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Tour de France 2023: When does race start and end? Dates, times and full schedule

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The Tour de France , cycling’s premier race, is fast approaching with action set to get underway in a few weeks.

The multi-stage race will see the best cyclists in the world race across different terrains and locations throughout France and the Basque country.

Defending champion, Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard will be looking to retain his yellow jersey with his main threat likely to be two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar , despite the 24-year-old seeing his early year form and tour preparations hampered by a fractured wrist.

Here is everything you need to know about the Tour de France.

When is the Tour de France?

The 2023 Tour de France will take place between July 1-23 with the riders completing a series of different stages across varying terrain.

Where does the Tour de France start?

The first stage of the Tour de France, known as the Grand Départ, will take place in Bilbao which is located in the Basque Country in northern Spain. The first three stages will all start in Spain before the riders cross over into France for the conclusion of stage three in Bayonne.

How many stages are there in the Tour de France?

There are 21 stages in the Tour de France, with two rest days sandwiched in between. Across the three weeks of racing, the riders will have 6 flat stages, 6 hilly stages, 8 mountain stages and one individual time trial.

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How long is the Tour de France?

This year’s Tour de France will be raced over 3,404 kilometres (2,115 miles). The longest day will be stage two from Vitoria-Gasteiz to San Sebastian, which is 209km while the shortest - besides the time trial - at just 115km is the final stage from Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to Paris Champs-Elysees

How many teams and riders are in the Tour de France?

There are 22 teams that make up the Tour de France. Each team is made up of eight riders meaning 176 cyclists will compete in this year’s race.

How to watch the Tour de France?

For UK viewers, the Tour de France will be available to watch on Eurosport with a valid subscription as well as ITV4.

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Tour de France coverage from Cycling Weekly, with up to date race results, rider profiles and news and reports.

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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2023 Tour de France watch guide: Everything to know to get ready for the 110th edition

The Super Bowl of cycling is back.

Jonas Vingegaard will attempt to defend his title in the 110th Tour de France, which starts July 1. Last year's win was the Danish rider's first victory as he beat the favored Tadej Pogacar with impressive performances in the mountains.

The yellow jersey is up for grabs again as Pogacar will be racing after suffering a broken wrist in April. Other notable participants include Spain's Mikel Landa and Enric Mas, France's David Gaudu and Australia's Jai Hindley and Ben O'Connor.

American team Trek-Segafredo will rebrand at the end of this month and race as Lidl-Trek for the Tour de France. Mattias Skjelmose, 22, won the Tour de Suisse on Sunday and the Dane will be seeking to carry that momentum into the Tour de France.

This year's route starts in Bilbao, Spain before its celebratory conclusion in Paris, France.

Here's everything you need to know for the 2023 Tour de France:

When is the 2023 Tour de France

The 2023 Tour de France starts on July 1 and races through July 23.

How to watch the 2023 Tour de France

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How to live stream the 2023 Tour de France

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Phil Liggett returns as play-by-play for his 51st Tour de France. He will work alongside veteran analyst and former Tour de France participant Bob Roll. Steve Porino and Christian Vande Velde will report from the scene.

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Tour de France 2023 team guide: Start list, star riders for Jumbo-Visma, UAE Team Emirates, Ineos and all 22 teams

Updated 30/06/2023 at 21:12 GMT

Our Tour de France 2023 preview series continues with a team guide looking at each of the 22 teams and weighing up their options, targets and best riders ahead of the 110th edition of the race. Felix Lowe also asks the important question on the tip of everyone’s tongues: what French thing would each of the participating teams be? Stream the 2023 Tour de France live and on-demand on discovery+.

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• Oliver Naisen
• Benoit Cosnefroy
• Nans Peters
• Felix Gall*
• Aurelien Paret-Peintre
• Stan Dewulf
• Clement Berthet*

ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK

• Mathieu van der Poel
• Soren Kragh Andersen
• Quinten Hermans
• Michael Gogl
• Jonas Rickaert
• Jasper Philipsen*
• Ramon Sinkeldam
• Silvan Dillier

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ASTANA QAZAQSTAN

• Alexey Lutsenko
• Gianni Moscon
• Yevgeniy Fedorov*
• Mark Cavendish
• David de la Cruz
• Luis Leon Sanchez
• Harold Tejada

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BAHRAIN-VICTORIOUS

• Mikel Landa
• Matej Mohoric
• Pello Bilbao
• Fred Wright*
• Nikias Arndt
• Phil Bauhaus

