Tour De France: More than a Million Spectators by Road and Record Audiences for the First Stage

Le Figaro

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The opening stage of the 112th edition of the Grande Boucle, a loop around Lille, was followed by an enthusiastic crowd.

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This 112th edition of the Tour de France, which started on Saturday in Lille – and which gave rise to a surprising as well as tense first stage, using mentally for many riders (see box: A first stage that promises) – will not make any incursion abroad, contrary to a centuries-old tradition well anchored. The last confinement of the Tour within its natural borders was only 2020 – it was because of Covid and he had played in September and not July…

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Every summer, the Grand Loop attracts 10 to 12 million spectators along the roads.

Le Télégramme

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The first stage of the Tour de France 2025 in Lille on Saturday brought together more than one million spectators in the North and signed the best TV audiences since 2000.