |
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Broad Sanctuary |
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15:01 |
18:09 |
| 7.1 |
0.8 |
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Victoria Street |
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15:01 |
18:09 |
| 6.1 |
1.8 |
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Buckingham Gate |
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15:02 |
18:10 |
| 6.0 |
1.9 |
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Queen Victoria Memorial |
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15:02 |
18:10 |
| 5.9 |
2.0 |
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Constitution Hill |
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15:02 |
18:10 |
| 5.3 |
2.6 |
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Duke of Wellington Arch |
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15:03 |
18:11 |
| 5.1 |
2.8 |
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Hyde Park (entrée) |
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15:03 |
18:11 |
| 4.5 |
3.4 |
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South Carriage Drive |
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15:04 |
18:12 |
| 3.5 |
4.4 |
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West Carriage Drive |
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15:05 |
18:13 |
| 2.8 |
5.1 |
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Serpentine Road |
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15:06 |
18:14 |
| 1.6 |
6.3 |
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Hyde Park (sortie) |
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15:07 |
18:15 |
| 1.5 |
6.4 |
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South Carriage Drive |
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15:07 |
18:15 |
| 1.4 |
6.5 |
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Achilles Way |
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15:08 |
18:16 |
| 1.3 |
6.6 |
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Park Lane |
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15:08 |
18:16 |
| 1.2 |
6.7 |
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Hyde Park Corner |
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15:08 |
18:16 |
| 1.1 |
6.8 |
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Constitution Hill |
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15:08 |
18:16 |
| 0.5 |
7.4 |
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Queen Victoria Memorial |
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15:09 |
18:17 |
| 0.4 |
7.5 |
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The Mall |
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15:09 |
18:17 |
| 0.0 |
7.9 |
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The Mall on St. James Park |
Finish |
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15:09 |
18:17 |
Schedule from www.letour.fr
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