Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme (L) and race director Jean-Francois Pecheux pose near the itinerary of the 2010 Tour de France cycling race at a news conference in Paris October 14, 2009. The 97th Tour de France, a 3,596 km route starting July 3 from Rotterdam and finishing on the Champs Elysees in Paris on July 25, comprises a prologue and twenty stages.
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