Tour de France 2024 route breakdown

Tour de France 2024 stage by stage route preview.

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0:00 – Le Tour 2024 course breakdown intro
0:32 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 1 | Firenze – Rimini (206 km)
0:57 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 2 | Cesenatico – Bologna (200 km)
1:47 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 3 | Piacenza – Torino (229 km)
1:57 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 4 | Pinerolo – Valloire (138 km)
2:27 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 5 | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne – Saint Vulbas (177 km)
2:47 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 6 | Mâcon – Dijon (163 km)
3:03 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 7 (ITT) | Nuits-Saint-Georges – Gevrey-Chambertin (25 km)
3:17 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 8 | Semur-en-Auxois – Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises (176 km)
3:52 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 9 | Troyes – Troyes (199 km)
4:22 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 10 | Orléans – Saint-Amand-Montrond (187 km)
4:27 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 11 | Évaux-les-Bains – Le Lioran (211 km)
4:47 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 12 | Aurillac – Villeneuve-sur-Lot (204 km)
5:12 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 13 | Agen – Pau (171 km)
5:27 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 14 | Pau – Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet (152 km)
5:57 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 15 | Loudenvielle – Plateau de Beille (198 km)
6:42 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 16 | Gruissan – Nîmes (187 km)
7:07 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 17 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux – Superdévoluy (178 km)
7:27 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 18 | Gap – Barcelonnette (179 km)
7:48 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 19 | Embrun – Isola 2000 (145 km)
8:22 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 20 | Nice – Col de la Couillole (133 km)
8:47 – Tour de France 2024 Stage 21 (ITT) | Monaco – Nice (34 km)
9:17 – Tour de France 2024 route Summary – Providing you with the information to decide on the rider types you need for your fantasy cycling team

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Hi everybody. Following my Giro and Vuelta  course breakdown, it’s time to have a look   into the 2024 Tour de France parcours. The  tour will be run earlier than other years,   from June 29th to July 21st, good for 21 stages  covering nearly 3,500 kilometers and over 50,000  

Meters of elevation gain. We’ll get to see the  first grand depart ever in Italy, and due to the   Olympic and Paralympic Games taking place in  Paris, the race will not finish in the French   capital for the first time in history. An honour  now going to the city of Nice. The 2024 Tour de  

France will start off with a 206 km stage good  for 3,847 meters of elevation gain. It’s a proper   sawtooth stage which never relents and which has  break written all over it, although you never know   what will happen with a yellow and a polka dot  jersey up for grabs. From the preliminary start  

List at the time of recording I’m calling Mohoric  for this one. Also stage two hits the 200 km mark,   featuring the climb to the sanctuary of San Luca  twice in the finale. The San Luca climb runs over  

1.9 km at 10.6% average and is the traditional  finale of the Giro dell’emilia. Note that in that   race, it gets featured five times and ends atop  the climb, while on this stage, there’s about 12   km to go from the top of the second ascent. In  recent years the Giro Dell’Emilia has been won  

By GC man Mas, Vlasov and three times by Roglic.  Also Pogacar will not be afraid of sending it and   this stage may well be part of a GC master plan.  It’s going to be either that or the stage will go  

To a punchy guy. Lorenzo Fortunato is from this  region, yet his name hasn’t been linked to the   Tour yet. If he shows up, I’m calling him and if  he doesn’t, I’m calling Pello Bilbao for this one.  

Stage three to Turin is a 225 km stage, offering a  first opportunity for the sprinters and obviously,   Jasper Philipsen is the rider that comes to mind.  The joy for the sprinters is shortlived, because   stage four goes into into the high mountains.  It’s a short stage, 138 km, yet it starts climbing  

Straight out of the gate and it serves the riders  with the col du Galibier, which climbs to 2,642   meters. The stage profile favours the break in  my book. Keep an eye out for climbers dropping   time in the earlier stages. I’m not sure whether  riders like Soler and Kamna will get much liberty,  

Yet this could be theirs from the break. Stage  five offers a downhill start and some climbing,   a 13 km climb at 2.7% average halfway through  the stage and a 4.4 km climb at 4% average with  

Roughly 35 km to go. So nothing brutal, I expect  the sprinters to survive this and to fight for   the win. Philipsen will take his second stage  win here. A break will form on stage six, yet  

At 145 km only, the sprinter teams will control  this stage and you can expect this one to go to   a fast man. I’m calling this one for Cav’s 35th  Tour de France stage win. On stage seven then,   we get a first of two individual time trials.  25 km, featuring the Cote de Curtil-Vergy,  

1.6 km at 6% average and on the face of it there  shouldn’t be any big gaps between the best riders,   but who knows. I’m calling this one for  Evenepoel. Stage eight then goes up and   down all day and I frankly don’t see any of the  teams controlling this one, unless a rider like  

Philipsen has had tough luck till this date, with  no win under his belt. In all other cases this one   is going to be won from the break. I’m expecting  a classics style rider with a fast finish on a  

Tough stage like this. Pedersen, Girmay, De Lie  are names that come to mind. Yet even though it   looks like Mathieu van der Poel will use the tour  once again to get into shape for a bigger goal,  

