For two years the Tour had boasted of its excellence. From three weeks, the time increased to four and women participated in a race that grew with excitement and competition. When the men parked their bikes in Place de la Concorde in Paris after the final effort on the Champs-Elysees, the gender of the race changed and the roads continued to be filled with feminine spirit.
But, Everything will change in 2024. will be one due to parentheses Olympic Games It is held in the capital of the tour. Neither the men will go on the Paris tour nor the women will start competing in the fourth week. moving to august on terrible dates for them. They will start running the day after the end of the Olympic event and finish as the Vuelta Portugal takes its first steps. The result looks like this at first Encouraging women to cycle is a disaster with a UCI (International Cycling Union) that looks the other way and does not bet on a different date; for example, ensuring that four weeks are over as the Tour prepares to appear in Florence, without the condemnation of a hangover from the Games or the tour to Spain.
To eliminate the negative impact Start in the country that never betrayed cycling and in the hometown of the last winner and of course Demi Vollering, the main candidate for victory in 2024. The third Tour Femmes organized by ASO (the company that owns the tour of France regardless of gender) will start in Rotterdam. will be celebrated Three stages in the NetherlandsIt will be a day that becomes a marriage of sorts between the Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, ending with nothing more and nothing less than the summit of Alpe d’Huez.
Dates of the dispute From Monday 12 August to Sunday 18 August. Just when the women set foot in the Alps (arrival at Le Grand Bornand will be on Saturday the 17th), male cyclists will be lapping the streets of Lisbon and most of the media attention will focus on the tour of Spain, especially any of the cyclists. The biggest phenomenon of this sport is to register for the Vuelta once again, as in 2023 with Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic.
On the third day, only a 6-kilometer individual time trial will be held in Rotterdam; The fourth stage will end in Belgium with the famous walls from Amstel Gold Race (Coubert) or Liège-Bastogne-Liège (La Redoute). The longest stage, which ends in the French town of Morteau, will be 167 kilometres, 10 fewer than the stage that ended in Rodez last July. distance record at the women’s stage event. On Sunday, on the way to Alpe d’Huez, there will be a climb to Glandon as an aperitif before the 21 most famous bends of the cycling planet.