Differences From The 1971 Tour De France
For the first time since 1947, the Tour de France was entirely in France.
Three days before the Tour started, the schedule was changed: the final time trial was split, with the first 42 km as a time trial in the morning, and the last 89 km as a mass-start stage in the afternoon.
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