British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

JonH comes home wrote:

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Congrats to Edinburgh on getting the grand depart in 2027

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c4gpyqp4g1zo

 

I was at the 2014 finish line for Le grand depart in Harrogate, what a fabulous community experience! Edinburgh is a great location and a finish on the Royal Mile seems destined! 

And then a stage in each of England (North West and Carlisle my guess? Not announced yet) and Wales (North Wales and Snowdonia? Again tbd) is going to be great. 

Outside tennis, I love 3 sports most of all - darts, football and cycling! 

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 Steep downhill cobbles. What could go wrong? Though uphill to finish on the castle esplanade would be interesting.

Anyway, terrific news  

indiana wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Congrats to Edinburgh on getting the grand depart in 2027

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c4gpyqp4g1zo

 

I was at the 2014 finish line for Le grand depart in Harrogate, what a fabulous community experience! Edinburgh is a great location and a finish on the Royal Mile seems destined! 

And then a stage in each of England (North West and Carlisle my guess? Not announced yet) and Wales (North Wales and Snowdonia? Again tbd) is going to be great. 

Outside tennis, I love 3 sports most of all - darts, football and cycling! 

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 Steep downhill cobbles. What could go wrong? Though uphill to finish on the castle esplanade would be interesting.

Anyway, terrific news  

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 That was my thinking - perfect iconic spot! 

indiana wrote:

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Ha ha, I edited it just before your reply arrived.

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 loads of options on great routes - the grand depart isnt usually big mountains, more rolling terrain with a decent competitive finish for day one. Maybe into the borders and around, Jedburgh and the like, or over to Glasgow and the west and maybe through the city there? lots of options. 

day two and into the lakes would be terrific combative terrain and maybe finish in Liverpool say? or down into Yorkshire to relive 2014 a little and through the borders and Hexham and down? 

if it was the Lakes, then next day into North Wales and down through the country to Cardiff to finish perhaps? 

Some great course options for a great start! 

milagavnn wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Congrats to Edinburgh on getting the grand depart in 2027

 

*deleted dodgy link*

I was at the 2014 finish line for Le grand depart in Harrogate, what a fabulous community experience! Edinburgh is a great location and a finish on the Royal Mile seems destined! 

And then a stage in each of England (North West and Carlisle my guess? Not announced yet) and Wales (North Wales and Snowdonia? Again tbd) is going to be great. 

Outside tennis, I love 3 sports most of all - darts, football and cycling! 

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That mustve been unreal the buzz in Harrogate for the 2014 Tour de France was incredible! A finish on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh would be iconic proper postcard stuff.

 

North West, Carlisle, Snowdonia thats going to be epic terrain. And darts, football, cycling? Elite trio. Big race atmosphere feels a bit like finals day at Ally Pally!

-- Edited by milagavnn on Sunday 1st of March 2026 05:08:43 PM

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Welcome to the forum, milagavnn.

As I indicated above, a downhill finish on the Royal Mile would be carnage, though uphill to the castle could have been iconic. Not to be though since the first stage was confirmed as Edinburgh to Carlisle. Then Keswick to Liverpool and Welshpool to Cardiff.

Will still be great to have the Grand Depart in Edinburgh.

the addict wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Id originally posted a BBC link above and someone has changed the link to some Aussie website, it feels like a spam and certainly isnt any link Ive posted.

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 The link still goes to the BBC website - it's just the text that shows here is different.

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 I didnt want to click it. Taking a risk! 

indiana wrote:

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I hope that they do have an interesting cicuit or two in Edinburgh, and don't just err depart.

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 When it came to harrogate, the grand depart was in Leeds. And it was just a depart. They rode in formation to around Harewood, about 3 miles outside outer Leeds, went to Harewood House and did a circuit there and started racing from harewood out. About 45 mins after they started in Leeds before the race itself began