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Tour de France 2023 stage-by-stage guide: Route maps and profiles for all 21 days

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The 2023 Tour de France has all the ingredients of a classic: two leading protagonists ready to tear lumps out of each other in reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard and the deposed Tadej Pogacar; entertaining multi-talented stage hunters Wout van Aert, Mathieu van der Poel, Julian Alaphilippe and Tom Pidcock; the great Mark Cavendish chasing a historic 35th stage win; all facing a brutal route with 56,000m of climbing and four summit finish.

The Tour began in the Spanish Basque country on Saturday 1 July, where Adam Yates edged twin brother Simon to win the opening stage, and these hilly routes will throw open the yellow jersey to a wide range of contenders. The race crosses the French border for some flat stages and an early jaunt into the high Pyrenees, where the Col du Tourmalet awaits. The peloton takes on the Puy de Dome volcano on its journey across France towards the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and it is in the mountains that this Tour will ultimately be decided. It all ends on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Sunday 23 July.

Here is a stage-by-stage guide to how the race will unfold.

Stage 1: Bilbao to Bilbao, 182km

The 2023 Tour de France starts outside Bilbao’s iconic Guggenheim Museum, and winds north to the Bay of Biscay coastline before returning to the city where the stage winner will take the yellow jersey. This 182km opening stage is a hilly route with 3,000m of climbing featuring five categorised ascents, of which the final two are sharp and testing: they are tough enough to shake off the dedicated sprinters and open up early glory for the best puncheurs – those riders with the legs to get over short climbs and the power to surge away on the other side.

The profile of this stage is a great choice by organisers as it could suit just about anyone, from the speed of Wout van Aert to the climbing strength Tom Pidcock or Simon Yates – even two-time champion Tadej Pogacar.

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Stage 2: Vitoria Gastiez to Saint Sebastian, 209km

The peloton will head east from Bilbao, touching more picturesque Basque coastline before arriving at the finish in San Sebastian. At more than 200km this is the longest stage of the 2023 Tour and, with the sizeable Jaizkibel climb (8.1km, 5.3% average gradient) shortly before the finish, this is even more tough on the legs than the first day. Another puncheur with the climbing strength to get over the steeper hills can capitalise, like two-time world champion Julian Alaphilippe.

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Stage 3: Amorebieta to Bayonne, 187km

Stage three starts in Spain and ends in France, and the finale in Bayonne is ripe for a bunch sprint. Mark Cavendish will get his first shot of this race at trying to win a historic 35th Tour de France stage, but he will be up against a stacked field including former QuickStep teammate Fabio Jakobsen and the awesome speed of Wout van Aert. It will be fascinating to get a first glimpse of how the power riders stack up.

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Stage 4: Dax to Nogaro, 182km

Another flat day and an even faster finish in store on the Circuit Paul Armagnac, a race track in Nogaro. The 800m home straight will almost certainly tee up a showdown between the Tour’s serious fast men.

Cavendish falls short as Philipsen wins crash-laden sprint

Stage 5: Pau to Laruns, 163km

The first major mountains of the Tour come a little earlier than usual, as the peloton heads up into the high Pyrenees on day five. The Col de Soudet (15km, 7.2%) is one of the toughest climbs of the race and rears up halfway through this 163km route from Pau to Laruns. The category one Col de Marie Blanque (7.7km, 8.6%) guards the finish 20km out, and holds bonus seconds for those first over the top to incentivise the major contenders to come to the fore and fight it out.

Hindley grabs the yellow jersey as Vingegaard punishes Pogacar

Stage 6: Tarbes to Cauterets, 145km

This has the potential to be a thrilling day: the 145km route takes on the double trouble of the category one Col d’Aspin (12km, 6.5%) followed by the monstrous hors categorie Tourmalet (17.1km, 7.3%), before a fast ascent and a final climb to the summit finish at Cauterets (16km, 5.4%).

It is a day with several possible outcomes. The general classification contenders could fight it out in a showdown to the summit. Then again, a breakaway could be allowed to escape which would open up victory – and perhaps the yellow jersey – to an outsider. The last time the Tour finished in Cauterets in 2015, breakaway specialist Rafal Majka surged clear of his fellow escapers to win. Keep an eye on Ineos’s Tom Pidcock, who could use the long, fast descent from the Tourmalet summit to speed to the front, as he did before winning atop Alpe d’Huez last year.

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Stage 7: Mont de Marsan to Bordeaux, 170km

The first week of racing finishes in the Tour’s second most visited city, Bordeaux, and it’s a third flat day for the sprinters to contest. Much will depend on who has best preserved their legs through the high mountains when they come to this tight, technical finish on the banks of the Garonne river in the city centre.

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Stage 8: Libourne to Limoges, 201km

A long, hilly day will see the peloton head 201km east from Libourne outside Bordeaux to Limoges. The lumpy stage should suit a puncheur but it is not a particularly taxing set of climbs – only three are categorised and the toughest of those is just 2.8km at 5.2%. So could a determined team carry their sprinter to the finish and the stage win? Look out for Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel, superstars with the all-round talent to conquer the climbs and still finish fast.

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Stage 9: Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat to Puy de Dome, 184km

The final stage before the relief of the first rest day is relatively flat and gentle – until a brutal finish atop the iconic Puy de Dome volcano, a 13.3km drag at a gruelling 7.7% average gradient that last appeared in the Tour in 1988. The summit finish will require a serious climber’s legs to clinch the stage win, and the general classification contenders may well let a breakaway get ahead and fight for that prize.

Woods takes win as Pogacar hits back at Vingegaard

Rest day: Clermont-Ferrand, Monday 10 July.

Stage 10: Parc Vulcania to Issoire, 167km

The race resumes in the centre of France from Vulcania – a volcano-themed amusement park – where riders will embark on a hilly 167km route through the Volcans d’Auvergne regional park, finishing down in the small town of Issiore. With five categorised climbs, including the sizeable Col de Guery (7.8km at 5%) and the Croix Saint-Robert (6km at 6.3%), it will be a draining ride with virtually no sustained flat sections, and a long descent to the finish town. It looks like a good day to plot something in the breakaway, as the big GC contenders save their legs for bigger challenges to come.

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Stage 11: Clermont Ferrand to Moulins, 180km

The final flat stage before the hard Alpine climbs will present an opportunity for those fast men who managed to haul themselves through the Pyrenees to get here – although there is still some climbing to be done including three category-four leg-sappers along the 180km route. The day begins in the university city of Clermont-Ferrand before the riders wind north and then east to Moulins, a small town on the Allier river. Any breakaway is likely to be reeled by those teams with dedicated sprinters eyeing their only opportunity for a stage win between the two rest days.

Philipsen continues flat-stage dominance even without van der Poel

Stage 12: Roanne to Belleville-en-Beaujolais, 169km

The race caravan will shift east to start stage 12 in Roanne in the Loire region, before taking a 169km route to Belleville, situated on the Saone river north of Lyon. This has been categorised as a hilly or medium mountain stage, but it might feel harder than that by the time the peloton reaches the foot of the fifth categorised climb of the day, the Col de la Croix Rosier (5.3km at 7.6%). That should be enough to put off the best puncheurs like Van der Poel and Van Aert, because the stage winner will need strong climbing legs. The GC riders will want to conserve energy, so expect a breakaway to stay clear and fight amongst themselves.

Izagirre solos to victory

Stage 13: Chatillon-Sur-Chalaronne to Grand Colombier, 138km

The first of three brutal stages that could decide the destiny of this year’s yellow jersey is only relatively short – 138km – but will provide a stern enough test to reveal any weaknesses in the major contenders. The peloton will enjoy a relatively flat and gentle first 75km from Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne before entering the Jura Mountains. A short climb and fast descent precedes the big climax: all 17.4km (7.1%) of the Grand Colombier providing an epic summit finish. This could be another day for a breakaway away to get free, but the overall contenders like Pogacar and Vingegaard will also fancy stage glory and the chance to stamp their authority on the race.

Kwiatkowski wins as Pogacar eats into Vingegaard’s lead

Stage 14: Annemasse to Morzine, 152km

Part two of this triple header of mountain stages sees the peloton ride into the Alps with a 152km route from Annemasse to Morzine ski resort. Three tough category one climbs line the road to the hors categorie Col de Joux Plane (11.6km at 8.5%), a brutally steep grind where bonuses await the first few over the top – and stage victory is the prize at the bottom. This is another potential spot for yellow jersey fireworks.

