Yorkshire boosted by Grand Depart cash
The 2014 Tour de France will feature a stage that visits the London 2012 Olympic Park and ends on the Mall after opening stages in Yorkshire.
The Tour de France 2014 Grand Depart from Yorkshire will receive £10 million of UK Government funding, it has been announced.
Leeds hosts the Grand Depart on July 5, 2014, with the stage taking in the Yorkshire Dales before finishing in Harrogate.
Stage two of the 101st Tour starts in York and passes through Keighley and Huddersfield on the way to Sheffield.
The race last visited the UK in 2007, when London hosted the prologue and the opening stage.
Tour director Christian Prudhomme said: “Bradley Wiggins’ historical victory last July and the enormous crowds that followed the cycling events in the streets of London during the Olympic Games encouraged us to go back (to UK) earlier than we had initially planned."
Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, said: "The Grand Depart will be one of the biggest sporting events of 2014, it will be seen around the world by billions of people and millions more will line the routes of the three stages."
This year’s Tour de France starts in Corsica.
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