Europe 1 with AFP 1:00 p.m., October 14, 2021

Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme unveiled the route for the 2022 edition on Thursday in Paris.

The men's edition will leave Denmark on July 1, cross the Alpe d'Huez on the 14th and end on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, as usual.

The next Tour de France, which will leave Denmark on July 1, will stop at Alpe d'Huez on July 14, 2022, National Day, four years after its last visit, its organizers announced Thursday.

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Alpe d'Huez will be one of the five arrivals at the top of this high mountain-style Tour, which will end on July 24 on the Champs-Elysées.

It will be the exact replica of the 1986 stage won by Bernard Hinault, hand in hand with the American Greg LeMond.

The 2022 Tour de France, unveiled Thursday in Paris, has five top arrivals for the online stages: one in the Vosges, at the Planche des Belles Filles, two in the Alps, at the Col du Granon and at Alpe d ' Huez, two in the Pyrenees, in Peyragudes and Hautacam.

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