He The women’s tour will start its third edition in Rotterdam in 2024, with three stages on Dutch soil, “the most important country in women’s cycling,” said its director, Marion Rousse, on Monday.
because of Olympic Games, the women’s race will not start on the last day of the men’s race, as in the two previous editions. It will be done on August 12, one day after the Paris 2024 closing ceremony.
In one week, the best cyclists of the moment will seek victory in this test, which will live in its third edition in its current format, after the 2022 won by the Dutch. Annemiek van Vleuten and this year, which will begin with Clermont-Ferrand tomorrow 23, at the same time as the end of Men’s tour of Paris.
In a press conference on Clermont Ferrand, in conjunction with the first rest day of the Men’s Tour, rousse he assured that “the greatest champions are Dutch, which makes it a great popular festival”.
The race will end on August 18, but it will have eight stages, because on Tuesday the 12th there will also be a time trial on the streets of Rotterdam.
The organizers revealed that The Hague will be the goal of the first phase and Dordrecht the start of the second, while they are referring to October 25 to know other details, on the same day the Men’s Tour route will be revealed, which is known to start on June 29 in Florence and ends on July 21 at Nice. The Paris Games were forced to advance the start of the test by a week and to change the usual place of arrival to the Champs Elysees of the French capital.
Source: La Verdad
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