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• 1 A start on the other side of the Alps
• 2 Back to France
• 3 Heading for Western France
• 4 In the heart of the Pyrenees
• 5 The home stretch

The official route of the Tour de France 2024

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A start on the other side of the Alps

• Stage 1: Saturday, June 29 - Florence to Rimini - 206km - Accidental
• Stage 2: Sunday, June 30 - Cesenatico to Bologna - 199km - Accidental
• Stage 3: Monday, July 1 - Piacenza to Turin - 230km - Flat
• Stage 4: Tuesday, July 2 - Pinerolo to Valloire - 140km - Mountain

Tom Pidcock is parking his mountain bike to race the Tour de France

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Back to France

• Stage 5: Wednesday, July 3 - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Saint-Vulbas - 177km - Flat
• Stage 6: Thursday, July 4 - From Mâcon to Dijon - 163km - Flat
• Stage 7: Friday, July 5 - Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin - 25km - Time trial
• Stage 8: Saturday, July 6 - Semur-en-Auxois to Colombey-Les-Deux-Églises - 183km - Flat
• Stage 9: Sunday, July 7 - From Troyes to Troyes - 199km - Accidental

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• Stage 10: Tuesday, July 9 - Orléans to Saint-Amand-Montrond - 187km - Flat
• Stage 11: Wednesday, July 10 - Évaux-Les-Bains to Le Lioran - 211km - Mountain
• Stage 12: Thursday, July 11 - Aurillac to Villeneuve-Sur-Lot - 204km - Flat
• Stage 13: Friday, July 12 - Agen to Pau - 165km - Flat

Wout van Aert on Stage 9 of the 2023 Tour de France

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In the heart of the Pyrenees

• Stage 14: Saturday, July 13 - From Pau to Saint-Lary-Soulan - 152km - Mountain
• Stage 15: Sunday, July 14 - Loudenvielle to Plateau de Beille - 198km - Mountain

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The home stretch

• Stage 16: Tuesday, July 16 - Gruissan to Nîmes - 189km - Flat
• Stage 17: Wednesday, July 17 - From Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - 178km - Mountain
• Stage 18: Thursday, July 18 - From Gap to Barcelonnette - 180km - Accidental
• Stage 19: Friday, July 19 - Embrun to Isola 2000 - 145km - Mountain
• Stage 20: Saturday, July 20 - Nice to Col de la Couillole - 133km - Mountain
• Stage 21: Sunday, July 21 - Monaco to Nice - 33km - Time trial

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2024 Tour de France Route Presented in Paris

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The route and stage profiles of next year’ Tour de France were presented in the late morning on October 25, 2023, at a spectacular event in the Palais des Congres in Paris. The event featured Demi Vollering (Netherlands) – winner of this year’s Tour de France Femmes and Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard - winner of this year’s Tour de France. The two riders are also the winners of this year’s Velo d’Or awards, as announced yesterday at a ceremony in Paris.

Before revealing the much-anticipated route of Tour de France 2024, the Tour organizer A.S.O. – represented by Jean-Etienne Amaury – thanked the Basque Country from the bottom of their hearts for hosting the start of this year’s Tour de France in a very successful and well-organized fashion.

Christian Prudhomme, General Manager of the Tour de France race, took over the scene to continue the presentation.

Tour de France Femmes 2024 will be 946.3 kilometers long and will feature eight stages. The race will start in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on August 12, and will continue into Belgium before concluding in France where the race will visit legendary locations such as Le Grand-Bornand and Alpe d’Huez. The winner will be found and celebrated on the summit of L’Alpe d’Huez.

Tour de France 2024 will start in Firenze, Italy. The Tour de France will begin in Italy for the first time in history. For the first time in many years, Le Tour will not conclude in Paris, as Paris will be busy hosting the 2024 Olympics. Instead, the 2024 Tour de France will end with an individual time trial in Nice in Southern France.

Stage 1 of Tour de France 2024 will start in Florence, Italy and take the Tour peloton to Rimini on June 29 – the stage will include more than 3000 elevation meters.

The 2024 Tour will continue June 30 with the 200-kilometer stage 2 from Cesenatico to Bologne.

Stage 3 will begin in Piacenza/Plaisance and conclude in Turin. With its 229-kilometer route It will be the longest stage of next year’s Tour. Torino will also be visited by the Giro d’Italia in 2024.

The Tour de France 2024 will enter home territory on July 2 as the race travels into France on Stage 4. The stage will start in Pinerolo and conclude in Valloire and the route will include the legendary Col du Galibier climb. 

Stage 5 from Saint Jean de Maurienne to Saint Vulbas will be the first stage that will appeal to the sprinters in next year’s Tour peloton. The stage will take place on July 3 and will be 177-kilometers long.

Stage 6 of next year’s Tour will be contested on July 4. The riders will compete on a 163-kilometer route from Macon to Dijon. The route will take riders and television viewers through famous wine territory such as Mersault and Puligny-Montrachet. 

Stage 7 will be contested on July 5 and will be a 25-kilometer individual time trial from Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin.

On July 6 stage 8 will take place from Semur En Auxois to Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, known for the General Charles de Gaulle Memorial. The stage will appeal to the sprinters in the Tour peloton and will include a false flat in its final part.

Stage 9 on July 7 from Troyes to Troyes will travel along a vineyard route over a 199-kilometer flat distance. 

Following the first rest day of the 2024 Tour, stage 10 will begin in Orleans on July 9 and conclude in Saint-Amand-Montrond. Mark Cavendish has previously won a stage here and will be looking to repeat his successful effort after using the rest day to recover his strenth.

Stage 11 will take place on July 10 on a route from Evaux-les-Bains to Le Lioran. The route will be 211 kilometers long and will include the Col de Pertus pass.

Stage 12 from Aurillac to Villeneuve-Sur-Lot will be 204 kilometers long and will take place on July 11. 

The 171-kilometer route of stage 13 will start in Agen on July 12 and conclude in the city of Pau – a finish location known to attract the attention of the sprinters in the Tour peloton.

July 13 is set to be an important day for the climbers and general classification riders in the Tour peloton. Stage 14 from Pau to Saint Lary will feature Col du Tourmalet, the Hourquette d’Anzisan and finish with a climb to Saint-Lary-Soulan – all in a condensed 152-kilometer route design.

On July 14 Loudenvielle will host the start of stage 15 to Plateau de Beille. The route will feature the Col d’Agnes. The stage takes place on Bastille Day - the French National Day.

The remaining riders and staff in the Tour peloton will take a well-deserved rest on July 15 and attempt to relax and recover while keeping their organisms active to prevent them from shutting down completely following the sufferings they’ve been exposed to in the first fifteen challenging stages.

The Tour will continue on July 16 with stage 16 – a 187-kilometer ride from Gruissan to Nimes, near Montpellier in Southern France.

The 178-kilometer stage 17 will take the riders from Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux to Superdevoluy on July 17.

Stage 18 from Gap to Barcelonnette will invite the riders to a demanding day of racing on July 18. 179 kilometers will be contested.

Stage 19 will take the riders on a challenging mountain ride from Embrun to Isola 2000. The route will visit the legendary Cime de la Bonnette climb.

Stage 20 will be the penultimate stage of the 2024 Tour de France. The short 133 kilometer stage will begin in Nice and conclude on Col de la Couillole.

Next year’s Tour will conclude with stage 21 from Monaco to Nice on the French Riviera. Following the first twenty challenging stages of the race, Prince Albert will welcome the remains of the Tour peloton for the start of the final stage – a 34-kilometer individual time trial. The route of the final stage features more than 1700 climbing meters in the mountainous territory.

“I am pretty excited about the route of the 2024 Tour de France. I think there will be less altitude meters in next year’s Tour than in this year’s, but maybe the altitude meters will be harder,” defending Tour de France Champion Jonas Vingegaard told Roadcycling.com following the presentation event.

During the event it was announced that the cooperation between A.S.O. and Netflix has been extended to offer viewers an additional season of the Tour de France behind-the-scenes series Tour de France Unchained.

