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Tour de France: 2024 race to finish in Nice instead of Paris

Published 1 December 2022

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The Tour de France will finish outside of the Paris region for the first time in its 121-year history when the 2024 edition concludes in Nice.

The final stage of the Grand Tour has traditionally finished on the Champs-Elysees in the French capital.

But because of the Olympics starting days later in Paris, the 110th edition of the race will end with a time trial.

It will return to Paris in 2025, 50 years after the first finish on the Champs-Elysees.

"Nice is a city that shines, it's known around the world," Tour director Christian Prudhomme said.

"There is the beauty of the setting and the mountains nearby. The city offers an exceptional setting and a great course."

Nice hosted the Grand Depart in 1981 and 2020 and is familiar territory for cycling's elite as it has hosted the finish of the Paris-Nice - one of the most iconic races in the sport - since 1933.

The Tour has not concluded with a time trial since 1989.

The final stage has usually been ceremonial, with the leader not challenged, but that will change in 2024 when the time trial means the race could be undecided until the last moment.

The 2023 edition of the Tour, taking place from 1 to 23 July, will finish in Paris as usual.

The first edition of the Tour, in 1903, finished in Ville d'Avray, a suburb of western Paris. The next two Tours also finished in the surrounding Paris area but the winners were celebrated at the Parc des Princes.

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The arrival of the Tour de France 2024 in Nice

🚴🏼 nice will be hosting the finish of the tour de france 2024, on its beautiful promenade des anglais.

For the first time in its history, the Tour will finish somewhere other than Paris! This 111th edition will start in Florence, Italy, on 29 June and finish in Nice on 21 July 2024.

In the presence of the Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, and Prince Albert II of Monaco, the organisers of the Tour de France have unveiled the details of the last 2 stages of the 2024 event.

On Saturday 20 th July, the riders will set off from the Promenade des Anglais on a spectacular route up to the Col de la Couillole.
On Sunday 21 th July, the 21 st and final stage will be contested as a time trial between Monaco and Nice.

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⏱ A final time trial in Nice

From the coast to the mountain peaks, Nice Côte d’Azur is an exceptional playground for sports enthusiasts and professionals alike. The organisers of the Tour de France made no mistake when they chose Nice to crown the winner of the 2024 edition!

The final stage of the 2024 Tour de France will not be a traditional sprint on the Champs-Elysées, but an individual time trial between the Principality of Monaco and Nice. This will be the first time that the Tour will finish in a time trial since the 1989 victory of American Greg Lemond, who stole victory from Frenchman Laurent Fignon, then wearing the jersey, by eight seconds.

📍 The Tour de France route

The Tour de France 2024 is set to be an exceptional event, with a Grand Départ from Italy!

🔎 Focus on the 21 stages

Florence ▸ Rimini – 206 km
Cesenatico ▸ Bologne – 200km
Plaisance ▸ Turin – 229km
Pinerolo ▸ Valloire – 138km
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne ▸ Saint-Vulbas – 177km
Mâcon ▸ Dijon – 163km
Nuits-Saint-Georges ▸ Gevrey-Chambertin – 25km
Semur-en-Auxois ▸ Colombey-les-deux-églises – 176km
Troyes ▸ Troyes – 199km
Orléans ▸ Saint-Armand-Montrond – 187km
Évaux-les-Bains ▸ Le Lioran – 211km
Aurillac ▸ Villeuneuve-sur-Lot – 204km
Agen ▸ Pau – 171km
Pau ▸ Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet – 152km
Loudenvielle ▸ Plateau de Beille – 198km
Gruissan ▸ Nimes – 187 km
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux ▸ Superdévoluy – 178km
Gap ▸ Barcelonnette – 179km
Embrun ▸ Isola 2000 – 145km
Nice ▸ Col de la Couillole – 133km
Monaco ▸ Nice – 34km

The Tour stage

The 32 nd stage of the Tour de France will take place on 7 July 2024 between Nice and the Col de la Couillole.

📍 A 138 km route with 4,600 m of ascent and four passes on the programme:

Col de Braus – 1002m
Col de Turini – 1607m
Col de la Colmiane – 1500m
Col de la Couillole – 1678m

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(2nd L to R) Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, Tour de France general director Christian Prudhomme, Director General of Amaury Sport Organisation Yann Le Moenner, and Prefet of Alpes Maritimes Bernard Gonzalez attend the announcement that Nice will host the final stage of the 2024 Tour de France, on the french riviera city of Nice, on December 1, 2022 - For the first time since 1905, the Tour de France will not have its usual finish in Paris in 2024, closing instead with a time trial in Nice, organisers announced on December 1, 2022. Although the race has been brought forward one week so as not to clash directly with the Olympic Games, which is being hosted in 2024 by Paris, it will still finish on July 21, just five days before the opening ceremony. (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP) (Photo by VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

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The 2024 Tour de France will end on the French Riviera instead of the French capital because of the Paris Olympics.

The finish of cycling’s marquee race leaves Paris for the first time.

Tour organizers said on Thursday the last stage of its 111th race will take place in the Mediterranean resort of Nice on July 21. Five days later, Paris opens the Olympics.

Because of security and logistical reasons, the French capital won’t have its traditional Tour finish on the Champs-Elysees. Parting with tradition of a sprint on the Champs-Elysees, the last stage will be an individual time trial along Nice’s famed Promenade des Anglais.

The start of the 2024 race, which will begin for the first time in Italy, was brought forward by one week, a customary change during an Olympic year. The Tour will start on June 29 in Florence.

Nice has hosted the Tour 37 times, including its start twice, in 1981 and in 2020. Two years ago, the start was delayed until Aug. 29 due to lockdowns and travels bans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The 2024 Tour de France will feature four summit finishes and two time trials, as well as a hilly start in Italy, gravel roads, and an unprecedented finale in Nice

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The 2024 Tour de France route map

The parcours for the 111th edition of Tour de France was officially unveiled in Paris’s Palais des Congrès on Wednesday, with race organisers ASO once again rolling out a route that suits the climbers over the rouleurs.

There’s enough on offer for the sprinters – six or seven solid opportunities – and terrain for puncheurs and baroudeurs, but the focus becomes increasingly mountainous as the race heads towards its final third.

The 2024 Tour de France will cover a total distance of 3,405.6km, with the focus on climbing underlined by the total of 52,000 metres of elevation gain. That's slightly down on the 2023 total but still over 10,000m more than the recently-revealed Giro d'Italia 2024 route .

The 2024 Tour starts with three stages in Italy and crosses into France via the Alps before venturing north for the first time trial and a heavy helping of gravel. The second week takes the race down towards the Pyrenees via the Massif Central, for a double-header of summit finishes before the final week unfolds in the Alps.

