The 104th Tour de France starts Saturday in Germany, hits all five French continental mountain ranges among 21 stages and finishes with the ceremonial ride into Paris on July 23.
NBC, NBCSN and NBC Sports Gold combine to air daily live coverage of cycling’s most prestigious Grand Tour, with a record 280 hours of live, primetime and encore coverage.
NBC Sports PR has additional details of wall-to-wall coverage of this year’s Tour.
The favorite has to be Chris Froome, the only cyclist to own multiple Tour de France titles and multiple Olympic medals.