Visit Roadcycling.com for complete coverage from Tour de France 2024.

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Tour de France won’t finish in Paris for first time in more than a century because of the Olympics

This photo provided by the Tour de France organizer ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) shows the roadmap of the men’s 2024 Tour de France cycling race. The race will start in Florence, Italy, on June 29, 2024, to end in Nice, southern France on July 21, 2024. (ASO via AP)

This photo provided by the Tour de France organizer ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) shows the roadmap of the women’s 2024 Tour de France cycling race. The race will start in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Aug. 12 2024 to end in Alps d’Huez, French Alps, on Aug. 18, 2024. (ASO via AP)

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PARIS (AP) — The final stage of next year’s Tour de France will be held outside Paris for the first time since 1905 because of a clash with the Olympics, moving instead to the French Riviera.

Because of security and logistical reasons, the French capital won’t have its traditional Tour finish on the Champs-Elysees. The race will instead conclude in Nice on July 21. Just five days later, Paris will open the Olympics.

The race will start in Italy for the first time with a stage that includes more than 3,600 meters of climbing. High mountains will be on the 2024 schedule as soon as the fourth day in a race that features two individual time trials and four summit finishes.

There are a total of seven mountain stages on the program, across four mountain ranges, according to the route released Wednesday.

The race will kick off in the Italian city of Florence on June 29 and will take riders to Rimini through a series of hills and climbs in the regions of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. That tricky start could set the scene for the first skirmishes between the main contenders.

Riders will first cross the Alps during Stage 4, when they will tackle the 2,642-meter Col du Galibier.

“The Tour peloton has never climbed so high, so early,” Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme said.

And it will just be just a taste of what’s to come since the total vertical gain of the 111th edition of the Tour reaches 52,230 meters.

The next big moment for two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and his rivals will be Stage 7 for the first time trial in the Bourgogne vineyards. The first rest day will then come after a stage in Champagne presenting several sectors on white gravel roads for a total of 32 kilometers that usually provide for spectacular racing in the dust.

Tour riders will then head south to the Massif Central and the Pyrenees, then return to the Alps for a pair of massive stages with hilltop finishes, at the Isola 2000 ski resort then the Col de la Couillole, a 15.7-kilometer (9.7-mile) ascent at an average gradient of 7.1%.

There should be suspense right until the very end because the last stage, traditionally a victory parade in Paris for the race leader until the final sprint takes shape, will be a 34-kilometer (21.1-mile) time trial between Monaco and Nice.

“Everyone remembers the last occasion the Tour finished with a time trial, when Greg LeMond stripped the yellow jersey from the shoulders of Laurent Fignon on the Champs-Elysees in 1989, by just eight seconds,” Prudhommne said. “Thirty-five years later, we can but dream of a similar duel.”

There are eight flat stages for the sprinters, leaving plenty of opportunities for Mark Cavendish to try to become the outright record-holder for most career stage wins at the sport’s biggest race.

The route for the third edition of the women’s Tour will take the peloton from the Dutch city of Rotterdam, starting Aug. 12, to the Alpe d’Huez resort. The race will feature eight stages and a total of 946 kilometers.

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Paris 2024 reveals routes of Olympic road cycling events

On Tuesday, 4 July, Paris 2024 revealed the routes of the road race and time trial cycling events for the Olympic Games. For the first time in Olympic history, women and men will share the same course for the time trial. 

From the sidelines of Stage 4 of the Tour de France, Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet revealed that the cycling routes for the next Olympic Games are aligned to the Paris 2024 Games philosophy of spectacular, challenging and open to all.

Distinctive in length – 273km for the men and 158km for the women – the road race courses will be challenging for their rolling profile, a final climb up Montmartre and their technical nature, with cobbled streets and tightly winding sections to negotiate on the last part of the course before returning to the Trocadéro.

The courses are also special for bringing the Games to the more undiscovered areas of Ile-de-France, the region that encompasses Paris, with the Val-de-Marne département hosting the time trials and the Essonne département, the road races.

“Road cycling races in cities are exceptional, and they are free access events for the fans," commented Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet. "We’ll have a combination of a great show and great sporting event. It’s also the longest race in the history of the Olympic Games. It will be a difficult race with a very exciting final.”

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The Paris 2024 road race route

From the first loops to the chevreuse valley.

On Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 August 2024, starting from the Trocadéro, the men's and women's pelotons will go on a 5km procession to take in the Eiffel Tower, the Seine, Les Invalides and the Latin Quarter before the official start of the race on Rue Gay-Lussac in the 5th arrondissement. Athletes will then leave Paris, to return later in the afternoon.

For the first time in the history of the Games there will be an equal number of men and women participants with 90 men and 90 women racers going through the Hauts-de-Seine département via the Côte des Gardes hill (1.9km at 6%) in Meudon. Further on, they will catch a glimpse of the Château de Versailles, shining a global spotlight on this exceptional architectural icon that also serves as an Olympic and Paralympic competition venue.

Later, the Chevreuse Valley presents some challenging terrain for the men's and women's pelotons. Côte de Port-Royal (1km at 5%), Côte de Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse (1.3km at 6.3%) and Côte de Châteaufort (900m at 5.7%) with its memorial stone in honour of Jacques Anquetil, the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times. A succession of tough inclines follow topped off by Côte de Cernay-la-Ville (1.1km at 3.9%) for the women, and Côte de Senlisse (1.3km at 5.3%), Côte d'Herbouvilliers (850m at 5.7%), and Côte de Bièvres (1.2km at 6.5%) for the men. These all present great opportunities for spectators to watch the racers pass by at a slower pace.

These first loops in the western part of the wider Parisian region, covering 225km for the men and 110km for the women, will also give spectators a glimpse of the other Olympic and Paralympic venues: the Golf National and the Vélodrome National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, home of the French Cycling Federation.

La Butte Montmartre: ramping things up

The return into the capital, which goes past the Louvre, its Pyramid and the Opéra Garnier, heralds the final 50km of the race. No strangers to the Champs-Elysées in July at Le Tour, this time the men's and women's pelotons will head to the north-east of Paris where they will find a final segment of 18.4km, with technical bends and a tough cobbled climb on the Butte Montmartre (1km at 6.5%).

After two laps, the leading contenders will wage their final battle on the third ascent of the Butte Montmartre up towards the Sacré Coeur basilica, the last ramp before their downhill finale. The final 9.5km will take them onto Pont d’Iéna bridge, the setting for a 230m sprint finish towards the Trocadéro.

At the end of Pont d’Iéna and after 158km for the women and 273km for the men, iconic scenes will unfold as Olympic champions will be crowned and medals distributed with athletes raising their arms aloft to the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower.

"Spectators and television viewers will be amazed by magnificent sites such as the Palace of Versailles, the Chevreuse Valley, the Bois de Vincennes, the Invalides and the Eiffel Tower. We are also proud that road cycling brings the Games to new territories such as Val-de-Marne and Essonne," said Tony Estanguet , President of Paris 2024.

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The Paris 2024 time trial route

The road cycling time trials will be held one week before the first road race and also offer a host of new features. For the first time in the history of the Games, the 35 men and 35 women riders will be presented with the same course and the same distance . On Saturday 27 July 2024, the athletes will set off one by one from the Esplanade des Invalides for 32.4km of virtually incline-free terrain.

After the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, they will cross the Seine on Pont de Sully to reach Place de la Bastille. On reaching the Bois de Vincennes, the nods to sporting history begin. The Vélodrome Jacques Anquetil will be the first to be saluted for its monumental past: the venue hosted the Paris 1924 Games and was the finish line of the Tour de France from 1968 to 1974. The time trial course will then proceed to the Polygone de Vincennes, an extremely popular spot for Parisian cycling enthusiasts. Finally, the Institut National du Sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance (INSEP) will signal the turnaround point.