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Four summit finishes is a heavy helping, with Pla d’Adet and Plateau de Beille coming back-to-back in the Pyrenees at the end of the second week, before Isola 2000 and La Colmiane feature in the Alps the final week. You could even make a case for it being five, with a finish at Superdévoluy also appearing in the Alps.

All that climbing is balanced out – although whether that is the case is a perennial debate – by two time trials, the first a 25km rolling effort near Dijon towards the end of the first week, the latter a hilly 35km affair to close the entire race.

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It was already known, but that final day is the major novelty of the 2024 Tour de France, as the race concludes outside of Paris for the first time in its long history, due to the impending Olympic Games in the French capital. Not only does it swerve Paris, it also swerves the procession-and-sprint format that had become embedded on the Champs Elysées, with the first final day time trial since the iconic 1989 finale meaning the battle for the yellow jersey will come down to the very last day.

In lining up the most intense final day in modern history, the organisers have not made the rest of the final week any more gentle in compensation. In fact, this is arguably the toughest final week of the Tour de France in recent memory, too.

Four of the six stages are potentially pivotal days for the general classification. The climbs to Superdévoluy on stage 17 and the 4,500 metres of climbing en route to La Colmiane on stage 20 come either side of an explosive high-altitude affair that finishes at Isola 2000. Rivalling that for the honour of ‘Queen stage’ of the 2024 Tour is stage 15’s trip to Plateau de Beille, which is the sixth major mountain pass of the day. At over 200km and with more than 5000m of elevation gain, it’s a Bastille Day monster.

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When you consider that the Plateau de Beille stage forms a Pyrenean double header right ahead of that final week, that makes five summit finishes and one hilly time trial in the space of the final eight stages. This is a well and truly backloaded Tour de France.

And yet, it’s also one of the toughest starts in the race’s history, too. The 3,600 metres of elevation gain on the road from Florence to Rimini are the most of an opening stage, and more than in the Basque Country last year. On top of that, stage 4 takes the race into France via the Alps, and there’s no light touch, with a long climb to Sestrière and then the mythical Col du Galibier (2,642m) before the finish in Valloire –" Never before has the Tour been so high, so soon," said race director Christian Prudhomme.

One of the standout features of the opening week, and of the whole route, is the gravel stage around the Côte des Bar areas of Champagne country, with no fewer than 14 sectors of dusty white gravel to be tackled on a stage that starts and finishes in Troyes.

In short, it's a route with an intense start, an even more intense final third, and plenty of thrills in between.

Tour de France week 1: Italy, time trial, and gravel

The opening stages of the 2024 Tour de France

Despite the backloaded nature of the route, the 2024 Tour de France starts out in tough, hilly fashion.

For the third year in a row, we have a foreign Grand Départ, with Florence doing the honours and seeing the race off for a stage that finishes in Rimini, where 1998 Tour de France winner Marco Pantani died almost 20 years ago. It’s a hilly affair as the route crosses the Apennines, with over 3000 metres of elevation gain before the last of seven categorised climbs tops out in San Marino before the 25km run down to the Adriatic coast.

Stage 2 takes place in the Emilia-Romagna region and is a puncheur’s paradise. Starting in Pantani’s home town of Cesenatico, the route runs northwest to Bologna to borrow from the route of the Giro dell’Emilia, with a double ascent of the steep and striking San Luca climb (1.9km at 10.6%), followed by a fast and twisting 10km run to the line.

After another hilly start to the Tour – even if not on the same level as 2023’s visit to Bilbao – the sprinters will have their chance on stage 3, which contains three categorised climbs but none that are realistically going to prevent a bunch finish in Turin, which also plays a leading role in the start of the 2024 Giro d’Italia .

Stage 4 starts in Pinerolo and heads for France. The only way in is via the Alps, so we have an early visit to the mountains, and it doesn't shy away from the biggest mountains, despite coming so early. The stage starts with a long near-40km haul to Sestrières, before the shorter Col de Montgenèvre and then the mighty Galibier (23km at 5.1%), followed by a 19km descent to Valloire.

Stages 5 and 6 then start to take the race northbound up France’s eastern flank, with finishes in Saint-Vulbas and Dijon looking like sprint opportunities.

Stage 7 is the first individual time trial. Starting in Suits-Saint-Georges, it heads in a roundabout way up to Gevrey-Chambtertin, on rolling roads that cut alongside the vineyards of one of the many French areas famed for its winemaking. At 25km long, it's a medium-length test that will truly shape the general classification for the first time.

Stage 8 takes the race from Semur-en-Auxois to Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises for what could be another sprint finish, but it’s stage 9 – the last of the opening week – that catches the eye with its gravel roads. Troyes hosts not only the start but also the finish of this stage, which heads into the Côte des Bars area of Champagne country and its dusty white vineyard tracks.

This stage was inspired by the Tour de France Femmes, which used the same tracks on a dramatic stage of its inaugural edition two years ago. But whereas the women covered four sectors that day, here we have 14 sectors, the first coming after 40km and the last 10km from the line.

With the risk of punctures and mechanicals high, not to mention the stress and stretched nature of the bunch on those tracks, it'll be one of the most intense and highly-anticipated days of the entire race.

While we’ve had plenty of cobblestones, this will be the largest helping of gravel in the race’s modern history. The last bit of rough stuff – beyond the short stretch atop the Super Planche des Belles Filles – was the stoney off-road section beyond the Plateau des Glières used on stage 18 in 2020.

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Tour de France week 2: Journeying south to the Pyrenees

Tadej Pogačar leads Jonas Vingegaard through the Pyrenees at the 2021 Tour de France

The second week is largely a transition to take us down to the Pyrenees for the high-mountain weekend doubleheader. Troyes – 100km south of Paris – is the most northerly point of the 2024 Tour and, after a rest day in Orléans, the race will head south for four days.

The first of these, stage 10, looks like a sprint opportunity in Julian Alaphilippe’s hometown of Saint Amand Montrond, but crosswinds are well known in this area and the Tour was memorably ripped to shreds there in 2013, with Mark Cavendish beating Peter Sagan from a front echelon of a dozen riders.

Stage 11 takes us into the Massif Central, a medium mountain range in the middle of France, where we’ll have a repeat of the 2016 stage to Le Lioran, via the Puy Mary and Col du Perthus and Col de Font de Cère. Greg Van Avermaet won from the breakaway that day and while this is not one of the more obvious GC flashpoints, the scale of climbing (4,500m) and distance (just shy of 200km) make this a very real pitfall for anyone even slightly below their best.

