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Un an après la première victoire de Jonas Vingegaard, devant Tadej Pogacar, les coureurs retrouvent les routes de France mais pas seulement. Après le Danemark en 2022, le Tour de France s'élance cette année de l'Espagne et plus précisément de Bilbao. Après trois jours au Pays Basque (côté espagnol) les coureurs traverseront les Pyrénées avant de traverser le centre de la France pour filer dans les Alpes. Un seul contre-la-montre au programme (22 km) pour cette édition 2023, lors de la 16e étape, avant de conclure la Grande Boucle à Paris, sur les Champs-Elysées. 

Du 23 au 30 juillet 2023, ce sera au tour des femmes de s'élancer pour la deuxième édition de cette course de 8 étapes, dirigée par Marion Rousse. Lors de la première édition, Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) s'est largement imposée devant sa compatriote Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx) et la Polonaise Katarzyna Niewiadoma. Cette année les coureuses vont partir de Clermont-Ferrand pour terminer cette grosse semaine à Pau, avec un contre-la-montre de 22 km. Après avoir traversé le Massif Central, direction les Pyrénées avec une arrivée au sommet et quelle étape ! Après être parties de Lannemezan, les athlètes vont grimper le Col d’Aspin (12 km à 6.5%) avant de conclure avec le tant redouté Col du Tourmalet (17 km à 7.3%).

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Questions fréquentes

Quelles sont les étapes du Tour de France Hommes cette année ?

Bilbao > Bilbao Vitoria-Gasteiz > San Sebastian Amorebieta-Etxano > Bayonne Dax > Nogaro Pau > Laruns Tarbes > Cauterets Mont-de-Marsan > Bordeaux Libourne > Limoges Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat > Puy de Dôme Vulcania > Issoire Clermont-Ferrand > Moulins Roanne > Belleville-en-Beaujolais Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne > Grand Colombier Annemasse > Morzine Les Gets > Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc Passy > Combloux Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc > Courchevel Moûtiers > Bourg-en-Bresse Moirans-en-Montagne > Poligny Belfort > Le Markstein Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines > Paris

Quelles sont les étapes du Tour de France Femmes cette année ?

Clermont-Ferrand > Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand > Mauriac Collonges-la-Rouge > Montignac-Lascaux Cahors > Rodez Onet-le-Château > Albi Albi > Blagnac Lannemezan > Tourmalet Pau > Pau

Combien y a-t-il de coureurs au Tour de France Hommes ?

22 équipes sont invitées à disputer le Tour de France avec une sélection de 8 coureurs soit un total de 176 coureurs.

Combien y a-t-il de coureuses au Tour de France Femmes ?

22 équipes sont invitées à disputer le Tour de France avec une sélection de 7 coureuses (6 l’an dernier) soit un total de 154 coureuses.

Combien y a-t-il de contre-la-montre cette année ?

Le Tour de France Hommes compte un seul contre-la-montre dans cette édition 2023. Le mardi 18 juillet 2023, lors de la 16e étape, les coureurs s’élanceront pour 22.4 kilomètres entre Passy et Combloux, sur un terrain escarpé dans les Alpes. Le Tour de France Femmes compte également un seul contre-la-montre, lors de la 8e et dernière étape, le dimanche 30 juillet 2023. Au programme 22 kilomètres entre Pau et Pau.

Combien gagne le vainqueur du Tour de France Hommes ?

Au total 2,3 millions d’euros seront attribués et mis en jeu pour les équipes et les coureurs dont 500 000 € au vainqueur du classement général individuel final.

Combien gagne la vainqueure du Tour de France Femmes ?

Au total, 250.000 euros seront partagés entre les coureuses dont 50 000 € pour la vainqueure du classement général individuel final. La deuxième touchera 25 000 € et la troisième 10 000 €.

Qui a gagné le Tour de France Hommes en 2022 ?

Jonas Vingegaard a remporté l’édition 2022 avec une avance de 2mn43 sur Tadej Pogacar. Le Danois a remporté l’épreuve pour la première fois de sa carrière.

Qui a gagné le Tour de France Femmes en 2022 ?

Annemiek van Vleuten a remporté l’édition 2022 avec une avance de 3mn48 sur Demi Vollering. La Néerlandaise remporte cette épreuve pour la première fois de sa carrière.

Combien d’équipes françaises sont au départ du Tour de France Hommes ?

Cinq équipes françaises prendront le départ de cette édition 2023 : AG2R Citroën Team, Groupama-FDJ, Team Arkea-Samsic, Team Cofidis et TotalEnergies.

