Cycling: After the return of the Tour de France to the public in 2015, the public broadcaster is sticking to the decision for 2017 and 2018 and will report live from the Grand Boucle every day.
Good news for German cycling - the Tour de France will also be broadcast live on ARD for the next two years. Even if many cycling fans prefer to follow the stages on Eurosport, the broadcast on ARD is of huge importance for the reach and popularity of cycling in this country. This applies all the more to this year, when the tour starts in Germany for the first time in 30 years.
Volker Herres, program director of the first German television, comments on the contract extension as follows: "The Tour de France is an important part of our summer sports broadcasts in the first, so we are very pleased that we were able to extend the agreement with the ASO. The start of the Tour de France this year in Düsseldorf will certainly be something very special for our viewers and for our users on the Internet.”
The 2017 Tour de France starts on July 1st with a 13km individual time trial in Düsseldorf, before moving from the Rhine metropolis towards Belgium the following day.