Stage 12 takes the race out of the Massif Central and southwest for a breakaway winner or a sprint in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, while stage 13 completes the southerly haul with another flat stage from Agen to Pau. This will likely be another day for the sprinters when the peloton arrives in Pau, an oft-visited staging post of the Tour, known as the gateway to the Pyrenees.

Starting from Pau the next day, stage 14, the first Pyrenean stage of the race, finishes on Pla d’Adet, marking the 50th anniversary of the first visit and Raymond Poulidor’s victory there in 1974. The climb was last used in 2014, with Rafal Majka winning the stage and Vincenzo Nibali strengthening his grip on the yellow jersey. Measuring more than 10k.6m at an average gradient of 7.9%, it’s a tough hors-catégorie-rated ascent, and it's not on its own, with the iconic Col du Tourmalet (19km at 7.4%) – the Tour's most-used climb – and the Hourquette d'Aancizan (8.2km at 5.1%) coming ahead of the final climb.

That, however, pales in comparison to what’s to come on stage 15, a 198km mountain epic. The sheer difficulty of this stage may discourage riders from taking too many risks in the days prior. The astonishing route scales the Peyresourde (6.9km at 7.8%), from the gun, followed by the vicious Col de Menté (9.3km at 9.1%), the shorter Col de Portet d’Aspet (4.3km at 9.7%), and Col d’Agnès (10km at 8.2%), all before the final haul to Plateau de Beille – 15.8km at 7.9%. The climb was last used in 2015 in the Tour won by Chris Froome and although there weren’t too many GC fireworks that day, the level of climbing beforehand makes this a different beast entirely.

Tour de France week 3: All-action finale in the Alps

The Alps take centre stage during the final week of the 2024 Tour de France

After the second rest day, the final week starts out with a well-worn ‘transition’ from the Pyrenees towards the Alps, with the peloton heading east along the southern border. In the Alps, three further summit finishes lie in wait, along with that all-important final-day time trial.

Having already been driven east to Gruissan for the rest day, the riders will continue to Nîmes on stage 16 likely for a sprint finish in sweltering heat. From there, it’s straight into the climbing, with stage 17 finishing in the ski resort of Superdévoluy on the western fringes of the High Alps. The resort has never featured in the Tour, and it’s arguably the tamest of the final-week mountain stages, coming down late to the Col du Bayard (6.8km at 7.3%), the Col du Noyer (7.5km at 8.4%) and then a short hop up to the finish at Superdévoluy (3.8km at 5.9%).

Stage 18 is something of a parenthesis, avoiding any big mountains on the road from Gap to Barcelonette. It's a hilly stage in which a breakaway looks destined to contest the stage honours.

It’s back towards the Italian border on stage 19 as things really intensify on the road to Isola 2000. The stage starts in Embrun and quickly heads for the Col de Vars (18.8km at 5.7%, 2,120m), before the Cime de la Bonnette (22.9km at 6.9%, 2,802m) marks the lung-busting high point of the 2024 Tour. The stage concludes with a final ascent to Isola 2000 (16.1km at 7.1%). The heady altitude of this stage will put this comparatively short 145km ride on a par with the stage 15 epic in the Pyrenees.

Stage 20 begins on the south coast for the double-headed finale in Nice, but the mountains are not in the rearview mirror yet, as the route sends the riders straight back inland to the Alpes-Maritimes in the hinterland of Nice. The Col de Braus, Col de Turini, and Col de la Colmiane all feature ahead of a summit finish on the Col de la Couillole (15.7km at 7.1%), which was the final climb of this year’s Paris-Nice. With 4,500m of elevation crammed into 132km, it promises thrills.

For the first time since 1989, the yellow jersey will not be decided on that penultimate day. Instead, the Tour will be raced until the very last metre. Much will depend on the race situation, but the concluding time trial in Nice offers a huge chance for the tables to turn, with a demanding all-round test on the Côte d’Azur. Instead of hugging the coast road between Monaco and Nice, the 35km course quickly nips inland to head up the La Turbie (8.1km at 5.6%) and Col d’Eze (1.6km at 8.1%) before a long descent back to the coast and a short run up and down the Promenade des Anglais to finish the Tour.

The Champs Elysées are hallowed ground for the Tour de France, but the Olympics have offered a convenient excuse for potentially one of the most thrilling finales we’ve seen in years.

Tour de France 2024 Stages

Stage 1: Firenze - Rimini | 206km

Stage 2: Cesenatico - Bologna | 200km

Stage 3: Piacenza - Torino | 229km

Stage 4: Pinerolo - Valloire | 138km

Stage 5: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - Saint-Vulbas | 177km

Stage 6: Macon - Dijon | 163km

Stage 7: Nuits-Saint-Georges - Gevrey-Chambertin | 25km (ITT)

Stage 8: Semur-en-Auxois - Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises | 176km

Stage 9: Troyes - Troyes | 199km

REST DAY 1 - Monday 8 July

Stage 10: Orléans - Saint-Amand-Montrond | 187km

Stage 11: Evaux-Les-Bains - Le Lioran | 211km

Stage 12: Aurillac - Villeneuve-sur-Lot | 204km

Stage 13: Agen - Pau | 171km

Stage 14: Pau - Saint-Lary-Soulan (Pla d’Adet) | 152km

Stage 15: Loudenvielle - Plateau de Beille | 198km

REST DAY 2 - Monday 15 July

Stage 16: Gruissan - Nîmes | 187km

Stage 17: Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - Superdévoluy | 178km

Stage 18: Gap - Barcelonnette | 179km

Stage 19: Embrun - Isola 2000 | 145km

Stage 20: Nice - Col de la Couillole | 133km

Stage 21: Monaco - Nice | 35,2km (ITT)

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UCI Wins 35
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UCI Wins 73
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UCI Wins 25
Height 1.73m

Remco Evenepoel

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UCI Wins 54
Height 1.71m

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Jasper Philipsen

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Dates 29 Jun - 21 Jul
Race Length 3,492 kms
Race Category Elite Men

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Tour de France 2024 Route stage 20: Nice - Col de la Couillole

The penultimate stage of Le Tour has written Paris-Nice written all over it. Not only does the race start in Nice, laos three of the four mountains served as finishes in recente editions of the Race to the Sun.

In 2018 it was Simon Yates who won the Paris-Nice stage to the Col de la Colmaine. Primoz Roglic and Daniel Felipe Martínez turned out on top on Col de Turini, respectively in 2022 and 2019. And in Tadej Pogacar showcased his skills on the Col de la Couillole. By the way, all climbs – with the exception of the Couilolle – were tackled from another side than will be the case on the Tour.

So the Tour goes ‘Paris-Nice’ and it does so in stile. The race kicks into gear at the Place Masséna in Nice. The riders rolll out in northerly direction and enter the first climbs after 15 kilometres. The Col de Braus is a 10 kilometres effort at 6.6%.

