The 2023 Tour de France will start from Bilbao in a few months, but lately it’s the 2024 edition of the Grande Boucle that has been making a lot of noise. And for good reason… You will notice several changes for this event and here’s what to remember for this Tour de France 2024 that is nothing like the others.
In 2024, Paris will welcome the Olympic Games. A planetary event that necessarily requires many police forces to secure the various sites. This will not be without consequences for other events and in particular the Tour of France. Indeed, that year, the Grande Boucle will experience a revolution, a great upheaval. While the runners of The Tour de France has for the habit of ending up on the Champs-Elysées, due to the proximity between the Grande Boucle and the JOthe choice was made to relocate the arrival of the 2024 edition of the Tours. It will be then Cute.
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“It was absolutely impossible to finish the Tour in Paris”
Big change then for the Tour de France 2024. Director of the competition, Christian Prudhomme he also knew how to explain himself on this revolution, confident then: ” We are all very happy that the Olympic Games are taking place in France and in Paris. It’s great for everyone, French sport and beyond. But it was completely impossible to finish the Tour in Paris, the police and gendarmerie forces will have enough work to say nothing more. There is a form of evidence, common sense. The Côte d’Azur will offer us an exceptional setting from an aesthetic point of view, the place best known by foreigners in France after Paris. Starting from Nice and its metropolis, we will use this completely different terrain throughout the weekend, it will allow us to offer a final fireworks display that will be fantastic ».
“Sunday we will finish with an individual time trial”
And to make this 2024 edition even more spectacular than ever, this last stage at Cute it will be… a time trial. We all remember the 1989 edition, the time trial on the Champs-Elysées and the 8 seconds of Lorenzo Fignon. We could then witness a very beautiful show. On this point, Christian Prudhomme explained: ” We will end Sunday with an individual time trial whose mileage is still unknown, the first for thirty-five years and the famous Champs-Élysées time trial, those eight seconds between Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon. We know that times can be decisive at the end of the Tour, we don’t need to go back much with the Planche des Belles Filles. but it was the penultimate day. And it is a coincidence, but the Tour arrives on July 21st, the Belgian national holiday. It will end with a stopwatch. Here you are ».
« We will have a last weekend entirely focused on “sportingly convincing” terrains, as Jean-Marie Leblanc says. We know Nice well thanks to Paris-Nice, which offers a Hitchcock-style final every year. Last March there was more gap than the last few times, but when Simon Yates set off for the Chemin du Vinaigrier, the last variant of the Col d’Èze, if Van Aert hadn’t been there to help Roglic, we would have changed leader l ‘last day “added the boss of the Tour of France at the end of the 2024 edition which could reserve a great show.
