2000 tour de france

2000 Tour de France Results

87th edition: july 1 - july 23, 2000, results, stages with running gc, map & photos.

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2000 Tour de France quick facts :

3662 kilometers ridden at an average speed of 39.556 km/hr

177 riders started, 127 finishers

Lance Armstrong seized the Yellow Jersey on the tenth stage with its hilltop finish at Hautacam (where the cold, wet weather suited Armstrong and made riding difficult for Jan Ullrich) and never relinquished it.

His 53.986 km/hr time trial in stage 19 set a new Tour record.

This was Lance Armstrong's second Tour victory and Jan Ullrich's third second place.

In 2012 Lance Armstrong was stripped of all of his Tour wins after his doping had been revealed.

• Lance Armstrong (US Postal): 92hr 33min 8sec
• Jan Ullrich (Telekom) @ 6min 2sec
• Joseba Beloki (Festina) @ 10min 4sec
• Christophe Moreau (Festina) @ 10min 34sec
• Roberto Heras (Kelme) @ 11min 50sec
• Richard Virenque (Polti) @ 13min 26sec
• Santiago Botero (Kelme) @ 14min 18sec
• Fernando Escartin (Kelme) @ 17min 21sec
• Francisco Mancebo (Banesto) @ 18min 9sec
• Daniele Nardello (Mapei) @ 18min 25sec
• Manuel Beltrán (Mapei) @ 21min 11sec
• Pascal Hervé (Polti) @ 23min 13sec
• Javier Ochoa (Kelme) @ 25min
• Felix Garcia-Casas (Festina) @ 32min 4sec
• Alexandre Vinokourov (Telekom) @ 32min 26sec
• Roberto Conti (Vini Caldirola) @ 34min 18sec
• Kurt Van De Wouwer (Lotto) @ 34min 29sec
• Guido Trentin (Vini Caldirola) @ 35min 57sec
• Jean-Cyril Robin (Bonjour) @ 43min 12sec
• Geert Verheyen (Lotto) @ 46min 24sec
• Peter Luttenberger (ONCE) @ 48min 27sec
• Nico Mattan (Cofidis) @ 50min 9sec
• José-Maria Jimenez (Banesto) @ 51min 45sec
• Grischa Niermann (Rabobank) @ 52min 6sec
• Tyler Hamilton (US Postal) @ 56min 30sec
• Giuseppe Guerini (Telekom) @ 59min 33sec
• Massimiliano Lelli (Cofidis) @ 1hr 6min 5sec
• Mario Aerts (Lotto) @ 1hr 6min 44sec
• Daniel Atienza (Saeco) @ 1hr 9min 19sec
• Dariusz Baranowski (Banesto) @ 1hr 9min 27sec
• Javier Pascual (Kelme) @ 1hr 16min 33sec
• Andrei Kivilev (Ag2r) @ 1hr 17min 28sec
• David Cañada (ONCE) @ 1hr 17min 44sec
• Abraham Olano (ONCE) @ 1hr 19min 44sec
• Laurent Madouas (Festina) @ 1hr 20min 40sec
• Bo Hamburger (Memory Card) @ 1hr 21min 33sec
• Kevin Livingston (US Postal) @ 1hr 23min 13sec
• Enrico Zaina (Mercatone Uno) @ 1hr 23min 33sec
• Marco Velo (Mercatone Uno) @ 1hr 24min 21sec
• Jens Heppner (Telekom) @ 1hr 29min 51sec
• Paolo Savoldelli (Saeco) @ 1hr 32min 0sec
• Udo Bölts (Telekom) @ 1hr 32min 33sec
• Marc Wauters (Rabobank) @ 1hr 33min 34sec
• Roland Meier (Cofidis) @ 1hr 35min 57sec
• Didier Rous (Bonjour) @ 1hr 39min 55sec
• Marcello Siboni (Mercatone Uno) @ 1hr 42min 0sec
• Jon Odriozola (Banesto) @ 1hr 43min 22sec
• Bobby Julich (Credit Agricole) @ 1hr 44min 15sec
• Maarten Den Bakker (Rabobank) @ 1hr 46min 17sec
• José Angel Vidal (Kelme) @ 1hr 50min 59sec
• Erik Dekker (Rabobank) @ 1hr 51min 27sec
• Cédric Vasseur (US Postal) @ 1hr 55min 25sec
• José Vicente Garcia (Banesto) @ 1hr 56min 31sec
• Laurent Jalabert (ONCE) @ 1hr 58min 47sec
• Viatcheslav Ekimov (US Postal) @ 1hr 59min 57sec
• Marc Lotz (Rabobank) @ 2hr 2min 4sec
• José Luis Arrieta (Banesto) @ 2hr 4min 21sec
• François Simon (Bonjour) @ 2hr 10min 8sec
• Ermanno Brignoli (Mercatone Uno) @ 2hr 10min 28sec
• Jens Voigt (Credit Agricole) @ 2hr 10min 37sec
• Erik Zabel (Telekom) @ 2hr 11min 7sec
• David Millar (Cofidis) @ 2hr 13min 3sec
• Antonio Tauler (Kelme) @ 2hr 16min 5sec
• Fabio Sacchi (Polti) @ 2hr 17min 40sec
• George Hincapie (US Postal) @ 2hr 20min 31sec
• Christophe Agnolutto (Ag2r) @ 2hr 23min 7sec
• Massimiliano Mori (Saeco) @ 2hr 24min 5sec
