The Tour was marred by the fatal collapse of Tom Simpson on the slopes of Mont Ventoux.

[5] Pre-race favourites for the overall victory were Felice Gimondi, Jan Janssen, Julio Jiménez and Raymond Poulidor.

[6] The French team was headed by Poulidor and defending champion Lucien Aimar, with Roger Pingeon as third option.

[8] The 1967 Tour de France started on 29 June, and was the first to have a prologue, a short individual time trial prior to stage racing,[1] held in the evening, adding to the occasion.

[2] The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,556 m (8,386 ft) at the summit tunnel of the Col du Galibier mountain pass on stage 10.

[2] In the next few stages, the lead in the general classification changed hands several times, but the margins between the top favourites were small.

On the advice of his teammate Jean Stablinski, Roger Pingeon bridged the gap and joined the escaped group.

The group stayed away, and Pingeon escaped 60 km before the finish, riding alone until the end of the stage.

On that stage, Raymond Riotte lost more than 11 minutes, also because of a fall and mechanical problems, and announced that he would ride the rest of the Tour in support of Pingeon.

Unaware of what happened behind them, Jan Janssen won the stage, closely followed by Roger Pingeon, who extended his lead.

In the twentieth stage, with a finish on top of the Puy-de-Dôme, Jiménez won back some more time, and was now 1 minute and 39 seconds behind Pingeon.

[17] The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage.

[24] At the conclusion of the Tour, Désiré Letort won the overall super-combativity award, also decided by journalists[25] by a jury.

[34] As in the 1966 Tour de France, doping tests were held on behalf of the French government.

Soon after the finish of the 1967 Tour de France, a renovation of the Parc des Princes was started, which would take several years.