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Stage 15: Les Gets to Saint Gervais, 180km

The last ride before the final rest day will take the peloton further east into the Alps, towards the French border with Italy. The 179km route is almost constantly up and down, with a fast descent before the final two climbs, and the summit finish atop Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc will require strong climbing legs once more.

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Rest day: Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, Monday 17 July.

Stage 16: Individual time trial from Passy to Combloux, 22km

This year’s home stretch begins with the only time trial of the race: a short, relatively flat 22km from Passy to Combloux in the shadow of Mont Blanc. The route includes one categorised climb, the steep but short Cote de Domancy (2.5km at 9.4%). There is an opportunity here to make up crucial seconds for those that need them.

Vingegaard takes control of yellow jersey

Stage 17: Saint Gervais to Courchevel, 166km

Put Wednesday 19 July in the diary: this will surely be the most brutal day of the entire Tour de France and it could be decisive. The 166km route features four big climbs, the last of which offers up this year’s Souvenir Henri Desgrange for the first rider over the highest point of the race. To get there the riders must endure a 28.1km slog averaging 6% gradient to the top of the Col de la Loze, towering in the clouds 2,304m above sea level. There are bonus seconds up here too, before a short descent down to the finish at Courchevel.

A breakaway will probably form, but can they last the distance? Whatever happens up the road, the fight for the yellow jersey will be fierce – only the strongest handful of riders will be able to stand the pace and this will likely be the day that the 2023 winner is effectively crowned.

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Stage 18: Moutiers to Bourg en Bresse, 186km

After a potentially explosive stage 17, stage 18 is classified as “hilly” but is really a relatively sedate 185km which the sprinters are likely to contest if their teams can haul in the inevitable breakaway. The big question is whether there will be many sprinters left in the peloton after such a demanding set of stages in the Alps. For those fast men still in the race, the descent into Bourg-en-Bresse precedes a technical finish, with roundabouts and a sharp corner before a swinging right-hand turn on to the home straight where the stage will be won and lost.

Breakaway stays away as Asgreen takes win

Stage 19: Moirans-en-Montagne to Poligny, 173km

Another flat day gives a further opportunity for those sprinters left in the field, as the peloton travels 173km from Moirans, near Grenoble, north to Poligny. The general classification contenders will be happy to rest their legs before one final push to Paris.

Matej Mohoric takes photo finish to win stage 19

Stage 20: Belfort to Le Markstein, 133km

The final competitive stage of the Tour is a 133km ride from Belfort to Le Markstein ski resort in the Vosges mountains, and it offers just enough for one final attack to steal the yellow jersey, should the overall win still be on the line. The last two climbs of the day are both steep category one ascents: first the Petit Ballon (9.3km, 8.1%) followed by the Col du Platzerwasel (7.1km at 8.4%). Whoever is wearing yellow just needs to hang on to the wheel of their fiercest rival here, and that should be enough to see them home.

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Stage 21: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to Paris Champs-Elysees, 115km

As is tradition, the peloton will transfer to Paris and ride a truce to the Champs-Elysees. The stage will start at France’s national velodrome, home of cycling for the 2024 Paris Olympics. It will finish with one final sprint: Cavendish has won four times in Paris and it would be a fitting way to end the race that has defined his career if he were to repeat the feat one last time. And once the race is done, the winner of the 2023 Tour de France will be crowned.

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2024 tour de france route, dates, and details: packed with firsts and plot-twists, four summit finishes, two time trials, and 34km of gravel roads highlight a challenging and balanced route starting in italy and ending in nice..

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The Tour de France is eternal, but 2024 packs plenty of firsts and plot-twists to deliver what should be a thrilling edition.

Not only are big hitters such as Jonas Vingegaard , Tadej Pogačar , Primož Roglič , and Remco Evenepoel expected to clash in a generational battle, the 111th edition of the French grand tour will deliver an interesting backdrop.

Early details reveal a varied and interesting route:

3492km total
June 29 to July 21
Four territories (Italy, San Marino, France, Monte Carlo)
7 mountain stages
4 summit finishes
32km of gravel roads

With the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris dictating the calendar, the men’s Tour de France — which will runs from June 29 to July 21 — will not finish in Paris as the riders head for Nice for a final-day time trial.

“We were committed to avoid Paris because of the Olympics,” Tour director Christian Prudhomme told Reuters . “There are only 28,000 police forces available and we knew we could not get more.”

Since its inception in 1903, the men’s race has always finished in Paris or its surrounding suburbs, and it has concluded on the Champs Élysées since 1975.

Also in a first, the race will start in Italy with the three opening stages.

Here are the key points:

‘Big Start’ in Italy for historical first

After more than a century, the “big loop” will make its “Big Start” in Italy for the first time.

Stage 1 jumps right into it, with a road stage starting in Florence and ending in Rimini, with a detour through San Marino. The yellow jersey will be up for grabs, with sprinters like Mark Cavendish, Jasper Philipsen, and Wout van Aert will need to endure 3600m of climbing as the route climbs over the Apennines.

Stage 2 pays homage to Marco Pantani and runs from Cesenatico to Bologna will hit the famed San Luca climb in final hour of racing that could throw a spanner in the wheels of the sprinters.

Stage 3 runs across the flats from Piacenza to Torino in what is expected to be the first chance for the sprinters.

Week 1: Into France and up the Galibier

The race’s three-day sojourn ends with stage 4 from Pinerolo to Valloire grinds up and over the Alps, including an assault of the HC Col du Galibier (23km at 5.1%).

“The Tour has never been so high so soon,” said Tour director Christian Prudhomme.

Stages 5 and 6 will see the sprinters see more chances as the race leaves the Alps only to return in the final weekend.

Stage 7 delivers a 25km individual time trial across the vineyards of Burgundy. The rolling course isn’t too long, and the GC will remain knotted up for anyone who’s survived the brutal first week.

Stage 8 from Semur-en-Auxois to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises sees a string of climbs early in the undulating stages to set up a breakaway.

The opening week closes with a challenging stage featuring no less than 14 sectors of gravel on 34km of racing in a loop around Troyes.

Week 2: Pyrénées loom and a return of Plateau de Beille

Week 2 opens with a transition stage out of Orleans across the flats of central France and the Loire Valley that can be open to strong crosswinds.

Stage 11 dips into the Massif Central, with 4.350 of vertical gain, and the Néronne, the Puy Mary Pas de Peyrol, Pertus, and Font de Cère climbs stacked up late in the back half of the profile.

Stages 12 and 13 are, at least on paper, more chances for the sprinters, but midway into any Tour, breakaway chances increase by the kilometer.

The Tour’s first major mountaintop finale comes in stage 14 with Saint-Lary-Soulan deep in the Pyrénées, featuring the Col du Tourmalet midway through the stage.

Stage 15 sees a return to the Plateau de Beille (15.8km at 7.9%) in the Tour’s second-straight summit finale. Adding to the drama will be France’s Bastille Day, with six climbs and 4850m of vertical, fireworks are guaranteed.

Week 3: Alps and final-day TT decider

Despite a grueling opening two weeks, week three will crown the winner.

Stage 16 opens up the action in what’s likely another chance for the sprinters — who will see likely eight chances in this year’s edition — but the mistral heading into Nimes could prove tricky.

Stage 17 to Superdévoluy tiptoes into the Alps, and breakaway artists will have their chance to take centerstage with three moderate climbs stacked up in the final hour of racing. Another transition stage to Barcelonnette in stage 18 could deliver another breakaway.

Back-to-back summit finales high in the Alps will set up the decisive closing weekend anchored by the final-time trial in Nice, the first time the Tour’s ended in an individual time trial since 1989 when Greg LeMond overcame Laurent Fignon in his historic victory.

Altitude will be a key factor in both stages.

Stage 19 sees three summit higher than 2000m, and stage 20 tackles four climbs in a short, 133km circuit-burner ending atop Col de la Couillole. Vertical tops 7000m in two days of racing.

If the race remains undecided, the tension will be sky high in the “dernière bataille” in the 34km individual time trial up and over La Turbie and Col d’Eze climbs.

