The 2021 Tour de France has been brought forward by one week by the International Cycling Union (UCI), with a kick-off set for June 26, which involves moving the site of the Grand Départ originally planned to Copenhagen. The UCI's decision is due to the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics for one year and the announcement by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to keep the program unchanged between the start of the events fixed on July 23 and the end of the 8 August 2021. If the Tour was not advanced, the best riders in the world would have been forced to choose and would have risked being forced to ignore the Olympics. An alternative solution to the departure from Copenhagen, since the Danish capital cannot host the matches of the Euro football and the Tour at the same time, is represented by the candidature of the Brittany region, revealed last week.
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