[April fools joke] 2014 Tour de France Route leaked

[Linkinito]

Apparently, ASO, like in 2012, did a mistake in its Tour de France website by accidentally revealing the route for the Tour 2012 days before the official announcement.

Well it seems they did it again (however this lasted only 2 minutes) for the Tour 2014, however it's now 6 months before the official reveal! I just had the time to write the stages before they took it down. A quite surprising Tour, btw. Not sure however if it's definitive, it can change "lightly" probably.

Stage 1 : Leeds - Harrogate
Stage 2 : York - Sheffield
Stage 3 : Cambridge - London
Stage 4 : Brugge - Brussels
Stage 5 : Waterloo - Luxembourg
Stage 6 : Luxembourg - Saarbrücken
Stage 7 : Saarbrücken - Karlsruhe
Stage 8 : Pforzheim - Freudenstadt
Stage 9 : Offenburg - Basel
Rest day in Basel
Stage 10 : Basel - Basel (ITT)
Stage 11 : Basel - Lausanne
Stage 12 : Lausanne - Verbier
Stage 13 : Aosta - Sestriere
Stage 14 : Pinerolo - Borgo san Dalmazzo
Stage 15 : Cuneo - San Remo
Rest day + Transfer to Barcelona
Stage 16 : Barcelona - Figueras
Stage 17 : Figueras - Andorra Arcalis
Stage 18 : Andorre-la-Vieille - Panticosa
Stage 19 : Jaca - Elizondo
Stage 20 : San Sebastian - Irun (ITT)
Transfer to Paris
Stage 21 : La Courneuve - Paris-Champs-Élysées

Anyway I think the route is still crap, only 3 summit finishes, many cities are far away from big climbs...

 

[luckyboy]

lol.. really captured the spirit of France with those stages

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

seems legit

 

[Contadoraus Schlecks]

Thought April fools were meant to be done before midday?

 

[phanatic]

Apparently, ASO, like in 2012, did a mistake in its Tour de France website by accidentally revealing the route for the Tour 2012 days before the official announcement.

Well it seems they did it again (however this lasted only 2 minutes) for the Tour 2014, however it's now 6 months before the official reveal! I just had the time to write the stages before they took it down. A quite surprising Tour, btw. Not sure however if it's definitive, it can change "lightly" probably.

Stage 1 : Leeds - Harrogate
Stage 2 : York - Sheffield
Stage 3 : Cambridge - London
Stage 4 : Brugge - Brussels
Stage 5 : Waterloo - Luxembourg
Stage 6 : Luxembourg - Saarbrücken
Stage 7 : Saarbrücken - Karlsruhe
Stage 8 : Pforzheim - Freudenstadt
Stage 9 : Offenburg - Basel
Rest day in Basel
Stage 10 : Basel - Basel (ITT)
Stage 11 : Basel - Lausanne
Stage 12 : Lausanne - Verbier
Stage 13 : Aosta - Sestriere
Stage 14 : Pinerolo - Borgo san Dalmazzo
Stage 15 : Cuneo - San Remo
Rest day + Transfer to Barcelona
Stage 16 : Barcelona - Figueras
Stage 17 : Figueras - Andorra Arcalis
Stage 18 : Andorre-la-Vieille - Panticosa
Stage 19 : Jaca - Elizondo
Stage 20 : San Sebastian - Irun (CLM individuel)
Transfer to Paris
Stage 21 : La Courneuve - Paris-Champs-Élysées

Anyway I think the route is still crap, only 3 summit finishes, many cities are far away from big climbs...

looks good.

 

[Bavarianrider]

When you try to do an April's fool, at least be a bit creative. That's a bit lame to be honest

 

[Shardi]

could've atleast tried making it look plausible.

 

[rghysens]

I have seen you making more realistic routes at the velowire forum.

 

[spalco]

lol, that's the Tour de France?

eta: got me, didn't think of April's Fools. Funny though.

 

[The Hitch]

I'm surprised no one tried to pretend to be the podium girl, or one of her friends.

Chance missed

 

[Eshnar]

I guess it's time to close this one too...