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STAGE 1 BREST - LANDERNEAU (197.8km)

STAGE 2 PERROS GUIREC - MÛR-DE-BRETAGNE GUERLÉDAN (183.5km)

STAGE 3 LORIENT - PONTIVY (182.9km)

STAGE 4 REDON - FOUGÈRES (150.4km)

STAGE 5 CHANGÉ - LAVAL ESPACE MAYENNE (27.2km)

STAGE 6 TOURS - CHÂEAUROUX (160.6km)

STAGE 7 VIERZON - LE CREUSOT (249.1km)

STAGE 8 OYONNAX - LE GRAND-BORNAND (150.8km)

STAGE 9 CLUSES - TIGNES (144.9km)

STAGE 10 ALBERTVILLE - VALENCE (190.7km)

STAGE 11 SORGUES - MALAUCÈNE (198.9km)

STAGE 12 SAINT-PAUL-TROIS-CHÂTEAUX - NÎMES (159.4km)

STAGE 13 NÎMES CARASSONNE (219.9km)

STAGE 14 CARCASSONNE - QUILLAN (183.7km)

STAGE 15 CÉRET - ANDORRE-LA-VIEILLE (191.3km)

STAGE 16 PAS DE LA CASE - SAINT-GAUDENS (169km)

STAGE 17 MAURET - SAINT-LARY-SOULAN COL DU PORTET (178.4km)

STAGE 18 PAU - LUZ ARDIDAN (129.7km)

STAGE 19 MOURENX - LIBOURNE (207km)

STAGE 20 LIBOURNE - SAINT ÉMILION (30.8km)

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Tour de France 2023 stage-by-stage guide: Route maps and profiles for all 21 days

The Tour begins in the Spanish Basque country on Saturday 1 July, and these hilly routes will throw open the yellow jersey to a wide range of contenders. The race crosses the French border for some flat stages and an early jaunt into the high Pyrenees, where the Col du Tourmalet awaits. The peloton takes on the Puy de Dome volcano on its journey across France towards the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and it is in the mountains that this Tour will ultimately be decided. It all ends on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Sunday 23 July.

Here is a stage-by-stage guide to how the race will unfold.

Stage 1: Bilbao to Bilbao, 182km

Stage 2: Vitoria Gastiez to Saint Sebastian, 209km

Stage 3: Amorebieta to Bayonne, 187km

Stage 4: Dax to Nogaro, 182km

Stage 5: Pau to Laruns, 163km

Stage 6: Tarbes to Cauterets, 145km

It is a day with several possible outcomes. If the yellow jersey is on the shoulders of a fast puncheur at the start then it may well be transferred to one of the general classification contenders by the end, should they decide to fight for the stage win. Then again, a breakaway could be allowed to escape which would open up victory – and perhaps the yellow jersey – to an outsider. The last time the Tour finished in Cauterets in 2015, breakaway specialist Rafal Majka surged clear of his fellow escapers to win. Keep an eye on Ineos’s Tom Pidcock, who could use the long, fast descent from the Tourmalet summit to speed to the front, as he did before winning atop Alpe d’Huez last year.

Stage 7: Mont de Marsan to Bordeaux, 170km

Stage 8: Libourne to Limoges, 201km

Stage 9: Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat to Puy de Dome, 184km

Rest day: Clermont-Ferrand, Monday 10 July.

Stage 10: Parc Vulcania to Issoire, 167km

Stage 11: Clermont Ferrand to Moulins, 180km

Stage 12: Roanne to Belleville-en-Beaujolais, 169km

Stage 13: Chatillon-Sur-Chalaronne to Grand Colombier, 138km

Stage 14: Annemasse to Morzine, 152km

Part two of this triple header of mountain stages sees the peloton ride into the Alps with a 152km route from Annemasse to Morzine ski resort. Three tough category one climbs line the road to the hors categorie Col de Joux Plane (11.6km at 8.5%), a brutally steep grind where bonus seconds await the first few over the top – and stage victory is the prize at the bottom. This is another potential spot for yellow jersey fireworks.

Stage 15: Les Gets to Saint Gervais, 180km

The last ride before the final rest day will take the peloton further east into the Alps, towards the French border with Italy . The 179km day is almost constantly up and down, with a fast descent before the final two climbs, and the summit finish atop Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc will require strong climbing legs once more.

Rest day: Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, Monday 17 July.

Stage 16: Individual time trial from Passy to Combloux, 22km

This year’s home stretch begins with the only time trial of the race: a short, relatively flat 22km from Passy to Combloux in the shadow of Mont Blanc. The route includes one categorised climb, the steep but short Cote de Domancy (2.5km at 9.4%). This stage is unlikely to decide the yellow jersey or podium spots, but there is an opportunity here to make up crucial seconds for those that need them.

Stage 17: Saint Gervais to Courchevel, 166km

Put Wednesday 19 July in the diary: this will surely be the most brutal day of the entire Tour de France and it could be decisive. The 166km route features four big climbs, the last of which offers up this year’s Souvenir Henri Desgrange for the first rider over the highest point of the race. To get there the riders must endure a 28.1km slog averaging 6% gradient to the top of the Col de la Loze, towering in the clouds 2,304m above sea level. There are bonus points seconds up here too, before a short descent down to the finish at Courchevel.

Stage 18: Moutiers to Bourg en Bresse, 186km

Stage 19: Moirans-en-Montagne to Poligny, 173km

Stage 20: Belfort to Le Markstein, 133km

Stage 21: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to Paris Champs-Elysees, 115km

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Tour de France 2023 route: Everything you need to know about the men’s and women’s editions

Updated 30/06/2023 at 16:07 GMT

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Tour de France 2024 route: Two individual time trials, five summit finishes and gravel sectors

Tour de France 2024 route totals 3,492km of racing with 52,320 metres of overall elevation across 21 stages

Stage summary

The Tour de France 2024 route will include five summit finishes, 59km of individual time trialling, and gravel sectors on stage nine, it has been announced by its organiser ASO.

The route for the 111th edition of the race was unveiled in a presentation inside Paris's Palais des Congrès on Wednesday.

It begins on the 29 June, and finishes on the 21 July, three weeks later.

As was confirmed last year, the race will begin in Italy for the first time , with stages from Florence to Rimini, Cesenatico to Bologna and Piacenza to Turin. It will mark 100 years since the first Italian winner of the Tour, Ottavio Bottecchia.

Another first is that the Tour will not conclude in Paris for the first time ever, due to the 2024 Paris Olympics, with the final stage coming in Nice. It also means that for the first time since 1989, the final stage will be contested, in a time trial.

On the way, the race tackles the Alps, the Massif Central and the Pyrenees, including four summit finishes at Pla d'Adet, the Plateau de Beille, Superdévoluy, Isola 2000 and the Col de la Couillole, and 59 kilometres of time trialling across stages seven and 21.

There are 14 gravel sectors on stage nine from Troyes to Troyes, totalling 32km, with six packed into the final 35km in what could be a decisive point of the race. The longest is 4km.

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With the final day a hilly time trial in Nice and not the usual procession in to Paris, it is hoped that the race will be alive right to the end of the race. The whole final week, in fact, will be crucial for general classification, with four of the six days potentially decisive.

According to the race organisers, there are eight sprint opportunities along the way, although some are not as straightforward as others, with a breakaway sure to contest some of them. Mark Cavendish will be looking forward to Saint-Amand-Montrond on stage 13, where he won in 2013, and Nîmes on stage 16 especially, where he won in 2008.

Last year, the race was dominated by Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), who crushed all of his competition, including Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), on the stage 16 time trial to Combloux and stage 17's summit finish in Courchevel .

Tour de France 2024 route: stage by stage

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Tour de France 2024 route week one

The 2024 Tour de France begins how it means to go on, with a lot of climbing. Stage one begins in Florence, and includes 3,800km over 205km, the most ever in an opening stage, according to race director Christian Prudhomme.

The second stage is also hilly, starting from Marco Pantani's hometown of Cesenatico, finishing in Bologna through Emilia-Romagna. It copies the route of the Giro dell'Emilia, including the final climb of San Luca - 1.9km at 10.6 per cent - which is tackled twice.

There is a chance for the fast men on stage three, which covers 225km from Piacenza to Turin.

Stage four sees the race finally reach France, via the Alps. The Sestriere, the Col de Montgenèvre and the Col du Galiber are all tackled before a descent to Valloire.

Stages five and six, to Saint-Vulbas and Dijon, should be sprint opportunities, but the fast men could be ambushed.

The race's first individual time trial comes on stage seven, but it will be a technical affair as opposed to a pure rouleur 's course, before stage eight should be another chance for the sprinters.

Stage nine could be the highlight of the opening week, and is certainly something new, using the gravel roads of the Champagne region to mix things up. The 32km of gravel across 14 sectors is inspired from the Tour de France Femmes 2022, which used two of the same tracks; it is the biggest use of gravel at the Tour to date.

