Tour de France 2017 live stream: Time, TV schedule, and route for Stage 21

Here we are at the end. The Tour de France’s last stage is rarely important. Outside of eight relatively contested laps around the Champs-Élysées ending in what will be a watered-down sprint this year, the final Sunday of La Grand Boucle is reserved for celebrating everything that happened in the three weeks gone by. Chris Froome and Team Sky will drink champagne to celebrate winning the yellow jersey. Everyone else will take it easy, knowing they’ve completed one of the hardest sporting events on Earth.

The 103-kilometer course will begin in Montgeron this year, and enter the Champs-Élysées after 48 kilometers. There will be a few perfunctory breakaways, an intermediate sprint, and at the very end we’ll see weather André Greipel will finally get a stage win this year. Then we’ll finally put a bow on this massive, silly, convoluted enterprise.

The stage will get a relatively late start, beginning at 10:50 a.m. ET. NBCSN, NBCSports.com, and the NBC Sports App will begin broadcasting at 10:30 a.m. NBC Sports Gold will show the stage without commercial breaks beginning at 10:35 a.m. to anyone who bought the cycling package.

As mentioned, Greipel has yet to win a stage this year, which is unusual because the 35-year-old has won a stage in the Tour de France every year since 2011. He is one of the most decorated sprinters ever, with 22 Grand Tour stage wins including 11 at the Tour.

Granted, Greipel has been showing his age lately, but in a defanged group of sprinters he is arguably the favorite to win Sunday. Mark Cavendish, Peter Sagan, Marcel Kittel, Dan McLay, and Arnaud Démare all left the Tour early for various reasons, leaving few who could challenge Greipel on flat ground.

The only true bit of drama will be for the final podium place. Just one second separates third place Romain Bardet and fourth place Mikel Landa on the general classification. Though it is generally unexpected, and perhaps frowned upon, for GC riders to race hard on the last day, Landa could be tempted throw a wrench at Bardet and wrest away glory for himself.

Images courtesy of the Tour’s official site.

Start time: 10:50 a.m. ET (approx.)

Route: 103 kilometers from Montgeron to Paris Champs-Élysées

TV: NBCSN, beginning at 10:30 a.m.

Streaming: NBCSports.com and NBC Sports app beginning at 10:30 a.m., NBC Sports Gold (commercial free) beginning at 10:35 a.m.