The racers will reach the halfway point after a brief foray into the Val-de-Marne municipalities that border the capital. Leaving the Bois de Vincennes through its château, riders will return to Place de la Bastille, after Place de Nation, and rejoin the roads they took earlier in the opposite direction. The day after the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, the Pont Alexandre III bridge will once again take centre stage as the finish line for this race against the clock.

“I really like this individual time trial route," said Vittoria Guazzini , Italian cyclist and two-time U23 time trial world champion in 2021 and 2022. "I particularly like the profile, because lately we’ve been seeing a lot of time trials that are a bit hilly. I think this one reflects the main objective of the time trial, which is to go fast. I believe that this is the right course for an Olympic Games. There are long straights where you can push hard, and a few corners where you can perhaps recover a little. It’s a good balance between some technical sections and straight lines!”

Paris 2024 road cycling time trial route

Paris 2024 road cycling schedule

Saturday 27 july, start invalides, paris - finish pont alexandre iii, paris.

14h30 – 16h00 : Women's individual time trial

16h30 – 18h00 : Men's individual time trial

Saturday 3 August

• 11h00 - 18h15 : Men's road race

Sunday 4 August 

• 14h00 - 18h45 : Women's road race

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2024 Tour de France begins June 29 and includes historic firsts. Everything to know

The Paris Olympics and Paralympics will not be the only prestigious international sporting event held in France this summer. 

The Tour de France, the preeminent event on the men’s cycling calendar, will return for its 111th edition from June 29 to July 21. During the three-week ride, 176 cyclists, representing 22 teams of eight, will complete 21 stages across hilly, flat and mountainous terrain. The course includes a grueling 52,230 meters (over 170,000 feet) of elevation gain and is 3,492 kilometers (2,170 miles) long. The taxing schedule includes only two rest days. 

This year’s race will start in Florence, Italy, and conclude at the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. It will be the first time the finish line is not in or near Paris because the city will be hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games. And the first time since 1975 the race will not finish on the Champs-Élysées.

The final stage will also break from tradition as it will be one of two time trial stages, which means the leader could be determined in the final leg. The last time the Tour de France ended with a time trial was in 1989.

In addition to Italy and France, the route passes through San Marino and Monaco. The route is famous for its picturesque scenery, from quaint rural villages to the towering Alps. 

Each stage is timed, and the rider with the lowest cumulative time across all stages wins the acclaimed maillot jaune, or yellow jersey, to signify the general classification winner. Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, 27, hopes to seek a coveted three-peat but is still working his way back from a serious crash that hospitalized him for 12 days in April. If he does race, he will face fierce competition from a talented field that includes 2020 and 2021 winner Tadej Pogača of Slovenia.

Separate awards are also given to the best sprinter, climber and young cyclist. 

Sepp Kuss, who finished as the top American in 12th place at last year’s Tour de France, is also set to return. Like last year, he will race on the same team as Vingegaard. 

How to watch the 2024 Tour de France live

All stages of the Tour de France, as well as pre- and post-race coverage, will be available to stream live on Peacock. USA Network will also stream some of the stages. 

NBC will simultaneously broadcast select stages of the event. 

Stage 1 will begin June 29 at 6 a.m. ET. The rest of the stages typically start between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. ET. 

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What is the history of the Tour de France?

The Tour de France takes place every year during the summer over a period of three weeks. Géo Lefèvre , a sports journalist, was the initiator of the event. He put forward the idea of creating a Tour de France by bicycle in 1902.

In 1903, Henri Desgrange , a cycle racer and editor of the Parisian sports daily L'Auto, created the Tour de France, also known as the Grande Boucle . At first, the Tour was held for a surprising reason, namely to boost the image of the newspaper L'Auto.

Henri Desgrange was the organiser of the Tour until 1936. He imposed a strong discipline, which contributed greatly to making the event a legend. Originally, the riders were not allowed any form of external assistance on the road and had to repair their bikes themselves in case of a technical incident.

A monument to Henri Desgrange has been erected at the top of the Col du Galibier and a Henri-Desgrange prize is awarded each year during the Tour to the cyclist who crosses the summit first.

The beginnings of the Tour de France

The night stages were abolished in 1905. This year saw the appearance of the first stage on the hills: those of the Alsace balloon.

The Tour made its first foray into a border country in 1906 and crossed the Franco-German border.

The first passages in the mountain ranges took place in 1910 in the Pyrenees and in 1911 in the Alps.

For the first time, in 1926, the Tour started in the provinces, in Evian, Haute-Savoie.

In 1930, the famous publicity caravan was born. This line of unusual vehicles passes by about an hour before the cyclists and distribute all kinds of objects, much to the delight of the spectators.

Finally, the best climber prize and a half-stage individual time trial were created in 1933.

A media event

From the outset, the Tour de France was an event that was closely followed by the media, particularly the written press. In 1930, listeners were treated to the first live radio report by Jean Antoine and Alex Virot. Radio, which was then able to give live results, replaced the newspaper.

From the end of the 1940s, television took over. In order to ensure proper monitoring of the race, all sorts of means were used. The first live coverage of an Alpine summit was limited to a still shot of the pass. It was not until the 1960s that live television reports allowed the viewer to be at the heart of the race, thanks to cameras mounted on motorbikes and relayed by plane or helicopter.

What are the different jerseys?

Some accomplishment or positions in the races are rewarded by a yellow, green, white with red dots or white jersey.

The yellow jersey

An allegory of the Tour, the yellow jersey was created in 1919. This jersey rewards the best rider in the general classification , the one who has the best time in all stages combined. The jersey is yellow because the newspaper l'Auto was yellow. The yellow jersey has become the emblem of the Tour and remains the dream of many professional riders.

The green jersey

The green jersey was not always green. In 1968, it was replaced by a red jersey (as for the leader of the Vuelta, the Tour of Spain). A change that did not please, because the following year the jersey returned to its usual green colour.

This jersey rewards the best riders, by points, at the finish of each stage . It prioritises sprint finishes , with many more points awarded than at the finish of a mountain stage. Intermediate sprints have been added to the race with additional points awarded for several years.

The white jersey with red spots

Created in 1975, this jersey is awarded to the best climber in the Tour de France . It rewards riders who finish at the top of the mountain passes (or climbs listed in the classification), with the same points system as for the green jersey.

This classification appeared in 1933, at which time it was not yet represented by the white jersey with red spots. The number of points varies according to the difficulty of the pass. Thus, the "out of category" passes are harder than the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th category passes.

The white jersey

This is awarded to the best rider under 25 years of age in the competition . This classification is based on the general classification. Created in 1975 (at the same time as the polka dot jersey), it disappeared between 1989 and 1999, then reappeared in 2000.

Route of the 2022 Tour de France

The 2022 Tour de France runs from Friday 1 to Sunday 24 July 2022 . For its 109th edition, it will include 21 stages for a total distance of approximately 3228 kilometres . The route includes 6 flat stages, 6 mountain stages, 7 hilly stages and 2 individual time trial stages.

The 21st and final stage of the Tour de France 2022 awaits you on Sunday 24 July 2022 on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées for the final sprint .

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Stage 21: Jonas Vingegaard crowned Tour de France champion in Paris / As it happened

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) won the Tour de France for the second  year in a row after finishing safely in the main field with his Jumbo-Visma teammates. Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe) sprinted to victory on the Champs-Elysées, beating green jersey Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) by less than a tyre width to take his first stage victory of the Tour de France.

Vingegaard topped the general classification with a 7:29 ahead of Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and 10:56 on Pogačar’s teammate Yates.

Stage 20: Tour de France: Pogacar rebounds to take stage 20 victory as Vingegaard seals his second overall title / As it happened

Rebounding after a disastrous stage 17 on Col de la Loze, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won the final mountain stage of the 2023 Tour de France. Crossing the line in third, with the same time, was Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) who is set to claim the overall victory for a second year, with just Sunday’s final parade stage to Paris left to race. Felix Gall (AG2R-Citroën) was second on the stage. Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), who delivered one final attack on his home roads to the delight of the huge crowds massing the roads, was caught on the final climb.

