In a hundred days, the Tour de France 2022 will leave from Copenhagen the Danish capital for an arrival on the Champs Elysées on July 24th. And he will spend a total of one week with us in Occitaniaincluding two days in the Lot. An arrival is scheduled in Cahors on Friday 22 July. And the next day it’s time for a 40 kilometer individual time trial between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadour which promises to be decisive on the eve of the finish in Paris.
It’s been almost ten years since the people of Lot have experienced a start or finish in the Tour. the Lot department therefore intends to put the small dishes in the big ones and support a maximum of animations. This is why the Departmental Council releases an envelope of 200,000 euros, announces its president Serge Rigal. “We are asking associations and communities to create events around the Tour and cycling to mark this event. And the departmental council will provide an envelope of 200,000 euros which will be allocated to associations and communities that will bring events around cycling. magnificent images all along the Tour and for all those who will watch the Tour that day for the time trial and this arrival in Rocamadour which will give superb images. is not just a stage of the Tour. The Lot is a department that lives and in which it is good to live too. It is these messages that we also want to pass on. And to make people discover all the pleasure that one can have to live in this marvelous department.”
The Tour de France will be followed as every year in full on France Bleu, radio partner of the Great Loop.