• Markus Zberg (Rabobank) @ 2hr 26min 40sec
• Pascal Chanteur (Ag2r) @ 2hr 27min 19sec
• Roccardo Forconi (Mercatone Uno) @ 2hr 28min 14sec
• Walter Bénéteau (Bonjour) @ 2hr 28min 17sec
• Salvatore Commesso (Saeco) @ 2hr 28min 48sec
• Massimo Podenzana (Mercatone Uno) @ 2hr 29min 17sec'
• Jacky Durand (Lotto) @ 2hr 31min 48sec
• David Moncoutié (Cofidis) @ 2hr 32min 26sec
• Xavier Jan (FDJ) @ 2hr 33min 55sec
• Koos Moerenhout (Farm Frites) @ 2hr 34min 31sec
• Michel Lafis (Farm Frites) @ 2hr 35min 52sec
• Paul Van Hyfte (Lotto) @ 2hr 36min 3sec
• Stefano Zanini (Mapei) @ 2hr 36min 7sec
• Gilles Maignan (Ag2r) @ 2hr 36min 12sec
• Romans Vainsteins (Vini Caldarola) @ 2hr 38min 10sec
• David Delrieu (Ag2r) @ 2hr 38min 10sec
• Elberto Elli (Telekom) @ 2hr 40min 12sec
• Pavel Padrnos (Saeco) @ 2hr 40min 19sec
• Fred Rodriguez (Mapei) @ 2hr 40min 19sec
• Orlando Sergio Rodrigues (Banesto) @ 2hr 40min 31sec
• Sebastien Demarbaix (Lotto) @ 2hr 41min 19sec
• Steffen Kjærgaard (US Postal) @ 2hr 44min 1sec
• Anthony Morin (Credit Agricole) @ 2hr 44min 2sec 
• Glenn Magnusson (Farm Frites) @ 2hr 45min 46sec
• Benoît Joachim (US Postal) @ 2hr 45min 56sec
• Arvis Piziks (Memory Card) @ 2hr 46min 6sec
• Mirko Crepaldi (Polti) @ 2hr 48min 30sec
• Chirstophe Mengin (FDJ) @ 2hr 50min 21sec
• Mauro Radaelli (Vini Caldirola) @ 2hr 51min 1sec
• Jaime Hernández (Festina) @ 2hr 51min 14sec
• Emmanuel Magnien (FDJ) @ 2hr 51min 21sec
• Nicolai Bo Larsen (Memeory Card) @ 2hr 52min 14sec
• Frank Høj (FDJ) @ 2hr 52min 46sec
• Thierry Marichal (Lotto) @ 2hr 52min 52sec
• Massimo Apollonio (Vini Caldirola) @ 2hr 54min 0sec
• Max Van Heeswijk (Mapei) @ 2hr 54min 50sec
• Gian-Matteo Fagnini (Telekom) @ 2hr 55min 45sec
• Andreas Klier (Farm Frites) @ 2hr 58min 4sec
• Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (FDJ) @ 2hr 58min 5sec
• Benoît Salmon (Ag2r) @ 2hr 59min 59sec
• Martin Rittsel (Memory Card) @ 3hr 0min 47sec
• Servais Knaven (Farm Frites) @ 3hr 2min 49sec
• Frankie Andreu (US postal) @ 3hr 2min 51sec
• Pascal Deramé (Bonjour) @ 3hr 3min 30sec
• Pascal Lino (Festina) @ 3hr 3min 38sec
• Robbie McEwen (Farm Frites) @ 3hr 4min 28sec
• Simone Borgheresi (Mercatone Uno) @ 3hr 4min 28sec
• Bart Voskamp (Polti) @ 3hr 5min 17sec
• Frédérik Guesdon (FDJ) @ 3hr 7min 16sec
• Tristan Hoffman (Memory Card) @ 3hr 7min 17sec
• Geert Van Bondt (Farm Frites) @ 3hr 7min 39sec
• Allan Johansen (Memory Card) @ 3hr 8min 22sec
• Anthony Langella (Credit Agricole) @ 3hr 13min 40sec
• Serge Baguet (Lotto) @ 3hr 17min 15sec
• Franck Bouyer (Bonjour) @ 3hr 18min 37sec
• Magnus Bäckstedt (Credit Agricole) @ 3hr 20min 27sec
• Francisco Leon (Kelme) @ 3hr 22min 52sec
• Sébastien Hinault (Credit Agricole) @ 3hr 41min 2sec
• Damien Nazon (Bonjour) @ 3hr 43min 13sec
• Olivier Perraudeau (Bonjour) @ 3hr 46min 37sec
• Erik Zabel (Telekom): 321 points
• Robbie McEwen (Farm Frites): 203
• Romans Vainsteins (Vini Caldirola): 184
• Emmanuel Magnien (FDJ): 157
• Erik Dekker (Rabobank): 138
• Stefano Zanini (Mapei): 130
• Jacky Durand (Lotto): 130
• François Simon (Bonjour): 122
• Salvatore Commesso (Saeco): 118
• Nico Mattan (Cofidis): 106
• Santiago Botero (Kelme): 347 points
• Javier Ochoa (Kelme): 283
• Richard Virenque (Polti): 267
• Pacal Hervé (Polti): 234
• Nico Mattan (Cofidis): 164
• Lance Armstrong (US Postal): 162
• Fernando Escartin (Kelme): 149
• Roberto Heras (Kelme): 113
• Joseba Beloki (Festina): 112
• José Maria Jimenez (Banesto): 110
• Francisco Mancebo (Banesto) 92hr 51min 17sec
• Guido Trentin (Vini Caldirola) @ 17min 48sec
• Grischa Niermann (Rabobank) @ 33min 57sec
• David Cañada (ONCE) @ 59min 35sec
• David Millar (Cofidis) @ 1hr 54min 54sec

Team Classification:

• Kelme: 278hr 10min 47sec
• Festina @ 13min 42sec
• Banesto @ 18min 21sec
• Telekom @ 40min 8sec
• Lotto @ 1hr 11min 50sec
• Rabobank @ 1hr 16min 34sec
• ONCE @ 1hr 36min 14sec
• US Postal @ 1hr 46min 4sec
• Mapei @ 1hr 50min 17sec
• Cofidis @ 2hr 6min 48sec

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Stages and results:

Stage 1: Saturday, July 1, Futuroscope 16.5 km indvidual time trial.

• David Millar: 19min 3sec
• Lance Armstrong @ 2sec
• Laurent Jalabert @ 13sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 14sec
• David Canada @ 16sec
• Alex Zulle @ 20sec
• Viatcheslav Ekimov @ 21sec
• Simone Borgheresi @ 27sec
• Tyler Hamilton @ 33sec
• Erik Dekker @ 36sec
• Abraham Olano @ 39sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 40sec

Stage 2: Sunday, July 2, Futuroscope - Loudun, 194 km.

• Tom Steel: 4hr 46min 8sec
• Stuart O'Grady s.t.
• Erik Zabel s.t.
• Romans Vainsteins s.t.
• Marcel Wust s.t.
• Dario Pieri s.t.
• Robbie McEwen s.t.
• Zoran Klemencic s.t.
• François Simon s.t.
• Jans Koerts s.t.

GC after Stage 2:

• David Millar: 5hr 5min 9sec
• Lance Armstrong @ 4sec
• Laurent Jalabert @ 15sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 16sec
• David Canada @ 18sec
• Alex Zulle @ 22sec
• Viatcheslav Ekimov @ 23sec
• Simone Borgheresi @ 29sec
• Tyler Hamilton @ 35sec
• Abraham Olano @ 41sec

Stage 3: Monday, July 3, Loudon - Nantes, 161.5 km.

