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Amgen Tour of California

The Amgen Tour of California is a cycling road race that challenges the world's top professional cycling teams to compete along a demanding course that traverses hundreds of miles of California's iconic highways, byways and coastlines each spring. The teams chosen to participate have included Olympic medalists, Tour de France contenders and World Champions. The first-ev...

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Five days of racing covering nearly 900 kilometers through the roads of the Nord - Pas de Calais region.
A 2016 route still unpublished for the pleasure of the many public present. 3 passages at the top of the Cap Blanc Nez, the unavoidable paved areas, a visit to the Cambrésis and the mining country.
A return to the Ternois after a long absence, the mythical day in Cassel are the ingredients for this 62nd edition.

A cycling race in stages classified M...

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The first MTF and potential for the f...

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Here is the 2017 route, announce today in Toulouse.




So 4 stages, 672,9km, and a strong mountain stage in the Pyrenees. This year's specificity is the first medium moutain stage, with 3 climbs in Languedoc. The two other stages will also be quite hilly, though more surely dedicated to sprinters.

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The stage is basically flat, with just mild and gentle undulations throughout the route. The first 90 kilometres are raced on a fast-flow road, passing through a number of well-lit tunnels. After leaving the ss. 125, the route runs across Villasimius (intermediate sprint) and takes in a few short climbs along the coastal roa...