The routes for the 2024 editions of the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift shall be formally offered in Paris on October 25 by race administrators Christian Prudhomme and Marion Rousse.
Cyclingnews could have stay protection of the presentation adopted by full particulars of the race routes, rider reactions and evaluation.
French race organiser ASO at all times tries to maintain particulars of the race routes beneath wraps, whereas native politicians wish to boast in regards to the races visiting their areas to native media, which publish leaks about particular phases or areas.
Thomas Vergouwen patiently collates the small print and publishes them on his VeloWire web site and even creates a map of the anticipated route.
The 111th version of the lads’s Tour de France will happen from June 29 to July 21. It begins in Florence, Italy and ends in Good after three weeks of racing to keep away from the preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics Video games that start every week later.
The third version of the trendy incarnation of the ladies’s Tour de France shall be held after the Paris Olympic Video games between Monday, Aug 12 and Sunday, August 18.
Beneath Cyclingnews has all the small print on the newest rumours and leaks for each race routes.
We are going to replace the data between now and the official displays in order that what to anticipate when the official route video is revealed.
Tour de France Femmes 2024 route
What we all know in regards to the Tour de France Femmes route
The third version of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift has shifted dates to accommodate the Olympic Video games and can embrace eight phases held throughout seven days from August 12-18, 2024.
Organisers of the Tour de France Femmes, ASO, have already confirmed that the Netherlands will host the primary three phases of the 2024 version.
The Grand Départ will kick off on August 12 in Rotterdam, at some point after the conclusion of the Paris Olympic Video games.
It is going to be the primary Grand Départ of the Tour de France Femmes held on international soil.
Double-day
There are few particulars but recognized past the 2024 Tour de France Femmes’ Grand Départ in Rotterdam.
Nonetheless, Rotterdam is a historic location in ladies’s racing as the situation of one of many rounds of the previous Girls’s World Cup, a top-tier one-day race collection that was changed by the present Girls’s WorldTour in 2016.
After the opening stage from Rotterdam to The Hague, ASO has confirmed a double day of racing on August 13 with the potential of a stage 2a highway race that begins in Dordrecht and a stage 2b time trial within the afternoon in Rotterdam.
There was no time trial within the first version of the Tour de France Femmes in 2022. ASO launched a time trial to the second version in 2023 after suggestions from groups and riders. The race in opposition to the clock, gained by Marlen Reusser (SD Worx), closed out the 2023 occasion in Pau, whereas her teammate Demi Vollering gained the general title.
Though the particular particulars of the programs haven’t been revealed for the opening three phases, the race has been confirmed to enter Rotterdam, The Hague, and Dordrecht.
“We’re proud to organise the primary international Grand Départ of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift along with The Hague and Dordrecht,” mentioned Ahmed Aboutaleb, the Mayor of Rotterdam. “The Tour’s magic spreads far and extensive. This unforgettable occasion will encourage our residents to get on their bikes and increase their world.”
L’Alpe d’Huez
There are apparent challenges and limitations to how a lot of the countryside the Tour de France Femmes may traverse in simply eight days of racing, so hitting the peaks of the Voges, Alps, and Pyrenees is just not possible.
Nonetheless, the organisers have designed the earlier two editions to showcase main summit finishes. The inaugural Tour de France Femmes boasted back-to-back Le Markstein and La Planche des Belles Filles within the Voges, each gained by general champion Annemiek van Vleuten in 2022. The Col du Tourmalet was the crowning second of the 2023 version, gained by general champion Demi Vollering in 2023.
In line with a report by Dauphiné Libéré, the ultimate two days of the Tour de France Femmes are anticipated to happen within the Alps.
Stage 7 of the Tour de France Femmes is anticipated to complete on the ski station of Le Grand-Bornand within the Haute-Savoie of the northern Alps.
Stage 8 is rumoured to guide journey Le Bourg-d’Oisans for the 13.9km ascent by way of the well-known 21 switchbacks to the ski resort of the legendary l’Alpe d’Huez.
The peloton will attain France on the third day of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes.
Tour de France 2024 route
What we all know in regards to the males’s Tour de France route
The Grand Départ of the 2024 Tour de France shall be held in Italy for the primary time within the historical past of the race, with the Tuscan capital of Florence internet hosting the beginning of the opening stage.
The 205km opening highway stage will journey to the Adriatic coast and end in Cesenatico, the birthplace of 1998 Tour de France winner Marco Pantani. The end may go well with the sprinters, however they face 32,700 metres of climbing within the hills between Tuscany and Emilia Romagna.
Stage 2 will begin in Cesenatico and in addition climb into the rolling hills of Romagna for 200km earlier than the end in Bologna after two laps of the San Luca climb made well-known by the Giro dell’Emilia. The third stage is a flatter affair and covers 225km from Piacenza to Turin for a dash end within the capital of Piedmonte.
The trio of phases will rejoice the a hundredth anniversary of Ottavio Bottecchia’s Tour de France victory and keep in mind different former Italian winners, Gino Bartali, Riccardo Nencini, Marco Pantani and Fausto Coppi.
