Tour de France 2021: Start date, how to watch and stream in Australia, stages and standings

The 2021 Tour de France is underway. Tadej Pogačar is looking to defend his title. The race travels around France, climbing the Alps and Pyrenees over 21 stages. It finishes in Paris on July 18.

The 2021 Tour de France started on Saturday, June 26.

SBS will broadcast every stage of Tour de France live in HD in Australia. The broadcast starts around 7:30pm-8:00pm each day. A full replay of each stage will be on SBS On Demand each morning.

The SBS ŠKODA Tour Tracker App is available on IOS and Android.

Tour de France 2021 starts on Saturday, June 26th. Stage one is Brest to Landerneau 198 km. Julian Alaphilippe won the stage.

Mathieu Van Der Poel won the stage two. Julian Alaphilippe took the green jersey and Idea Schelling the polka dot jersey. Tadej Pogacar the white jersey is the third jersey for the yellow jersey holder.

Tour de France 2021 starts on June 28th. Stage three is a flat 183 km route. Tim Merlier won the stage.

Tour de France 2021 starts on June 29th. Stage four is a flat stage from Redon to Fougères. Mark Cavendish won the stage.

Tour de France 2021 starts in Australia on June 30th. Stage five is a time trial. Tadej Pogacar won the stage.

Tour de France 2021 starts on Thursday, July 1st. Stage 6 is a flat 161 km route from Ch

Stages 7 and 8 are on Friday July 2nd and Saturday July 3rd. Stage 7 is on medium mountain stage. Matej Mohoric won the stage and is now wearing the yellow jersey.

Tour de France 2021 starts on July 3. Stage 8 is on Saturday July 7th. Dylan Teuns won the stage. Tadej Pogacar is the yellow jersey winner. Mark Cavendish is green jersey and Wouter Poels is white jersey.

Tour de France 2021 starts on Sunday, July 4th. Stage nine is on the mountain stage. Ben O'Connor won the stage and Tadej Pogacar won yellow jersey. Mark Cavendish won green jersey and Nairo Quintana the polka dot jersey, while Tadese Pogacsar took white jersey with the yellow and white jerseys.

Tour de France 2021 starts on Monday, July 5th.

Tour de France 2021 starts on July 6th. Stage 10 is a flat 191 km route from Albertville to Valence. Mark Cavendish won the stage. Tadej Pogacar is the yellow jersey and Mark Cavendish the green jersey. Nairo Quintana is in the polka dot jersey, and Tadese Pogacsar the white jersey

Tour de France 2021 starts on July 7th. Stage 11 is on Wednesday July 11th, 199 km from Sorgues to Malaucène. Wout Van Aert won the stage. Tadej Pogacar is wearing the yellow jersey. Mark Cavendish is in the green jersey and Nairo Quintana the white jersey in standings.

Tour de France 2021 starts on Thursday, July 8th. Stage 12 is flat. Nils Politt won the stage. Tadej Pogacar is wearing the yellow jersey. Mark Cavendish is in the green jersey and Nairo Quintana the polka dot jersey, while Tadese Pogacsar wears the white jersey in this edition.

Tour de France 2021 starts on July 9th. Stage 13 is flat stage from Nîmes to Carcassonne. Mark Cavendish won the stage. Tadej Pogacar is the yellow jersey and Mark Cavendish the green jersey. Nairo Quintana is in the polka dot jersey, Tadesse Pogacsar the white jersey

Tour de France 2021 starts on July 10th. Stage 14 is a medium mountain stage.

Tour de France 2021 starts in Australia. Bauke Mollema won the stage.

Tour de France 2021 starts in Australia. Tadej Pogacar wears the yellow jersey.

Tour de France 2021 starts in Australia.

Tour de France 2021 starts in Australia. Tadej Pogacar wears the white jersey.

STAGE 15 is on Sunday July 11th, 191.5 km from Céret to Andorra la Vella (Andorran). Tour de France 2021 starts on July 21st.

Tour de France 2021 starts on Monday July 12th.

Tour de France 2021 starts on July 13th. Stage 16 is from Andorra to Saint-Gaudens.

Tour de France starts on July 14th 2021. Stage 17 is a 178.5 km mountain stage.

Tour de France 2021 starts in Australia. Tadej Pogacar won the stage.

Tour de France 2021 starts in Australia on July 21st 2021.

Tour de France starts on Thursday July 15th. Stage 18 is a mountain stage.

Tour de France 2021 starts on July 16th. Stage 19 is a flat 207 km route from Mourenx to Libourne.

Tour de France 2021 starts in Australia. Matej Mohoric won the stage.

Tour de France starts on July 17th. Stage 20 is a time trial. It will be broadcast on SBS from 8:30pm to 2:15am on Saturday.

Tour de France 2021 starts on Sunday, July 18th. Stage 21 is from Chatou to Paris. It's broadcast on SBS from 11:00pm to 4:30 am on July 19th, starting from Champs-Élysées.

The 2021 Tour de France is 3,417.5 km long over 23 stages.

Tour de France 2021 starts in Australia on November 21st 2021.

Tadej Pogačar is the bookies' favourite to win the Tour de France in 2021. Primož Roglič finished second last year. Geraint Thomas is looking for his second Grand Tour victory. Richard Carapaz is one of the favourites after winning the Tour of Suisse. Richie Porte is in good form after the Criterium du Dauphine. Julian Alaphilippe and Rigoberto Uran are also in the mix. Tour starts in Australia on November 21st.

Tadej Pogacar won the 2020 Tour de France. He beat Primoz Roglic by 59 seconds. Richie Porte finished third. Sam Bennett won sprinters' green jersey.

The yellow jersey is worn by the race leader. This is the rider who has the lowest accumulated time.

Green jersey is worn by the Tour's best sprinter. The green jersey was awarded on a points basis.

The polka dot jersey is awarded to the Tour's best climber.

Cadel Evans won the 2011 Tour de France. He held off the Schleck brothers in the Alps and took the yellow jersey on the final time trial.