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Sporting Aspects |
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The route
Running from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th, the 2004 Tour de France will be made up of one prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,360 kilometres.
These 20 stages have the following profiles:
* 11 flat stages,
* 6 mountain stages,
* 2 individual time-trial stages,
* 1 team time-trial stage.
Distinctive aspects of the race
* 3 mountain finishes,
* 2 rest days,
* 75 kilometres of individual time-trials,
* 65 kilometres of team time-trials,
* 1 transfer by plane and 1 transfer by train (TGV),
* 21 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed,
* 7 new stop-over towns: Waterloo, Cambrai, Chartres, Lamballe, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, Guéret, Annemasse.
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| The Stages |
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| The route |
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Saturday, july 3 |
6 km |
| Liège |
Prologue (TT) |
| 1 |
Sunday, july 4 |
195 km |
| Liège - Charleroi |
| 2 |
Monday, july 5 |
195 km |
| Charleroi - Namur |
| 3 |
Tuesday, july 6 |
195 km |
| Waterloo - Wasquehal |
| 4 |
Wednesday, july 7 |
65 km |
| Cambrai - Arras |
(team / TT) |
| 5 |
Thursday, july 8 |
195 km |
| Amiens - Chartres |
| 6 |
Friday, july 9 |
190 km |
| Bonneval - Angers |
| 7 |
Saturday, july 10 |
208 km |
| Châteaubriant - Saint-Brieuc |
| 8 |
Sunday, july 11 |
172 km |
| Lamballe - Quimper |
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Monday, july 12 |
| Transfert to Limoges - Rest Day |
| 9 |
Tuesday, july 13 |
160 km |
| Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Guéret |
| 10 |
Wednesday, july 14 |
237 km |
| Limoges - Saint-Flour |
| 11 |
Thursday, july 15 |
164 km |
| Saint-Flour - Figeac |
| 12 |
Friday, july 16 |
199 km |
| Castelsarrasin - La Mongie |
| 13 |
Saturday, july 17 |
217 km |
| Lannemezan - Plateau de Beille |
| 14 |
Sunday, july 18 |
200 km |
| Carcassonne - Nîmes |
| R |
Monday, july 19 |
| Rest Day Nîmes |
| 15 |
Tuesday, july 20 |
179 km |
| Valréas - Villard-de-Lans |
| 16 |
Wednesday, july 21 |
15 km |
| Bourg d'Oisans - L'Alpe d'Huez |
(TT) |
| 17 |
Thursday, july 22 |
212 km |
| Bourg d'Oisans - Le Grand Bornand |
| 18 |
Friday, july 23 |
166 km |
| Annemasse - Lons-le-Saunier |
| 19 |
Saturday, july 24 |
60 km |
| Besançon - Besançon |
(TT) |
| 20 |
Sunday, july 25 |
165 km |
| Montereau-Fault-Yonne - Paris Champs-Élysées |
| TOTAL |
3 395 km |
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