Tour de France 2012: British Eurosport live schedule
Digital and satellite channel British Eurosport will be broadcasting live coverage of every stage of this year's Tour de France (June 30 to July 22).
Regular Eurosport team David Harmon and Sean Kelly will be providing the live commentary during the race action. James Richardson hosts race analysis in the studio with guest experts Magnus Backstedt, John Herety, Rob Hayles and Dan Lloyd.
The coverage will be broadcast on both British Eurosport 1 and Eurosport HD. Eurosport HD times may differ from those shown below as the HD coverage does not include studio analysis.
Please note: Times may be subject to change.
| Stage | Date | From | To | Length | Broadcast time (UK) |
| Prologue | Sat, Jun 30 | Liège | Liège | 6.4km ITT | 13:15-17:00 |
| Stage 1 | Sun, Jul 1 | Liège | Seraing | 198km | 12:30-16:30 |
| Stage 2 | Mon, Jul 2 | Visé | Tournai | 207.5km | 12:30-17:15 |
| Stage 3 | Tues, Jul 3 | Orchies | Boulogne-sur-Mer | 197km | 12:30-16:45 |
| Stage 4 | Weds, Jul 4 | Abbeville | Rouen | 214.5km | 12:30-17:15 |
| Stage 5 | Thurs, Jul 5 | Rouen | Saint-Quentin | 196.5km | 12:30-17:00 |
| Stage 6 | Fri, Jul 6 | Épernay | Metz | 207.5km | 12:30-17:00 |
| Stage 7 | Sat, Jul 7 | Tomblaine | La Planche des Belles Filles | 199km | 12:30-17:00 |
| Stage 8 | Sun, Jul 8 | Belfort | Porrentruy | 157.5km | 11:30-17:00 |
| Stage 9 | Mon, Jul 9 | Arc-et-Senans | Besançon | 41.5km ITT | 12:30-17:15 |
| REST | Tues, Jul 10 | - | - | - | - |
| Stage 10 | Weds, Jul 11 | Mâcon | Bellegarde-sur-Valserine | 194.5km | 13:00-16:30 |
| Stage 11 | Thurs, Jul 12 | Albertville | La Toussuire - Les Sybelles | 148km | 12:00-16:45 |
| Stage 12 | Fri, Jul 13 | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | Annonay Davézieux | 226km | 09:30-16:15 |
| Stage 13 | Sat, Jul 14 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux | Le Cap d'Agde | 217km | 12:30-16:30 |
| Stage 14 | Sun, Jul 15 | Limoux | Foix | 191km | 12:30-16:30 |
| Stage 15 | Mon, Jul 16 | Samatan | Pau | 158.5km | 12:30-16:45 |
| REST | Tues, Jul 17 | Pau | - | - | - |
| Stage 16 | Weds, Jul 18 | Pau | Bagnères-de-Luchon | 197km | 10:00-17:15 |
| Stage 17 | Thurs, Jul 19 | Bagnères-de-Luchon | Peyragudes | 143.5km | 11:45-17:15 |
| Stage 18 | Fri, Jul 20 | Blagnac | Brive-la-Gaillarde | 222.5km | 12:30-16:15 |
| Stage 19 | Sat, Jul 21 | Bonneval | Chartres | 53.5km ITT | 12:30-17:15 |
| Stage 20 | Sun, Jul 22 | Rambouillet | Paris Champs-Élysées | 120km | 13:00-17:00 |
Related links
Cycling Weekly's 2012 Tour de France section
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jimmy the Fish
June 15 15:47
Won't be watching myself, not until we see the commentary 'Dream Team' of John Bishop and Billy Connolly in place. of the current somnambulists. Both keen cyclists, guaranteed to liven things up. (Kelly can stay on as summariser if he wants)
ted scrote
June 15 19:46
Much prefer itv4, its more reliable to sky+, i quite enjoy Phil +Neds banter. Someone from CW should ring itv and suggest maybe covering the Etape and showing it on one of the rest days.
alan new
June 16 16:27
I will be watching as much as possible, things may change if the sheduals are cut etc due to other progs taking priority because they have more expensive adverts ,similar to the penultimate stage of tour of switzerland being cut to half an hour and showen at 9.30pm after watching the rest of tour all the week i dont think this is showing commitment to the viewer
round wheels
July 01 21:04
I have a number of comments to make regarding the commentary team, it is fair to say that great cyclists don't necessary make good commentators, the babbling Stephan Roach and the repetition of Sean Kelly are proof of that. The very annoying David Harmon spoils the viewing by this continuous Ah which precedes the riders names as if picking something from a list, in fact everything seems to have Ahhh. Sean just follows like a sheep and often gets this out of context including missing the letter S of the end of most words. If only we had a choice of commentary how much better the programme would be, please call the riders by name and no ah, or plural indicating lots of siblings in the race
Alan Winter.
July 03 14:16
In the Tour de France , I can remember when the most combatant rider of the stage , was given his weight in cheese. What I don't remember, is when this happened. can you help an old man out?