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The peloton left Paris Sunday at the end of the Tour de France 2018 won by Geraint Thomas. He will meet the Grande Boucle in July 2019 in Brussels, which will host the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2019.The Tour de France 2019 will begin with two stages in Brussels: a Brussels-Charleroi-Brussels online stage of 192 km on Saturday, July 6 2019, including a pbadage through the Mur de Grammont, and a 28 km team time trial between the Palais Royal and the Atomium the following day. This Great Loop 2019 will mark the 11th pbadage of the event by Brussels. But it will celebrate especially a double anniversary: the 50 years of the first victory of Eddy Merckx and the 100 years of the yellow jersey, that the "Cannibal" has carried 111 times. Eddy Merckx was present on the podium of the Tour 2018 Sunday in Paris, with the mayor of Brussels Philippe Close and the alderman of Brussels Sports Alain Courtois. This will be the fifth time that Belgium hosts the Grand Départ of the Tour, after Brussels in 1958, Charleroi in 1975 and Liège in 2004 and 2012. The last arrival in Brussels dates back to 2010. The Italian Alessandro Petacchi won the sprint . (Belga)
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