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Co-ordinating a stage of the 100th Tour de France is proving to be a massive undertaking for Aix. After all, it’s the world’s 3rd biggest sporting event (after the Olympics and the football World Cup) and requires meticulous organisation of police, security, traffic and crowd-control. There is the participants’ village to set up at Stade Maurice David, the caravan of sponsors to factor in, plus 2,000 journalists to host.
The stage on the 4th of July will be the first time the race has started in Aix since 1962.
There will be a pré-départ of a parade around the peripherique at 13:00, before the competitors whizz out to Les Granettes for the start of the race to Montpellier.
Read all the detail here in an article from La Provence: http://www.laprovence.com/article/edition-aix-pays-daix/2353348/tour-de-france-le-4-juillet-la-ville-a-deja-le-nez-dans-le-guidon.html and don’t forget to click the tab at the top of this blog for Juliet Young and Ian Parkin’s personal guide to the whole Tour.
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