The Tour de France will start in 2017 in Dusseldorf. This announced the organizer ASO. Thus, the “Grand Départ” will be held for the fourth time held in Germany, previously was the prelude of the most important cycling race in the world in 1965 in Cologne, passed in 1980 in Frankfurt and in 1987 in West Berlin on the stage.
The Council of North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Dusseldorf had decided in early November because of the expected high cost just with 40:39 votes, to apply for the start of the Tour de France. Düsseldorf’s Mayor Thomas Geisel (SPD) had met with Tour director Christian Prudhomme during the last Tour de France.According to a study to the opening weekend, consisting cost of the team presentation, the opening time trial and the start of the first stage of the city around 6.2 million euros in grants. The only rival candidate London had previously jumped for financial reasons.
From a sporting point of view the chances are good that the winner of the first yellow jersey of the “Great Loop” will be a German. “For me as an athlete that’s winning the lottery The Tour start for a long time again in Germany, and then also with a time trial, which is my favorite discipline -. Good as It Gets not really,” Tony Martin told the ARD radio .
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