{"id":191419,"date":"2022-12-22T13:13:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=191419"},"modified":"2022-12-23T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:13:53","slug":"italy-to-host-the-2024-tour-de-france-grand-depart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2022\/12\/22\/italy-to-host-the-2024-tour-de-france-grand-depart\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy to Host the 2024 Tour de France Grand D\u00e9part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The rumours have been confirmed! The 111th edition of the Tour de France will start in Italy. ASO confirmed the news through a press release on Wednesday evening, after the race director Christian Prudhomme announced the news on Italian TV. The first start of the race from Italy will come 100 years after Ottavio Bottecchia first took the trophy to the other side of the Alps.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the programme for the first three stages offers a majestic panorama of the Italian cities and countryside while opening the hostilities with an exceptional sporting challenge. After leaving the gorgeous Florence, the trek through Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna leading to the seaside finale in Rimini will pit the peloton against a total altitude gain of 3,700 metres from day one \u2014 fortune will really favour the bold. Along the way, the San Marino climb will add the microstate to the list of 14 countries that have hosted the Grande Boucle.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, starting from the station in Cesenatico, the final resting place of Marco Pantani, the riders will tuck into another hefty serving of climbs on the road to Bologna, where punchers have long traded blows on the ascent to San Luca in the Giro dell&#8217;Emilia-Romagna. It will then be time for the super-speedsters of the peloton to step on the gas pedal in Turin, the capital of Piedmont, which has also become a prestigious sprint finish from all the Giro d&#8217;Italia stage finishes it has hosted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">&#8220;Florence had been talking to us about it for a very long time, Emilia-Romagna nurtured its burning desire, and then Piedmont came on board,&#8221; Prudhomme says in the press release. &#8220;Italy truly raised its ambitions to the power of three to host the Grand D\u00e9part. Their ardour and synergies will right a historic wrong as the Tour de France gets under way on the Italian Peninsula for the first time and the riders take their first pedal strokes in this true blue cycling nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">&#8220;Exactly a century after Ottavio Bottecchia became the first cyclist from the other side of the Alps to win the Tour, the peloton will go from the birthplace of Gino Bartali, a champion Righteous Among the Nations, to that of Marco Pantani, the unforgettable\u00a0<em>Il Pirata<\/em>, worshipped without measure, before paying tribute to the\u00a0<em>campionissimo<\/em>, Fausto Coppi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">&#8220;These three stages will take us through majestic landscapes in which the leaders will be forced to take matters into their own hands from the opening weekend. It is going to be magical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first three stages of the 2024\u00a0Tour de France:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saturday, 29\u00a0June \u2014 Stage\u00a01: Florence &gt; Rimini, 205\u00a0km<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, 30\u00a0June \u2014 Stage\u00a02: Cesenatico &gt; Bologna, 200\u00a0km<\/li>\n<li>Monday, 1\u00a0July \u2013 Stage\u00a03: Piacenza &gt; Turin, 225\u00a0km<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"imagesContainer__item threeImages \"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The seven Italian winners of the Tour de France:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ottavio Bottecchia (1924 and 1925)<\/li>\n<li>Gino Bartali (1938 and 1948)<\/li>\n<li>Fausto Coppi (1949 and 1952)<\/li>\n<li>Gastone Nencini (1960)<\/li>\n<li>Felice Gimondi (1965)<\/li>\n<li>Marco Pantani (1998)<\/li>\n<li>Vincenzo Nibali (2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Tour stages in Italy<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1948\u00a0:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marseille &gt; San Remo (won by Gino Sciardis)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1949\u00a0:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brian\u00e7on &gt; Aoste (Fausto Coppi)<\/li>\n<li>Saint-Vincent-d\u2019Aoste &gt; Lausanne (Vincenzo Rossello)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1952 :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Le Bourg-d&#8217;Oisans &gt; Sestri\u00e8res (Fausto Coppi)<\/li>\n<li>Sestri\u00e8res &gt; Monaco (Jan Nolten)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1956<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gap &gt; Turin (Nino Defilippis)<\/li>\n<li>Turin &gt; Grenoble (Charly Gaul)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1959<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lautaret &gt; Saint-Vincent, Aosta (Ercole Baldini)<\/li>\n<li>Saint-Vincent, Aosta &gt; Annecy (Rolf Graf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1961<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grenoble &gt;\u00a0Turin (Guy Ignolin)<\/li>\n<li>Turin &gt; Antibes-Juan-les-Pins (Guido Carlesi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1966<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brian\u00e7on &gt; Turin (Franco Bitossi)<\/li>\n<li>Ivrea &gt; Chamonix (Eddy Schutz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1992<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saint-Gervais &gt; Sestriere (Claudio Chiappucci)<\/li>\n<li>Sestriere &gt; Alpe d&#8217;Huez (Andrew Hampsten)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1996<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Le Mon\u00eatier-les-Bains &gt; Sestriere (Bjarne Riis)<\/li>\n<li>Turin &gt; Gap (Erik Zabel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1999<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Le Grand-Bornand &gt; Sestriere (Lance Armstrong)<\/li>\n<li>Sestriere &gt; Alpe d&#8217;Huez (Giuseppe Guerini)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Embrun &gt; Prato Nevoso (Simon Gerrans)<\/li>\n<li>Cuneo &gt; Jausiers (Cyril Dessel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gap &gt; Pinerolo (Edvald Boasson Hagen)<\/li>\n<li>Pinerolo &gt; Col du Galibier (Andy Schleck)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumours have been confirmed! 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