{"id":698555,"date":"2026-01-15T22:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/698555\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:10:11","slug":"tour-de-france-2027-wales-can-match-alpe-dhuez-for-tour-atmosphere-geraint-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/698555\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2027: Wales can match Alpe d\u2019Huez for Tour atmosphere – Geraint Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geraint Thomas says the atmosphere on the Welsh stage of the 2027 Tour de France will rival that of Alpe d’Huez.<\/p>\n

Tour de France organisers have confirmed Wales will host the third stage of the iconic race<\/a> in 2027.<\/p>\n

Tour general director Christian Prudhomme says the challenging Welsh stage of the 2027 Tour de France could shake up the early battle for the yellow jersey before adding: “Wales is made for bikes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geraint Thomas says the atmosphere on the Welsh stage of the 2027 Tour de France will rival that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-698555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115901407085998810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}