Tour de France 2024 route week two

After a rest day in Orléans, the closest to Paris the race gets in 2024, there are four stages which head south towards the Pyrenees.

Stage ten will surely be a sprint stage, but the winds could blow, as they did in 2013, when Cavendish won, while stage 11 is a return to medium mountains. The stage to Le Lioran is similar to the one which Greg Van Avermaet triumphed on in 2016, taking the yellow jersey in the process. 4,500m of climbing will make this a tough test for everyone.

It's back to sprinting or breakaways on stages 12 and 13 to Villeneuve-sur-Lot and Pau, respectively, with the latter looking more nailed on for a bunch finish.

Stage 14 is the first Pyrenean test, finishing atop the Pla d'Adet, which marks Raymond Poulidor's victory up there 50 years ago; it follows the Col du Tourmalet and the Hourquette d’Ancizan in just 152 km.

After that, the climbing does not stop. On Bastille Day, Catorze Juillet , the race heads from Loudenvielle to Plateau de Beille, in a stage that covers 198 km, with 4,850 metres of climbing. The Peyresourde is tackled first, followed by the Col de Menté, the Col de Portet d’Aspet, the Col de la Core, and Col d’Agnès, before the final test to Plateau de Beille. It will surely help decide the direction of the race.

Tour de France 2024 route week three

A classic transition stage follows the second rest day from Gruissan to Nîmes, which is planned as a sprint stage, but if the winds blow, mayhem could ensue.

Stage 17 is a return to the mountains with a finish in the ski resort of Superdévoluy on the fringes of the Alps, before stage 18 looks set to be a breakaway day as the race travels from Gap to Barcelonnette.

It is the final three days where the 2024 champion will be crowned, however, with two back-to-back summit finishes in southeast France. Stage 19 finishes atop Isola 2000, with the Col de Vars, at 2,120m, before the Col de la Bonnette, at 2,802m, marks the high point of the race, and then there's Isola 2000.

Stage 20 feels like a Paris-Nice penultimate stage, and kind of is, with some of the favourite climbs from the race tackled consecutively. The Col de Braus is first, 10.2km at 6.3 per cent, before the Col de Turini, 20.6km at 5.6 per cent, and then the Col de La Colimiane, 7.6km at 6.8 per cent, and then, finally the Col de la Couillole, 15.7km at 7.1 per cent. That's 4,500m of elevation in just 132km.

However, that is not the end of the race. This year, there is a final day time trial around Nice, not a procession in Paris. The 35km course includes La Turbie, 8.1km at 5.6 per cent, and the Col d’Eze, 1.6km at 8.1%, before concluding on the Promenade des Anglais.

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What are the ingredients in a good Tour de France route? Some say high-altitude finishes in majestic alpine scenes, or a balance of decisive stages that keep the suspense tight through the final week. Others want to see relatively unexplored areas of the France in addition to the classic locales. Foreign fans want to feel like they are experiencing all of the delights that France has to offer.

Ask a rider and you might get the same answers, along with some new ones — safe routes, reasonable stage distances, decent hotels, and as few bus transfers between stages as possible. Team managers, media members, race officials, and everyone else among the roughly 4,500 people who show up to work at the Tour each day will chime in with requests for space to maneuver before, during, and after stages, as they shepherd people and equipment across a country.

For the chefs who try to mix these ingredients into a delicious Tour de France every year — Christian Prudhomme, director of the Tour de France, and Thierry Gouvenou, race director — creating the route is a year-long effort to achieve their own soaring objectives while satisfying the minute details of financial security and physical space. At stake are well-beings, careers, vacation plans, and cultural pride, to say nothing of millions and millions of euros. To make the best course they can, Prudhomme and Gouvenou travel the roads of France and visit potential host towns along the way, scouting out the details of each stage to package them coherently. Every highway and scenic route, stage finish and geographic feature, strange place and well-worn spot was chosen with deliberate care.

Prudhomme and Gouvenou are famous in cycling circles for having breathed fresh air into a race that had been treading water for a decade or so. The Tour has (nearly) always been, and will surely continue to be, cycling’s Super Bowl, but fans get bored of long, endless stages with predictable conclusions. Lately, the Tour hasn’t been afraid to spice things up.

Let’s take a look at the basic elements of a Tour course, how they’re evolving, and what happens when things go wrong.

The roads ... I mean, really, the roads!

The practical reality of putting a Tour together starts with linking more than 2,000 miles of road.

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The Tour de France isn’t very good at being a sporting event.

The score is largely meaningless, and it’s hard to keep anyone in the lines, including the oft-wild fans. Better to think of it as a multi-course meal, an event that flows and shifts and ends only when you’ve had enough of it.

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On one level, it might seem like a simple task. France is full of roads! But roads can go wrong. They can be loaded with obstacles (see: the Netherlands’ notorious “road furniture,” such as concrete islands and grooves for moving traffic) that will send unsuspecting riders over their bars in an instant. Sharp turns right before a sprint finish are an old favorite, if you’re into unnecessary pileups with hundreds of livelihoods at stake.

But tame the roads too much and you have the worst of the Vuelta a España, whose straightforward highway slogs look boring even in Spain. Gouvenou and Prudhomme have heeded the riders’ calls for safety in route planning, but not without putting the occasional cobblestone section in the mix, or using cool, narrow roads when the peloton can handle them. Unique riding terrain works well when it is used judiciously — the peloton can handle all sorts of quirky roads, just not every day for three weeks, and not without some warning.

First and second impressions

The Tour always tries to start the race in front of a dramatic canvas for its Grand Départ , sometimes going to foreign soil to find it. For decades, though, once the opening euphoria died down, the Tour would settle into a week or more of doldrums, grinding its way around France with a succession of lackluster sprint stages.

As 21st century media started bringing video of more races to more places, fans began to notice that the Giro d’Italia, cycling’s No. 2 event, seemed to find ways to enliven these early stages. For every plain sprint or two, you would get a funky finish that brought out different riders, or a picturesque climb to a famous hilltop monastery.

Prudhomme and Gouvenou took notice, and they now speak openly about making the race more fun and less predictable from start to finish. Tours starting up north have incorporated roads from the Belgian classics, like the first-week finish atop the Mur de Huy in 2015, or the Mur de Bretagne in 2011 and 2018. In 2019, the finish on the Planche des Belles Filles was reprised from 2012, 2014, and 2017.

The recent flourishes to the course have been a test of the directors’ vision. How much excitement can they bake in right away? Will livening up a few early stages put the overall favorites under too much pressure? The answer so far is no, and now it’s almost heresy not to have a little fun in Week 1.

Starts and finishes

The selection of host towns, where stages will start and end, are where Prudhomme and Gouvenou leave their biggest marks on a Tour. Barring a major climb in the middle of the stage, host towns get the lion’s share of media attention and give each stage its character. Roughly 35 to 40 French cities and towns will start and/or finish a stage of the Tour de France. Some 250 candidates apply each year for the available slots, each with a story it’d like to tell.

That story can be banal. Plenty of places are willing to pay the Tour’s parent company — Amaury Sport Organisation , or ASO — between $60,000 and $120,000 to advertise themselves to the world and potentially bring in millions, places like the Futuroscope theme park south of Paris, or any number of ski resorts in the Alps and Pyrenees. Most towns, however, just want to show off some part of themselves, whether it’s their culture, history, wine, food, or deep connection to cycling.

Some of the towns are chosen because they’ll be first-time hosts — places like Binche and Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, both on the 2019 route. They are old towns with singular traits. Binche annually hosts a UNESCO-recognized carnival ripped straight out of the 14th century, while Saint-Dié was built around an old monastery named for a quirky monk.

Others towns are chosen simply because they’ve almost always been on the Tour. Pau, in the shadow of the Pyrenees, is practically a required stop on every good Tour course, sometimes for multiple days. In 2019, it will make its 71st appearance, for no other good reason than it’s a large town in an area that doesn’t have many. Parking 200 riders and all their support staff in Bagnères-de-Bigorre or Saint-Lary-Soulain would be a stretch. And Pau, the capital of the Pyrenees, is close to the Tour’s favorite major climbs.

Another of the Tour’s favorite stops, also on the 2019 route, is Saint-Étienne. It’s not just another of France’s nearly 9,000 places named for a saint: Saint-Étienne breathes cycling. Situated in the middle of several categorized climbs, it is also the home to several prominent bike and component makers — like Mavic, Motobécane, and Vitus. A local club, Espoire Cyclisme Saint-Étienne Loire, develops French and international youths who are on track for professional careers, particularly eastern Europeans looking for a footing. Roger Rivière, best known for disappearing off the road and into a deep ravine during the 1960 Tour, was a local product.

