He Tour de France presented this Wednesday the route of Tour Femmes 2024, a women’s race that will experience its third edition. It is in a race where Demi Vollering She will defend her status as reigning champion, now without Annemiek van Vleuten, who retired after this season, as her rival.
For the first time, The Women’s Tour starts from outside France. Rotterdam It will host the start of an edition consisting of eight stages that will pass through the Netherlands and Belgium in its first part. There is no missing ingredient on the route, with stages for sprinters, a small time trial, days with a classic format and the final fireworks with high finish of the last stage in Alpe d’Huez.
If in 2023 the Tourmalet will be the judge of the race on the last day, the Tour Femmes will remain true to its commitment to promoting women’s cycling in the great ports that have marked the history of the ‘Tour de France’ brand. So, the Alpe d’Huez this time was chosen to conclude an edition where a great fight is expected again in all places between the candidates for the race.
The Women’s Tour will take place from August 12 to 18just a week after some Olympic Games in Paris that the online test will take place on Sunday, August 4. The Netherlands will, therefore, be in charge of launching the great event of women’s cycling in the world.
“It is an honor to go to Paris to show the gratitude of the city of Rotterdam for being able to organize the departure of the Tour Femmes 2024. It is not uncommon to see a woman with her children in the city. LThe 2010 release made a big impact and we hope the same will happen this time around“, he highlighted in the presentation Ahmed Aboutaleb, mayor of Rotterdam, a city that lives cycling on all four sides. “We chose this place because of the success of cycling in the Netherlands. The first time the Men’s Tour left France was from Amsterdam, seventy years ago,” he recalled. Marion Roussedirector of the Tour de France Femmes.
They will argue in the Netherlands the first three episodes. The first, a flat day of 124 kilometers between Rotterdam and The Hague where the wind is expected to be the star. On August 13, meanwhile, there will be a double section of the competition, with a short sprint stage in the morning, between Dordrecht and Rotterdam, and a small time trial in the afternoon similar to what the men did in Rotterdam in 2010.
The fourth stage will be one of the important ones, in one day between Valkenburg and Liege 123 kilometers with a tribute to the classics. The first part of the route will pass through the legendary points of the Amstel Gold Race; the second, by others from Liège-Bastogne-Liège. There will be eight small scales to measure the cyclists’ resistance.
From the fifth stage, the race is coming to France. First, with 150 kilometers between Bastogne and Amnéville, with a hard slope in the latter part. The sixth stage will follow, 160 kilometers between Remiremont and Morteau, with small hills in the last kilometers and a final ramp at 9%. The seventh is the approach to the Alps, between Champagnole and Le-Grand-Bornand. It will be 167 kilometers, the longest of the edition, with several climbs on the way to a high finish of seven kilometers at 5.1%.
The culmination will be lost, in style, in the eighth and final stage on August 18. Le Grand-Bornand starts on a day ending on Alpe d’Huez, with 150 kilometers and previous climbs in Tamié and Glandon. One of cycling’s great ports will decide who wins the Tour de France Femmes 2024.
The eight stages of the 2024 women’s Tour de France
1. Rotterdam-The Hague, flat, 124 km. Wind can be important. August 12
2. Dordrecht-Rotterdam, flat, 67 km. Short, in the morning. August 13
3. Rotterdam-Rotterdam, time trial, 6.7 km. In the afternoon, on the same day as the second stage, there will be a time trial in Rotterdam similar to the one in 2010 won by Fabian Cancellara. August 13
4. Valkenburg-Liège, 123 km. Route similar to the Amstel Gold Race in the first part and then also through part of the route Liège-Bastogne-Liège. August 14
5. Bastogne-Amnéville, 150 km. Terrain of steady ups and downs and some small hills in the final stretch, with a tough 4% climb to the finish line. August 15th
6. Remiremont-Morteau, 160 km. Steep as well with some small climbs in the last part and reaching 9% in Morteau. August 16th
7. Champagnole-Le Grand-Bornand, 167 km, the longest edition. Approaching the Alps. Lots of climbs on the way and finished with 7 km at 5.1% in Le Grand Bornand. August 17th
8. Le Grand-Bornand-Alpe d’Huez, 150 km. Queen stage. Tamié (9.5 km at 4%), Glandon (19.7 km at 7.2%) and a high finish in Alpe d’Huez, with 13.8 kilometers at 8.1%. August 18th
Source: La Verdad
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