BORA-HANSGROHE

• Emanuel Buchmann
• Marco Haller
• Jai Hindley
• Bob Jungels
• Jordi Meeus*
• Patrick Konrad
• Nils Politt
• Danny van Poppel
• Guillaume Martin
• Anthony Perez
• Ion Izagirre
• Simon Geschke
• Bryan Coquard
• Alexis Renard*
• Axel Zingle*
• Victor Lafay

EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST

• Richard Carapaz
• Alberto Bettiol
• Rigoberto Uran
• Neilson Powless
• Esteban Chaves
• Magnus Cort
• Andrey Amador

GROUPAMA-FDJ

• David Gaudu
• Valentin Madouas
• Thibaut Pinot
• Lars van den Berg*
• Olivier Le Gac
• Stefan Kung
• Quentin Pacher
• Kevin Geniets

INEOS GRENADIERS

• Egan Bernal
• Michal Kwiatkowski
• Carlos Rodriguez*
• Daniel Martinez
• Thomas Pidcock*
• Jonathan Castroviejo
• Ben Turner*
• Omar Fraile

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INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY

• Louis Meintjes
• Georg Zimmermann
• Mike Teunissen
• Adrien Petit
• Biniam Girmay*
• Lilian Calmejane

JUMBO-VISMA

• Jonas Vingegaard
• Wilco Kelderman
• Wout van Aert
• Tiesj Benoot
• Dylan van Baarle
• Christophe Laporte
• Nathan van Hooydonck

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• Mattias Skjelmose*
• Jasper Stuyven
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• Mads Pedersen
• Alex Kirsch
• Quinn Simmons*
• Matteo Jorgenson*
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• Nelson Oliveira
• Gorka Izagirre
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SOUDAL QUICK-STEP

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• Tim Declercq
• Michael Morkov
• Fabio Jakobsen
• Dries Devenyns

TEAM ARKEA SAMSIC

• Warren Barguil
• Clement Champoussin*
• Anthony Delaplace
• Laurent Pichon
• Simon Guglielmi
• Jenthe Biermans
• Luca Mozzato*
• Matis Louvel*

TEAM DSM-FIRMENICH

• Romain Bardet
• John Degenkolb
• Matthew Dinham*
• Alexander Edmondson
• Nils Eekhoff*
• Chris Hamilton
• Kevin Vermaerke
• Sam Welsford

TEAM JAYCO ALULA

• Simon Yates
• Dylan Groenewegen
• Luka Mezgec
• Elmar Reinders
• Lawson Craddock
• Luke Durbridge
• Chris Harper
• Christopher Juul-Jensen

UAE TEAM EMIRATES

• Tadej Pogacar*
• Vegard Stake Laengen
• Felix Grossschartner
• Mikkel Bjerg*
• Rafal Majka
• Matteo Trentin

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UCI ProTeams

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• Simon Clarke
• Guillaume Boivin
• Corbin Strong

LOTTO DSTNY

• Victor Campenaerts
• Jasper De Buyst
• Pascal Eenkhoorn
• Frederik Frison
• Jacopo Guarnieri
• Florian Vermeersch*
• Maxim van Gils*

TOTALENERGIES

• Peter Sagan
• Edvald Boasson Hagen
• Pierre Latour
• Anthony Turgis
• Mathieu Burgaudeau
• Valentin Ferron*

UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM

• Alexander Kristoff
• Torstein Traeen
• Soren Waerenskjold*
• Jonas Abrahamsen
• Anthon Charmig*
• Jonas Gregaard
• Tobias Johannessen
• Rasmus Tiller

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• 28 TURNER Ben * (DNF #13)

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When is the 2023 tour de france start time, how to watch, route, and more.

The world’s most famed bicycle race is back for its 110th year, as the 2023 Tour de France will get underway in just a few weeks, Saturday, July 1 through Sunday, July 23, airing on both NBC and Peacock .

Aside from intense racing and historic sites, this year’s race will bring 12 new stage towns to the map, with the Grand Depart taking place in a new location as well.

NBC Sports has you covered with everything you need to know about the 2023 Tour de France. See below to find out more information for the grand race, including start time, schedule, route and more.

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When is the 2023 tour de france.

The 2023 Tour de France will take place from July 1-23. The riders will embark on the first stage in Bilbao on Saturday, July 1, with coverage on NBC Sports and Peacock from start to finish.

What are the start and end cities for the Tour de France 2023?