For the town’s 26th appearance in the Tour, Saint-Étienne will get two stages — one finish, and one start. Both are “medium-mountain stages,” littered with moderate, punchy climbs. Saint-Étienne is often an hors-d’oeuvre on the eve of the Tour entering the Alps, but it also works well as a stopover in the other direction, heading away from the Alps toward the Pyrenees.

The Tour is easier to manage for riders and organizers when it comes back to the same host towns over and over, but for fans, yet another stop in Saint-Étienne or Pau can get old. As always, the challenge for Prudhomme and Gouvenou is to strike a balance.

And Yeah, the mountains

The competitive side of the Tour, the thing we all ostensibly come to see, is defined by how Prudhomme and Gouvenou choose the mountain stages. The names of the climbs — Alpe d’Huez, Col du Tourmalet, Mont Ventoux, etc. — grab the biggest headlines when the route is announced every October. The details of those climbs shape the outcome of the race in critical ways. The directors know this, and when they emphasize high-mountain finishes over time trials, or vice versa, they are in effect calling out the Tour’s early favorites and throwing obstacles in their way to create suspense around the yellow jersey.

With that, every Tour inspires a new set of probably-unprovable conspiracy theories. Lately, the Tour has been dominated by Team Sky (now Ineos) and its time-trialling aces. In 2019? The Tour features just 27 kilometers of time trialling. Even before Chris Froome was injured, the message was loud and clear that the Tour would like the pure climbers to shine.

The fact that a couple of French riders are among the top climbers in the world, and among the most forgettable time trialists, is worth pointing out. But fact is, this supposed scheming rarely works. More often than not, the strongest guy ends up winning no matter what the design. It’s fun to imagine Prudhomme trying to pick a winner nine months ahead of the Grand Départ , but he probably knows better by now.

The details of the climbs do a lot to distinguish a Tour route. Every year includes phases in the Alps and Pyrenees, and which comes first in the course alternates, giving a bit more drama to the finishing phase. Then it’s time to design the stages. Fans insist on mountain-top finishes, for the drama and beauty, but too many of them can lead to someone dominating the standings ... or worse, riders avoiding going on the attack, saving their energy for the last, decisive day. The occasional downhill finish can be a thrill, or feel like a lot of climbing for a group to ultimately finish all together. And packing too much into a single day is less likely to launch new heroes as it is to simply wear out everyone. Nowadays, you’ll find the most dramatic climbs coming after 140 kilometers instead of 200.

The Tour has had its share of dud mountain stages, even with Prudhomme and Gouvenou at the helm. The 2015 and 2016 final Alps phases seemed a bit too cute and didn’t give Froome’s rivals all that much to work with, either because the gradients were so slack that Team Sky was able to grind everyone to dust, or because downhill finishes blunted the impact of the climbs. Froome deserves his due as the champion of the era, but the Tour has been at its best when he can be challenged mano-a-mano without his team doing so much work for him.

The 2019 Tour added a special dimension to the mountain stages: high altitude. The last three stages before Paris spend more time than anyone can remember above 2,000 meters, including a crossing of the Col de l’Iseran that, at 2,770 meters, is the highest paved mountain pass in the Alps. The climbs are not tricky or dangerous — just long, high, hard brutes that will punish anyone who doesn’t deliver oxygen as efficiently as your average Nepalese sherpa.

Adding it up...

There is nothing not to like about a route like the 2019 Tour. Starting with its tribute in Brussels to the great Eddy Merckx, it is a Tour of Soaring Ambition, ending with a challenge to the modern riders to rise higher than they have ever dared. It has a charming start in Belgium, some entertaining terrain early on, and a welcomed (for now) emphasis on major mountain climbs over time trialling that seems like the best bet to create an explosive race. The uphill finishes are severe, but with the three most imposing stages all under 130 kilometers, there’s not much fat on the bone.

I wouldn’t call the 2019 route classically balanced — not with the time trials practically removed — but in a more subtle way, it is an outstanding mix of all of the other elements a solid Tour route requires. From the first course to the main dish, Prudhomme and Gouvenou may have cooked up their best Tour yet.

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Tour de France Femmes 2024: News & Route Preview

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The Tour de France is the most well-known cycling race in the world. Winning the overall yellow jersey – and sometimes even just a stage – of the prestigious event is enough to cement your status as one of the best in the sport. After decades of being practically ignored by race organizers, the women’s peloton not only have their own version of the race, the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, but are also proving why they deserve the spotlight as well.

Tour de France Femmes 2024 in numbers:

Total distance: 946.3km
Total distance climbed: 10,700m
3 countries visited: Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
4 mountain ranges: the Ardennes, Vosges, Jura. and Alps.
2 summit finishes
3 sprint finishes
1 time trial

When is the Tour de France Femmes 2024?

The 2024 Tour de France Femmes has its first Grand Depart when the race begins in Rotterdam Aug. 12, shortly after the completion of the Paris Summer Olympics. The first three days of the race will wind its way through the Netherlands, before transitioning into Belgium, then France on the fourth day. The third edition of the race will end Aug. 18 with a thrilling summit finish atop the iconic Alpe d'Huez.

The last meters can decide between victory and defeat

Tour de France Femmes History

Although this is only the third year the Tour de France Femmes has officially existed, women racers have competed in a version of the Tour de France since the 1950’s.

After a one-off women’s race in 1955, it would be nearly 30 years until a female-led Tour de France race was held. Beginning in 1984, the Tour de France Féminin ran around the same time as the men’s race, albeit with fewer and somewhat shorter stages. That race lasted until 1989. For the next two years, two other women’s stage races blazed through France, although under different names, such as the Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale and Tour Cycliste Féminin, and without a direct connection to the men’s race.

In 2014, the La Course, a one- or two-day event held in conjunction with the men’s race by the Tour de France organizers, began. The race brought a much-deserved spotlight back to the women’s peloton, but teams and fans alike believed the race didn’t really show off what the competitors were capable of, as the stages weren’t difficult enough. La Course lasted until 2021, when it was replaced by the current iteration of the race, the Tour de France Femmes.

The first Tour de France Femmes was held in 2022, directly after the men’s race, with eight stages of intense racing. Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) won that first edition enroute to sweeping all three women’s Grand Tour stage races and the women’s world road race title that same year. Truly one of the most dominant seasons in cycling history.

In 2023, van Vleuten would finish fourth, while the 2022 runner-up Demi Vollering (SD Worx) ascended one step up the podium. Vollering made her mark on the race during a dominant performance up the feared Col du Tourmalet. Kasia Niewiadoma ( Canyon-SRAM ) won the polka-dot Queen of the Mountains jersey while placing third overall for the second year in a row and riding a variety of Canyon road bikes . Find out which Canyon road bikes our pro riders ride during their races .

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Who are the main 2024 Tour de France Femmes contenders?

Last year’s winner Vollering will be back in 2024, looking to defend her yellow jersey, while Niewiadoma looks to finally move up to the top step of the podium this August.

Vollering’s teammate Lotte Kopecky, last year’s second-place finisher, green jersey winner, and current road-race world champion, could aim for overall victory this year as well. Will we see an internal team struggle like the Jumbo-Visma dysfunction at the 2023 Vuelta?

Juliette Labous (Team dsm-firmenich) will be looking to be the first French winner of a Tour de France (men or women) since Bernard Hinault. Multiple-time world champion Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) is always a threat whenever she pins on a race number and could contend again for the green jersey she won in 2022. Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal-QuickStep), Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek), and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-SUEZ) will be aiming for stage wins and podium spots.

The Tour de France Femmes Route

The balanced route gives the sprinters, climbers, and puncheurs each their moment in the spotlight. At the end of the three weeks, we'll finally find out the winners of the prized Tour de France Femmes jerseys – yellow for the overall winner, polka-dot for queen of the mountains classifications winner, green for the winner of the points classification, and white, won by the best-placed rider under the age of 23 in the general classification.

This 77-mile, pancake-flat route will give one talented sprinter her chance to wear the yellow jersey during the early stages. It’s highly unlikely a breakaway will succeed on this stage or the main contenders will want to risk getting involved in what promises to be a mad dash for the finish.

Riders will be doing double duty on this stage, racing two stages. The first is a flat, 41-mile route that returns riders to Rotterdam. Strong winds could be a factor, but this promises to be another spotlight for the green-jersey contenders.

