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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]
Selling the Yellow Jersey - The Tour de France in the Global Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-22620-653-0. van den Akker, Pieter (2020). Tour de France rules and statistics: 1903–2020. Self-published. ISBN 979-8689654751. Wheatcroft, Geoffrey (2013). Le Tour. A History of the Tour de France. London: Simon & Schuster.
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 ...
The 2020 Tour de France was the 107th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tours. Originally scheduled to start on 27 June 2020, it was postponed until 29 August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France. The race began in Nice on 29 August and concluded with its traditional run on the Champs-Élysées on 20 September. [2]
A new long-acting preventive HIV drug could reach the world’s poorest countries by the end of 2025 or early 2026, a global health official told Reuters on Tuesday. The ambition is to start ...
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.