– It will be Copenhagen for the first time. There is a meeting between the world’s largest ski slopes and the world’s largest population, ” says Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme, in an interview with the French Europe 1.

” I am very impressed with the number of people who cycle in Copenhagen. They have more bikes than inhabitants, he continues.

It is the first time the danes will host a stage in the competition several times in the past been initiated in other countries. In the year running the first stage in the Belgian capital, Brussels.

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