{"id":194170,"date":"2023-10-25T14:43:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=194170"},"modified":"2023-10-25T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:43:26","slug":"2024-tour-de-france-route-four-summit-finishes-two-time-trials-and-no-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2023\/10\/25\/2024-tour-de-france-route-four-summit-finishes-two-time-trials-and-no-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Tour de France Route: Four Summit Finishes, Two Time Trials and No Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The route of the 2024 Tour de France, which was presented on Wednesday, will have something to please everyone \u2013 except for riders and spectators who love to visit Paris. There will be seven pure mountain stages including four summit finishes, lots of hills, two ITTs (instead of the one staged last year) and a tricky time trial to conclude the race, not in the City of Light but in Nice on the Riviera.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The race begins with the Tour\u2019s first-ever Grand D\u00e9part in Italy \u2013 in Florence\u2013 Emilie-Romagne, to be precise, just as the Nice finale is a premiere \u2013 with a 206 km stage that has enough hills \u2013 seven, to be exact \u2013 to please any puncheur. The stage ends in Rimini, one of five Italian stage towns used as a start or finish for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The entire route covers a total of 3,405 km and includes more than 52,000 meters of vertical gain, which should make for lots of drama. Much of the drama will no doubt take place after the final rest day, as three of the final six stages will be run in the high mountains and the concluding time trial is hilly. Two of those final three mountain stages will finish on summits \u2013 at Isola 2000 and Col de la Couillole \u2013 which will test the riders\u2019 legs ahead of that testing time trial. The summit finish on the Col de la Couillole (15.7 km @ at 7.1%) on the penultimate stage was already tackled by some of the prospective Tour yellow jersey rivals in this year\u2019s Paris-Nice, with Poga\u010dar outsprinting David Gaudu and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2023\/07\/23\/vingegaard-on-winning-the-tour-its-been-a-long-journey-but-it-also-went-by-so-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this year\u2019s Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> to the finish line.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=48eANiuRwM4 params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/48eANiuRwM4\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p>As there will be racing on the final stage, this eliminates the traditional champagne procession for the winner. If the race has not been decided in the mountains, stage 21 should see melodrama similar to that of the legendary 1989 Tour when Greg LeMond took the yellow jersey off the shoulders of France\u2019s Laurent Fignon in a stage 21 time trial, winning the GC by a mere 8 seconds and producing one of the great upsets in Tour history. The 35 km ITT includes the difficult climbs of La Turbie (8.1 km @ 6.5%) and a short but steep ascent to the Col d&#8217;\u00c8ze (1.6 km @ 8.1%), before returning to sea level and the podium celebrations. I assume Remco Evenepoel, who will almost certainly take part in his first Tour de France next year, is already mapping out that final stage, which could be instrumental in the race outcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/letour.fr\">The Tour<\/a> also includes what the organizers ASO say are eight flat stages, which will please last year\u2019s \u0160koda Green Jersey winner Jasper Philipsen and Mark Cavendish who returns from his premature retirement to try again to win a 35th Tour stage and replace the great Eddy Merckx in the record books. A new wrinkle next year will be the awarding of additional time bonuses of eight, five and two seconds during stages, which will be separate from the bonus points awarded at intermediate sprints, on top of the traditional ten, six and four seconds awarded at stage finishes. And there will be 32 km of gravel road to navigate on stage 9.<\/p>\n<p>As we said, there is something for everyone in next year\u2019s Tour \u2013 but especially for fans and spectators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The route of the 2024 Tour de France, which was presented on Wednesday, will have something to please everyone \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":194171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[6854,7431,433],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-194170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-2024-tour-de-france","tag-2024-tour-de-france-route","tag-tour-de-france","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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