There were no changes in the top 3 on the general classification, Vingegaard, Pogačar and Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) are set to be on the final podium. Fourth on the stage, Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla) moved up to fourth overall.

Stage 19: Tour de France: Mohoric outsprints Asgreen in drag race to stage 19 finish / As it happened

There was no rest and little recovery on a wickedly fast stage 19 of the Tour, where the winning breakaway took 100 kilometres to go clear. Three riders attacked from the 36-rider move, with Matej Mohorič giving Bahrain Victorious their third stage win after Pello Bilbao on stage 10 and Wout Poels on stage 15. The GC contenders all came in together almost 14 minutes behind.

Stage 18: Tour de France: Kasper Asgreen seizes stage 18 victory from all-day breakaway / As it happened

Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-QuickStep) won the closing sprint on stage 18 of the Tour de France to hold off his breakaway companions and a surging peloton. After 185 kilometres at the front of the race with Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) and Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-QuickStep) and Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X), it came down to the final 200 metres to secure the win for Asgreen, leaving Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto Dstny), who had bridged across 58km earlier, in second and Abrahamsen third. 

There were no changes in the general classification on the largely-flat stage between Moûtiers to Bourg-en-Bresse, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) remaining in yellow.

Stage 17:   Tour de France: Vingegaard dashes Pogacar's GC hopes on stage 17 across Col de la Loze / As it happened

Felix Gall (AG2R Citroën) attacked from a reduced front group with under 13km to go and held on for a solo victory across the Col de la Loze on stage 17 of the Tour de France. Race leader Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) stamped his authority on the queen stage by dropping his main rival Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) on the final climb. Pogačar finished the stage 7:37 down – 5:45 behind Vingegaard – leaving him still in second place overall but a massive 7:35 back of the Dane.

Stage 16: Tour de France: Vingegaard removes all doubt, crushes Pogacar in stage 16 time trial / As it happened

After two weeks of racing for seconds, Jonas Vingegaard finally carved out a significant gap over second-placed Tadej Pogačar in the stage 16 time trial in Combloux. Vingegaard won the stage by 1 minute 38 seconds over his rival to extend his lead in the GC to 1:48.

Stage 15: Tour de France: Wout Poels blasts to blockbuster stage 15 solo victory / As it happened

The stalemate between Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) continued on the third mountainous day in a row at the Tour de France. The duo marked each other’s attacks on the final climb to Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and ultimately crossed the finish line together. Attacking from the break, Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious) won stage 15 after an 11km solo ride to to claim his first Tour de France stage win.

Stage 14: Tour de France: Carlos Rodríguez strikes for win on stage 14 as Vingegaard gains valuable second on Joux Plane / As it happened

Rivals Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) continued their intense battle on the final climb on stage 14 of the Tour de France with the yellow jersey Vingegaard gaining one second in an evenly matched duel. Both riders used their respective teams to dispatch all the other riders before fighting it out on the Col de la Joux Plane. Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers) took advantage of the situation to fly down the descent to take the win in Morzine, and move up to third overall.

Stage 13: Tour de France: Kwiatkowski wins stage 13 on Grand Colombier as Pogacar closes in on yellow / As it happened

The Tour de France overall standings remained neck-and-neck between leader Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar on stage 13, the second hors-categorie summit finish of the race. Michał Kwiatkowski (Ineos) won the stage from the breakaway, while UAE Team Emirates burned up the team to set up Pogačar. Vingegaard was on guard and fended his rival off until the final metres, losing eight seconds total but keeping the maillot jaune.

Stage 12:   Tour de France: Ion Izagirre secures solo victory on frantic stage 12 / As it happened

Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) won stage 12 of the Tour de France with a solo attack 30km from the line in Belleville-en-Beaujolais. His long-range breakaway rewarded the Basque rider with his second career Tour win, the last one coming in 2016. Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) outsprinted Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar) 58 seconds back to complete the podium. 

The hectic first half of the hilly 168.8km stage saw lots of attack, including Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) who was rewarded as the most combative rider. There were no changes between the top GC leaders, with Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) still in yellow and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) in second and in the best young rider jersey.

Stage 11: Tour de France: Jasper Philipsen flies to fourth sprint victory on stage 11 / As it happened

Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) showed more blistering speed, proving himself the best sprinter of the Tour de France on stage 11 to Moulins even without any lead-out from Mathieu van der Poel.

It was a squeaky clean sprint from the Belgian who has endured a flood of hate-mail about his previous sprints.

Daniel Oss (TotalEnergies) was the day's sole breakaway rider and caught with 13km to go. The GC standings remained the same as all of the contenders finished in the peloton.

Stage 10: Tour de France: Pello Bilbao scorches sprint from breakaway to win stage 10 / As it happened

Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) out-sprinted Georg Zimmerman (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) and Ben O'Connor (AG2R Citroën) to win stage 10 of the Tour de France on a sizzlingly-hot day. The Spaniard was part of the day's breakaway that brought six riders into Issoire, where he claimed the first stage victory of his career.

The breakaway gained 2:53 on the group containing race leader Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), rival Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) third-placed Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) to keep the top four in the GC standings the same.

Stage 9: Tour de France: Michael Woods triumphs with stage 9 victory atop Puy de Dôme / As it happened

The Tour de France reached the mythical ascent of the Puy de Dôme at the finish of stage 9 where Michael Woods (Israel Premier Tech) triumphed with the day's victory after being part of a large breakaway that gained upwards of 15 minutes on the main GC contenders during the stage.

On the upper slopes of the ascent, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) then surged with 1.5km to go, to put valuable seconds into Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma). Vingegaard now leads Pogačar by 17 seconds in the battle for the yellow.

Stage 8: Tour de France: Mads Pedersen beats Jasper Philipsen to win crash-marred stage 8 / As it happened

Stage 8 was a highly anticipated day for the puncheurs, even so, Mark Cavendish had his sights set on a 35th career stage win at the Tour de France, but it wasn't meant to be as the Manxman crashed with 60km to go and forced to abandon the event.

In a chaotic finish to the hilly run-in to Limoges, which saw a late-race crash take down Simon Yates (Jayco AlUla), Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) stormed to the victory in a close sprint ahead of Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma). Jonas Vingegaard finished safely in the field and carries the yellow jersey into stage 9 with a finish at Puy de Dôme.

Stage 7: Tour de France: Philipsen denies Cavendish, completes hat-trick in Bordeaux / As it happened

Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) blasted across the line in Bordeaux to win stage 7 of the Tour de France, winning by one bike length over Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan). Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) finished third in the sprint.

For Philipsen, it was his third victory of the three sprint stages in the first week of the 2023 race. He bolted down the main avenue and passed Cavendish in the closing 50 metres, holding the Manxman's attempt at a record 35th Tour stage win  at bay.

Stage 6: Tour de France: Tadej Pogacar claws back time with victory at Cauterets / As it happened

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won stage 6 with a massive attack across the final 2.7km and stormed back into the general classification mix. He distanced Jonas Vingegaard at the line at Cauterets by 24 seconds, while the Jumbo-Visma rider took the overall lead and yellow jersey away from Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), who was 2:39 back in sixth place. 

Vingegaard now has a 25-second advantage over rival Pogačar, while Hindley held the third spot in the overall, 1:34 back, after the massive 144.9km climbing day in the Pyrenees. 

Stage 5: Tour de France: Jai Hindley wins stage 5 as Vingegaard drops Pogacar in Pyrenees / As it happened

The first of the Pyrenean stages at the Tour de France had the potential to shake up the general classification, and it did just that as Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) went on a day-long attack, won stage 5 into Laruns and took the yellow leader's jersey in the process.

Hindley moved into the overall race lead by 47 seconds ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and 1:03 on Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), as Tadej Pogaçar (UAE Emirates) slipped to 6th now at 1:40 back.