Straight after the descent the road goes back up again. The Col de Turini is the longest – 20.7 kilometres – climb of the day and it leads to the highest point at 1,608 metres above sea level. The average gradient on the Turini sits at 5.7%.

The riders fly through the midway marker on descent and back in the valley, in Roquebillière, the next climb begins at shallow gradients. This part of the Col de la Colmaine is not classified as a climb, but it does go up. Only the last 7.5 kilometres – at 7.1% – are KOM classified, but if you count from bottom to top the Colmaine is roughly 20 kilometres long and averaging almost 5%.

Following the downhill to Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée the finish climb kicks in. The Col de la Couillole is a 15.7 kilometres long ascent with an average gradient of 7.1%. The section some 6 kilometres before the finish was important in the 2023 edition of Paris-Nice. Following an intitial move by Chris Harper the big three of that race took the reins. Tadej Pogacar, David Gaudu and Jonas Vingegaard distanced the field before Pogacar sprinted to victory in the fast few hundred metres.

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Embrun > Isola 2000

The menu for this ultra-mountain stage could well make you dizzy, but it’ll also whet the appetite of the very best climbers. Although the stage is less than 150km long, the riders will climb above 2,000 metres on three occasions, the biggest test the climb to the summit of La Bonette, the highest road in France at an altitude of 2,802 metres. Its 360-degree panorama is breath-taking.

The Paris-Nice regulars will be racing over familiar terrain, but that won’t make things any easier if the contest for the Yellow Jersey is still raging, particularly over such a short distance. Battle could commence as early as the climb to the Col de Braus. There will then be no respite on the climbs of the Cols de Turini, de la Colmiane and finally de la Couillole, the final ascent extending for 15.7km at an average gradient of 7.1%. We’ll all be holding our breath!

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-Élysées in 1989, by just eight seconds. Thirty-five years on, we can but dream of a similar duel, involving two or three riders, an authentic athletic confrontation whose outcome would determine the final podium of the 111th edition, and the first to finish far from its familiar Parisian setting, the ultimate finale destined for Place Masséna, just a few pedal-strokes from the Promenade des Anglais.

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Tour de france 2024 is the first to start in in italy and finishes in nice instead of paris. here are the highlights on the route.

T our de France 2024 is making an unusual break from tradition: for the first time in its 120-year history, it will not finish in Paris. This is because the dates of the 2024 race — Saturday, June 29 to Sunday, July 21 — are too close to those of the Olympics and Paralympics, which will be held in Paris and venues across France from July 26. So competitors will be winding their way from Florence through northern Italy and central France to reach Nice, where the race will end. The starting point marks another first, as it’s the first time Italy has hosted the Grand Départ . Some are already calling the route the hardest they’ve seen. To see a slice of the action and combine it with a mini-break, here are the best places to stay along the Tour de France 2024 route.

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1. Florence

When June 29, Stage 1 On the south side of the River Arno, Piazzale Michelangelo, with its sweeping view of the Florentine skyline, is the postcard-perfect starting point of Tour de France 2024. From there, the race continues south out of the city, climbing through the Apennines towards the Adriatic coast and Rimini. En route, it will pass the Gino Bartali museum in Ponte a Ema, a tribute to the legendary cyclist who won the Tour twice, in 1938 and 1948. The official presentation of the teams takes place a couple of days before, on June 27, when they’ll depart from Palazzo Vecchio for Piazzale Michelangelo. Florence is very walkable so you can’t really go wrong by basing yourself somewhere in the historic centre. Try the Continentale, which is just steps from Ponte Vecchio and just about anywhere else you might want to see, whether it’s Pitti Palace or the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.

Via dei Giraldi in the historic centre of Florence (Getty Images)

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When June 30, Stage 2 Departing from the town of Cesenatico, just outside Rimini, the second stage is considerably gentler than the first. It’s still hilly, though, because the finale in Bologna includes two gruelling climbs to Basilica Di San Luca — a stretch that features in both the Giro d’Italia and the Giro dell’Emilia — before a finish at Piazza Maggiore. Fortunately Bologna is one of the most gastronomic cities in Italy , and a stay here is rewarded with the products of the region, among them Parmigiano Reggiano, prosciutto di Parma, mortadella di Bologna, Modena’s syrupy balsamic vinegar and fizzy lambrusco. You should just about get a glimpse of the finish line from Art Hotel Commercianti — if not, there’s the view of San Petronio, which is right next to the hotel.

Crowds at the Giro d’Italia in Bologna (Alamy)

When July 1, Stage 3 Stage 3 is one for the sprinters. The mostly flat terrain will take riders from Emilia-Romagna, through Lombardy, before finishing in Piedmont, where Turin is playing host to the finish line at Parco del Valentino. No visit to this city of elegant baroque architecture would be complete without a visit to the Museo della Sindone, which explores the history of the Shroud of Turin; there are also gems such as the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, where the first Italian cars are housed, and the Museo Egizio, with its priceless collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts. Go for the Grand Hotel Sitea, which is centrally located and has a Michelin-starred restaurant.

The Basilica di Superga in Turin (Alamy)

When July 4, Stage 6 Incorporating a portion of the sublime Route des Grands Crus, Stage 6 is one that wine lovers will appreciate. Starting from Mâcon, the racers will tackle flat roads through vineyards before finishing in Dijon. The city is compact and walkable, but not especially touristic; among the highlights are the Palais des Ducs and the covered markets. What makes a stay here special is the city’s proximity to some of the most famous French vineyards, including those of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Check into the Grand Hôtel La Cloche Dijon – MGallery, which is close to the train station and the town centre.

The Church of Notre-Dame and traditional buildings of Dijon (Getty Images)

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When July 9, Stage 10 After a rest day in Orléans — the first of the race — the tenth stage sets off from this Loire Valley city and through the Sologne forest before finishing in the village of Saint-Amand-Montrond. It’s worth getting here a day or two early as the teams will be using their rest day for active recovery so you’ll have a good chance of spotting them. In terms of things to do, this city was saved by Joan of Arc during its siege by English troops, and the Maison de Jeanne d’Arc is a tribute to her life. There are also lovely walks along the Loire and it’s within striking distance of the region’s grand châteaux, such as Château de Chambord. The Empreinte Hotel & Spa is right on the river and is surrounded by the most historic parts of the city.