The world’s most prestigious race will get underway in Bilbao, Spain, the most populous city in the Basque Country. This will be the first time that Bilbao has hosted a stage of the Tour, and the second consecutive year the race begins outside of France.

As the riders venture along the extremely difficult course, the race will find its finish as it has since 1975, on the street of Champs-Élysées in Paris.

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How many teams are in the Tour?

22 teams will make up the peloton of the Tour de France. Of these teams are the 18 UCI WorldTeams that received an automatic invite and four UCI ProTeams.

UCI WorldTeams

• AG2R Citroën Team (Fra)
• Alpecin Deceuninck (Bel)
• Astana Qazaqstan Team (Kaz)
• Bora-Hansgrohe (Ger)
• EF Education-Easypost (Usa)
• Groupama-FDJ (Fra)
• Ineos Grenadiers (Gbr)
• Intermarché-Circus-Wanty (Bel)
• Jumbo-Visma (Ned)
• Movistar Team (Esp)
• Soudal Quick-Step (Bel)
• Team Arkea-Samsic (Fra)
• Team Bahrain Victorious (Brn)
• Team Cofidis (Fra)
• Team DSM (Ned)
• Team Jayco AlUla (Aus)
• Trek-Segafredo (Usa)
• UAE Team Emirates (Uae)

UCI ProTeams

• Lotto Dstny (Bel)
• TotalEnergies (Fra)
• Israel-Premier Tech (Isr)
• Uno-X Pro Cycling Team (Nor)

How long is this year’s route?

This year’s Tour route is a total of 3,404 km (2,115 miles) that is spread out over a span of three weeks. The riders will complete one stage per day, with two rest days on July 10 (between stages 9 and 10) and July 17 (between stages 15 and 16).

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How many stages is the Tour de France?

The Tour de France 2023 is comprised of 21 stages: 6 flat, 6 hilly, 8 mountain and 1 individual time trial.

This will be the first year since 2015 that the Tour has only one individual time trial rather than two, with just 14 miles of time trial racing on the route.

What is the Tour de France schedule and route?

Who won the last tour de france.

Last year’s Tour de France crown was won by Team Jumbo-Visma member Jonas Vingegaard . The Danish rider overcame the strenuous course and extreme heat wave to secure his first Tour triumph, becoming just the second Dane to ever do so.

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Grand Départ Florence Émilie-Romagne 2024

The 111th edition of the Tour de France will start from Florence on Saturday, 29 June 2024 in a historic first for the Grande Boucle.

THE LONGEST WAIT , Christian Prudhomme, Director of the Tour de France

Florence had been talking to us about it for a very long time, Emilia-Romagna nurtured its burning desire, and then Piedmont came on board — Italy truly raised its ambitions to the power of three to host the Grand Départ .

Their ardour and synergies will right a historic wrong as the Tour de France gets under way on the Italian Peninsula for the first time and the riders take their first pedal strokes in this true-blue cycling nation. Exactly a century after Ottavio Bottecchia became the first cyclist from the other side of the Alps to win the Tour, the peloton will go from the birthplace of Gino Bartali, a champion Righteous Among the Nations, to that of Marco Pantani, the unforgettable Il Pirata, worshipped without measure, before paying tribute to the campionissimo, Fausto Coppi. These three stages will take us through majestic landscapes in which the leaders will be forced to take matters into their own hands from the opening weekend. It is going to be magical.

JUST LIKE HOME , Stefano Bonaccini, President of the region Emilia-Romagna et Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence

"Florence and Emilia-Romagna are physically linked by mountains. The Apuan Alps, the most incredible stretch of the chain surrounding Tuscany, which yielded the marble for Michelangelo’s sublime creations, extend all the way to the Emilia-Romagna Apennines, a mountain range carpeted with charming villages steeped in history on the road from Dante’s birthplace to his tomb in Ravenna.

The other tie that binds our city and our region is our passion for cycling. Three of our scions —Gino Bartali, Gastone Nencini and Marco Pantani— have won the Tour, and our other champions are too numerous to mention. Yet one name stands out from the legend: Alfonsina Strada, a pioneer from Castelfranco Emilia, who in 1924 became the first —and only— woman to take part in the men’s Giro d’Italia. For the Tour de France, this Grand Départ from Florence and Emilia-Romagna will feel just like home."