Stage 4: Tour de France: Jasper Philipsen wins two in a row in crash-marred stage 4 / As it happened

There was no doubt who won stage 4 at the Tour de France, with Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) securing his second-consecutive sprint stage win in Nogaro. A day for the sprinters ended in carnage, however, as several riders crashed along the motor speedway circuit that hosted the finish.

There were no changes to the overall classification as Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) finished in the field at the end of the 181.8km stage and will wear the yellow leader's jersey into stage 5.

Stage 3 - Tour de France: Jasper Philipsen wins stage 3 after impressive lead-out from Mathieu van der Poel / As it happened

Jasper Philipsen  (Alpecin-Deceuninck) rocketed across the line in a bunch sprint in Bayonne to win stage 3 of the 2023 Tour de France. A half a wheel behind, Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) claimed second and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Dstny) third.

All the general classification contenders, including Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) in the yellow jersey, finished safely in the field with no time changes after 193.5km from the hills of Spanish Basque territory to the roads of France.

Stage 2 - Tour de France: Victor Lafay gives Cofidis their first win since 2008 on stage 2 / As it happened

Victor Lafay (Cofidis) put in a stunning attack to claim stage 2 in San Sébastian. The Frenchman clipped off the front of a select group that formed after the Jaizkibel and stole the show from Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), who won the sprint for second.

Tadej Pogačar added to his tally with a time bonus for third and also won the five bonus seconds atop the Jaizkibel ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma). His teammate Adam Yates held the lead by six seconds.

Stage 1 - Tour de France stage 1: Adam Yates wins ahead of twin brother Simon in Bilbao / As it happened

Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) won stage 1 of the Tour de France in Bilbao, outsprinting his brother Simon Yates (Jayco-Alula)  after the duo escaped together after the final climb of the Pike. Adam Yates leads the general classification by 8 seconds over his brother, and 18 seconds over his teammate Tadej Pogačar who finished third on the stage.

Enric Mas (Movistar) abandoned the stage after crashing with Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) with 23km to go. Carapaz ultimately crossed the line, over 15 minutes from Adam Yates. Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) along with other contenders Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) and Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious) are 22 seconds down overall.

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Tour de France 2023 route

The full 2023 Tour de France route was revealed at the official Tour de France presentation on 27th October .

The race starts across the border in the Basque Country, the first time the race has started there since 1992. A handful of hilly stages open the action before the race crosses the Pyrenees into France.

The route features only 22km of time trialling, all coming on the hilly stage 16. Four summit finishes also feature, including the Puy de Dôme for the first time in 35 years and the Grand Colombier in the Pyrenees.

The mountainous course brings a tough final week, concluding with a final showdown in the Vosges to Le Markstein on stage 20.

Tour de France 2023 contenders

2022 champion Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) will return to defend his title after dispatching two-time winner Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) last July. The Slovenian is racing after recovering from a fractured wrist in April, while Vingegaard starts off the back of the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Other big-name GC men lining up at the start in Bilbao include David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), Enric Mas (Movistar), Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), Ben O'Connor (AG2R Citroën), Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), and Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious).

See: Tour de France 2023 – Analysing the contenders

Tour de France 2023 teams

The 2023 Tour de France will be made up of 22 teams, 18 WorldTour teams, the two top-ranked second-division teams, and two discretionary wild-card teams.

Lotto Soudal and TotalEnergies made the cut as the best ProTeams of 2022, while Israel-Premier Tech and Uno-X were chosen as the two wildcard teams for the 2023 Tour de France .

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Tour de france history.

Jonas Vingegaard is the reigning champion, having won his first Tour de France in 2022. The Danish rider denied Tadej Pogačar a trio of consecutive victories, the Slovenian having snatched the 2020 title before dominating the 2021 race. 

Pogačar himself broke a Ineos/Sky stranglehold on the race, with the British team having won seven of the previous eight Tours de France with Egan Bernal, Geraint Thomas, Bradley Wiggins and four-time winner Chris Froome . Vincenzo Nibali, then riding for Astana, was the other man to break the British squad's dominance with a win in 2014.

The Tour wins record is currently held by four men, with Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Jacques Anquetil and Miguel Indurain all on five titles.

Peter Sagan getting once dominated the green jersey for the points classification but has been usurped in the past three years, with Wout van Aert establishing himself as the dominant man of all terrains in 2022. Sagan still holds the all-time green jersey record with seven wins in nine participations. Erik Zabel's six jerseys lie second, ahead of Sean Kelly's four.

In addition to his yellow jersey, Vingegaard won the polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification in 2022, as Pogačar did the previous two years.  Richard Virenque holds the record for polka dot jersey wins at seven, and it won't be beaten anytime soon as Pogačar and Rafał Majka are the only current riders to have won more than one king of the mountains title, with two.

Pogačar has won the white jersey for best young rider three years in a row and, at 24, is still eligible for a fourth crack in 2023.

Read on for a list of the riders with the most wins of the Tour de France, the most stage wins, as well as the major jerseys.

Most Tour de France overall wins

• 5 – Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain
• 4 –  Chris Froome
• 3 – Phiilippe Thys, Louison Bobet, Greg LeMond
• 2 – Lucien Petit-Breton, Firmin Lambot, Ottavio Bottecchia, Nicolas Frantz, André Leducq, Antonin Magne, Sylvère Maes, Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Bernard Thévenet, Laurent Fignon, Alberto Contador, Tadej Pogačar
• 1 – Geraint Thomas , Egan Bernal , Jonas Vingegaard

Most Tour de France stage wins

• 34 – Eddy Merckx, Mark Cavendish
• 28 – Bernard Hinault
• 25 – André Leducq
• 22 – André Darrigade
• 20 – Nicolas Frantz
• 19 – François Faber
• 17 – Jean Alavoine
• 16 – Jacques Anquetiil, René Le Grevès, Charles Pélissiier ...
• 12 – Peter Sagan
• 11 – André Greipel
• 9 – Tadej Pogačar , Wout van Aert
• 7 – Chris Froome

Most Tour de France points classification/green jersey wins

• 7 –  Peter Sagan
• 6 – Erik Zabel
• 4 – Sean Kelly
• 3 – Jan Janssen, Eddy Merckx, Freddy Maertens, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Robbie McEwen
• 2 – Stan Ockers, Jean Graczyk, André Darrigade, Laurent Jalabert, Thor Hushovd, Mark Cavendish
• 1 – Michael Matthews , Sam Bennett , Wout van Aert

Most Tour de France polka dot jersey/mountains classification wins

• 7 – Richard Virenque
• 6 – Federico Bahamontes, Lucien Van Impe 
• 3 – Julio Jiménez
• 2 – Felicien Vervaecke, Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Charly Gaul, Imerio Massignan, Eddy Merckx, Luis Herrera, Claudio Chiappucci, Laurent Jalabert, Michael Rasmussen, Rafał Majka , Tadej Pogačar
• 1 – Nairo Quintana , Chris Froome , Warren Barguil , Julian Alaphilippe , Romain Bardet , Jonas Vingegaard

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Can Tadej Pogačar follow Marco Pantani’s pedal strokes and win both the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in one season?

Jonas Vingegaard , Primož Roglič , Remco Evenepoel , and one of the most fiendishly tricky Tour de France routes in decades will decide.

A stupidly hard opening stage, 32km of dirt roads, an extended trip to high altitude, and a wild rollercoaster TT ride around Nice stand between uber-favorite “Pogi” and his place in history.

So cancel work, lock your family out of the house, and stock up on snacks.

These are the five must-watch stages that will decide the 2024 Tour de France:

Stage 1: Firenze-Rimini

• Saturday June 29
• 206km/3,800m+

The Florence grand départ will be the rudest slap in the face imaginable for the “Big 4″ of the Tour de France.

Seven categorized climbs – yes, seven – over a 200km+ course makes this the hilliest first stage of the Tour in history.

It’s an Italian mini-classic out of the Lombardia and Liège playbook that will show who’s hot and who’s not in what will be a wild opening day for a tightly wound, nerve-riddled peloton.