The second of two stages on this day, this 4-mile time trial won’t be long enough for any of the true diesel-powered specialists like Canyon-sponsored Chloe Dygert to put any real time on the field, but could shuffle the deck a bit at the top of the standings.

This 76-mile stage brings the peloton into Belgium, traversing some of roads used in the famed Classics races and including eight categorised ascents. The hilly terrain will increase the chances of a successful breakaway or solo escape. The short, but steep, climbs will make this one of the more lively stages of this year’s Tour.

Bemelerberg (twice), 1.3km long with an average gradient of 4.9%
Cauberg, 0.7km long with an average gradient of 8%
Geulhemmerberg, 1.1km long with an average gradient of 5.1%
Mont-Theux, 2.8km long with an average gradient of 5.6%
Côte de la Redoute, 1.6km long with an average gradient of 9.4%
Côte des Forges, 1.3km long with an average gradient of 7.8%
Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons, 1.3km long with an average gradient of 11%

A mostly flat, 93-mile route that brings race into France. While riders must contend with five short climbs, none of them should be difficult enough to create any significant gaps. The uphill lead-in to the Amnéville finish will be interesting. Will the main contenders watch as a puncheur grabs the stage win or will they attempt to assert control over the race before the peloton enters the mountains?

Côte de Hotte, 1.2km long with an average gradient of 7.9%
Côte de Saint-Pancre, 1.5km long with an average gradient of 3.9%
Côte de Fermont, 1.5km long with an average gradient of 4.6%
Côte de Briey, 1.1km long with an average gradient of 4.4%
Côte de Montois-la-Montagne, 1.7km long with an average gradient of 6%

Four categorized climbs over the second half of the 100-mile stage should animate the day’s racing.

Col du Mont de Fourche, 3.2km long with an average gradient of 5.9%
Col de Ferriere, 2.6km long with an average gradient of 4.7%
Côte de Laviron, 5.7km long with an average gradient of 4.1%
La Roche du Pretre, 5.5km long with an average gradient of 5.6%
Côte des Fins, 1.8km long with an average gradient of 6.9%

The peloton finally arrives in the mountains for this 103-mile stage. Competitors won’t have time for a refreshing sparkling beverage on the 12km (7.5-mile) climb up the Col de la Croix la Sierra, as they rocket toward the day’s denouement. The last 30km (18 miles) of the route is essentially all uphill, climbing nearly 700m to the 1,285m Le Grand-Bornand finish.

Col de la Croix la Sierra, 12km long with an average gradient of 5.1%
Côte de Bois d'Ariod, 2.4km long with an average gradient of 4.6%
Côte de Cercier, 4km long with an average gradient of 4.9%
Col de Saint-Jean-de-Sixt, 5.4km long with an average gradient of 5.1%
Montée du Chinaillon, 7km long with an average gradient of 5.1%

It all comes down to this 93-mile stage. After the relatively short Col de Tamié climb and descent, the peloton has a relatively flat 50km (32-mile) pedal before the day’s fireworks begin at the foot of the monstrous, 1,924m Col du Glandon, the highest point of this year’s Tour. Expect the main contenders’ teams to begin duking it out here, hoping to score a knockout blow before the iconic 1,850m Alpe d'Huez climb and finish.

Col de Tamié, 9.5km long with an average gradient of 4%
Col du Glandon, 19.7km long with an average gradient of 7.2%
Alpe d'Huez, 13.8km long with an average gradient of 8.1%

Expectations leading to the race?

This year’s Tour comes directly on the heels of the 2024 Olympics, held in Paris. After falling short of a gold medal, many athletes will be looking for solace in a yellow jersey, which means the competition should be intense.

Canyon riders to watch

Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), will be gunning for the yellow jersey again this year after finishing on the podium the last two years. Neve Bradbury (Canyon-SRAM), who won a Zwift Academy challenge to earn her professional contract in 2020, will also be looking to add to her palmarès and could be wearing the white jersey at the race end. Current world time-trial champion Chloe Dygert (Canyon-SRAM) may also participate.

Kasia Niewiadoma contender for the yellow jersey

How to watch the 2024 Tour de France Femmes

There’s no better way to experience the 2024 Tour de France Femmes than attending the race live. But for those of us who can’t afford to take more than a week off work to attend a bike race and drink exquisite French wine, these networks will be broadcasting the stage race, either through daily highlights or start-to-finish coverage.

Eurosport (Europe)
NBC Sports (USA)
SBS (Australia)

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Plus grand rendez-vous de la saison de golf en France, l’Open de France est aussi et surtout l’une des plus importantes étapes du circuit européen. Organisé pour la première fois en 1906, il rassemble chaque année sur le green prestigieux du Golf National , à Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, à quelques kilomètres de Paris, tout le gratin international des joueurs masculins. Sur le redoutable parcours 18 trous de l’Albatros, puts, lobs et swings se pratiquent avec élégance et excellence. Et quel suspens ! Côté détente, le village de l'Open accueille les spectateurs avec boutiques, espace restauration et retransmission en direct du tournoi sur écran géant. Practice et putting green sont à disposition pour initiation ou perfectionnement. *A noter que le Golf national accueillera le tournoi olympique de golf lors des Jeux de Paris à l'été 2024.

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Depuis 30 ans, cette course transatlantique en duo explore un parcours historique : celui de la route du café. Tous les deux ans, les skippers s'élancent depuis le port du Havre, en Normandie, où un village permet au public de prendre part à cette formidable aventure humaine et maritime. Pour cet trentième anniversaire, plus de 80 bateaux et 160 navigateurs sont attendus sur la ligne de départ. Lors de la précédente édition, en 2021, les marins ont exploré une nouvelle route du café à destination de la Martinique, avec une arrivée dans la baie de Fort-de-France.

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En 2024, à l'occasion des Jeux de Paris , le stade Roland-Garros accueillera les épreuves de tennis, boxe et tennis fauteuil .

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Prix de Diane Longines, à l'hippodrome de Chantilly.

C’est assurément le rendez-vous le plus glamour de la saison hippique. Chaque année, en juin, à l'hippodrome de Chantilly, dans les Hauts-de-France, au pied du magnifique château et des Grandes écuries des princes de Condé, les élégantes et leurs chapeaux extraordinaires côtoient les experts et amateurs de course au galop. Le Prix de Diane Longines, l’une des 9 courses du jour, couronne la meilleure pouliche européenne sur la distance de 2 100 m. Un déjeuner sur l'herbe dans le jardin de Diane au cœur de l’hippodrome, un prix d’élégance, des animations et concerts rythment cette journée au vert, à moins d’une heure de Paris.

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La plus grande course cycliste du monde est un monument national que la France chérit presque autant que sa Tour Eiffel ! Chaque année en juillet, le Tour de France s’élance sur les routes de l’Hexagone. 3 500 kilomètres, une vingtaine d’étapes… Dans le sillage du peloton, on découvre les plus beaux paysages des régions françaises, les volcans d’Auvergne, les sommets des Alpes, les cols des Pyrénées ou les champs de lavande de Provence, avec un parcours qui change tous les ans. Chaque année, le Tour s’élance en effet d’une ville différente, en France ou dans un pays limitrophe. En revanche depuis 1975, l’arrivée triomphale du maillot jaune et des coureurs se déroule sur les Champs Elysées - la plus belle avenue du monde - pour un sprint final inoubliable !

En 2024, les coureurs du peloton donneront les derniers coups de pédale sur La Promenade des Anglais, à Nice en raison des Jeux de Paris. Il faudra attendre la fin des Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024 pour assister au départ de la troisième édition du Tour de France Femmes, créée en 2022 par l'ancienne championne de France de cyclisme sur route Marion Rousse .

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Mountainous profile, only 22km of time trialling and four summit finishes - all the details of the 110th Grande Boucle

There were gasps from the audience in the Palais des Congrès in Paris when the men’s 2023 Tour de France route was unveiled and the severity of the course was confirmed.

The 110th edition of cycling’s biggest race includes just a single 22km hilly time trial in the Alps and mountain stages in all five of France’s mountain ranges on the road between the Grand Départ in the Basque Country and the finish in Paris.

Race director Christian Prudhomme openly admitted that the 2023 Tour route was for the climbers as he revealed the multiple mountain top finishes and steep roads.

The very limited amount of time trialling and preponderance of mountains no doubt pleased French riders Thibaut Pinot , David Gaudu and Romain Bardet. However, Remco Evenepoel, Primoz Roglič and Geraint Thomas are more likely to target the Giro d’Italia, which has three times the amount of time trialling and arguably fewer mountains.

