Next year’s event – the 100th Tour de France – will begin on the French island of Corsica on 29 June and end with an evening finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on 21 July, with the riders having cycled 3,360km.
And during the tenth stage of the race on 9 July, the competitors will cycle 193km from St Gildas des Bois in the Loire to St Malo – just a one-hour ferry journey from Jersey.
Tony Moffa, vice president of Velo Sport Jersey, said: ‘There is already a lot of interest in it and people are already saying that as soon as the Condor timetable is published they are going to make a block booking.
