- Race organisers ASO have unveiled the routes for the 2027 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes, with both events starting in Britain in a historic first.
- The men's 3,479km course runs from 2 to 25 July, starting in Edinburgh and featuring 71km of time trials alongside six mountain stages.
- A brutal Pyrenean queen stage on stage 18 of the men's race will see the Col du Tourmalet and Col du Portet featured together for the first time.
- The Tour de France Femmes runs from 30 July to 7 August, starting in Leeds and featuring a team time trial in London before a final-day summit finish at the Puy de Dome.
- The routes set up high-profile clashes between Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel in the men's race, and Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma in the women's.
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