The Tour consisted of twenty-one race stages and covered a total distance of 3,403.5 km (2,115 mi).
[4] The presentation of the teams took place at the harbour of Porto-Vecchio on 28 June, two days before the start of opening stage held in the town.
[11] Marcel Kittel (Argos–Shimano) was the first rider to wear the general classification's yellow jersey after winning stage one.
He lost it after the next stage to Jan Bakelants of RadioShack–Leopard, who managed to obtain a one-second lead from a late solo attack.
[13] Chris Froome of Team Sky took the lead from Impey after the eighth stage, the first classified as mountainous.
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