Tour de France Exactly fifty days still separate us today from the ‘Grand Départ’ of the Tour de France in Brussels. The capital becomes slowly but surely under the spell of the biggest and most important cycling event of the year. The Tourstart in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the first victory of Eddy Merckx (1969) promises to be one big festival. Brussels sons are in the coming days and weeks in a striking wieleroutfit. We are the main ‘hot spots’ for you in a row: