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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 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.
176 riders across 22 eight-member teams took part in the 2022 Tour de France. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Twenty-seven [ a ] nationalities took part, with the largest percentage being French (11% of the peloton). [ 3 ] 135 riders finished the event.
Harvard tied with Dartmouth and Columbia atop the conference at 5-2 this season, but scored head-to-head wins over both teams. Officially, the Ivy League recognized all three teams as co-champions.
The 2021 Tour de France was the 108th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three grand tours.Originally planned for the Danish capital of Copenhagen, the start of the 2021 Tour (known as the Grand Départ) was transferred to Brest because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Copenhagen hosting four matches in the UEFA Euro 2020, which had also been rescheduled to 2021 because of the pandemic.