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2010 Tour de France starts in Rotterdam

by VeloNews.com

• December 11, 2008
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By Agence France Presse

The 2010 Tour de France will open with a nine kilometer individual time trial through the streets of Rotterdam, race director Christian Prudhomme announced in Rotterdam on Thursday.

It will be the first time that the Tour will have started from the Dutch port city, but four other cities in the country — Amsterdam (1954), Scheveningen (1973), Leiden (1978) and ’s-Hertogenbosch 1996) have previously enjoyed the honor.

The 2009 race kicks off from Monaco.