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Edinburgh has been chosen to provide a ‘magnificent backdrop’ to the start of the 2027 Tour de France. Scotland, England and Wales will share six stages of the world’s biggest cycling event - three for both the men’s and women’s races, which will both kick off in the same country, the United Kingdom, for the first time. The UK will host the men’s event for the fifth time - the first was in Plymouth in 1974 - and will start the race for a third time after London in 2007 and Leeds in 2014, when the West Yorkshire city overcame a bid from Edinburgh. The Tour de France Femmes was brought under the same organisation as the men’s race in 2022 and is coming to Britain for the first time. (PA Media/DPA)