Combien d’équipes françaises sont au départ du Tour de France Femmes ?

Quatre équipes françaises prendront le départ de cette édition 2023 : FDJ-Suez, Cofidis, Arkéa Pro Cycling Team et St Michel-Mavic-Auber93.

Tour de France 2021: Stage 3 highlights - Video

Flat stage strewn with crashes that create havoc with general classification

Scars from multiple crashes ravaged stage 3 of the Tour de France all along the 182.9km route, but Alpecin-Fenix survived with Tim Merlier winning the stage and Mathieu van der Poel retaining the yellow jersey for a second day. Merlier’s teammate Jasper Philipsen would take second ahead of Nacer Bouhanni (Arkea-Samsic).

The yellow jersey and bike of Mathieu van der Poel was seen at the front of the race with 1.5km to go in the Alpecin-Fenix lead-out, which put Van der Poel safely across the line in seventh and still holding the maillot jaune .

But a day of carnage on the road created havoc with the GC, as well as future stage win hopes. There was a breakaway, with four of the five staying away for 176 kilometres, but the escapees proved secondary to the collisions and derailments.

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At the 37-kilometre mark into the 182.9km race depart in Lorient, race favourite Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) went down hard, along with several Jumbo-Visma riders. Thomas was able to remount and push on with a dislocated shoulder, but Robert Gesink (Jumbo-Visma) was forced to abandon due to his injuries.

With just under 10km to go, Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) fell hard on the side of the road with teammate Jonas Vingegaard, and with 4km to go, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) was involved in a crash on the downhill finish. Both remounted but lost time, with Pogačar moving from third to sixth on GC and Roglič from fourth to 20th.

Within sight of the finish line, a final crash took out Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) and Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), with Ewan later taken to hospital and withdrawing due to a right collarbone fracture. 

Watch the stage 3 race highlights in the video above. 

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The Best Highlight Videos of the 2023 Tour de France Are Amazingly Complete, and Even Better, Free

The official TdF YouTube channel has all the action without having to dedicate half of your day to watching the each stage.

Each stage gets a preview, and then highlights throughout the day, updated as the race unfolds. So if you, say, have to pop into a meeting at work, you can get a quick recap immediately about what you missed in that hour that could have been an email (we’ve all been there).

For example, the stage 5 Tour de France YouTube coverage included nine videos with everything from a pre-race interview with Julian Alaphilippe, to a post-race recap with stage winner, Jai Hindley . We get caught up on each section of the stage, with all the crashes, close-calls, and sprints away from the peloton. An excellent way to stay in the know about all the action.

The Tour de France also has a TikTok , which has been giving us heartfelt, funny, and dramatic moments, both in the race and from the downtime before and after each stage. So far the Tour’s TikTok page (@LeTourDeFrance) has featured lots of funny faces and the lighter side of the most serious race on the planet.

And if you’re in the market for a little more sarcasm and analysis from a retired WorldTour pro, Phil Gaimon is also posting a daily 10-20 minute recap on his YouTube channel, which occasionally features guest voices, and maybe even an appearance from his hilarious dog, Creature.

It’s the Tour de France! You can never have too much coverage! So watch it all and keep reliving the best moments.

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Bradley Wiggins is moving ever closer to becoming the first British winner of the Tour de France after another successful day in the Pyrenees, the final of the mountain stages

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The Tour de France 2024 begins on Saturday 29 June 2024 and marks the 111th edition of cycling's flagship race. In the first Grand Départ for Italy, the race starts in Florence and traces a path east across the country, before heading back west towards France and into the Alps. 

The race also tackles the Apennines, Massif Central and Pyrenees mountain ranges, and passes through Italy, San Marino, Monaco and France. This edition breaks from tradition, finishing not in Paris but in Nice, due to the 2024 Paris Olympics. 

The three-week event is the second in the trio of Grand Tours, coming after the Giro d'Italia and before the Vuelta a España .

Tour de France 2024: Overview

Tour de france 2024: the route.

One for the climbers, the 2024 Tour de France route incorporates four summit finishes, spans four mountain ranges, and features the hilliest opening stage in history. One of the most interesting and intriguing routes of recent years, sitting between the predominantly hilly week one and week three sits a flatter week two, and stage nine - with an abundance of white roads; 14 sectors in total. There's plenty for the sprinters as well as the general classification and climbing specialists, although there are going to be some tough mountains to get over to reach the sprint stages, and to finish the three weeks. For the first time in 35 years, a final day time trial means the yellow jersey won't be decided on the penultimate day. 

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Tour de France 2024 route: Stage-by-stage

Tour de france 2024: the teams.

There will be 22 teams of eight riders at the 2024 Tour de France. This includes all 18 UCI WorldTour teams, as well as the two best-ranked UCI ProTeams, and two further squads invited by the organiser, ASO. 

Tour de France 2024: General classification riders

The general classification riders set to appear on the start line in Florence on June 29 are as of yet unconfirmed.

Reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard is extremely likely to be there to defend his title, and there should be no challenges from within the team since Primož Roglič's move to Bora-Hansgrohe. However, Roglič will be making his own bid for the win as the new team leader, with the route suiting him well. 

Following the route announcement in October, Tadej Pogačar said that the "end of the journey makes me smile", with the final 2 stages starting and finishing close to his home in Monaco. Pogačar is hoping to take back the top step in 2024 after two years of missing out on yellow to Vingegaard.

Remco Evenepol intends to make his Tour de France debut in 2024. Although he took a win in 2022 at the Vuelta, his performance in other Grand Tour races has been either inconsistent or blighted by illness. If he's to compete against the likes of Vingegaard and Pogačar, he'll have to up his game. It's not yet known who Ineos Grenadiers will hand the reins to, but, coming 5th overall and taking a stage win in his Tour debut in 2023 , Carlos Rogríguez seems a likely choice.

Tour de France 2024: Sprinters

It's going to be a tough year for the sprinters. Jasper Philipsen of Alpecin-Deceuninck was one of the star men of last year's Tour de France, taking four stage wins and the green sprinter's jersey at the end of the three weeks. If the Belgian returns in 2024 then he will definitely be looking to defend his jersey.

Mads Pederson of Trek-Segafredo has won stages in all three Grand Tours and is likely to gain victory again in some of the harder sprint stages in 2024.

All eyes will be on Mark Cavendish in the 111th Tour de France after he postponed retirement to target the Tour win record, currently shared with Eddy Merckx, and gain his 35th win. He said, however, that he was "in shock" and that this was the "toughest course" he had ever seen , when it was revealed in October. 

Tour de France 2024: On TV

As you'd expect the Tour de France will be avialable to watch in a lot of places this July.

The race is expected to be live-streamed on GCN +, Discovery+ and Eurosport , as well as ITV4, in the UK and in Europe. Subscription costs are £6.99/month or $8.99/month, and £39.99 or $49.99 for a year.

A Flobikes  annual subscription will cost you $209.99 if you want to watch in Canada, while in the USA  NBC Sports  via Peacock Premium ($4.99 per month) will show the race. Australians can can watch the Tour for free on SBS on Demand.

And, of course, if you want to watch your local stream from anywhere in the world you'll need a VPN from a trusted company like ExpressVPN .

Tour de France: The jerseys

Much like every year in recent memory, the Tour de France jerseys and classifications are yellow for the overall leader, green for the leader in the points standings, polka-dot for the mountain classification, and white for the best young rider.

Along with the jersey prizes, there is an award for the most combative rider of each stage, with the winner wearing a red number on the following day. This is awarded each day, with a 'Super Combativity' award decided by a jury at the end of the race for the most active rider throughout the entire event.

There is also a team classification where the time of the first three riders from each team is put together to create a single time. This is then done in a similar way as the individual general classification.

In addition, there are plenty of bonus seconds up for grabs at the race. There are ten, six and four bonus seconds available at the end of each stage for the first three riders, as well as bonus sprints that are dotted throughout the race on key climbs to try and make the racing more entertaining for spectators.

Of course, there's also prize money up for grabs. For winning the 2023 edition of the race, Jonas Vingegaard collected €535,220 (£463,100), a sum which is customarily shared out among the team's riders and staff.

Tour de France past winners in the last 12 years

• 2012: Bradley Wiggins (GBr) 
• 2013: Chris Froome (GBr) 
• 2014: Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) 
• 2015: Chris Froome (GBr) 
• 2016: Chris Froome (GBr) 
• 2017: Chris Froome (GBr) 
• 2018: Geraint Thomas (GBr) 
• 2019: Egan Bernal (Col) 
• 2020: Tadej Pogačar (Slo) 
• 2021: Tadej Pogačar (Slo)  
• 2022: Jonas Vingegaard (Den)
• 2023: Jonas Vingegaard (Den)

Tour de France FAQ

How does the tour de france work.

The Tour de France is one of a trio of races that are three weeks long, known as the Grand Tours, alongside the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. The Tour is the best known and arguably the most prestigious.

It is the second of the three races in the calendar with the Giro taking place in May, the Tour usually in July, and the Vuelta in August and September.

The Tour, like all Grand Tours, takes on varying terrain with flat days for sprinters, hilly days for punchers and mountains for the climbers and GC riders, along with time trials, so that a winner of the race has to be able to perform on all types of road.

The main prize in the race, known as the general classification, is based on time with the overall leader wearing the yellow jersey. The race leader and eventual winner is the rider who has the lowest accumulated time over the 21 days of racing. Riders can win the Tour de France without winning a stage, as Chris Froome did in 2017. Time bonuses of 10, six, and four seconds are given to stage winners though, creating incentive for those general classification riders to chase individual victories and lower their overall time.

In 2020 it took race winner Tadej Pogačar 87 hours 20 minutes and 5 seconds to complete the race with the second-place rider overall 59 seconds slower. That continues all the way down to the last place rider, which was Roger Kluge (Lotto-Soudal) who finished 6 hours 7 minutes and 2 seconds behind.

The white best young rider's jersey is worked out in the same way but only riders under the age of 26 are eligible for the jersey.

The polka-dot mountains jersey and the green points jersey are based on a points system and not time. The only reason time would come into account would be if riders are tied on points, then it would go to who is the best placed in the general classification.

The team classification is based on the general classification times of the first three riders of a team on each stage. The time of those three riders is added up and put onto their team's time, creating a GC list much like in the individual classifications. The leading team gets to wear yellow numbers and helmets on each stage.

The final classification available is the combativity prize. This is decided by a race jury or, in more recent years, Twitter. This takes place just before the end of each stage and often goes to a rider from the breakaway who has put in a daring performance or attempted to liven up the stage by attacking. The winner of the combativity award gets to wear a special red race number on the following day's stage.

There is a final prize added to this with the Super Combativity prize being awarded on the podium in Paris. This is decided in a similar fashion to pick out the most aggressive, entertaining, and daring rider of the whole three weeks. Again, usually going to a rider who has featured regularly in the breakaway.

Stage winners do not wear anything special the day after apart from getting a small yellow jersey to stick on their number on their bike, this can be replaced if they win multiple stages.

Teams used to come to the race with nine riders but the UCI, cycling's governing body, decided that nine riders from each team was too dangerous and dropped it to eight, however more teams now take part.

How long is the Tour de France?

The Tour de France takes place over 23 days with 21 of them being race days. The riders get two days of resting; they usually fall on the second and third Monday of the race.

This year's race is 3,492km long, which is 2,170 miles, around the same distance from Washington DC to Las Vegas, or Helsinki to Lisbon. 

Road stages can range from anything around 100km to something approaching 250km, sometimes more. This year the shortest road stage is stage 20, from Nice to Col de la Couillole, with the longest being 229km on stage three in Italy, from Plaisance to Turin.

Road stages often take around four to five hours with the longer days sometimes nudging over seven hours.

Time trials are always much shorter. Team time trials have long since gone out of fashion in the world of road racing so individual time trials are the main focus these days. 

In 2024, the Tour has two individual time trials for the riders to tackle, the first on stage seven at 25km long from Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin, and the second on the final stage from Monaco to Nice, at 34km long.

When does the Tour de France start?

The 2024 Tour de France starts on June 29 in Florence, Italy, with a road stage. There will be three full stages in Italy, before the fourth heads into France. The race finishes in Nice three weeks later.

The 2024 edition of the race runs from 29 June - 21 July, covering 21 stages. 

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VIDEO: Tour de France 2023 stage 1 highlights

If the opening stage of the 2023 Tour de France is a sign of things to come, this could be one of the most exciting races of all time! Adam Yates took the stage 1 victory in a sprint to the line ahead of identical twin Simon Yates .

The UAE Team Emirates rider solidified his position as joint leader of the team alongside Tadej Pogacar and will wear the Maillot Jaune. Plenty of GC riders have already fell out of contention, none more notable than Enric Mas, who was forced to abandon after a bad crash.

Check out the highlights of a brilliant day of racing in the video below!

PREVIEW | Tour de France 2023 stage 2 - San Sebastián hosts hilly finale where sprinters, climbers and classics specialists will all eye victory

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TOTAL: 3492 km

This will be the first Grand Départ in Italy and the 26th that’s taken place abroad  First finale in Nice. Due to the Olympic and Paralympic Games taking place in Paris, the race will not finish in the French capital for the first time.

