I don;t normally follow this, altho' my elder son became more interested when he started cycling more seriously for triathlon, and he has popped over to France a couple of times to watch an odd day. There's a stage this year we may be more interested in, on Sept 8th. It passes through an area where we have holidayed, passing through Royan (on the Gironde) which was the closest resort to the village where we stayed in our first gite