• Tom Steels: 3hr 37min 51sec
• Damien Nazon s.t.
• Jaan Kirsipuu s.t.

GC after Stage 3:

• David Millar: 8hr 43min 9sec
• Laurent Jalabert @ 6sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 7sec
• Viatcheslav Ekimov 2 23sec
• Jens Voigt @ 30sec

Stage 4: Tuesday, July 4, Nantes - St. Nataire 70 km Team Time Trial

• ONCE 1hr 25min 55sec
• US Postal @ 26sec
• Telekom @ 1min 6sec
• Credit Agricole @ 1min 12sec
• Rabobank @ 1min 52sec
• Festina @ 1min 56sec
• Cofidis @ 2min 33sec
• Mapei @ 2min 58sec
• Mercatone Uno @ 3min 14sec
• Memory Card @ 3min 39sec.

GC after Stage 4:

• Laurent Jalabert: 10hr 9min 10sec
• David Canada @ 12sec
• Lance Armstrong @ 24sec
• Abraham Olano @ 35sec
• Viatcheslav Ekimov @ 43sec
• Nicolas Jalabert @ 49sec
• Ivan Gutierrez s.t.
• Marcos Serrano @ 52sec
• Miguel-Angel Pena @ 54sec
• Tyler Hamiltpon @ 55sec

Stage 5: Wednesday, July 5, Vannes - Vitré, 202 km.

• Marcel Wust: 4hr 19min 5sec
• Stefano Zanini s.t.
• Tom Steels s.t.
• Salvatore Commesso s.t.
• Emmanuel Magnien s.t.

GC after Stage 5:

• Laurent Jalabert: 14hr 28min 25sec
• Lance Armstrong @ 14sec
• Abraham Olano @ 33sec
• Peter Luttenberger @ 51sec

Stage 6: Thursday, July 6, Vitré - Tours, 198.5 km.

• Leon Van Bon: 4hr 28min 6sec
• Markus Zberg s.t.
• Servais Knaven s.t.
• Arvis Piziks s.t.
• Alberto Elli s.t.
• Fabrice Gougot s.t.
• Jacky Durand s.t
• Jose Luis Arrieta s.t.
• Pascal Chanteur s.t.
• Marc Wauters s.t.
• Robbie McEwen (leading in the rest of the peloton) @ 7min 49sec

GC after Stage 6:

• Alberto Elli: 18hr 58min 40sec
• Fabrice Gougot @ 12sec
• Marc Wauters @ 1min 17sec
• Pascal Chanteur @ 2min 56sec
• Jose-Luis Arrieta @ 3min 8sec
• Jacky Durand @ 3min 27sec
• Salvatore Commesso @ 3min 52sec
• Servais Knaven @ 4min 31sec
• Arvis Piziks @ 4min 38sec
• Laurent Jalabert @ 5min 40sec

Stage 7: Friday, July 7, Tours - Limoges, 205.5 km.

• Christophe Agnolutto: 5hr 11min 41sec
• Marcel Wust @ 1min 11sec
• Erik Zabel st.t
• Zoren Klemencuc s.t.
• Paolo Bettini s.t.
• Enrico Cassani s.t.
• Glenn Magnusson s.t.

GC after Stage 7:

• Alberto Elli: 24hr 11min 32sec
• Jacky Durand @ 3min21sec

Stage 8: Saturday, July 8, Limoges - Villeneuve sur Lot, 203.5 km.

• Erik Dekker: 4hr 22min 14sec
• Xavier Jan @ 52sec
• Vicente Garcia-Acosta @ 56sec
• Fred Rodriguez @ 58sec
• Bart Voskamp s.t.
• Didier Rous s.t.
• Mauro Radaelli @ 1min 36sec
• Nicolai-Bo Larsen s.t.
• Michael Sanstod @ 1min 43sec

GC after Stage 8:

• Alberto Elli: 28hr 39min 28sec
• Jens Voigt @ 3min 17sec
• Jacky Durand @ 3min 21sec

Stage 9: Sunday, July 9, Agen - Dax, 181 km.

• Paolo Bettini: 4hr 29min 6sec
• Geert Verheyen s.t.
• Jose Angel Vidal s.t.
• Arvis Pizics s.t.
• Zoren Klemencic s.t.

GC after Stage 9:

• Alberto Elli: 33hr 8min 34sec
• Marc Wauters @ 1min 15sec
• Jacky Durand @ 3min 17sec
• Jens Voigt s.t.

Stage 10: Monday, July 10, Dax - Lourdes Hautacam, 205 km.

• Javier Ochoa: 6hr 9min 32sec
• Lance Armstrong @ 43sec
• Jose-Maria Jimenez @ 1min 13sec
• Richard Virenque @ 1min 57sec
• Manuel Beltran s.t.
• Fernando Escartin @ 2min 2sec
• Roberto Heras s.t.
• Christophe Moreau @ 3min 5sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 3min 35sec
• Alex Zulle @ 3min 47sec
• Francisco Mancebo s.t.
• Kurt Van de Wouwer @ 3min 55sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 4min 1sec

GC after Stage 10:

• Lance Armstrong: 39hr 24min 30sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 4min 14sec
• Christophe Moreau @ 5min 10sec
• Marc Wauters @ 5min 18sec
• Peter Luttenberger @ 5min 21sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 5min 23sec
• Manuel Bletran @ 5min 44sec
• Javier Otxoa @ 6min 13sec
• Jose-Maria Jimenez @ 6min 21sec
• Angel Casero @ 6min 55sec

Stage 11: Tuesday, July 11, Bagnères de Bigorre - Revel, 218.5 km.

• Erik Dekker: 5hr 5min 47sec
• Santiago Botero s.t.
• Rik Verbrugghe @ 4min 51sec
• David Millar s.t.
• Francisco Mancebo s,t,
• Alexandre Vinokourov s.t.
• David Etxebarrria s.t.
• Mario Aerts s.t.
• Michele Bartoli s.t.
• Erik Zabel @ 5min 5sec

GC after Stage 11:

• Lance Armstrong: 44hr 35min 22sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 5min 33sec
• Manuel Beltran @ 5min 44sec
• Javier Ochoa @ 6min 13sec

Stage 12: Thursday, July 13, Carpentras - Mont Ventoux , 149 km.

• Marco Pantani : 4hr 15min 11sec
• Lance Armstrong s.t.
• Joseba Beloki @ 25sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 29sec
• Santiago Botero @ 48sec
• Richard Virenque @ 1min 17sec
• Francisco Mancebo @ 1min 23sec
• Manuel Beltran @ 1min 19sec
• Christophe Moreau @ 1min 31sec

GC after Stage 12:

• Lance Armstrong: 48hr 50min 21sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 4min 55sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 5min 52sec
• Christophe Moreau @ 6min 53sec
• Manuel Beltran @ 7min 25sec
• Richard Virenque @ 8min 28sec
• Roberto Heras @ 8min 33sec
• Francisco Mancebo @ 9min 42sec
• Javier Ochoa @ 9min 46sec
• Peter Luttenberger @ 10min 1sec

Stage 13: Friday, July 14, Avignon - Draguignan, 185.5 km.

• Vicente Garcia-Acosta: 4hr 3min 2sec
• Nicolas Jalabert @ 25sec
• Pascal Herve @ 27sec
• Guido Trentin @ 57sec
• Stephane Heulot s.t.
• Robbie McEwen @ 4min
• Anthony Morin s.t.
• Christophe Agnolutto s.t.

GC after Stage 13:

• Lance Armstrong: 53hr 3min 29sec
• Marc Wauters @ 6min 3sec
• Javier Otxoa @ 9min 36sec

Stage 14: Saturday, July 15, Draguignan - Briançon, 249 km.

• Santiago Botero: 7hr 56min 13sec
• Paolo Savoldelli @ 2min 30sec
• Marco Pantani @ 2min 46sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 2min 49sec
• Richard Virenque s.t.
• Christophe Moreau s.t.
• Lance Armstrong @ 2min 51sec
• Jan Ullrich s.t.
• Joseba Beloki s.t.

GC after Stage 14:

• Lance Armstrong: 61hr 2min 33sec
• Christophe Moreau @ 6min 61sec
• Richard Virenque @ 8min 26sec
• Manuel Bletran @ 9min 33sec
• Santiago Botero @ 10min
• Marco Pantani @ 10min 13sec
• Francisco Mancebo @ 10min 17sec

Stage 15: Sunday, July 16, Briançon - Courchevel, 173.5 km.