"It’s an honour to host the Tour de France’s Grand Départ and to be able to showcase Florence and Emilia-Romagna, as well as Turin and Piedmont, to sports enthusiasts from all over the world. The landscapes that will feature in the race will serve as an invitation to come and discover the extraordinary beauty of these regions, which have always been devoted to cycling, at a time when the bicycle is becoming the preferred means of transport for “slow”, meaning that you take your time, green, sustainable and enjoyable tourism. We’re ready to welcome world cycling’s elite with three magnificent stages that will wind their way along our roads next summer. The local organising committee"

HAND IN HAND Florence and Emilia-Romagna are physically linked by mountains. The Apuan Alps, the most impressive part of the chain that surrounds Tuscany, extend towards the Emilia-Romagna Apennines. Their passion for cycling is the other link that unites them, the two locations the birthplace of no fewer than three Tour de France champions between them: Gino Bartali, Gastone Nencini and Marco Pantani. Florence is the cradle of art, literature and architecture, the birthplace of the Renaissance and the Italian language. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is universally recognised as one of the world’s most beautiful cities, thanks to its many monuments and museums, which attract millions of tourists every year. Proud of its past, Florence is also looking to the future with a vision focused on sustainable development, creativity and innovation. Emilia-Romagna is built around the green heart of the Apennines, the Po Valley and the Adriatic coast. The ancient Via Emilia, built in Roman times, runs across it from Rimini to Piacenza, an artery that provided the lifeblood to an area rich in culture and with a history stretching back thousands of years. That heritage that is still alive and well, and is now epitomised by Emilia-Romagna’s current position among the most advanced regions in Europe. This is reflected in its economic activity, focused around tourism and the agri-food, textile and automotive industries.

BREATHTAKING, GROUNDBREAKING

Florence is the cradle of art, literature and architecture, the birthplace of the Renaissance and of the Italian language. Nestled on a territory that for centuries has been characterized by the perfect balance between man and nature, it is a destination for millions of visitors from all over the world every year. Today it is a city proud of its past and future oriented, focused on sustainable development, creativity and innovation.

Emilia-Romagna is a unique region. Land of doing and land of beauty, with the Apennines as great green heart, the Adriatic coast, the Po river and its valley. Via Emilia, which crosses the region and connects from Rimini to Piacenza, is the beating heart of an area rich in culture and a millenary history. It’s a still living legacy, welded with a present that sees Emilia-Romagna as one of the most advanced territories in Europe, thanks to the tenacity, inspiration and industriousness of its citizens.

Capital of the Tuscany region

Population: 383,000

• EMILIA-ROMAGNA

A region in northern Italy

Surface area : 22,510 km²

Population : 4,460,000

Capital and stage city : Bologna (390,000 inhabitants)

Stage towns and cities : Rimini (150,000 inhabitants), Cesenatico (26,000 inhabitants), and Piacenza (103,000 inhabitants)  

A region in north-western Italy

Surface area : 25,400 km²

Population : 4,342,000

Capital : Turin (890,000 inhabitants)

Wednesday, 26 June : Opening of the reception desk and press centre at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Florence Opera

Thursday, 27 June :  Presentation of the 2024 Tour de France teams from the Palazzo Vecchio, the City Hall of Florence to Piazzale Michelangelo, esplanade Michelangelo

Saturday, 29 June : Stage 1 Florence > Rimini

Sunday, 30 June : Stage 2 Cesenatico > Bologna

Monday, 1 July : Stage 3 Plaisance > Turin

STAGE 1 | Florence > Rimini | 29 June 2024 | 205 KM

This postcard will provide a snapshot of the Grand Départ in Florence, the Bartali Museum in Ponte a Ema —where the champion was born— and the finish on the Adriatic seafront.

In sporting terms, this trek through the Apennines packs an elevation gain of 3,800 m, from the power climb of Valico Tre Faggi to steeper slopes, in the heart of the Republic of San Marino, the last of which comes near the finish. The first Yellow Jersey may well go to one of the contenders for the overall title.

STAGE 2 | Cesenatico > Bologne | 30 June 2024 | 200 KM

From the spa resort where Marco Pantani used to live, which is also his final resting place, the peloton will ride down gorgeous plains before hitting the first two climbs, including the Cima Gallisterna, coming right before Imola Circuit, where Julian Alaphilippe earned his rainbow stripes in 2020.

Another four difficulties stand between the riders and the finish line, including two ascents to San Luca (1.9km at 10.6%) along the 666 arches of the staircase leading to the Sanctuary. Punchers are in for a real treat.

