The 2010 Tour de France was the 97th edition of the Tour de France cycle race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 3 July with an 8.9 km prologue time trial in Rotterdam, the first start in the Netherlands since 1996. The race visited three countries: the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and finished on 25 July on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Lance Armstrong followed by other favourites on stage 9
Alberto Contador in the start of the stage 17 in Pau
Col du Tourmalet is one of the highest paved mountain passes in the French Pyrenees, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées. Sainte-Marie-de-Campan is at the foot on the eastern side and the ski station La Mongie two-thirds of the way up. The village of Barèges lies on the western side, above the town of Luz-Saint-Sauveur.
Summit of the Col du Tourmalet
View from the Col du Tourmalet to its western side
One of the mountain pass cycling milestones along the ascent from Sainte-Marie-de-Campan
Jacques Goddet memorial at the top of the Tourmalet