In this case the Olympics, I feel he’ll go for  a Tour de France stage win this season, and this   may well be the one. Stage nine then marks the end  of week one, featuring 14 sectors on white roads,  

Amounting to 32 km on gravel. Remco Evenepoel  has already checked out this route. The uphill   sectors fall into the first and middle part of the  stage though, which doesn’t favour GC mayhem, so,   frankly I’m expecting this to go to a fast guy  with classics credentials and also for this one,  

Philipsen is the name that crosses my mind.  Week two then starts with another sprint stage,   which according to the organizers has crosswind  potential. To mix things up a bit, I’m calling   this one for Groenewegen. Stage 11, a tough stage,  211 km with 4,350 meters of elevation gain, with  

The crux made up by the Col de Néronne – Puy Mary  combo, presented with around 50 kilometers to go.   Given that we’re looking at a long stage with the  crux sitting quite far out, I’m having this one  

Down for the break, calling Felix Gall here. The  organizers label this 204 km stage as being flat,   something I’d like to disagree with though. It  looks to be up and down all day, good for 2,300   meters of elevation gain. It will be break versus  the sprinters, yet I can’t see this unfolding any  

Differently than the break taking the win.  Bring on Nico Denz. Stage 13 to Pau, 172 km   and good for 1900 meters of elevation gain.  Once again the road is undulating all day,   yet both the climbs and the actual stage are  shorter, so this should be for the sprinters, full  

On Pedersen and Philipsen terrain. On stage 14, we  climb above 2,000 meters, cresting the Tourmalet,   slightly over halfway this 152 km stage, good  for over 4,000 meters of climbing. From there,   they’ll descend straight into the Hourquette  d’Ancizan and onto the finish climb to Pla d’Adet,  

Good for 10.6 km at nearly 8% average. In my  book, the main contenders will come out to   play here for the first time, even though  the final 3 km are fairly mellow. Calling   this one for Pogacar in a Sprint with Jonas.  Stage 15, ahead of the second resting day,  

The riders start climbing straight out of the  gate, cresting the Peyresourde, 20 km of valley   into the Col de Menté and Col de Portet d’Aspet,  followed by another long valley section into the   Col d’Agnes, with another valley section before  the finish climb to the Plateau de Beille, at the  

End of a 200 km stage with around 5,000 meters of  elevation gain. The finish climb runs over 16 km   and averages 8%. Names to have won atop this climb  include Pantani, Armstrong and Joachim Rodriguez.  

There’s a chance this one goes to the break, yet  I’m going to call it for the GC guys. Once more,   this time around, Vingegaard will take it. Stage  16 should be another day for the sprinters,   according to the route builders, the wind may  influence this stage, and let’s be honest which  

Cycling fan doesn’t like a nice echelon spectacle.  Except for those fighting for the green jersey, a   lot of sprinters may have left by now, given that  there’s no Champs Elysées sprint to hang on for.   So there’s high chances that also this one will  go to Philipsen, who already indicated to have  

Made the green jersey his goal. Stage 17 basically  climbs all day and looks like a breakaway stage,   even though the opening 130 km climb only gently  and do make it possible to control the break.  

The main obstacle of the day is the Col du Noyer,  presenting the riders with 7.5 km at 8.4% average,   calling this one for Romain Grégoire from  the break. On stage 18, the Col du Festre   presents a perfect spot for the break to form and  given that the stage continues going up and down,  

Good for over 3,000 meters of elevation gain, I  doubt whether the sprinter teams will control this   one. This looks very much like a Healy or Magnus  Cort stage to me and I know they don’t feature on  

The start list yet, yet I expect them to race the  Tour. And then it’s time to move into the decisive   weekend of the 2024 Tour de France, comprising of  two mountain stages with mountaintop finishes and   an individual time trial, where everything can  still be lost or won. Starting with Stage 19,  

Which goes to high altitude on three  climbs, including the Col de la Bonette,   a beautiful climb which goes up to 2,800 meters  and with a nasty pinch in the tail. Trust me,   I’ve been there and it hurts. Overall, the riders  will gain 4,462 meters of elevation gain. Calling  

Vingegaard for this one. Stage 20 is brutal,  only 133 km long, yet raking up the climb,   Col de Brass, Col de Turini, Col de la Colmiane  and finishing at top the Col de la Couillole,  

15.7 km at 7.1% average, good for a total of 4,750  meters of elevation gain. I can only imagine this   one to go to the GC guys, as will the final stage,  a 35 km individual time trial with some proper  

Climbing, a total of 728 meters of elevation gain  which will decide on this year’s tour to France.   This is proper Roglic or Evenepoel terrain and  I’m calling it for Evenpoel once more. Whether  

It will be enough to win the Tour, that’s a bit  too early to call, yet I can’t wait to witness the   fight. Note that we haven’t had an ITT finishing  the tour since the decisive Lemond – Fignon stage  

Back in 1989. So to summarize, without knowing the  actual race situation, we have two individual time   trials, five pure sprints, two versatile sprints,  seven potential break stages, four mountain ones   and three hilly ones and finally four proper  GC days. Thanks for watching and see you soon!