The Grand Départ of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift might be in Rotterdam in 2024, Wielerflits reported, citing a number of unnamed sources.
The information must be made official this week by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) within the lead-up to the beginning of the Tour de France in Bilbao.
After beginning with a circuit race in Paris for its first version in 2022 after which a highway stage in Clermont-Ferrand in 2023, the third version of the race will head outdoors of France for the primary time in its historical past.
Wielerflits stories that the primary three days of the stage race will happen outdoors of France, beginning with a time trial in Rotterdam on August 12, someday after the top of the Paris Olympic Video games.
Stage 2 might be a highway stage from Rotterdam to The Hague. Beginning in Valkenburg, the third stage might deliver the riders to the Walloon area of Belgium.
The peloton ought to in the end attain France on the fourth day of racing.
Two of the WorldTour Spring Classics going down in Belgium, Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes and La Flèche Wallone Femmes, are additionally organized by ASO.
Final yr, the Tour de France Femmes was an eight-day race that started on the Champs-Élysées in Paris along with the ultimate stage 21 of the boys’s Tour de France and ended on La Tremendous Planche des Belles Filles the place Movistar’s Annemiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands was topped the general champion.
The Tour de France Femmes 2023, from July 23-30, might be held throughout eight levels as soon as once more and can tackle an entire new space of France this yr, beginning within the Massif Central.
The 956km route will take the peloton south and into the Pyrénées, ending with a mountaintop end on the enduring Col du Tourmalet on stage 7, the crowning second of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes, and a stage 8 particular person time trial in Pau.
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