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Official information from race organiser ASO claimed the 3,404km route includes eight flat stages for the sprinters, four hilly stages suited to breakaways and eight mountain stages. Four of these include summit finishes: in the Pyrenees at Cauterets-Cambasque, on the legendary Puy de Dôme volcano in the Massif Central, on the Grand Colombier in the Jura and at Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc in the Alps.

The other mountain stages are also extremely difficult, even if some are short and so extra intense.

Stage 14 to Morzine includes the mighty Col de Joux Plane and its testing descent to the finish. Stage 15 ends with the 11% ‘wall’ of Côte des Amerands and then the 7km 7.7% climb up to Saint-Gervais in view of Mont-Blanc.

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Stage 17 to Courchevel climbs the 2,304m-high Col de la Loze and then descends to finish on the altiport runway. Stage 20 is a final brutal multi-mountain stage in the Vosges between Belfort and Le Markstein ski resort.

The only time trial is on stage 16 in the Arve valley near Sallanches after the second rest day, but the 22km route between Passy and Combloux will test riders' bike handling skills and climbing as much as their time trialling. The stage includes the Côte de Domancy, where Bernard Hinault forged his 1980 Worlds victory, and which also featured as part of the final week time trial in the 2016 Tour.

There is no final weekend time trial before Paris and no team time trial around Tarbes in the first week, as was rumoured before the route was unveiled.

2022 Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard was not present at the route presentation but he no doubt liked what he saw during the final days of his holidays. He was arguably the best climber of the last two editions of the Tour and he appears to have plenty of opportunities to go on the attack on the steep ascents in 2023.

Two-time winner Tadej Pogačar was at the Palais des Congrès in Paris and he smiled as the route was unveiled, relishing next July’s challenge against Vingegaard, Jumbo-Visma, Ineos Grenadiers and anyone else.

2021 green jersey winner Mark Cavendish was not as happy. He has a number of opportunities to set a new record of 35 Tour de France stage victories but like all the fastmen, he will have to suffer through the mountains to make it to Paris for the final sprint.

Week one: From the Basque Country to the Puy du Dome

Tour de France 2023 - first week profiles

The 2023 Tour begins in the Basque Country, 31 years on from the 1992 Grand Départ in San Sebastian, when Miguel Indurain claimed the prologue time trial ahead of what would be the second of his five overall victories.

The three road stages will be a celebration of the Basque Country’s love of cycling, with huge crowds expected for the team presentation outside the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.

There is no early time trial this year, and the Tour begins with a 182km road stage around Bilbao. The route heads out to the hilly Bay of Biscay coastline before returning to the city for a late, steep climb of the 10% Pike Bidea and the finish in the centre. The stage includes 3,300m of climbing and so Wout van Aert and an on-form Peter Sagan rather than the pure sprinters could be the favourites to win and take the first yellow jersey – as, indeed, could Julian Alaphilippe.

Stage 2 features more punchy terrain on a 209km route from Vitoria-Gasteiz to Donostia San Sebastián, with the Jaizkibel climb – well known from the Donostia San Sebastián Klasikoa – only 20km from the finish.

Stage 3 will start in Amorebieta-Etxano and heads 80km along the Basque Country coastline before reaching the French border. The 185km stage ends in Bayonne with the sprinters finally getting a clear chance of victory. The day after offers a chance of revenge for the defeated, with another fast finish expected on the Nogaro motor racing circuit.

The mountains begin on stage 5 with a 165km ride through the Pyrenees from Pau to Laruns with the Col de Soudet and Col de Marie Blanque featuring ahead of the run-in to the finish.

The race continues in the Pyrenees on stage 6 from Tarbes to Cauterets Cambasque. Rafał Majka was the last winner in Cauterets in 2015, after he distanced his breakaway companions on the Col du Tourmalet.

The stage climbs the Col d’Aspin and the 2115m-high Col du Tourmalet before a long descent to the valley and the 16km climb up to the finish. The average gradient is only 5.4% but the final three kilometres are over 10%.

Stage 7 takes the Tour away from the Pyrenees to Bordeaux with a start in Mont-de-Marsan, the adopted hometown of 1973 Tour winner Luis Ocaña. Bordeaux hasn't hosted a Tour stage finish since Cavendish won in 2010 and the pan-flat profile will surely offer him and others a chance of another sprint win.

The 201km stage 8 ride from Liborne to Limoges is a transition stage towards the Massif Central and is another sprint opportunity before the mountains return on stage 9 with the finish on the Puy de Dôme. The climb up and around the dormant volcano hasn't been used since 1988 but has a special place in Tour de France history, including the Poulidor-Anquetil duel in 1964 and the drama of when a spectator punched Eddy Merckx in 1975 to try to stop him winning yet again. The Puy de Dôme climb is 13.3km long at an average of 7.7% but the final four kilometres are above 11%.

Week two: Towards the high Alps for the single time trial

ROCAMADOUR FRANCE JULY 23 Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen of Denmark and Team Jumbo Visma Yellow Leader Jersey sprints during the 109th Tour de France 2022 Stage 20 a 407km individual time trial from LacapelleMarival to Rocamadour TDF2022 WorldTour on July 23 2022 in Rocamadour France Photo by Michael SteeleGetty Images

The riders enjoy a well-deserved first rest day in Clermont Ferrand before a hilly 167km stage between the Vulcania volcano park and Issoire. Stage 11 heads east from Clermont Ferrand to Moulins for another sprint finish if the peloton can control the breakaways.

It will be a similar scenario on stage 12 from Roanne to Belleville-en-Beaujolais, with little time for wine tasting along the route and a hilly finale perhaps playing a major role in the fight for the green jersey.

The mountains return on stage 13 in the Ain region and then just keep coming. The first is a short but intense 138km ride from Chatillon-sur-Charlaronne to the Grand Colombier summit finish. A stage first finished here in 2020 when Pogačar duelled with Roglič.

The riders climb up to the Hauteville-Lompnes plateau and then descend to face the 17.4km haul up to the Grand Colombier finish at an average gradient of 7.1%. A French winner would be fitting on Bastille Day.

The high mountains continue on stage 14 and into the second weekend, with 4,200 metres of climbing in just 152km between Annemasse and Morzine. The day includes six climbs, including the nasty Col de la Ramaz before the Col du Joux Plane. The descent off the mountain to Morzine will also be important and surely only increase any time gap achieved at the summit.

A demanding weekend ends with stage 15 from Les Gets to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, which should inspire a GC battle. The ride through the Haute-Savoie includes the Col de la Forclaz, the Croix Fry and the Col des Aravis. The climb to the finish kicks off with the 11% Côte des Amerands wall and then the 7km climb up to Saint-Gervais gets steeper and steeper, with ASO suggesting some sections touch 17%.

Week three: The only time trial and more mountains before Paris

Tour de France 2023 - third week profiles

The riders will enjoy the second rest in Sallanches but will be full of dread for what they face in the final week.

The only time trial of the Tour is on stage 16 and covers just 22km in the Arve valley south of Sallanches. It will be a chance to recover for the domestiques and sprinters but a huge day for the overall contenders.

The time trial starts in Passy on the north side of the Arve valley and then crosses to the south to climb the Côte de Domancy and up to the finish in the village of Combloux.

The climb is only three kilometres long but has an average gradient of 8.5% and a section at 16%. Some riders might be tempted to switch from a time trial bike to a climbing bike, but the time benefit is probably not worth the risks involved.

Time gaps might not be huge, but the stage will shake-up the overall classification and set the narrative for the final week.

The high mountains continue on stage 17 from Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc to Courchevel. The 166km stage includes three categorised Alpine passes and it tackles the Col de la Loze before a short descent to Courchevel. The climbing isn’t quite over, however, with an 18% ramp up to the finish line at the altiport runway.

It is arguably the queen stage of the 2023 Tour de France, with the 2,304m climb up the Col de la Loze the highest point of the whole race. The Loze was only climbed once before at the Tour, in 2020, after the narrow bike path to the summit was asphalted. On that occasion, Roglič distanced Pogačar, with Miguel Ángel López winning the stage. We can expect a similar showdown next July.

The Tour leaves the Alps on stage 18 from Moutiers to Bourg-en-Bresse, giving a breakaway a chance of glory if they can break the will of the sprinters and their teams. Stage 19 from Moirans-en-Montagne to Poligny is a hillier transition stage through the Jura and so north towards the Vosges and the French-Swiss border.