The statue of Joan of Arc in the Place du Martroi in Orléans (Getty Images)

When July 12 and 13, Stages 13 and 14 Pau is an important stop on the Tour de France circuit, often serving as a base camp for riders either before or after the Pyrenees. In 2024, it will serve as the finishing point of Stage 13 from Agen, and the start of the gruelling Stage 14 to Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet, a ski resort high up in the Pyrenees. Château de Pau is its main attraction; now a museum, it was here that Henry IV of France and Navarre was born in 1553. The rest of the city is not as interesting as the scenic countryside that surrounds it — plan an outdoor break of hikes and bikes here. Your hotel options are limited; try Hôtel Bristol Pau, a boutique hotel in the city’s atmospheric centre.

Fans cheer on the riders as they race through the countryside to Pau (Alamy)

When July 16, Stage 16 Appearing on the Tour de France circuit for the 20th time, Nîmes is a favourite staging stop for the race. Luckily for visitors, there’s plenty to see and do as well. The city was once an important outpost of the Roman Empire and the Arena of Nîmes is a prominent reminder. Delve into more of this this history at the family-friendly Museum Romanité, which has interactive elements that children will love. Also worth a visit are the Jardins de la Fontaine — one of the first public parks in Europe, on the site of an ancient spring. Stay at Margaret – Hôtel Chouleur in the heart of the city.

The historic centre of Nîmes (Getty Images)

When July 20 and 21, Stages 20 and 21 Nice is both the final stop of the Tour de France 2024 and a staging city. Stage 20 sees participants peddle through scenic mountain terrain to Col de la Couillole in the Alps, while Stage 21 is the individual time trial from Monaco. As the gateway to the Côte d’Azur, Nice hardly needs any introduction — like the rest of the French Riviera, the beaches are its top attraction. But stroll down the Promenade des Anglais or visit the Marché Aux Fleurs Cours Saleya and you’ll suddenly feel like you’ve moved in. Stay at Hôtel La Pérouse, which has some of the nicest views of the coastline and the Colline du Château just behind it.

Spectators get a great view of the Tour on the Promenade des Anglais (Getty Images)

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When July 21, Stage 21 The final stage of the Tour de France is a comparatively short 21-mile sprint from Monaco to Nice, and arguably one of the most exciting legs of the race. After all the excitement, head to the Monte Carlo Casino. Even if you don’t gamble, the architecture is worthy of a gander; outside, supercars pass with regularity through the throng of camera-toting tourists. For views of handsome yachts, skip the harbour and head for Port de Fontvieille instead — it’s much quieter and is close to the Prince’s Palace. Hotel de Paris Monte-Carlo is the grande dame here, home to Alain Ducasse’s first three-Michelin starred restaurant, Louis XV, and with a view of the casino and the sea.

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111th edition expected to visit Dijon, Massif Central and the Pyrenees before Alpine and Nice finale

CANTAL FRANCE SEPTEMBER 11 Peloton Col de Ceyssat 1078m Landscape during the 107th Tour de France 2020 Stage 13 a 1915km stage from ChtelGuyon to Pas de PeyrolLe Puy Mary Cantal 1589m TDF2020 LeTour on September 11 2020 in Cantal France Photo by Michael SteeleGetty Images

The 2024 Tour de France will start in Italy and end in Nice with further details of the race route are emerging before the full route presentation, via the ever-scrupulous Velowire.com website created by Thomas Vergouwen.

The French language website suggests next year’s Grand Boucle will enter France from Italy via the Alps and then head northwest to Dijon before passing down through the Massif Central towards the Pyrenees. The decisive mountain stages of the third week will be in the Alps before the time trial from Monaco to Nice on the final day.

The full route of the 2024 Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will be revealed on 25th October at the usual presentation event in Paris.

The 2024 Tour de France will be held a week earlier than usual, between Saturday 29th June and Sunday 21st July, due to Paris hosting the Olympic Games which begin on July 26.

Tour de France 2024 to end with hilly 35km time trial to Nice Tour de France to begin in Italy for first time in 2024 Tour De France 2024 Stages

Security and logistical reasons mean the race will end away from the French capital for the first time in the history of the race, with Nice hosting the final stages. It will also be the first time that the Tour concludes with a time trial since Greg LeMond dramatically pipped Laurent Fignon on the Champs-Elysées in 1989.

Race organisers ASO have already revealed the Grand Depart stages in Italy, also a first in the history of the 111 editions of the Tour de France.

The opening stage will cover 205km from Florence to Rimini, with a stage in Emilia Romagna between Marco Pantani’s birthplace in Cesenatico and Bologna. Stage 3 takes the riders east from Piacenza to Turin.

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Stage 21 on Sunday, July 21 is a hilly 35.2km test against the clock starting in Monaco and finishing in Nice with the climbs of La Turbie and the Col d’Eze lying on the route. The final 15km are on a long sweeping descent to Nice and then along the Promenade des Anglais to a finish on the Place Masséna.

Velowire has begun to plot the expected route of the race, using local media reports, sources and hotel bookings to work out the start and finish locations of stages. Details are still incomplete but Velowire usually predicts the full details of the route before the official presentation.

Information on the early stages in France after the Italian Grand Depart are still scarce but the riders could face an early day in the Alps and finish in Valloire.

The first rest day is expected to be held in the Côte-d'Or department region that encircles Dijon after several transition and sprint stages between the Alps and the area famous for Burgundy wines.

A 15-20km time trial could be held before the rest day, the short distance perhaps indicating the return of the team time trial, with a finish on the Prenois motor racing circuit a possibility.

Week two will likely begin with a stage to Troyes, one of the heartlands of French cycling and close to Paris. Velowire expects the route to then turn south via the Massif Central, with a finish in Lioran or on the Puy Mary climb. Stage 12 leads the race towards the Pyrenees with a finish celebrating the Roquefort cheese.

Pau has long been the central spot of the stages in the Pyrenees but Carcassonne seems more likely to host the second rest day in 2024 after a first mountain finish and a return to Plateau de Beille.

The third week will cross southern France to the Alps, with a mountain finish widely expected at the Super-Dévoluy ski resort. Stage 18 will also be in the Alps, between Gap and Barcelonnette, while stage 19 could climb the 2.715m high Col de la Bonette before a finish in Isola 2000, just 130km from Nice.

The final weekend will include a hilly road stage that starts and finishes in Nice, with Sunday’s final 35.2km time trial a very hilly and consequently very important stage. It will include the La Turbie and the Col d’Eze climbs, before a fast descent to the finish in Nice to crown the 2024 Tour de France winner.

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Who’s #1? Ranking the Top 2024 Tour de France Contenders

This is the second edition of Bicycling’ s Power Rankings for the 2024 Men’s Tour de France, where we rank the top contenders leading up to July’s race. This continuously updated list will give you an in-depth look at the riders that have the best shot to stand atop the podium at the end of the Tour—and how they’re performing in the races leading up to July.

