19 or so
The cycling race Tour de France takes place every year over three weeks in July, traveling through France and sometimes its neighboring countries. Although the route changes every year, it always ends on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
It is generally in France with occasional stages in neighbouring countries. It is traditional for the tour to start in another country, this year's start was in Monaco. This years tour for example has two stages based in Spain/Andorra.
from the tour de France website: "Running from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010, the 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,642 kilometres."
The prologue in the 2005 Tour de France was replaced by a time trial. Including the time trial, there were 21 stages in the 2005 Tour de France. Click on the '2005 Tour de France' link on this page to read about the race and see what each of the stages were.
All that France can offer. They've got flat stages, hilly stages and mountain stages. If it's paved, they'll ride it.
There are 21 stages in 2008.
Three weeks. It's usually 20 stages, sometimes 21 if it starts with a prologue, and they get two rest days.
There are 20 different stages (or 21, I'm not sure)
There are 17 stages including the new Car & Barrel stages.
France have been eliminated from the World Cup 2010 in the Group stages.
Including the prologue, there are 10 levels.
Six stages in 19 days over a course of 2428 km.