It was a wish since many years for the UCI to continue to extend the UCI ProTour outside of Europe. That's now done with the two new one day cycling races which will take in Canada: the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec today and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal on Sunday 12 September.

In this article you'll find the race route of these two races on Google Maps (an exclusivity for www.velowire.com) and you can download a KML file to see the circuit in Google Earth and thus do a virtual fly-over of these two new races. You'll also find the list of participating riders.

The organisor of the Grands Prix Cyclistes in Canada

The two Grands Prix Cyclistes of Québec and of Montréal are organised by the Groupe Serdy of owner Serge Arsenault who before organised the Grand Prix Cycliste des Amériques (Coupe du Monde 1988-1992) and the Tour cycliste Trans-Canada (1999). These races disappeared quite quickly but Serge Arsenault doesn't give up ... Since the UCI immediately awarded him the UCI ProTour status, these races will have a better chance to succeed!
The Canadian organisor declared recently to L'Equipe: I'm doing this for the riders. They don't even know me, I remain anonymous. I'm not doing this for the money, I've earned enough of that. Now I want to give it back (to cycling). For me cycling equals to friendship.

According to the official website of these races, Groupe Serdy is a Québec-based company comprising the Évasion television network, production company Serdy Vidéo, Studios idHD and a division responsible for organizing international events including the Grands Prix Cyclistes in Québec City and Montréal, which are cycling road races sanctioned by UCI ProTour. Building on the strength of this alliance of complementary operations, Groupe Serdy provides services ranging from TV series and program concept creation to leasing of shooting locations, TV production and post-production sites, advertising creation, distribution and events management.

Serge Arsenault is supported by Charly Mottet, who until the takeover of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré by ASO was the deputy director of this stage race, as manager sports of these new races.

The race route of the Grands Prix Cyclistes of Québec and of Montréal on Google Maps

Below you'll find the circuit on Google Maps (which thus joins the collection of Google Maps/Google Earth routes of the different cycling races) for these two races.

Currently this map automatically shows the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec Montréal but if you zoom out and move the map north east, you'll find the circuit of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec on the same map.

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec proposes a 12.6 kilometer long circuit which will be run 15 times for a total distance of 189 kilometer while the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal will have 16 rounds on a 12.1 kilometer long circuit for a total distance of 193.6 kilometers.

The race circuit of the Grands Prix Cyclistes of Québec and of Montréal in Google Earth

Click on the link below to download the KML file which you can open in Google Earth to do a virtual fly-over of the race route of the Grands Prix Cyclistes of Québec and of Montréal.
>> Click here to download the race route of the Grands Prix Cyclistes of Québec and of Montréal in Google Earth

The Grands Prix Cyclistes of Québec and of Montréal on TV

The two Canadian races are broadcasted in Canada (Évasion, Sportsnet One, SRC), the United States (Versus) and Europe (Eurosport 2/British Eurosport)
> Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec: live, on Friday 10 September 2010
> Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal: on Sunday 12 September 2010

The list of participating riders for the Grand Prix Cycliste van Québec

Below you'll find the list of participating riders in the Grand Prix Cycliste of Québec and their numbers. Logically the list of participating riders for the Grand Prix Cycliste of Montréal will be quite similar ...

Garmin-Transitions
1 HESJEDAL Ryder CAN
2 COZZA Steven USA
3 DUGGAN Timmy USA
4 MAASKANT Martijn NED
5 PATE Danny USA
6 STETINA Peter USA
7 TUFT Svein CAN
8 VAN SUMMEREN Johan BEL

Euskaltel-Euskadi
11 SANCHEZ Samuel ESP
12 ARAMENDIA Javier ESP
13 AZANZA Jorge ESP
14 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP
15 IZAGIRRE Gorka ESP
16 MINGUEZ Miguel ESP
17 PEREZ Alan ESP
18 PEREZ Ruben ESP

Rabobank
21 GESINK Robert NED
22 KRUIJSWIJK Steven NED
23 POSTHUMA Joost NED
24 STAMSNIJDER Tom NED
25 TANKINK Bram NED
26 TJALLINGII Maarten NED
27 VAN WINDEN Dennis NED

Team Radioshack
31 LEIPHEIMER Levi USA
32 BRAJKOVIC Janez SLN
33 HORNER Christopher USA
34 IRIZAR Markel ESP
35 MACHADO Tiago POR
36 PAULINHO Sergio POR
37 POPOVYCH Jaroslav UKR
38 ZUBELDIA Haimar ESP

Liquigas-Doimo
41 BASSO Ivan ITA
42 AGNOLI Valerio ITA
43 CIMOLAI Davide ITA
44 KOREN Kristijan SLO
45 OSS Daniel ITA
46 SAGAN Peter SKV
47 VANDBORG Brian DAN
48 VIVIANI Elia ITA

Team Quick Step
51 CHAVANEL Sylvain FRA
52 DEVENYNS Dries BEL
53 FACCI Mauro ITA
54 HULSMANS Kevin BEL
55 PINEAU Jérôme FRA
56 REDA Francesco ITA
57 SEELDRAEYERS Kevin BEL
58 VAN DE WALLE Jurgen BEL