These rankings will be constantly refreshed, so you can see who’s up and who’s down on the road to the 2024 Tour de France.

The 2024 Tour de France is expected to bring together the sport’s four best grand tour riders: Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), winner of the last two Tours de France; Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), winner of the 2020 and 2021 Tours de France; Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step), winner of the 2022 Vuelta a España; and Slovenia’s Primož Roglič (BORA-hansgrohe), a 3-time winner of the Vuelta and the winner of last year’s Giro d’Italia.

Each rider is taking a different path to the Tour de France, with each choosing to mix race days with extended periods of time spread all over Europe at training camps–either alone or with their teammates. And while some of their paths will cross at certain races throughout the first half of the season, they won’t all race together until the Tour.

Three of the five riders in our last power ranking haven’t raced since, but the other two made headlines in an important Spanish stage race–one for his domination and the other for his continued improvement.

Below, you’ll find the first edition of Bicycling ’s Men’s Tour de France Power Rankings.

Jonas Vingegaard

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Race Days : 11

Race Wins : 7

Best Result : 1st-place, General Classification - Tirreno-Adriatico

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The Tour’s 2-time defending champion, Vingegaard hasn’t raced since winning two stages and the General Classification at the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race in March. Instead of racing, the Dane stayed in Italy to recon the opening stages of the upcoming Tour de France (the race is starting in Italy) [Link to TDF Course Overview.], and then went to his home in Lugano, Switzerland to train for the next race on his program, the Tour of the Basque Country, where he’ll race for the first time against his former teammate, Slovenia’s Primož Roglič (BORA-hansgrohe).

Tadej Pogačar

Race Days : 9

Race Wins : 6

Best Result : 1st-place, General Classficiation - Volta Ciclista a Catalunya

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Winner of back-to-back Tours in 2020 and 2021–and runner-up to Vingegaard in 2022 and 2023–Pogačar has cemented his place as the Dane’s top challenger with a third-place finish in last Saturday’s Milan-Sanremo and the overall victory at last week’s Volta Ciclista a Catalunya.

The Slovenian left no doubt as to who was the strongest rider in Catalunya, finishing second in an uphill sprint on Stage 1 and then blowing the doors off everyone on back-to-back summit finishes on Stages 2 and 3.

At that point, with more than a 2-minute lead, most riders would have shifted into defense-mode. But not Pogačar, who said earlier in the week that one of his career goals is to win all seven of the sport’s most important week-long stage races. Instead of riding to defend his lead, Pog continued to attack, winning Saturday’s Stage 6–which took the race over the monstrous Coll de Pradell–and then just for good measure, Sunday’s Stage 7–in a small group sprint.

By the end of the week Pogačar had a 3:41 advantage over the race’s next-best rider–Spain’s Mikel Landa (Soudal-Quick Step). He’s now won six races in only nine days of racing. Wow.

That could have been enough of a performance to vault him over Vingegaard at the top of our ranking, but here’s the thing: Pogačar’s first goal of the season is May’s Giro d’Italia, a race which could leave the Slovenian a bit depleted heading into the Tour. No one has won the Giro and the Tour de France in the same season since Italy’s Marco Pantani in 1998, and those were–for many reasons–different days.

But we can’t ignore how strong the Slovenian is currently (a rider competing against him last week said that everyone is basically racing for second-place whenever he shows up on the start list), and if he maintains–or even improves upon–his current level of fitness, the Italian grand tour will be his race to lose.

Remco Evenepoel

Race Days : 14

Race Wins : 4

Best Result : 2nd place, General Classification - Paris-Nice

Like Vingegaard, Evenepoel hasn’t raced since our first power ranking. And like Vingegaard, he stuck around after his last race–France’s Paris-Nice–to take an early look at some key stages in the upcoming Tour de France.

But while Vingegaard focused on the Tour’s opening stages, Evenepoel focused on the Tour’s final weekend, which takes place in and around Nice.

While Evenepoel was training, his team’s big off-season signing, Spain’s Mikel Landa, raced well at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya. The Spaniard was by-far the best of the men trying to keep up with Pogačar in the mountains and finished second overall. That’s a good sign for Evenepoel and his team, which will be doing everything it can to measure up to the depth of teams like Visma and UAE at this year’s Tour.

Up next for the Belgian is Spain’s Tour of the Basque Country, where he’ll join forces with Landa to take on Vingegaard and Roglič. It will be interesting to see how Evenepoel approaches the race: he could do everything possible to win the overall, but a better move might be to save a little bit for the Ardennes classics that he’s slated to ride after leaving Spain.

Primož Roglič

Race Days : 8

Race Wins : 0

Best Result : 3rd place, Stage 7, Paris-Nice

Roglič is the biggest unknown of the riders on this list. He’s raced just once–at Paris-Nice earlier this month–and didn’t do much to make anyone think he has the leg to challenge men like Vingegaard and Pogačar at the Tour.

But the Slovenian has not been shy about the fact that he is taking a slow and steady approach to preparing for the Tour de France, a strategy that could pay off for him if his younger rivals burn too many matches too early in the season.

His next race will be the Tour of the Basque Country. This will be Roglič’s biggest test so far, both because of the terrain–the Tour of the Basque Country is one of the hardest races of the season–and the competition–Vingegaard, Evenepoel, and Egan Bernal are all expected to start the race.

But here’s the good news: Roglič is a two-time winner of the event, and he knows these roads well. Anything other than a top-3 finish would be a disappointment.

Egan Bernal

Race Days : 27

Best Result : 3rd place, General Classficiation - Volta Ciclista a Catalunya

Bernal keeps piling on the race days, perhaps trying to make-up for the time he lost when a crash in early 2022 nearly ended his career.

The Colombian just finished third overall at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, his fourth stage race of the season, and scored his first WorldTour podium finish since 2021. That’s a big deal for a rider who wasn’t even sure if he’d race again–let alone be a contender in some of the sport’s biggest races.

But as much as we’re impressed with his consistent improvement so far this season, we’re more excited about the tenacity he’s displayed. Last year he seemed happy just to be racing again, but now he looks like he wants to start winning again–and we love it.

INEOS must love it as well, but the British team is still playing it safe with the Colombian, and they still haven’t announced which grand tour he’ll be targeting this summer. It will be either the Tour de France or the Vuelta a España, but our guess is that the team will ultimately send him to the Tour.

Under Consideration

A 3-time runner-up at the Tour of Spain, Spain’s Enric Mas (Movistar) has failed to finished the last two Tours de France. But he rode well in Catalunya, finishing fifth overall. If he keeps it up, he could be on track to equal (and possibly better) his fifth-place overall finish at the Tour in 2020.