None of the Tuscan climbs on the stage 1 menu are huge, but they’re relentlessly stacked back-to-back-to-back. Former Liège-Bastogne-Liège champions Pogačar and Evenepoel would be licking their chops with delight if this was a one-day race.

The “Big 4” could end up butting heads after just 100 or so clicks of the 80+ hour Tour de France on a course like this.

Pogačar will likely be playing the Tour a lot cooler than his flamethrower approach to the Giro d’Italia. But if he’s feeling fresh and recovered just 31 days after his rampage through Italy, don’t be surprised to see the supreme Slovene burning up Le Tour from day one.

For defending champion Vingegaard, there will be no room for post-injury cobwebs .

Stage 9: Troyes-Troyes

• Sunday July 7
• 199km/2,000m+

Expect gravel beefs aplenty in the opening week of the Tour.

The race’s opening phase finishes with a stage stacked with dirt road sectors that will have old-school directors fuming and tarmac aficionados wailing.

A total of 14 chemins blancs , or white roads, line the course of this tricky, technical stage through Troyes.

Sure, a total of 32km of dirt means this is no Strade Bianche, but there’s three times more sterrato than what we saw on stage 6 of this year’s Giro d’Italia, and the most off-road Le Tour has seen in some time.

The “dirtiness” of the chemins blanc is unknown – it could be a stone-packed puncturefest or it could be hard clay that’s a cruise for any adept pro.

Yet any surface that’s not smooth asphalt comes laden with risk. Remember how Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma nearly unraveled during a wild and wacky day on the pavé in 2022?

Punctures, crashes, and potentially slow support from team cars could do a lot of damage to a peloton starting to run on fumes after nine days of racing.

Pogačar isn’t going to be pulling any sort of Strade Bianche redux with an 80km solo raid on the Tour’s ninth stage. But he’s undoubtedly the multi-surface master of the GC pack and could be poised to profit.

Some of the classification contenders could be heading into the Tour’s first rest day after stage 9 with some serious grumbles about gravel in grand tours.

Stage 14: Pau-Pla d’Adet

• Saturday July 13
• 152km / 4000m+

“4,000 meters of climbing in 80km? Yes please,” said nobody in the peloton when they looked at the course for stage 14.

This first of two days in the French Pyrénées is an interval session of ascents that won’t take any prisoners. Expect mountain trains and lots of pain in what could work out the most explosive climbing stage of the Tour.

Three high passes including the Tourmalet in little more than two hours of racing will provide the teams of the “Big 4” a true amphitheater opportunity to put the hurt on their rivals.

Teams with depth and ambition like UAE Emirates and its armada of top Pogi-supporting climbers could turn the Tour upside down on a stage short enough to be steamrollered with both feet on the accelerator.

If Pogačar still has gas in his fifth week of 2024 grand tour racing, early attacks and ambushes could be options for UAE Emirates instead of a traditional “train” approach.

If there aren’t race-shifting time gaps on GC after this short ‘n’ severe Saturday, there certainly will be 24 hours later. The under recovered peloton will be slapped with a traditional “queen stage” mountain procession through the Ariège Pyrénées the next day on stage 15.

One of the “Big 4” is sure to explode during beastly back-to-back.

Stage 19: Embrun-Isola 2000

• Friday July 19
• 145km/4,500m+

Stage 19 packs 58km – that right, FIFTY-EIGHT KILOMETERS – of uphill into just 145km. It’s a killer.

And as if the total 4,500m of total gain isn’t enough, a chunk of the elevation loaded into this 19th stage of the Tour de France is in the strength-sapping thin air of high altitude.

Each of the day’s three climbs is mind-bendingly long and crosses the lethal 2,000m elevation mark, and the Cime de la Bonnette is one of the highest paved roads in Europe.

It used to be said Pogačar had a chink in his armor when a race went this high.

The doubters thought again this May when the Slovenian slayed all his GC rivals by three minutes during the Giro’s high-altitude stage to Livigno. Roglič, Vingegaard, and Evenepoel will pray they’re similarly well adapted after their torpedoed 2024 training programs.

If “Pogi” is running on fumes, if Vingegaard is undertrained, or if Roglič and Evenepoel didn’t do the work after the Critérium du Dauphiné, the GC favorites could be scattered all through the French Alps in this decisive mountain stage.

Half the peloton stayed atop Isola during their final pre-Tour training camps. Many of them won’t enjoy going back.

Stage 21: Monaco-Nice

• Sunday July 21

Will stage 21 of this year’s Tour de France the best grand tour finale in decades? Quite possibly.

This year’s closing TT marks the first time in history that Le Tour has finished outside of Paris, and ASO designed a stunner to mark the historic occasion.

Rolling out of Pogačar’s European hometown Monaco and straight up popular test climbs La Turbie and Col d’Èze, stage 21 is a rollercoaster ride through the spectacular training roads of half the pro peloton.

La Turbie and Col d’Èze aren’t super hard, but they will be tough enough to cause consternation as Pogačar and Co. click through their turbo trainer warm-ups ahead of the stage.

If the GC is still close ahead of this final Sunday, the Tour will see it’s first competitive final since that time trial in 1989 when Greg LeMond usurped Laurent Fignon at the very last.

A twisting, high-speed descent from the Èze and into Nice means nerves could be jangling for every inch of the final 17km of this Tour de France.

All of the “Big 4” are monsters on a time trial bike, and if they’re on form the margins could be tight.

Pogačar will be hoping the race is a done deal by this point.

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Tour de France 2023 Parcours etappe 21: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Parijs

Zoals altijd is de aanloop weinig opzienbarend, met een fotoshootje hier en een geheven champagneglas daar. Zodra de renners het slotcircuit van een kleine 7 kilometer opdraaien, schiet het tempo omhoog. Met acht razendsnelle rondes en verschillende aanvallen nemen de renners afscheid van het publiek, terwijl het resultaat al sinds 2005 hetzelfde is: een massasprint.

De afgelopen twee edities vierde een Vlaming feest in Parijs. Jasper Philipsen volgde vorig jaar Wout van Aert op, die op zijn beurt in de voetsporen was getreden van Sam Bennett (2020), Caleb Ewan (2019), Alexander Kristoff (2018), Dylan Groenewegen (2017), André Greipel (2016, 2015), Marcel Kittel (2014, 2013) en Mark Cavendish (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009).

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Tour de France 2021 Route stage 21: Chatou - Paris

Champs-Élysées is French for Elysium, the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous in Greek mythology. What a place to end the world’s biggest annual sporting event!

The riders clip into their pedals in Chatou, which is situated on the Seine river just 13 kilometres shy of the finish line on the Champs-Élysées. Obviously, the riders will approach Paris’ city centre via a détour. A glass of champagne, a photo shoot, a very slow pace – those are the ingredients of the parade stage on the final day of action. But once the riders hit the cobbles on the Champs-Élysées the bunch accelerates. The stage ends with eight fast laps of almost 7 kilometres.

For four consecutive years Mark Cavendish was the fastest sprinter in Paris, but that was awhile ago in the period 2009-2012. In subsequent years Marcel Kittel (2013, 2014), André Greipel (2015, 2016), Dylan Groenewegen (2017), Alexander Kristoff (2018), Caleb Ewan (2019), and Sam Bennett (2020) powered to victory.

Bennett’s sprint victory on the Champs-Élysées had a green lining, as the Irishman also won the points competition. Cavendish could do the same. And add something extra to the mix: the all-time record of 35 stage wins at te Tour de france.

The first three riders on the line gain time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds.

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From Florence to the Beaches of Nice: How to Watch the 2024 Tour de France

This year’s edition starts in Italy and features one of the toughest opening stages ever, a 206-kilometer ride from Florence to Rimini taking riders through the heart of the Apennine mountains.

