NBC SPORTS WILL BROADCAST THE TOUR DE FRANCE ACROSS ALL ITS PLATFORMS

NBC Sports will present three weeks of wall-to-wall live and encore coverage of the 107th Tour de France, across NBC, NBCSN, CNBC,  NBC Sports Gold’s “Cycling Pass” and Peacock Premium. Daily live coverage of the Tour de France, featuring all 21 stages, begins this Saturday, August 29, on NBCSN with the Tour de France Pre-Race Show, followed by Stage 1 on NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold, and Peacock Premium.

Coverage continues throughout each day of the 21-stage event, beginning on weekdays with the Tour de France Pre-Race Show, followed by live race coverage. Coverage culminates with the final stage on Sunday, September 20, live at 9:30 a.m. ET on NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold, and Peacock Premium.

The 2020 Tour de France will cover a total distance of 2,165 miles, beginning in Nice, France, and finishing 23 days later in Paris. The 2020 race, which was originally scheduled to begin June 27 before being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will travel across a total of six regions within France without crossing any borders.

Expected frontrunners in this year’s field include defending champion Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers) of Colombia, last year’s Vuelta an España winner Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma), Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck – Quick Step), who wore the yellow jersey for the majority of last year’s Tour, and 25-year old American Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma), who is making his Tour de France debut this year. Sprinters expected to compete include Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal), Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), Elia Viviani (Cofidis), and Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-Quick-Step).