STAGE 3 | Plaisance > Turin | 1 July 2024 | 225 KM

Pure sprinters will get their first chance to shine on the road from Emilia-Romagna to Piedmont. A course with nary a bump on the road, a detour through Lombardy, a visit to Tortona, where Fausto Coppi drew his final breath, a romp through the Langhe, which boasts delicious truffles and wine-growing landscapes on the UNESCO World Heritage list, some of the roads of Milan–San Remo… Against such a jaw-dropping backdrop, any breakaways will have their work cut out for them to stay clear and pre-empt a bunch sprint.

  7 winners and 10 victories

• Ottavio Bottecchia (1924 & 1925)
• Gino Bartali (1938 & 1948)
• Fausto Coppi (1949 et 1952)
• Gastone Nencini (1960)
• Felice Gimondi (1965)
• Marco Pantani (1998)
• Vincenzo Nibali (2014)

28  wearers of the Yellow Jersey

2 green jerseys for the points classification

12  King of the Mountains awards

5  winners of the best young rider classification

269  stage wins from Ernesto Azzini in 1910 to Vincenzo Nibali in 2019 -  12 (record) for Gino Bartali and Mario Cipollini

9 stage towns and cities so far from San Remo in 1948 to Pinerolo in 2011

1924:  The first Italian Tour de France champion, Ottavio Bottecchia , will also become the first rider to wear the Yellow Jersey from start to finish. He will make it two in a row in 1925.    

1948:  After winning the race before the war, in 1938, Gino Bartali takes his second Tour ten years later, which still stands as the longest gap between victories.  

1952:  Three years after emerging victorious from a fratricidal duel with Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi crushes the competition on his way to another win.

1960: The field, led by Yellow Jersey and future winner Gastone Nencini , saluted General de Gaulle in a historic moment in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises.

1965:  Yellow Jersey Felice Gimondi drove home his advantage in the time trial from Aix-les-Bains to the Mont Revard, on his way to taking the title in his very first start.

1998: Marco Pantani , the best young rider in the 1994 and 1995 editions of the Tour, uses the mountain stages as a launch pad to the top step of the podium in Paris.  

2014:  Vincenzo Nibali becomes the most recent Italian Tour de France champion after going on the offensive from the beginning and laying down the law in the mountains.

• 28 wearers of the Yellow Jersey
• 2 green jerseys for the points classification
• 12 King of the Mountains awards 5 winners of the best young rider classification
• 269 stage wins from Ernesto Azzini in 1910 to Vincenzo Nibali in 2019 including 12 (record) for Gino Bartali and Mario Cipollini
• 9 stage towns and cities so far from San Remo in 1948 to Pinerolo in 2011

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Tour de france stage 1: the hilliest-ever opening stage of the tour, a dramatic opener to this year's tour with an elevation gain of 3,800 meters. will the bunch fragment like last year.

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Stage 1 — Saturday, June 29 Florence-Rimini Distance: 206km (128 miles) Profile: Medium mountain stage

Stage 1: A daunting opener

Last year’s first stage was said by some to be amongst the hardest Tour openers ever; one year later, the organizers have decided to follow the same template.

Indeed they have ramped up the difficulty, with an elevation gain of 3,800 meters, some 500 meters more than last time around. The stage will not so much shake off the cobwebs as evaporate them. Starting in Florence as part of the first-ever Italian Grand Depart in history, the riders will have 30 mainly flat kilometers before the first of seven categorized climbs rear up.

The Col de Valico Tre Faggi is the highest on the stage, peaking at 930 meters altitude after 12.5km of climbing. A breakaway is almost certain to form here and, passing over the subsequent climbs of the Côte des Forche, the Côte de Carnaio and the Colle de Barbotto, should be able to further pad their advantage.

The pendulum may well swing the other way over the three climbs located in the final 50 kms. The last of these, the Côte de Saint-Marino, is followed by 25 downhill and flat roads to the finish in Rimini. Much will depend on how the favorites ride the stage but if the big names and their teams go all in, a very difficult first day is in store.

The stage finish is a poignant location for Italian cycling. The 1998 Tour de France winner Marco Pantani died in Rimini in 2004, with this year’s Tour taking place 20 years after that tragic event.

The view of Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme: “It’s rare for the Tour de France to start with more than 3,600 meters of climbing — in fact it’s never happened before! — and it’s also the first time that the race has visited the home city of Gino Bartali.

“The succession of hills in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna are likely to be the setting for an immediate and testing confrontation between the contenders for the title, particularly the climb into San Marino (7.1km at 4.8 percent), where the race will add a 13th name to its catalogue of foreign visits.”

