Tour de France 2017: Route unveiled for next year's race as Chris Froome targets fourth crown

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Standard Sport18 October 2016

The route has been revealed for the 104th edition of the Tour de France as Chris Froome attempts to retain his crown.

“My focus is on the Tour de France, given it’s such a special race,” Froome said after crossing the finish line in Paris earlier this year to clinch his third Tour title. “I hope to be back next year to fight again.”

The Brit is favourite to win the July race for a third traight year and will line up in Düsseldorf for the opening stage next summer.

But will he be clad in yellow when the race enters its final chapter on Paris's Champs-Elysées? That will depend on how he and Team Sky negotiate the intervening 19 stages.

Froome was in attendance as the route for the 2017 race was unveiled at the Tour's official presentation in Paris on Tuesday.

Tour director Christian Prudhomme revealed all five mountain ranges of continental France will feature in next year's Tour for the first time since 1992.

Prudhomme told reporters before the unveiling on Tuesday: "We want to favour the long-range attacks.

"We want to break the catenaccio on the race.

"Let's hope that some aggressive top riders will be able to break away in the Col du Grand Colombier (the second of the three big climbs in the stage) and hold on to their lead all the way to Chambery. It will be difficult to control that stage."

Stage 1: July 1, Dusseldorf (Ger)- Dusseldorf 13km Individual time trial

Stage 2: July 2, Dusseldorf - Liege (Bel) 202km

Stage 3: July 3, Verviers (Bel) - Longwy (Fra) 202km

Stage 4: July 4, Mondorf Led Bains - Vittel 203

Stage 5: July 5, Vittel - La Planche Des Belles Filles 160km

Stage 6: July 6, Vesoul - Troyes 216km

Stage 7: July 7, Troyes - Nuits-Saint-Georges 214km

Stage 8: July 8, Dole Station Des Rousses 187km

Stage 9: July 9, Natua - Chambery 181km

Rest day: July 10

Stage 10: July 11, Periguex - Bergerac 178km

Stage 11: July 12, Eymet - Pau 202km

Stage 12: July 13, Pau -Peyragoudes 214km

Stage 13: July 14, Saint Girons - Foix 100km

Stage 14: July 15, Blagnac - Rodez 181km

Stage 15: July 16, Laissac-Severac L'Eglise Le Puy en Velay 189km

Second rest day: July 17

Stage 16: Le Puy en Velay - Romans Sur Isere 165

Stage 17: July 19, La Mure - Serre Chevalier 183km

Stage 18: July 20, Briancon -Izoard 178

Stage 19: July 21, Embrun - Salon de Provence 220km

Stage 20: July 22, Marseille - Marseille 23km Individual time trial

Stage 21: July 23, Montgeron - Paris Champs-Elyees, 105km

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