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On 30 November 2023, it was announced that the Grand Départ would take place in Lille. [1] The full route was announced on 29 October 2024 by Christian Prudhomme. [2] The route was considered to be in two halves, with flat and hilly stages for the first 10 stages, followed by mountainous stages in the Pyrenees and Alps before a return to the traditional finish on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the most well-known and prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
In February 2019, it was announced that Denmark would host the Grand Départ of the Tour in 2021. [4] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was delayed to 2022. [5] In October 2021, the route was announced by Christian Prudhomme. [6] [7] Three stages took place in Denmark, with an opening time trial in Copenhagen. [7]
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 ...
The 2023 Tour de France is reaching its most crucial phase and everything is set up for a showdown in the Alps between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard.Put simply, the next three days will ...
Mark Cavendish will not allow emotions to get better of him in final Tour de France. Stage-by-stage guide to the 2023 Tour de France route. 13:44, Lawrence Ostlere. The 2023 Tour de France has all ...
The 30th edition of L'Étape du Tour took place on 10 July 2022 on the same route as stage 12 of the Tour de France between Briançon and Alpe d'Huez over 167 km with more than 4,700m of climbing, including the Col du Galibier (Hors Catégorie), Col de la Croix de Fer (Hors Catégorie), and the final climb to Alpe d'Huez (Hors Catégorie). In ...
The 2024 Tour de France was the 111th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Florence, Italy, on 29 June, and finished in Nice, France, on 21 July. The race did not finish in (or near) Paris for the first time since its inception, owing to preparations for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The 2024 Tour de France had hundreds of ...