Wiebes, Vollering aiming for Tour de France Femmes repeat on home soil

W ith fewer than 100 days to go until the Tour de France Femmes starts for the first time on foreign soil in the Netherlands, two of the favourites for glory at the season's biggest race have talked about the special occasion and the possible added pressure of the Rotterdam Grand Départ.

SD Worx-Protime stars Lorena Wiebes and Demi Vollering will lead the home charge for the yellow jersey and stage wins as the race kicks off with three stages in the Netherlands based around Rotterdam.

Wiebes, the top sprinter of the women's peloton, has three stage wins to her name across two editions so far and also wore the yellow jersey two years ago. Vollering, meanwhile, is the reigning champion and favourite to take home the maillot jaune once again this summer.

"It's really special to have to start in your home country and that family and friends can watch the race. It's even more special to get a chance to get a yellow jersey on the first stage," Wiebes said at an event held in Rotterdam to mark the 100-days-to-go milestone last week.

"I watched the men's race growing up and it was actually the dream to win on the Champs-Elysées already when I was at junior level and younger. I achieved that already. Now the next goal is here."

Vollering said she "would never have thought" that the Tour's first foreign start would be a Dutch one.

"I was really excited when I heard about it. I'm really looking forward to the start here," she said before talking about the added pressure of performing on home roads.

"I was born and raised pretty close by and so I know the roads here pretty well. I will feel a little pressure to help guide my teammates through the first few days.

"It will be really nice to have to start here and to also together with Lorena try to get yellow already directly at the beginning of the stage."

The opening stage of the race is set to be a pan-flat sprinter-friendly day running 124km from Rotterdam to The Hague, with stage 2a the next day another flat run from Dordrecht back to Rotterdam.

The race's only time trial kilometres come in the shape of a 6.3km TT in central Rotterdam that afternoon before the Tour heads south for an Ardennes-style third stage.

For Vollering, stage 3 should mark her first big chance to make a GC difference, though for Wiebes the stage may host a different landmark in the race. She said that another early yellow jersey is her main goal, along with winning as many stages as possible, with stage 3 likely the longest she'd be able to hold the lead.

"First of all, the goal is to try to finish the Tour. But I hope to get as many stages as possible," she said. "And if it's again possible – like last year with Lotte – to get the green jersey and the yellow for Demi then it will be perfect.

"I hope until the Valkenberg, but there's also the short time trial in between," Wiebes said when asked about her chances of holding yellow.

"But I think it's still possible to limit the time loss and it could also be possible to win the second stage. Then you'd already have 20 seconds of time bonus so maybe it's possible to keep it. I think after Valkenberg it's a bit too hard because I saw that we also do La Redoute in that stage."

Growing the women's sport

The third edition of the Tour de France Femmes will likely be the biggest one yet, given the foreign Grand Départ in the cycling-mad Netherlands and big homegrown names on the start line including Wiebes, Vollering plus Charlotte Kool (DSM Firmenich-PostNL) and Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease A Bike).

Vollering said that she has noticed the increased attention and the growth of the sport, not only on the bike but also away from it as her impending move away from SD Worx-Protime shapes up to be the season's biggest transfer story.

"Now I get this question a few times almost every day so it's crazy to see this," Vollering said. "I think that I've also grown with the sport. My first pro year was in 2019 and that was the first year women's racing was a little bit broadcast online or on TV. From 2019 on, every year we have made big steps and that's really special to see.

"[The development] has gone really, really fast. You see in the Classics already we have the amount of people coming to the races for an autograph or photo before the race. It's really cool to see that so many people are coming for us now. It's like in one year, the people doubled, so it's crazy to see."

Wiebes was also pleased and surprised with the increased interest in the sport, which has only grown with the addition to the calendar of the Tour.

However, she did add a note of caution to remind the sport not to forget about those riders racing on smaller teams who are still battling to make a living on the bike.

"It's going really quick with women's cycling and I think it's good, but it's also a bit hard sometimes, especially for the teams. But I think it's good to inspire women and kids to cycle and to get on the bike," Wiebes said.

"I think the most important is that everybody gets a salary also from the Continental teams," she added. "I think there are still some girls riding around in peloton who are not getting paid or at the end they don't make enough money and they still have to work alongside cycling.

"So, I think we need to be a little bit more in step. But that can also be hard because with these events like the Tour de France, it makes cycling get bigger and we get a lot more attention than before."