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The 2026 Tour de France starts outside of France. On 4 July, the Grand Départ takes place in Barcelona, making it the most southerly start in the race’s history. From there, the 113th edition runs for 23 days and 21 stages, covering 3,333 km before finishing on the iconic Champs-Élysées in Paris on 26 July. Stage 1 is also a departure from recent editions: a 19.7 km team time trial, the first at the Tour since the 2019 Brussels Prologue, and the first run under classic team time trial rules since 1971.

From Barcelona, the race heads into the Pyrenees as early as stage 3, before working through the Massif Central, the Vosges, and an Alpine finale that sends the peloton up Alpe d’Huez on back-to-back days, a first in Grand Tour history.

What makes the Monaco race so interesting?

Monaco is the race that makes Formula 1 feel like a different sport. The streets are narrow, the margins are tiny, and the weekend builds like a thriller: practice hints, qualifying pressure, then a race where positioning and timing can matter as much as outright speed.

That’s why Monaco doesn’t just create highlight moments. It creates attention. Fans don’t drop in only for the finish line flag. They follow the weekend session by session, checking what’s coming up, what just happened, and how it changes the bigger picture.

A random fact: At around 3.337 km, Monaco is the shortest circuit on the F1 calendar. Maybe that’s what makes it so interesting?

Across the sports ecosystem, the same “public” reality is tracked again and again: competitions, games, teams, players, and venues. But the way these entities are identified varies from system to system, which creates repeated mapping work, unnecessary complexity, and avoidable data errors.

Today, Enetpulse and SportsDataIO are launching SportsDataExchange (SDX) to change that; a free, open set of identifiers built to help the entire sports technology ecosystem align around one shared standard.