There is no time trial on the final Saturday of the race, and instead ASO have created what L’Équipe has described as a Liège-Bastogne-Liège as they try to inspire aggressive racing without climbing high into the mountains.

The 133km leg runs through the Vosges between Belfort and Le Markstein ski resort. It starts with the Ballon d’Alsace, includes five mid-stage climbs and then ends with 8.1% Petit Ballon and then the 8.4% Col du Platzerwasel.

“On a constant climb the riders can calculate their watts and control their effort. We are looking for ways to blow up the peloton,” technical director Thierry Gouvenou told L’Équipe , explaining his decision to create such a hard final stage.

Le Markstein hosted the penultimate stage of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes, with Annemiek van Vleuten taking the yellow jersey with an attack. The men will be hoping to repeat her exploit next summer to seal overall victory.

The Tour peloton will then transfer from the Vosges to Paris on the morning of the final stage on July 23. The final 115km parade stage starts at the national velodrome of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, which will host the track racing at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Tour de Romandie 2024 : à quelle heure et sur quelle chaîne voir la course ?

L'édition 2024 du tour de romandie se tiendra du mardi 23 au dimanche 28 avril et sera à suivre en direct et en intégralité sur la chaine l'équipe. retrouvez ici toutes les informations sur la diffusion..

Le Tour de Romandie 2024 est la grande étape de préparation avant le Tour d'Italie qui aura lieu du 4 au 26 mai.

L'épreuve débute ce mardi 23 avril par un prologue extrêmement court autour de Payerne (2,28 km), suivi de trois étapes en ligne, un contre-la-montre individuel et se conclut avec une étape en circuit à Vernier pour la cinquième et dernière étape.

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Les inscriptions commencent le 1er mai .

Cerise sur le gâteau, de nombreuses récompenses sont à gagner pour tous les finishers qui s’inscriront au tirage au sort : un bon d’achat pour la boutique Santini , une montre Tissot , une étude posturale dans un magasin Alltricks , des dossards pour L’Étape by Tour de France en République Tchèque, en Slovénie et en Irlande … mais surtout les derniers dossards pour L'Étape du Tour de France 2024 ! Le challenge est ouvert à tous les cyclistes âgés de plus de 18 ans, partout dans le monde. Inscriptions à partir du 1er mai directement sur Strava .

ï¿½'‍â™‚ï¿½'ï¿½ ð‹’ð„ððšð©ðž ðð® ð“ð¨ð®ð« ððž ð…ð«ðšð§ðœðž ðŸðŸŽðŸï¿½' ï¿½'‍â™€ï¿½'ï¿½ ðŸ“… 7 Juillet / July 7th ðŸ“ Nice - Col de la Couillole ðŸ âž¡ï¿½'ï¿½ 138 km â›°ï¿½'ï¿½ 4600m D+ â†—ï¿½'ï¿½ ðŸ”œ RDV le 31 octobre à 16h pour l’ouverture des inscriptions / See you on October 31st at 4pm for the opening of registrations ðŸ”¥ pic.twitter.com/FHzBCyj0Lb — L'Étape du Tour de France (@letapedutour) October 26, 2023

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Pour aller plus loin dans la préparation, des plans d’entraînement sur une période de 12 semaines avant L’Étape du Tour de France ont été créés en collaboration avec la FFC . La préparation est divisée en 3 blocs, chaque bloc étant axé sur un aspect spécifique : la vélocité, la force et la puissance. Deux programmes adaptés, un plan d’entraînement « classique » et un plan d’entraînement «mesdames, à vous de jouer ! » dédié aux femmes et qui prend en compte les cycles menstruels. À chacun son objectif, « Objectif finisher » : dédié aux initiés et aux personnes qui n’ont pas beaucoup de temps avec 3 sorties par semaine et « Objectif chrono » : 5 sorties par semaine pour celles et ceux qui veulent « borner ». Les plans d’entraînement sont à retrouver sur letapedutourdefrance.com

Entraîne-toi grâce à nos plans d’entraînement afin d’arriver en pleine forme le jour de la course ðŸš€ Mesdames, un plan d’entraînement prenant en compte les cycles menstruels a été pensé rien que pour vous, profitez-en ! ðŸ™‹‍â™€ï¿½'ï¿½ ðŸ‘‰ https://t.co/FdNHSy5I0r pic.twitter.com/TBrhu3HXjR — L'Étape du Tour de France (@letapedutour) April 18, 2024

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Lotte Kopecky to skip Tour de France Femmes after Olympics, SD Worx confirm

SD Worx manager Danny Stam confirmed that World Champion Lotte Kopecky will not take part in the Tour de France Femmes this year.

Kopecky was unsure whether she could race the Tour this year because the Olympic Games in Paris finish one day before the Tour de France Femmes Grand Départ in Rotterdam. Winning a medal at the Olympic Games is one of Kopecky's top priorities this season.

"The omnium ends on Sunday afternoon, the Tour starts on Monday morning. It is almost impossible to do that properly," Stam told Sporza .

"Combining those two events would also be a very difficult task mentally."

Kopecky won the opening stage of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2023 and held the maillot jaune until the penultimate stage to the Col du Tourmalet when she lost touch on the final climb and the overall lead passed to teammate Demi Vollering.

At the Tour de France route presentation, Kopecky said she wanted to race the Tour because it has two stages that run on Belgian roads - stage 3 uses part of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège course and stage 4 departs from Bastogne.

"When I see the course, I definitely want to ride. The fact that it goes through Belgium is also a very nice thing. On the other hand, the Tour is every year while the Olympic Games are only once every four years. There are also very nice goals coming up after the Tour, so it is very unclear at the moment," said Kopecky.

"The switch from track to road is not a problem in itself, that is not my biggest fear. The Tour in itself is simply very tough and after such an omnium you have not only been physically very deep, but also mentally."

Kopecky put an emphasis on the Spring Classics this year knowing the decision on whether to race the Tour or not would come after. She won Strade Bianche, Nokere Koerse and Paris-Roubaix this year as well as the UAE Tour Women in February.

Her schedule includes the Tour of Britain Women (6-9 June) and Giro d'Italia Women (7-14 July) before the Olympics in Paris. She will set her sights on the World Championships in Zurich in the latter part of the season.

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Stage 1: Bilbao to Bilbao, 182km

Stage 2: Vitoria Gastiez to Saint Sebastian, 209km

Stage 3: Amorebieta to Bayonne, 187km

Stage 4: Dax to Nogaro, 182km

Stage 5: Pau to Laruns, 163km

Stage 6: Tarbes to Cauterets, 145km

Stage 7: Mont de Marsan to Bordeaux, 170km

Stage 8: Libourne to Limoges, 201km

Stage 9: Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat to Puy de Dome, 184km

Stage 10: Parc Vulcania to Issoire, 167km

Stage 11: Clermont Ferrand to Moulins, 180km

Stage 12: Roanne to Belleville-en-Beaujolais, 169km

Stage 13: Chatillon-Sur-Chalaronne to Grand Colombier, 138km

Stage 14: Annemasse to Morzine, 152km

Stage 15: Les Gets to Saint Gervais, 180km

Stage 16: Individual time trial from Passy to Combloux, 22km

Stage 17: Saint Gervais to Courchevel, 166km

Stage 18: Moutiers to Bourg en Bresse, 186km

Stage 19: Moirans-en-Montagne to Poligny, 173km

Stage 20: Belfort to Le Markstein, 133km

Stage 21: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to Paris Champs-Elysees, 115km

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Tour de France 2023 stage-by-stage guide: Route maps and profiles for all 21 days

Stage 1: Bilbao to Bilbao, 182km

Stage 2: Vitoria Gastiez to Saint Sebastian, 209km

Stage 3: Amorebieta to Bayonne, 187km

Stage 4: Dax to Nogaro, 182km

Stage 5: Pau to Laruns, 163km

Stage 6: Tarbes to Cauterets, 145km

Stage 7: Mont de Marsan to Bordeaux, 170km

Stage 8: Libourne to Limoges, 201km

Stage 9: Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat to Puy de Dome, 184km

Stage 10: Parc Vulcania to Issoire, 167km

Stage 11: Clermont Ferrand to Moulins, 180km

Stage 12: Roanne to Belleville-en-Beaujolais, 169km

Stage 13: Chatillon-Sur-Chalaronne to Grand Colombier, 138km

Stage 14: Annemasse to Morzine, 152km

Stage 15: Les Gets to Saint Gervais, 180km

Stage 16: Individual time trial from Passy to Combloux, 22km

Stage 17: Saint Gervais to Courchevel, 166km