The 2024 Tour de France is the upcoming 111th edition of the

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

. It will start in

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, Italy on 29 June, and will finish in

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

, France on the 21 July. The race will not finish in Paris for the first time in its history, owing to preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Route and stages

In December 2022, Amaury Sport Organisation announced that

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will host the '' Grand Départ'', for the first time. 2024 will be the 100th anniversary of the first Italian winner of the Tour,

Ottavio Bottecchia Ottavio Bottecchia (; 1 August 1894 – 15 June 1927) was an Italian cyclist and the first Italian winner of the Tour de France. He was found injured and unconscious by a roadside and died a few days later; the exact circumstances of his acciden ...

in 1924. The route will also visit the

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, making it the 15th country to be visited by a Tour stage. It was also announced in December 2022 that the race will not finish in Paris, owing to preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Instead, the tour will finish in Nice with an individual time trial—the last time a time trial was the final stage in the Tour was in 1989. In October 2023, the full route was announced by

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. The route was described as "tough" by riders, with particular concern regarding the gravel tracks on stage 9 and limited opportunities for sprinters.

References

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