Denmark’s Mattias Skjelmose (LIDL-Trek) hasn’t raced since winning a stage and finishing fourth overall at Paris-Nice. He’s next slated to race at the Tour of the Basque Country, where we’re eager to see how he does.

Three and a half months out from the start of the men’s Tour de France, we ranked the top yellow jersey threats in the peloton.

The Challengers of the 2024 Giro d’Italia and Tour de France

We look beyond Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard and into the riders who are set to bring the heat to this year’s Grand Tours.

Primož Roglič

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As we grow nearer to Grand Tour season, the story is no doubt going to center around cycling’s two biggest names: Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard. Can Pog pull off the Giro/Tour double? If he’s going to, he’ll have to vanquish Vingegaard, the only rider who’s been able to go toe-to-toe with Pogačar. On the other side of the coin, can Vingegaard go three-for-three, becoming just the ninth rider to win at least three Tours (and the sixth to win three consecutively)?

Here are the contenders primed to challenge cycling's dominant duo in the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France :

Remco Evenepoel

There’s no denying that Evenepoel is one of the most talented riders in the WorldTour ranks. And with a pair of Liège-Bastonge-Liège wins and a Vuelta win, he already has a palmarès that most riders dream of. But after a bitterly disappointing Giro abandonment last season and years of answering questions about when he’s going to race the Tour, the time may be here for Evenepoel to exorcize some of the demons and answer the questions that always seem to be following him around.

Yes, he’s won a Grand Tour, but it wasn’t the Grand Tour. Maybe 2024, his Tour debut, is the year to rectify that for and with his Soudal-Quick Step team.

With a new team in Bora-Hansgrohe, Roglič will once again be looking to avenge one of the most bitter losses in cycling history: to recapture the Tour de France win that he was just one heartbreaking stage away from in 2020.

That 2020 loss, combined with Vingegaard’s unexpected ascension, pushed Roglič to the fringes of the Grand Boucle. Now, he’ll head into France as the undisputed team leader. And while Roglič’s had a less-than-stellar season thus far, according to Bora’s performance director Rolf Aldag, all eyes are on the Tour for Roglič and his team.

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Just twenty years old, Ujitdebroeks is heading into the Giro with expectations that are simultaneously high and reasonable. Early reports are that the Visma-Lease a Bike all-rounder will be chasing both stage wins and the pink jersey.

Uijtdebroeks finished eighth in last summer’s Vuelta a España and none of the seven riders ahead of him are slated to start the Giro. Of course, it’ll help his cause that he’ll have Wout van Aert, perhaps the world’s greatest domestique, working for him throughout Italy.

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Last year, Ben O’Connor asked his French team, Decathlon-AS2R La Mondiale, if he could shift his focus from the Tour de France to the Giro d’Italia. After two consecutive Tours marred by crashes, sickness, and just plain bad luck, O’Connor is hoping to right his ship with a go at the pink jersey.

To the surprise of many, AG2R acquiesced and, as O’Connor has the most WorldTour points of any Giro entrants as of this writing, early returns say they may have made the right move.

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Like Pogačar, Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas is targeting the Giro/Tour double. He’ll be the team’s sole GC hunter in Italy, as he aims to avenge the pink jersey he lost to Primož Roglič on the penultimate stage of last year’s Giro.

The picture in France gets a bit murkier, as Ineos will be sending Tom Pidcock and Carlos Rodríguez both to the start line in June, making Thomas’s hunt for a second yellow jersey—he won the Tour 2018—a far less straightforward proposition.

The 27-year-old Bora-Hansgrohe rider raised plenty of eyebrows at the dawn of this season when he said he would let the road decide whether he would race for or against his new teammate—and presumed team leader—Primož Roglič.

Well, the reality of that statement might come to a head sooner rather than later. Vlasov has been looking strong this spring, with his most eye-catching performance coming in Paris-Nice, where he finished fifth overall, seventh in the points classification, and fourth in the KOM race. Roglič, on the other hand, finished that race tenth, eleventh, and tenth in those very same classifications.

Whereas so many riders are bolstered by hype, Simon Yates’s chances for a surprise Tour victory are supported by the fact that he just always seems to be there, near the front, toe-to-toe with the best and the brightest. The Jayco-AlUla leader, who finished fourth overall in 2023, will be making his seventh Tour appearance, so he knows the race as well as just about any of the other contenders. But more than anything, he’ll likely need a few breaks to roll his way.

The 2022 Giro champion is expected to ride in support of Roglič in the Tour. But we all know how mercurial Roglič can be, which means Hindley may be presented with a sudden and unexpected chance to fight for the yellow jersey.

I’m combining these three, as their longshot potential to make a run at GC would depend on Vingeaard and/or Pogačar blowing up or abandoning, neither of which either does very often. Kuss has shown that he has the strength and the grit to win a Grand Tour, but his shot at the yellow jersey would wholly depend on whether or not Vingegaard is at or near the front.

The same goes for Ayuso and Yates, who will both ride in support of Pogačar this summer. Yates finished third in last year’s Tour, proving that he’s much more than just another domestique. Meanwhile, all signs have been pointing to UAE Team Emirates grooming the 21-year-old Ayuso to be something of a 1A to Pogačar.

Michael Venutolo-Mantovani is a writer and musician based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He loves road and track cycling, likes gravel riding, and can often be found trying to avoid crashing his mountain bike.

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Les épreuves de football des tournois féminin et masculin auront lieu dans plusieurs villes françaises. À l’Allianz Riviera, habituel antre de l’OGC Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), six rencontres se joueront au mois de juillet. Découvrez toutes les informations nécessaires.

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Les Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024 arrivent à grands pas, dans moins de quatre mois. Et la ville de Nice est prête pour accueillir certaines épreuves fin juillet, cinq jours après l’arrivée du Tour de France dans la ville azuréenne.

Elle fait partie des sept villes françaises dans lesquelles se joueront certains matchs des tournois de football féminin et masculin. Six matchs, trois masculins et autant dans le tableau féminin, se dérouleront dans son stade de l’Allianz Riviera, où évolue habituellement l’OGC Nice.

Chez les hommes :

Mercredi 24 juillet (17 heures) : Groupe A 1re journée Barrage Asie-Afrique - Nouvelle-Zélande
Samedi 27 juillet (21 heures) : groupe A 2e journée France - Barrage Asie-Afrique
Mardi 30 juillet (17 heures) : Groupe B 3e journée Maroc - Équipe asiatique 1

Chez les femmes :

Jeudi 25 juillet (21 heures) : Groupe B 1re journée États-Unis - Maroc ou Zambie
Dimanche 28 juillet (19 heures) : Groupe B 2e journée Australie - Maroc ou Zambie
Mercredi 31 juillet (21 heures) : groupe A 3e journée Colombie - Canada

À la suite du tirage au sort des tournois de football féminin et masculin , un million de billets ont été remis en vente par l’organisation des Jeux olympiques, sur le site de Paris 2024 .