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The Tour de France was first raced in 1903 when journalist (and former bike racer) Henri Desgrange organized the event to promote L’Auto-Vélo, a French sporting newspaper that he edited–and is known today as L’Equipe. The newspaper was actually printed on yellow paper, which fuels one of the narratives surrounding the origins of the maillot jaune . That year’s Tour covered 2,428 km (1,509 mi) spread over just six stages–the average stage length was about 405 km (251 mi)–and only 21 of the original 60 starters finished the inaugural event.

Despite the low number of finishers, the event was an overwhelming success, and the Tour has since become one of the largest sporting events in the world, an event for which teams with multi-million dollar budgets spend years trying to win. For the riders, just a single stage win or day in the yellow jersey is a career-defining achievement. Riders who win the overall title–even just once–go down in history.

This year’s race covers 3,492 km (2,165 mi) spread over 21 stages, with eight days for the sprinters, two individual time trials, seven mountain stages, and about four stages for the punchy opportunists who head up the road in search of “do-or-die” breakaway stage victories–we love those guys.

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The route of the 2024 Tour de France is unlike any we’ve ever seen, mainly because it’s bookended by two of the biggest “firsts” in the event’s 110-year history: it’s the first to begin in Italy and the first to end outside of Paris (in Nice).

The Tour begins in Florence on Saturday, June 29th, the first of three-and-a-half stages in Italy. And we’re expecting fireworks right away: Stages 1 and 2 are two of the toughest opening stages we’ve ever seen, even harder than the opening stages of last year’s Tour, which took place in the hilly Basque region of northern Spain.

After a day for the sprinters on Stage 3, Stage 4 begins in Pinerolo and brings the race back into France via the 2,642m Col du Galibier. The second-highest climb in this year’s race, the first rider to the summit will win a cash prize given each year in honor of Degrange. By the end of one of the earliest mountain stages in Tour history, the GC battle will be in full swing.

The sprinters will then get two more chances as the race heads north. But the GC battle will resume on Friday, July 5th, with Stage 7, the first of two individual time trials in this year’s Tour. The first week ends with Sunday’s Stage 9, an exciting stage featuring 14 sections of white gravel roads through France’s Champagne region. This will be the first gravel stage in the history of the men’s Tour de France–the women completed a gravel stage of their own through the region in 2022.

After the Tour’s first Rest Day, the race resumes on Tuesday, July 9th, and begins a southwesterly trip–through the Massif Central, which hosts a rugged finish to Stage 11–toward the Pyrenees. Along the way, the sprinters will have a few more opportunities to win a stage before the high mountains return over the weekend.

And they return in a big way, with back-to-back hors categorie (“beyond category”) summit finishes in the mountains that form the border between France and Spain. Saturday’s Stage 12 takes the riders over the Tourmalet–which Desgrange first thought was too hard for the Tour de France–and ends with a finish at the Pla d'Adet ski resort, while Sunday’s Stage 13 ends on the Plateau de Beille–after almost 198km of racing.

As if the mountains aren’t enough cause for excitement, it’s also a holiday weekend: Sunday is Bastille Day–July 14th–so expect the roads on both days to be packed with “festive” fans. By the end of the day, the list of riders capable of winning the 2024 Tour de France will be much shorter than it was a week prior.

The Tour’s third and final week takes the race back east, where an Alpine finale looms. In all, the riders will spend four days in the mountains during the third week, first in the high Alps–with summit finishes at the end of Stage 17 ( at Superdévoluy) and Stage 19 (at Isola 2000). And don’t snooze on Thursday’s Stage 18, a saw-toothed stage from Gap to Barcelonnette that’s filled with short, jagged climbs and could be the perfect place for an ambush–or a Hail Mary–before the final weekend.

But this year’s final weekend is not what we’ve come to expect from Tours of the past. With the Summer Olympics beginning in Paris just five days after the end of the race, this year’s Tour skips its traditional finish on the Champs Elysees and instead finishes in Nice–after the hardest final weekend we’ve seen in decades.

The weekend opens on Saturday, July 20th, with Stage 20, a short but intense stage through the maritime Alps featuring four categorized ascents, including a summit finish on the Category 1 Col de la Couillole.

And just in case that doesn’t settle things, Sunday’s Stage 21 certainly will, as–for the first time in 35 years–the Tour de France ends with an individual time trial. And it’s a hard one: a 33.7 km race against the clock that takes the riders over the Col d'Èze, a tough Category 2 ascent that always features in the final stage of March’s Paris-Nice, an 8-day stage race that Tour contenders often use to build form during the first part of their seasons.

This might bode well for American fans–for two reasons. First, the last time the Tour de France ended with an individual time trial, American Greg Lemond defeated France’s Laurent Fignon–who entered the day wearing the yellow jersey–to win the Tour by eight seconds.

And this year’s winner of Paris-Nice–which finished with a stage over the Col d'Èze–was American Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), a 24-year-old from Idaho who took the yellow jersey on that final stage. Jorgenson will be lining up at this year’s Tour; could history repeat itself? We can’t wait to find out.

When it comes to watching the Tour de France, you’ve got lots of options. NBC’s Peacock ($5.99/month or $59.99/year) streams all events organized by A.S.O., which means you can watch the Tour de France now and then the Tour de France Femmes in August. (And if you’re looking for ad-free coverage, you’ll need a subscription to Peacock Premium Plus, which runs $11.99 per month or $119.99 for the year.)

The Peacock app is available on Roku, Apple devices, Android and AndroidTV devices, Google platforms, Chromecast, Xbox consoles, PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles, VIZIO SmartCast TVs, and LG Smart TVs. You can also watch online via the Peacock website.

If you have a good cable package and prefer conventional viewing on your television, you’re in luck: NBC will offer the race to cable subscribers via the USA Network and CNBC. Live coverage often starts around 7 a.m. EDT, so 9-to-5ers will likely need to record each stage and watch later. (Check the full schedule for details.)

If you’re in Canada, FloBikes ($29.99/month CDN) is the best way to watch the Tour de France. All 21 stages are available live and on-demand on FloBikes.com, the FloSports iOS app, and the FloSports app for Amazon FireTV, Roku, and Apple TV.

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) won the 2023 Tour de France, defeating Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) to defend his title from 2022. The two champions engaged in a tense battle during the first two weeks of the race and entered the second Rest Day separated by just ten seconds on the Tour’s General Classification.

But Vingegaard exploded at the start of the third week, crushing Pogačar in an individual time trial on Stage 16 and then dropping him in the Alps on Stage 17. In just two stages, the Dane’s lead went from ten seconds to more than seven minutes. Pogačar saved face by winning Stage 20, but for the second year in a row, the winner of back-to-back Tours in 2020 and 2021 was forced to settle for second place–and the white jersey as the Tour’s Best Young Rider. Pogačar’s teammate, Great Britain’s Adam Yates–won Stage 1 and wore the Tour’s first yellow jersey–finished third overall.

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was without question the Tour’s best sprinter. The Belgian won four stages and ran away with the green jersey as the winner of the Tour’s Points Classification. Italy’s Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) won the polka dot jersey as the Tour’s King of the Mountains.

Jonas Vingegaard-Hansen (Visma-Lease a Bike)

At this point in time, we’re waiting to hear if Vingegaard will even be starting this year’s Tour de France. The defending champion was one of several Tour favorites taken down in a massive crash at the Tour of the Basque Country in early April. The Dane spent twelve days in the hospital after breaking several bones and suffering a punctured lung in the fall and only resumed training a few weeks ago. Visma-Lease a Bike recently said he has a 50-50 chance of starting the race, but only will do so if the team feels he’s 100% ready to challenge for a third consecutive victory.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)

The uncertainty surrounding Vingegaard’s participation makes Pogačar the top favorite. The Slovenian won back-to-back Tours in 2020 and 2021 and scored back-to-back second-place finishes behind the Dane in 2022 and 2023. He’s been training since winning six stages and the General Classification at the recent Giro d’Italia and looks on track to become the first rider since Italy’s Marco Pantani (in 1998) to win the Giro-Tour double.

