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Jeremy Whittle and Severin Carrell in Edinburgh

Edinburgh and Yorkshire to host Tour de France Grand Départs in 2027

The minister for culture, media and sport, Lisa Nandy, Mark Cavendish, Christian Prudhomme, the Duchess of Edinburgh and Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, at the Edinburgh Castle launch
The minister for culture, media and sport, Lisa Nandy, Mark Cavendish, Christian Prudhomme, the Duchess of Edinburgh and Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, at the Edinburgh Castle launch. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

The men’s Tour de France will return to Britain in July 2027 with a spectacular city-centre Grand Départ in Edinburgh and three stages that trace a route from Scotland through England and into Wales.

It will be the third Tour race start in Britain in the past 20 years, after London in 2007 and Yorkshire in 2014, and the most logistically demanding Grand Départ in the century-long history of the race.

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