Team Sky
61 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald NOR
62 ARVESEN Kurt NOR
63 CIONI Dario ITA
64 FROOME Christopher GBR
65 PAUWELS Serge BEL
66 POSSONI Morris ITA
67 SUTTON Christopher AUS
68 VIGANO Davide ITA

FDJ
71 CASAR Sandy FRA
72 GESLIN Anthony FRA
73 PINOT Thibaut FRA
74 ROUX Anthony FRA
75 ROY Jérémy FRA
76 SULZBERGER Wesley AUS
77 VEIKKANEN Jussi FIN

Team Saxo Bank
81 VOIGT Jens GER
83 BRESCHEL Matti DEN
84 DIDIER Laurent LUX
85 FUGLSANG Jakob DEN
86 MORKOV Michael DEN
87 SORENSEN Chris Anker DEN
87 SORENSEN Nicki DEN
88 STEENSEN André DEN

Team Katusha
91 BOTCHAROV Alexander RUS
92 BANDIERA Marco ITA
93 BODROGI Laszlo FRA
94 ESKOV Nikita RUS
95 KHALILOV Mykhaylo UKR
96 MAZZANTI Luca ITA
97 PETROV Evgueny RUS
98 VORGANOV Eduard RUS

AG2R La Mondiale
101 GADRET John FRA
102 BERARD Julien FRA
103 BOUET Maxime FRA
104 DESSEL Cyril FRA
105 GASTAUER Ben LUX
106 KRIVTSOV Yuriy UKR
107 LE LAY David FRA
108 LOUBET Julien FRA

Lampre-Farnese Vini
111 CUNEGO Damiano ITA
112 BALLONI Alfredo ITA
113 GAVAZZI Francesco ITA
114 MAGAZZINI Enrico ITA
115 LOOSLI David SUI
116 PONZI Simone ITA
117 SPILAK Simon SLN
118 ULISSI Diego ITA

Team HTC-Columbia
121 MONFORT Maxime BEL
122 DOCKX Gert BEL
123 GRETSCH Patrick GER
124 HANSEN Adam AUS
125 LEWIS Craig USA
126 RABON Frantisek CZE
127 REYNES Vicente ESP
128 ROGERS Michael AUS

Caisse d'Epargne
131 LASTRAS Pablo ESP
132 COYOT Arnaud FRA
133 GUTIERREZ José Ivan ESP
134 MADRAZO Angel ESP
135 LOSADA Alberto ESP
136 PEREZ Francisco ESP
137 PERGET Mathieu FRA
138 ROJAS José Joaquim ESP

Team Milram
141 CIOLEK Gerald GER
142 GERDEMANN Linus GER
143 KNEES David GER
144 NERZ Dominik GER
145 ROBERTS Luke AUS
146 WEGMANN Fabian GER
147 WROLICH Peter AUT

Astana Cycling Team
151 TIRALONGO Paolo ITA
152 NEPOMNYACHSHIY Yevgeiy KAZ
153 DE LA FUENTE David ESP
154 GOUROV Maxim KAZ
155 GRIVKO Andriy UKR
156 KIREYEV Roman KAZ
157 SELVAGGI Mirko ITA
158 STANGELJ Gorazd SLN

Omega Pharma-Lotto
161 LLOYD Matthew AUS
162 BRANDT Christophe BEL
163 DE GREEF Francis BEL
164 ELIJZEN Michiel NED
165 LJUNGBLAD Jonas SUE
166 MORENO Daniel ESP
167 SCHEIRLINCKX Staf BEL
168 WEGELIUS Charles GBR

Footon Servetto
171 EIBEGGER Marcus ITA
172 CAPELLI Ermanno ITA
173 CELIS Vidal ESP
174 CORTI Marco ITA
175 DURAN Arkaitz ESP
176 FELLINE Fabio ITA
177 GIANETTI Noé SUI
178 GUTIERREZ Palacio ESP

Bbox Bouygues Telecom
181 VOECKLER Thomas FRA
182 ARASHIRO Yukiya JAP
183 CHARTEAU Anthony FRA
184 FEDRIGO Pierrick FRA
185 GAUTIER Cyril FRA
186 GENE Yohann FRA
187 LEFEVRE Laurent FRA
188 TURGOT Sébastien FRA

BMC Racing Team
191 BALLAN Alessandro ITA
192 BEYER Chad USA
193 BOOKWALTER Brent USA
194 HINCAPIE George USA
195 KROON Karsten NED
196 LOUDER Jeff USA
197 SANTAMBROGIO Mauro ITA
198 WYSS Danilo SUI

Cofidis, le crédit en ligne
201 MONIER Damien FRA
202 AUGE Stéphane FRA
203 BUFFAZ Mickaël FRA
204 CUSIN Rémi FRA
205 DUQUE Leonardo COL
206 ELFARES Julien FRA
207 MINARD Sébastien FRA
208 MOINARD Amaël FRA

Canada
211 ROLLIN Dominique CAN
212 BOIVIN Guillaume CAN
213 DIONNE Charles CAN
214 LACOMBE Keven CAN
215 LANGLOIS Bruno CAN
216 PARISIEN François CAN
217 ROUTLEY Will CAN
218 VEILLEUX David CAN

door Thomas Vergouwen
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