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The Tour de France runs 21 stages
Riders cover roughly 3,300 to 3,500 kilometres with only two rest days The race usually starts on a Saturday and finishes three weeks later on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Stages range from short time trials of around 25 kilometres to mountain days of more than 200. The leader wears yellow, the best climber polka dots and the best young rider white. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The Tour de France runs 21 stages: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Riders cover roughly 3,300 to 3,500 kilometres with only two rest days. The figure is taken from Tour de France, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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