Fighting for people with disabilities

Site access:

All Tour start and finish sites are accessible to people with reduced mobility.



Visually impaired people:

The Tour de France works hand in hand with HandiCaPZéro for more than 25 years

The charity adapts and publishes the roadbook's Braille (5,000 copies), large-print and audio editions, which are sent free of charge to visually impaired people who request it at www.handicapzero.org.

The site also provides live updates of the race. Certain sequences are translated into sign languages for people with hearing impairments.

 

People with disabilities and/or dependent persons :

The Tour de France and the ANAS Foundation will be donating bicycles to people with disabilities or who are dependent on others.

 Promoting social accessibility

Secours Populaire


The Tour has backed Secours Populaire Français since 2008 through the  (The forgotten of sport) project. Its aim is to ensure children from underprivileged backgrounds are not excluded from leisure activities and holidays. In 6 different stages, 600 to 1,000 young boys and girls get to discover the atmosphere and the "engine room" of the Tour de France for a day. More than 17,000 children aged 8 to 12 have benefited from this sporting and educational experience so far.

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From Tower to Tour with Médiapitchounes

It aims to use the media to promote civic participation among young people from working-class neighbourhoods. 300 young people have taken part in journalistic immersion programs in the heart of the Tour de France since 2010.

The actions of Média Pitchounes have 4 main planks:

  • Journalistic immersion in the Tour
  • Organisation of celebrations with underprivileged neighbourhoods in Toulouse
  • Promoting cycling
  • Learning to use media tools

 Fighting for a charitable cause

Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque enables children in developing countries with heart defects to undergo surgery in France, if they cannot be treated in their home country due to a lack of technical resources. Every year, 30 ambassadors for the charity (athletes, artists, journalists and TV hosts) ride the Étape du Cœur ("Stage of the Heart"), a shortened version of an actual stage, before the pro peloton. The Tour de France and its partners have saved 321 children since 2003. 

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Sharing the road

The French Road Safety Authority's "La route se partage" campaign educates cyclists and drivers about proper behaviour on the road. The campaign is presented by volunteers at the start or the finish as well as: - 2 awareness-raising vehicles at the heart of the publicity caravan; and - stands and volunteers at the Tour de France Fan Parks.

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 Promoting gender parity

A long-standing commitment to women's cycling through the organisation of the following races:

  • since 1998: Flèche Wallonne Femmes
  • since 2014: La Course by Le Tour de France powered by FDJ, held in parallel with the Tour de France 
  • since 2017: Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes
  • since 2021: Paris–Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift
  • since 2022: launch of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift
  • from 2023 : La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es

 

At the event:

  • Since 2019: host/hostess parity in all our guest areas
  • Since 2020: for the first time, the same number of podium girls and podium boys