Good time trial finale
The Tour de France will end exterior of Paris for the primary time within the race’s historical past in 2024, with the ultimate stage a time trial from Monaco to Good.
The ultimate phases have already been revealed, with stage 20 beginning in Good and heading inland into the powerful climbs of Alpes-Maritimes. The 132km stage will embrace 4 climbs and finish atop the Col de la Couillole, a 15.7km climb at 7.1%.
The ultimate stage is a 35km hilly time trial from Monaco to Good, which is anticipated to create a nail-biting end to the 2024 Grand Boucle.
The time trial climbs the Col d’Eze (1.6km at 8.1%) and La Turbie (8.1km at 5.6%) earlier than a protracted gradual descent to Good.
It’s the first time in historical past that the race will finish exterior of Paris and is the primary time that the Tour de France concludes with a time trial since Greg LeMond dramatically pipped Laurent Fignon on the Champs-Elysées in 1989. One other thrilling finale could possibly be on the playing cards.
What is anticipated between Italy and Good
Italy and Good will bookend the 2024 Tour de France, with plenty of different fascinating phases anticipated to be unveiled on October 25. That is what we all know and anticipate because the race heads to Dijon, the Massif Central and the Pyrenees earlier than returning to the Alps after which descending to Good and the Mediterranean coast.
The beginning of stage 4 is anticipated to be in Pinerolo, east of Turin, earlier than the race heads into France by way of the Alps.
Stage 4 will embrace some climbs within the excessive Alps because it crosses into France from Italy, probably together with the Col du Galibier, however the stage will end in Valloire earlier than heading west quite than embrace extra early excessive mountains.
In line with Velowire, the early phases in France will head to Dijon and the Cote d’Or wine area well-known for its Burgundy reds. A dash end is anticipated on stage 6, with a time trial or perhaps a workforce time trial on stage 7 by way of the vineyards.
First week ends with some gravel racing
The route will attain its most northerly level in Troyes, south of Paris, with the primary relaxation day in Orléans on Monday, July 8.
In line with L’Est éclair, stage 9 to Troyes will embrace a number of sectors of gravel, including a twist to the racing.
The gravel roads round Troyes featured within the first version of the Tour de France Femmes again in 2022, with a win for Marlen Reusser (SD Worx), whereas uphill gavel finishes at La Planche des Belles Filles within the males’s and ladies’s race in 2022.
Tour de France technical director Thierry Gouvenou appears to love testing riders’ bike expertise, even when a crash or puncture may wreck a rider’s general hopes.
Massif central and south to the Pyrenees
The second week of the 2024 Tour de France will embrace a experience south by way of the customarily scorching Massif Central, with stage 10 set to complete Julian Alaphilippe’s hometown of Saint-Amand-Montrond.
The Tour will attain Pau on stage 13 after which climb into the Pyrenees with two mountain finishes.
Raymond Poulidor gained at Pla d’Adet 50 years in the past, and a stage end there’ll recall when he dropped Eddy Merckx to win the stage.
The following day’s stage will experience throughout a number of iconic Pyrenean mountains, together with the Peyresourde and the Portet d’Aspet after which end in Plateau de Beille. Joaquim Rodríguez gained there when the Tour final visited in 2015, with Britain’s Thomas Gloag successful a stage of the Ronde l’Isard there in 2021.
The stage to Plateau de Beille needs to be on July 14, Bastille Day, so anticipate fireworks from the riders and all throughout France on their nationwide vacation.
Throughout the south to the Alps
The riders are more likely to benefit from the second relaxation day in Narbonne close to the south of France on Monday, July 15.
Transition or breakaway phases comply with to Nîmes after which to Tremendous-Dévoluy ski resort on stage 17 earlier than the showdown within the excessive Alps.
Little is understood of stage 18 from Hole to Barcelonnette, however we anticipate it to be mountainous.
Far more is understood of stage 19, with the Mayor of Good confirming that the end shall be within the Isola 2,000 ski station within the southern Alps.
In line with BFM TV, this stage will go over the Col de Vars earlier than tackling Europe’s highest highway, the Cime de la Bonette (2,802 m), which might be the best level of the 2024 Tour de France.
The stage could possibly be quick at round 130km however will certainly be intense, with stage 19 and 20 providing the true finale to the 2024 Tour de France.
2025 Grand Depart in Lille, northern France
The official presentation in Paris usually sees the affirmation of subsequent Grand Departs, with the beginning of the 2025 Tour de France more likely to be revealed.
ASO has earned important charges with latest editions of the Tour de France beginning in Copenhagen, Bilbao and Florence however is beneath stress to start out in France in 2025.
The race is anticipated to start out in northeast France, with Lille on the centre of a number of phases within the Hauts-de-France area, which sits between Paris and Belgium. A return to Brittany, the heartland of biking in France, is probably going within the first week earlier than the Alps and Pyrenees and a return to the standard end in Paris.