Fuglsang will have to wait until 2022 to see the Tour de France leave his country. - Peter Dejong / AP / SIPA

One more year of waiting for the Danes: Copenhagen will host the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2022 instead of 2021, an indirect reaction to the coronavirus pandemic. The mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen made official on the Danish television channel TV2 on Monday the postponement of one year. The Tour de France, brought forward a week by the International Cycling Union (UCI) to avoid new competition from the Tokyo Olympics, themselves postponed for a year, could no longer leave Denmark on this new date.

🚴‍♀️🇩🇰🇫🇷 #TourdeFrance Grand Départ will be in Denmark 1-3 july 2022 😀👏We cannot wait til the yellow fever in 2022! #letourdk #tourstartdk # tdf2022 @letourdk @amaurysport @LeTour https://t.co/xTZPkmrjRr

- French Embassy in Denmark (@francedk) August 3, 2020

Brittany celebrated again?

Where will the 2021 Tour start? Everything indicates that Brittany is the best placed to host the Grand Départ of the biggest cycling race in the world. Already on July 20, the regional newspaper Le Télégramme congratulated itself: "The 2021 Tour should start from Brittany!". No confirmation came from the organizers (ASO). But the Regional Council, project manager, and the organizing company are in close contact.

Copenhagen trapped by the Euro

The working hypothesis remains to be finalized so that the Tour returns to Brittany, away from the route this year as in 2019. The last Grand Départ in the region, labeled "the eldest daughter of cycling" because of its popularity of this sport in Armorica, dates back to 2008 (Brest).

For Denmark, we will have to wait a little longer before having the Tour peloton on its soil. The pandemic has postponed the Tokyo Olympics for one year but also the Euro football, several matches of which are scheduled to take place in Copenhagen. However, the capital cannot combine two events as important as the Euro and the Tour, mainly for reasons of safety, traffic and hotels.

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Tour de France 2021: The edition advanced by a week because of the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics

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