VIDEO SHOWS: TOUR DE FRANCE ORGANISERS UNVEILING 2026 PATH SHOWS: PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 23, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. FRENCH CYCLISTS ARRIVING ON STAGE 2. VARIOUS OF CYCLISTS 3. (SOUNDBITE) (French) TOUR DE FRANCE GENERAL DIRECTOR, CHRISTIAN PRUDHOMME, SAYING: "Just three years after Bilbao, the Tour de France will once again set off from Spain. And after the Basque Country, Catalonia. Barcelona, the city of wonders, as the Spanish writer Eduardo Mendoza called it in one of his novels. Barcelona, the city of Gaudi, the city of the 1992 Olympic Games, the city of the greatest sporting events. And tomorrow, the Tour, which it has hosted three times in 1965, in 1957 before then, and in 2009, but never for a grand start. So this will be a first." 4. (SOUNDBITE) (French) BARCELONA MAYOR, JAUME COLLBONI CUADRADO, SAYING: "Barcelona is a city absolutely ready to organize events. We will be the first city in the world to host the Olympic Games, a FIFA World Cup, the America's Cup, and now the grand start of the Tour de France. We will choose the best locations in Barcelona, so that the Tour de France and the city shine.” 5. (SOUNDBITE) (French) TOUR DE FRANCE GENERAL DIRECTOR, CHRISTIAN PRUDHOMME, SAYING: "It's 12:22 p.m., time to set the course for the 113th edition of the Tour de France." 6. PRESENTATION VIDEO STARTING WITH MEN’S TOUR DE FRANCE 2026 PATH IN BARCELONA 7. TOUR DE FRANCE LOGO 8. PRESENTATION VIDEO SHOWING SEGMENT IN FRENCH ALPS, FROM VOIRON TO L’ALPE D’HUEZ 9. AUDIENCE APPLAUDING 10. PRESENTATION VIDEO SHOWING SEGMENT FROM LE BOURG D’OISANS TO L’ALPE D’HUEZ / SEGMENT FROM THOIRY TO FINALE IN PARIS 11. AUDIENCE APPLAUDING STORY: The 2026 men's Tour de France will for a second year include a final stage up Paris’ Montmartre hill, and that will follow two gruelling Alpe d’Huez summit finishes, organisers said on Thursday (October 23), promising a route to keep up the suspense to the very end. After starting in Barcelona on July 4, the 113th edition of cycling’s biggest race will on July 26 culminate in a spectacular climb through Montmartre's cobbled Rue Lepic – a feature first introduced in 2025 and won by Belgium’s Wout van Aert after a fierce duel with four-time champion Tadej Pogacar. Race director Christian Prudhomme said the organisers wanted the race to remain undecided until the very end, with a succession of punishing mountain stages before the finale. The peloton will climb Alpe d’Huez twice in succession — first via its famous 21 hairpins on Stage 19, then again the following day from the Col de Sarenne after a 171 km stage with 5,600 metres of elevation gain. The race will enter France early through the Pyrenees, with a first mountain test between Pau and Gavarnie-Gedre on Stage 6, featuring the Col du Tourmalet. The route revisits several battlegrounds of the Pogacar–Vingegaard rivalry, including Le Lioran and Le Markstein. A single individual time trial of 26 km between Evian-les-Bains and Thonon-les-Bains is scheduled for Stage 16. (Production: Clotaire Achi)
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