Yorkshire awaits Tour de France
796 views · Published 4 April 2014 · 2:00 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2014 · News & Politics
All eyes will be on northern England this summer when the Tour de France gets underway. The county of Yorkshire will be the unlikely setting for the start of one of the biggest sporting events in the world. It's become a tradition for the race to start outside France. The opening stage will see the peleton race 190 kilometres from Leeds to Harrogate.
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