The mountain, opponent of the Tour de France 2024

He Tour de France This Wednesday he presented his route before the edition of 2024. It will be a race marked by a difficult final weekwhich will focus on almost all the high mountains of the competition, although before that there will be some fictional events from the Tour’s history.

He Tour 2024as announced a few months ago, is marked by the fact that its end will not survive in Paris. In an edition to be discussed from June 29 to July 21the proximity of Olympic Games which will take place in the French capital from July 26 to August 11 caused the usual finish line to be moved to the Champs-Elysées. So, the race ends in Nice which is the main novelty of the edition, although it is already well known.

The race will explode again the method of exit from another country. Florence is the city chosen to start an edition that will experience three stages in Italy, which will pass through San Marino and Monaco and where there will be most of a race in France called to offer another great rivalry between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar.

Vingegaard He has certainly been one of the great protagonists of the presentation of the 2024 edition. The current champion recalled his rivalry with Pogacar from last summer. “It was a very tight Tour for many days, because we gave it our all and I struggled to achieve that distinction. I did my best time trial since I ran this type of races,” explained the Dane, who hopes for another great rivalry with the Slovenian in 2024.

The match between the two aims to be one of the great attractions of the 2024 edition. In it, the Tour seeks to continue to expand its brand. “The 2023 Tour has multiplied its audience record in France and around the world. 44 million people in France and 150 in Europe turned on the television to watch the Tour de France this year,” celebrated the ASO president. Jean-Étienne Amaury. Also with a record audience for the Women’s Tour, the French race renewed its commitment to its Netflix series, tied up its sponsors and promoted a program to promote bicycle mobility among children between six and twelve years old.

Although, beyond the programs, The great attraction of the Tour de France will continue to be a route with different stages for all runners and in this edition they will join two of the countries with the most cycling traditions such as Italy and France. “This is a historic moment for both of us. The Tour needs good traveling companions and Touring is a human adventure, with sweat and beautiful ports, with speed, with passion. This departure will be a historic event for Italy,” thanks the political representatives of Emilia Romagna. “Aspects like security and organization will be possible at the Games in a year in which another edition of the Tour de France must also be held and in which its arrival in Nice will be magical,” thanked the mayor of the city that will host the finish line of the race, Christian Estrosi.

On the road between Florence and Nice there will be twenty-one stages for all tastes. The first three will travel through the territory of Italy, with a departure from Florence at first and an arrival in Rimini passing through the mythical points of the city, such as the Ponte Vecchio. The second stage, towards Bologna, will already present small heights, before the third sprint through Emilia Romagna with the sprinters as protagonists.

It’s on fourth day of racingmoving from Italy to France, when the first giant arrived, the Galibier. It will be a tough 138-kilometre mountain stage, with climbs to Sestrières and Montgenèvre before the ascent of one of the Tour’s great mythical passes, albeit on the less difficult side. Thus France will welcome his career in a big way.

He will do so to start a week of mostly flat finishes, with options for the sprinters. In between, in the seventh stage, a 25-kilometer time trial between Nuits Sant Georges and Gevrey-Chambertin, which will add difficulty to a small 1.5-kilometer climb at 6% gradient that could make the difference.

After that, flat stages lead to arriving at Massif Central, which will take place in the eleventh stage. It’s going to be a steep day between Evaux-les-Bains and Le Lioran, with constant ups and downs crossing another mythical mountainous part of the country. The last forty kilometers will leave four small climbs in Néronne, Puy Mary, Pertus and Font de Cère, although there are demanding ramps that will cause wear and tear to the runners and will also weigh on the men in the general classification.

Two flat stages lead to one of the highlights of the race, the Pyrenees, framed between the fourteenth and fifteenth periods. The fourteenth will live 152 kilometers between Pau and Saint-Lary-Soulan, Pla d’Adet. The giant was waiting for him Tourmalet, located in the middle of the stage with 19 kilometers at 7.4%. After him, the Hourquette d’Ancizan, with 8.2 kilometers at 5.1%. As a closure, that high finish in Pla d’Adet, with 10.6 kilometers at 7.9% destined to discover the strongest man of the race.

They had no rest the next day, in the fifteenth stage between Loudenvielle and Plateau de Beille of 198 kilometers. The climb to Peyresourde, Menté and Start Aspet and Agnes In the middle of the stage they will be ahead of another high finish in a new benchmark summit of the Tour de France. The Pleateau de Beille will consist of 15.8 kilometers at 7.9% to finish deciphering the male candidates who will fight for the general classification.

