Over the last few days, plenty of media attention has been focussed on the Belgian City of Liege hosts Le Tour 2012 Grand Depart.
However, the Tour De France is nothing to new to the city in the Province of Liège, in the Walloon region of south east Belgium. It staged the Tour De France's Grand Depart in 2004 and has provided the finish line for a stage on seven occasions in 1948,1950, 1953, 1956, 1965, 1980 and 1995.
The course for tomorrow's 6.1km individual time trial will be exactly the same route for the prologue in 2004 which was won by Fabian Cancellera (pictured below).
The launch ramp for this prologue, which will see the riders setting off at one minute intervals, will be on the Avenue Rogier.
The riders then make their way first north on the Boulevard d’Avroy and then onto the Boulevard de la Sauvenière, which is Liege's equivilant of Coventry's ring road.
The route heads down alongside the River Meuse, and before a left turn at La Batte brings the riders to the Place Saint-Lambert in front of the Palais des Princes-Évêques, which stages Sunday's official departure.
It's then back on to the Boulevard de la Sauvenière and the Boulevard d’Avroy for a second time, but this time in the the opposite direction, before they hit the finish line to see how well they have done.
You can catch the prologue live on both ITV4 and Eurosport.
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