Stages
The 1973 Tour de France started on 30 June, and had two rest days, in Divonne-les-Bains and Pyrénées 2000.
| Stage | Date | Route | Terrain | Length | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | 30 June | Scheveningen | Individual time trial | 7.1 km (4.4 mi) | Joop Zoetemelk (NED) |
| 1A | 1 July | Scheveningen – Rotterdam | Plain stage | 84 km (52 mi) | Willy Teirlinck (BEL) |
| 1B | Rotterdam – Sint-Niklaas | Plain stage | 137.5 km (85.4 mi) | José Catieau (FRA) | |
| 2A | 2 July | Sint-Niklaas | Team time trial | 12.4 km (7.7 mi) | Watney-Maes |
| 2B | Sint-Niklaas – Roubaix | Plain stage | 138 km (86 mi) | Eddy Verstraeten (BEL) | |
| 3 | 3 July | Roubaix – Reims | Plain stage | 226 km (140 mi) | Cyrille Guimard (FRA) |
| 4 | 4 July | Reims – Nancy | Plain stage | 214 km (133 mi) | Joop Zoetemelk (NED) |
| 5 | 5 July | Nancy – Mulhouse | Stage with mountain(s) | 188 km (117 mi) | Walter Godefroot (BEL) |
| 6 | 6 July | Mulhouse – Divonne les Bains | Stage with mountain(s) | 244.5 km (151.9 mi) | Jean-Pierre Danguillaume (FRA) |
| 7A | 8 July | Divonne les Bains – Gaillard | Stage with mountain(s) | 86.5 km (53.7 mi) | Luis Ocaña (ESP) |
| 7B | Gaillard – Méribel | Stage with mountain(s) | 150.5 km (93.5 mi) | Bernard Thévenet (FRA) | |
| 8 | 9 July | Moutiers – Les Orres | Stage with mountain(s) | 237.5 km (147.6 mi) | Luis Ocaña (ESP) |
| 9 | 10 July | Embrun – Nice | Stage with mountain(s) | 234.5 km (145.7 mi) | Vicente Lopez Carril (ESP) |
| 10 | 11 July | Nice – Aubagne | Stage with mountain(s) | 222.5 km (138.3 mi) | Michael Wright (GBR) |
| 11 | 12 July | Montpellier – Argelès-sur-Mer | Plain stage | 238 km (148 mi) | Barry Hoban (GBR) |
| 12A | 13 July | Perpignan – Thuir | Individual time trial | 28.3 km (17.6 mi) | Luis Ocaña (ESP) |
| 12B | Thuir – Pyrénées 2000 | Stage with mountain(s) | 76 km (47 mi) | Lucien Van Impe (BEL) | |
| 13 | 15 July | Bourg-Madame – Luchon | Stage with mountain(s) | 235 km (146 mi) | Luis Ocaña (ESP) |
| 14 | 16 July | Luchon – Pau | Stage with mountain(s) | 227.5 km (141.4 mi) | Pedro Torres (ESP) |
| 15 | 17 July | Pau – Fleurance | Plain stage | 137 km (85 mi) | Wilfried David (BEL) |
| 16A | 18 July | Fleurance – Bordeaux | Plain stage | 210 km (130 mi) | Walter Godefroot (BEL) |
| 16B | Bordeaux – Lac | Individual time trial | 12.4 km (7.7 mi) | Joaquim Agostinho (POR) | |
| 17 | 19 July | Sainte Foy la Grande – Brive la Gaillarde | Plain stage | 248 km (154 mi) | Claude Tollet (FRA) |
| 18 | 20 July | Brive – Puy de Dôme | Stage with mountain(s) | 216.5 km (134.5 mi) | Luis Ocaña (ESP) |
| 19 | 21 July | Bourges – Versailles | Plain stage | 233.5 km (145.1 mi) | Barry Hoban (GBR) |
| 20A | 22 July | Versailles | Individual time trial | 16 km (9.9 mi) | Luis Ocaña (ESP) |
| 20B | Versailles – Paris | Plain stage | 89 km (55 mi) | Bernard Thévenet (FRA) |
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“Whoe’er has travelled life’s dull round,
Where’er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome, at an inn.”
—William Shenstone (1714–1763)
“But parents can be understanding and accept the more difficult stages as necessary times of growth for the child. Parents can appreciate the fact that these phases are not easy for the child to live through either; rapid growth times are hard on a child. Perhaps it’s a small comfort to know that the harder-to-live-with stages do alternate with the calmer times,so parents can count on getting periodic breaks.”
—Saf Lerman (20th century)
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Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)