Two time trials. 25 + 34 = 59km in total, the second of them taking place on the final Monaco>Nice stage. This will be the first time the race has seen a finale of this type for 35 years, the last occasion being the famous Fignon - LeMond duel in 1989.

Apennines (Italy), the Italian and French Alps, Massif Central and Pyrenees will be the mountain ranges on the 2024 Tour route.

The number of countries visited in 2024: Italy, San Marino, Monaco and France. Within France, the race will pass through 7 Regions and 30 departments.

The number of bonus points 8, 5 and 2 bonus seconds go to the first three classified riders, featuring at strategic points along the route (subject to approval by the International Cycling Union)these will have no effect on the points classification. Bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds will be awarded to the first three classified riders at road stage finishes.

Out of a total of 39, the locations or stage towns that are appearing on the Tour map for the first time . In order of appearance: Florence, Rimini, Cesenatico, Bologna, Piacenza, Saint-Vulbas, Gevrey-Chambertin, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, Évaux-les-Bains, Gruissan, Superdévoluy, Col de la Couillole.

The number of sectors on white roads during stage nine, amounting to 32km in total .

The number of stages: 8 flat, 4 hilly, 7 mountain (with 4 summit finishes at Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet, Plateau de Beille, Isola 2000, Col de la Couillole), 2 time trials and 2 rest days.

The number of riders who will line up at the start of the Tour, divided into 22 teams of 8 riders each.

The height of the summit of the Bonette pass in the Alps, the highest tarmac road in France, which will be the “roof” of the 2024 Tour.

The total vertical gain during the 2024 Tour de France.

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Reading time: 0 min Published on 8 January 2024, updated on 18 April 2024

It is the biggest cycling race in the world: a national event that France cherishes almost as much as its Eiffel Tower and its 360 native cheeses! Every year in July, the Tour de France sets off on the roads of France and crosses some of its most beautiful landscapes. Here’s everything you should know in advance of the 2018 race…

‘La Grande Boucle’

In over a century of existence, the Tour has extended its distance and passed through the whole country. Almost 3,500 kilometers are now covered each year in the first three weeks of July, with 22 teams of 8 cyclists. The 176 competitors criss-cross the most beautiful roads of France in 23 days, over 21 stages. More than a third of France’s departments are passed through, on a route that changes each year.

A little tour to start

The first ever Tour de France took place in 1903. It had just six stages – Paris-Lyon, Lyon-Marseille, Marseille-Toulouse, Toulouse-Bordeaux, Bordeaux-Nantes and Nantes-Paris – and 60 cyclists at the start line. At the time, the brave cycled up to 18 hours at a stretch, by day and night, on roads and dirt tracks. By the end, they’d managed 2,300 kilometers. Must have had some tight calves!

Mountain events are often the most famous and hotly contested. Spectators watch in awe as the riders attack the passes and hit speeds of 100 km/h. In the Pyrenees and the Alps, the Galibier and Tourmalet ascents are legendary sections of the Tour, worthy of a very elegant polka dot jersey for the best climber…

The darling of the Tour

In terms of the number of victories per nation, France comes out on top, with 36 races won by a French cyclist. In second place is Belgium with 18 wins, and in third is Spain with 12. The darling of the Tour remains Eddy Merckx, holding the record of 111 days in the yellow jersey. This Belgian won 5 times the Great Loop as Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Michael Indurain.

‘Le maillot jaune’

The yellow jersey is worn by the race winner in the general classification (calculated by adding up the times from each individual stage). This tradition goes back to 1919. It has nothing to do with the July sunshine or the sunflower fields along the roads; it was simply the colour of the pages of newspaper L’Auto, which was creator and organiser of the competition at the time.

The Tour de France is the third major world sporting event after the Olympic Games and the World Cup, covered by 600 media and 2,000 journalists. The race is broadcast in 130 countries by 100 television channels over 6,300 hours, and is followed by 3.5 billion viewers.

The Champs-Élysées finish

Each year the Tour departs from a different city, whether in France or in a neighbouring country. Since 1975, the triumphal arrival of the cyclists has always taken place across a finish line on Paris’ Champs-Élysées. It’s a truly beautiful setting for the final sprint.

And the winner is…

Seen from the sky and filmed by helicopters or drones, the Tour route resembles a long ribbon winding its way through France’s stunning landscapes: the groves of Normandy, the peaks of the Alps, the shores of Brittany and the beaches of the Côte d’Azur. In 2017, it was the Izoard pass in Hautes-Alpes that was elected the most beautiful stage, at an altitude of 2,361 metres. Which one gets your vote?

Find out more on the official Tour de France site: https://www.letour.fr

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