Pour le deuxième match de poules des Bleus le samedi 27 juillet, le prix des places disponibles démarre à 50 euros, celles de catégorie D à 30 euros étant épuisées. La catégorie A (la plus élevée avant les loges à 100 euros) propose des places à 80 euros. Vous trouverez également des billets à 65 euros.

Pour les cinq autres matchs de groupes qui ne concernent pas la France, les prix oscillent entre 24 et 50 euros. 70 euros si vous prenez des places en catégorie First pour assister aux matchs depuis les loges.

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2024 Tour of Flanders: Preview, schedule, how to watch men's and women's cycling classic races live

Who will succeed defending champions Tadej Pogacar and Lotte Kopecky? Find out the routes and the main contenders for this year's 'De Ronde' one-day races, in our preview.

The Tour of Flanders is the first cobbled classic Monument of the season

Sunday 31 March 2024 is a date to mark on the calendar for road cycling fans.

On that day, the Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen), the second classic Monument of the 2024 season, will celebrate its 108th men's and 21st women's editions.

The men's event, which has taken place every year since 1919, will start again from Antwerp, as it did between 2017 and 2022, covering 17 iconic climbs and five cobblestone sectors for a total of 270.8 kilometres. The women will tackle 12 climbs, taking on a 163km traverse through the Flanders region in Belgium.

Who will succeed defending champions Tadej Pogacar and Lotte Kopecky ?

Find out in our preview below.

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2024 Tour of Flanders course routes

The men's route covers 270.8 kilometres.

The organisers have decided to modify the first 100 kilometers for safety reasons, removing the climbs of Kortekeer and the Kanarieberg. A year ago, the start was in Bruges, while this year it will be in Antwerp. The finish will be in Oudenaarde.

The riders will have to tackle 17 climbs:

Vieux Quaremont (km 136,7)
Kappelle Berg (km 155,7)
Wolvenberg (km 158,9)
Molenberg (km 171,3)
Marlboroughstraat (km 175,3)
Berendries (km 179,3)
Valkenberg (km 184,7)
Berg Ten Houte (km 197,1)
Hotond (km 206,6)
Vieux Quaremont (km 216,5)
Paterberg (km 219,9)
Koppenberg (km 226,2)
Steenbeekdries (km 231,6)
Taaienberg (km 234,0)
Kruisberg (km 244,3)
Vieux Quaremont (km 254,1)
Paterberg (km 257,6)

The women's route spans 163 kilometres.

Both the start and finish are scheduled in Oudenaarde.

There are 12 climbs to face during the race:

Wolvenberg (km 72,1)
Molenberg (km 84,6)
Marlboroughstraat (km 88,6)
Berendries (km 92,6)
Valkenberg (km 97,9)
Kappelle Berg (km 109,7)
Koppenberg (km 118,4)
Steenbeekdries (km 123,7)
Taaienberg (km 126,2)
Kruisberg (km 136,5)
Vieux Quaremont (km 146,3)
Paterberg (km 149,7)

2024 Tour of Flanders riders to watch

Men's race - 2024 riders to watch.

A mass crash during the Dwars door Vlaanderen on Wednesday ruled out some of his biggest contenders, including Wout van Aert, who suffered fractured collarbone and ribs. Defending champion Tadej Pogacar decided to skip the Ronde this year to focus on the preparation of the Giro d'Italia. The big names who will be competing are:

Mathieu van der Poel (NED/Alpecin Deceuninck): The two-time winner (2020, 2022) is considered the undisputed favourite after dominating the E3 Saxo Classic and finishing second at last week's Gent-Wevelgem, and with archrival van Aert not competing.
Matteo Jorgenson (USA/Team Visma | Lease a Bike): The American rider is expected to lead his team following his win at the Dwars door Vlaanderen and the injuries carried by both Tiesji Benoot and Jan Tratnik. This season he also claimed the general classification at the Paris-Nice.
Alberto Bettiol: The Italian is a former winner of the Ronde and, despite suffering from cramps at the recent Dwars door Vlaanderen, has demonstrated a good form by winning the Milano-Torino and finishing fifth at the Milan-San Remo.

Women's race - 2024 riders to watch

Lotte Kopecky (BEL/SD Worx-Protime): The Belgian superstar and reigning world champion is aiming for a third consecutive Flanders title after her convincing victories at Strade Bianche and Nokere Koerse so far this spring.
Demi Vollering (NED/SD Worx-Protime): The Tour de France Femmes reigning champion, who finished third at Strade Bianche, is ready to step up as a leader if Kopecky finds herself in difficulty.
Elisa Balsamo (ITA/Lidl-Trek): Italy's 2021 road world champion has impressed this season, showing that she can both climb and sprint by winning the Trofeo Alfredo Binda and the Brugge-De Panne.

2024 Tour of Flanders: Race schedules

(All times local CEST, approximate after race start. Assumes an average race speed of 44km/h for men and 40km/h for women)

Sunday 31 March 2024

10:00 Start men's race (Antwerp)

13:25 Start women's race (Oudenaarde)

16:29 Estimated men's race finish (Oudenaarde)

17:44 Estimated women's race finish (Oudenaard)

Tour of Flanders: Last five winners

2023 Tadej Pogacar (SLO/UAE Team Emirates)
2022: Mathieu van der Poel (NED/Alpecin-Fenix)
2021: Kasper Asgreen (DEN/Deceuninck-Quick-Step)
2020: Mathieu van der Poel (NED/Alpecin-Fenix)
2019: Alberto Bettiol (ITA/EF Educational First)
2023: Lotte Kopecky (BEL/SD Worx)
2022: Lotte Kopecky (BEL/SD Worx)
2021: Annemiek van Vleuten (NED/Movistar Team)
2020: Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (NED/Boels-Dolmans)
2019: Marta Bastianelli (ITA/Team Virtu Cycling)

How to watch 2024 Tour of Flanders - Ronde van Vlaanderen

List of regional broadcasters (TV / online):

Belgium – RTBF
Czechia – Czech TV
Denmark – TV2
France – France TV
Italy – RAI
Netherlands – NOS
Norway – TV2
Slovenia – JOJ
Spain – Enjoy
Switzerland – SRG SSR
Pan-Europe – Eurosport, GCN
Canada – Flobikes
United States – Flobikes
Australia – Flobikes, SBS
New Zealand – SKY Sport
Central and South America and the Caribbean – ESPN
Sub-Saharan Africa – Supersport

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