Because after that day comes the last day of rest to face the last stage. to him, the first three episodes will launch into a grand finale: nineteenth stage of 145 kilometers with Vars, Bonette, Lombarde and the high finish in Island 2000 (16.1 kilometers at 7.1%) and twentieth stage between Nice and La Couillole with long climbs in Braus (10 kilometers at 6.6%), Turini (20.7 kilometers at 5.7%) and Colmiane (7.5 km at 7.1%) to precede the high finish at La Couillole (15.7 km at 7.1%).

As the party ends, the twenty-first and last day, which has little to do with celebration. The Tour chose a 34 kilometer time trial between Monaco and Nice with the added difficulty of climbing La Turbie, with eight kilometers at 5.6%. In addition, you will climb to Èze, one of the mythical ports of the Côte d’Azur, and from there you will follow a winding and technical descent to the final finish line of the race. It is not in Paris, but it will not leave anyone indifferent.

The stages of the Tour de France 2024

1. Florence-Rimini, flat, 206 km. The Ponte Vecchio passes in one stage through the Italian Emilia Romagna. June 29
2. Cesenatico to Bologna, flat, 200 km. Bumpy, with six small elevations. Go through Imola and the circuit. San Luca Sanctuary a few kilometers from the finish line. June 30th
3. Piacenza to Turin, flat, 229 km. Covers Emilia Romagna and Piedmont. July 1st
4. Pinerolo to Valloire, high mountains, 138 km. Climb Sestrières, Montgenèvre and the Galibier on the less difficult side. Descending towards the goal of Valloire. 2600 meters gained in elevation. July 2nd
5. Saint-Jean de Maurièene to Saint-Vulbas, flat, 177 km. Option for sprinters. Completely flat secondary finish. July 3rd
6. Mâcon to Dijon, flat, 163 km. Third flat finish. 4th of July
7. Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin, CRI, 25 km. First time trial of the edition, with a 1.5 km climb at a 6% gradient. July 5th
8. Semur-en-Auxois to Colombey-Les-Deux-Églises, flat, 176 km. Some small initial climbs, but then flat, intended for the sprint, although the finish climbs a bit higher in the last eight hundred meters. July 6th
9. Troyes to Troyes, flat, 199 km. It passes through the Champagne Natural Park, with 32 km between vineyards and parts of dirt roads. Small uneven levels on a rugged profile. July 7th
10. Orléans to Saint Armand-Montrond, flat, 187 km. Day for sprinters after the first rest day. July 9th
11. Évaux-les-Bains to Le Lioran, steep, 211 km. Constant ascent and descent upon arrival at the Central Massif. Néronne, Puy Mary, Pertus and Font de Cère will be climbed in the final kilometers, four small passes in one day with 4350 meters of elevation gain
12. Aurillac to Villeneuve-sur-lot, flat, 204 km. The day was marked for sprinters
13. Agen to Pau, flat, 171 km. Day to approach the Pyrenees with a flat stage, although there are some small climbs before Pau
14. Pau a Saint-Lary-Soulan, Pla d’Adet, high mountains, 152 km. First day in the Pyrenees with a mythical mid-stage ascent of the Tourmalet. Then, Ancizan and high peaks in Saint-Lary
15. Loudenveille-Pleateau de Beille, high mountains, 198 km. Big day with initial climbs in Peyresourde, Menté and Aspet. Then many kilometers of valley to Agnès and the high climb to the Plateau de Beille (8% in 16 km)
16. Gruissan-Nimes, flat, 187 km. The day is marked for a sprint finish, although wind is expected and this could cause variations
17. Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to Superdévoluy, mountain, 178 km. Two passes in the last part before the last few kilometers which are also uphill
18. Gap-Barcelonnette, steep, 179 km. There are no standard climbs, but there will be a profile with a continuous slope that is conducive to getaways
19. Embrun-Isola 2000, high mountains, 145 km. Three ports above 2000 meters altitude. Climb Vars and Bonette before the race heads into Italian territory to return to France for the final climb to Isola 2000, with a high finish of 16.1 kilometers at 7.1%
20. Nice-Col de la Couillole, high mountains, 133 km. First long climb to Braus (10 kilometers at 6.6%) and Turini (20.7 kilometers at 5.7%). Then Colmiane (7.5 kilometers at 7.1%) before the high finish at La Couillole (15.7 kilometers at 7.1%)
21. Monaco-Nice, CRI, 34 km. Individual time trial starting with the progressive climb to La Turbie (8.1 km at 5.6%). Then, a ramp to face the climb to Èze (1.6 kilometers at 8.1%) to face a technical descent towards the final goal of Nice.