Running from Saturday July 2nd to Sunday July 24th 2005, the 92nd Tour de France will take place with a total of 3 million Euros in pize money, of which 400,000 Euros are for the winner. The tour will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3500 kilometres.

You can view the route on the tour's official web site including a town by town description and a nice Flash animation.

American Lance Armstrong is retiring after this year's Tour de France but says that he remains fully committed to winning his seventh straight Tour de France and is driven by the dream to go out on top.