Primož Roglič (BORA-hansgrohe) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal–Quick-Step)

Vingegaard wasn’t the only Tour contender who went down in that terrible crash at the Tour of the Basque Country: Slovenia’s Primož Roglič–who was leading the race at the time–and Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel were victims as well, and both riders immediately abandoned the race. Roglič injured his knee–but suffered no major injuries–but Evenepoel needed surgery after breaking his clavicle and scapula.

Unlike Vingegaard, both riders were able to get back to training relatively quickly, and they both competed at the recent Critérium du Dauphiné . Roglič won two stages and the General Classification despite almost cracking at the end of the final stage. Evenepoel won the Dauphiné’s only individual time trial, but showed he still has some room to improve after fading in the mountains. He finished the race in seventh place overall.

Carlos Rodríguez (INEOS Grenadiers)

Rodríguez, who won a stage and finished fifth in last year’s Tour de France, won the final stage and finished fourth overall at the Dauphiné, the latest in a series of high-stage race finishes for the 23-year-old. He’ll likely be joining Colombia’s Egan Bernal (who won the Tour in 2019) and Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (Who won the Tour in 2018) on the starting line in Florence to form one of the deepest eight-rider line-ups in this year’s race.

Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike)

If Vingegaard proves unable to start the Tour, don’t be surprised if Visma-Lease a Bike turns to Matteo Jorgenson to lead the team in his place. After winning Paris-Nice and Dwars door Vlaanderen in March, the American spent much of April and all of May at training camps, building form for the summer.

Well, it must’ve worked, as the 24-year-old nearly snatched the Dauphiné from Roglič after riding away with Rodríguez at the end of the final day. In the end, he lost the race by only eight seconds–another interesting coincidence given Lemond’s margin of victory at the Tour in 1989.

The American has never captained a team at the Tour de France, but he raced the French grand tour in 2022 and 2023–so he at least knows what the Tour’s pressure-cooker atmosphere feels like. And he should benefit from the presence of his teammate Sepp Kuss , the American who shockingly won last year’s Vuelta a España and played a pivotal role in each of the six grand Tours won by the team prior to his own victory at the Vuelta last September.

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Bijzondere natuur, uitzonderlijk erfgoed en indrukwekkende bezienswaardigheden. Ook tussen de wedstrijden door scoort Frankrijk hoog. Ontdek de belangrijkste bezienswaardigheden en de highlights die je niet mag missen in de regio rond Parijs, maar ook in de buurt van de andere gaststeden van de Olympische en Paralympische Spelen van 2024.

In de omgeving van Parijs

Combineer je verblijf tijdens de Spelen in Parijs met een bezoek aan de beroemde kastelen in de nabije omgeving, zoals het paleis van Versailles of het kasteel van Fontainebleau. Win-win gegarandeerd! Meer een paardenliefhebber? Dan moet je naar de stoeterij Haras de Hardy. En fijnproevers kunnen ervoor kiezen om langs de kades van de Seine te wandelen en op een bankje te genieten van een knapperig stokbroodje of die overheerlijke Franse patisserie.

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Noord-Frankrijk

Laat je verrassen door de authenticiteit en de warmte van Noord-Frankrijk waar ontzettend veel te doen is. Breng een bezoek aan het Musée du Louvre-Lens, slenter door de beroemde badplaats Le Touquet of fiets op de Vélomaritime door de baai van de Somme, misschien spot je daar nog wel zeehonden !

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De Atlantische Loirestreek staat uiteraard bekend om de weelderige kastelen, maar dat niet alleen! Proef ook de beroemde Loirewijnen en ontdek bijzondere landschappen, zoals de zoutpannen van Guérande .

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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Laat je verrassen door de enorme verscheidenheid van de regio Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: de paarse lavendelvelden in de Provence, de Aiguille du Midi in de Franse Alpen, het Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval in de Drôme en, niet te vergeten, de vele culinaire specialiteiten!

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Nouvelle-Aquitaine 

Met de Atlantische kust, de bergen van de Pyreneeën en de wijngaarden van Bordeaux is er in de regio Nouvelle-Aquitaine voor iedereen wel wat te doen. 

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Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 

Van schitterende monumenten die op de werelderfgoedlijst van Unesco staan via de smaakvolle Provençaalse keuken en de mediterrane landschappen: laat je betoveren door de charme en de levensstijl van de regio Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. 

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De regio Grand Est heeft voor ieder wat wils. Wandel rond de meren van het Parc Naturel de la Forêt d'Orient, ontdek het vakmanschap van de champagnehuizen en slenter door de schilderachtige wijk La Petite France in Straatsburg , in de Elzas. 

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Occitanië verrast door de verscheidenheid aan landschappen. Van het viaduct van Millau tot de middeleeuwse stad Carcassonne via de stranden van de Middellandse Zee en Montpellier , deze aantrekkelijke regio geeft iedereen een warm welkom.

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Loirevallei

De Loirestreek staat bekend om de vele kastelen die deze regio rijk is. Een leuke manier om ze te ontdekken is door de fietsroute Loire à Vélo te volgen. Maar de Loirevallei kent ook een rijke geschiedenis. Zo nodigt Orléans je uit om in de voetsporen van Jeanne d’Arc te treden.

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Bretagne 

Bretagne is de bestemming bij uitstek voor liefhebbers die graag uitwaaien aan de kust. Ontdek het unieke erfgoed van deze regio tussen land en zee: de Bretonse keuken, de Cité de la Voile in Lorient, de douanepaden , de menhirs en de talrijke vuurtorens . 

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(Her)ontdek de altijd indrukwekkende Mont-Saint-Michel en maak lange fietstochten langs de Normandische kust. Liefhebbers van kunst mogen vooral Giverny niet overslaan, het is dé plek waar je meer over het impressionisme ontdekt.

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De Bourgogne en het Juragebergte

De Route des Grands Crus de Bourgogne, de basiliek van Vézelay, de Cité des Climats et Vins de Bourgogne, fietstochten in het Juragebergte: ontdek de highlights en belangrijkste bezienswaardigheden van de regio Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. 

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Matteo jorgenson sets tour de france-paris olympic double as road cycling roster named.

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Matteo Jorgenson will go from the Tour de France to the Paris Olympics this summer.

Jorgenson and Magnus Sheffield were named Friday to fill the last two spots on the U.S. Olympic road cycling team for the Paris Games. Each makes his Olympic debut.

They join the previously qualified Chloé Dygert, Taylor Knibb (who also qualified in triathlon) and Brandon McNulty.

Dygert qualified by winning the 2023 World Championships time trial. Knibb and McNulty earned spots by winning U.S. time trial titles last month.

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Jorgenson earned his Olympic place as the only American man to win a top-level international one-day road race this season — Dwars door Vlaanderen in Belgium on March 27.

Earlier in March at the eight-day Paris-Nice, Jorgenson and McNulty recorded the most prestigious U.S. men’s one-two finish in road cycling history .

“The Olympics were always a part of my childhood,” Jorgenson said, according to USA Cycling. “I remember spending entire summers watching sports I had never heard of and admiring the athletes. For sure it had a big effect on me and was one of the reasons I decided to pursue a career as a pro athlete. Being able to race in Paris, especially following the best year of my career, is a dream come true.”

Jorgenson has already been named to Team Visma-Lease a Bike’s roster for the Tour de France, a squad that also includes two-time reigning Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard and American Sepp Kuss, who won the 2023 Vuelta a Espana.

The Tour de France runs from June 29 to July 21, finishing in Nice rather than Paris due to the Olympics. At the Paris Olympics, the men’s time trial is July 27. The men’s road race is Aug. 3.

The U.S. has three men’s road race spots and two time trial spots, so Jorgenson will not do the time trial at the Olympics.

Sheffield, 22, made his Grand Tour debut in May, placing 59th at the Giro d’Italia with Ineos Grenadiers

McNulty rode the Tour in 2021 and 2022. His team, UAE Team Emirates, has not announced its 2024 Tour roster yet.

At the Tokyo Games, McNulty had the best U.S. men’s result in any cycling event — sixth in the road race.

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