• Marco Pantani: 5hr 34min 46sec
• Jose-Maria Jimenez @ 41sec
• Roberto Heras @ 50sec
• Daniele Nardello @ 1min
• Santiago Botero @ 1min 9sec
• Massimiliano Lelli @ 2min 17sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 2min 21sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 2min 26sec
• Pascal Hervé @ 2min 42sec
• Francisco Mancebo @ 3min 16sec
• Kurt Van de Wouwer @ 3min 20sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 3min 21sec

GC after Stage 15:

• Lance Armstrong: 66hr 38min 9sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 7min 26sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 7min 28sec
• Christophe Moreau @ 8min 22sec
• Roberto Heras @ 8min 25sec
• Marco Pantani @ 9min 3sec
• Richard Virenque @ 9min 57sec
• Santiago Botero @ 10min 19sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 12min 17sec
• Francisco Mancebo @ 12min 43sec

Stage 16: Tuesday, July 18, Courchevel - Morzine, 196 km.

• Richard Virenque: 5hr 32min 20sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 24sc
• Roberto Heras @ 27sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 1min 9sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 1min 11sec
• Pascal Hervé s.t.
• Guido Trentin @ 2min 1sec

GC after stage 16:

• Lance Armstrong: 72hr 12min 30sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 5min 37sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 6min 38sec
• Roberto Heras @ 6min 43sec
• Richard Virenque @ 7min 36sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 11min 35sec
• Francisco Mancebo @ 13min 7sec

Stage 17: Wednesday, July 19, Evian les Bains - Lausanne, 155km.

• Erik Dekker: 3hr 24min 53sec
• Fred Rodriguez s.t.
• Massimiliano Mori s.t.
• Nico Mattan s.t.

GC after Stage 17:

• Lance Armstrong: 17hr 37min 23sec
• Manuel Beltran @ 13min 8sec

Stage 18: Thursday, July 20, Lausanne - Fribourg en Brisgau, 252 km.

• Salvatore Commesso: 6hr 8min 15sec
• Jacky Durand @ 1min 5sec
• Jens Voigt @ 1min 16sec
• Jean-Cyril Robin s.t.
• Nicolai-Bo Larsen @ 15min 35sec
• Sevais Knaven s.t.
• Thierry Marichal s.t.
• Oliver Perraudeau s.t.
• Bo Hamburger @ 15min 37sec

GC after Stage 18:

• Lance Armstrong: 82hr 1min 18sec
• Manuiel Beltran @ 13min 8sec

Stage 19: Friday, July 21, Fribourg en Brisgau - Mulhouse 59 km Individual Time Trial.

• Lance Armstrong: 1hr 5min 1sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 25sec
• Christophe Moreau @ 2min 12sec
• Tyler Hamilton @ 3min 1sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 3min 26sec
• Laurent Jalabert @ 3min 47sec
• David Millar @ 3min 56sec
• Daniele Nardello @ 3min 57sec
• Santiago Botero @ 3min 59sec
• Guido Trentin @ 4min 16sec

GC after Stage 19:

• Lance Armstrong: 83hr 6min 19sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 6min 2sec
• Joseba Beloki @ 10min 4sec
• Christophe Moreau @ 10min 34sec
• Roberto Heras @ 11min 50sec
• Richard Virenque @ 13min 26sec
• Santiago Botero @ 14min 18sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 17min 21sec
• Francisco Mancebo @ 18min 9sec
• Daniele Nardello @ 18min 25sec

Stage 20: Saturday, July 22, Belfort - Troyes, 248 km.

• Erik Zabel: 6hr 14min 13sec
• Jeroen Blijlevens s.t.
• Max Van Heeswijk s.t.
• George Hincapie s.t.
• Christophe Mengin s.t.

GC after Stage 20:

• Lance Armstrong: 89hr 20min 32sec

21st and Final stage: Sunday, July 23, Paris - Paris, 138 km.

• Stefano Zanini: 3hr 12min 36sec

Complete Final 2000 Tour de France GC after Stage 21

2000 Tour de France photos:

Team Once rides the team time trial

Stage 12, Marco Pantani is first at the Mt. Ventoux finish

Stage 12: Armstrong in yellow time trials.

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Tour De France 2000 Results: Winner, General Classification And Jersey Winners

The 2000 Tour de France was the 87th edition of the prestigious cycling race, held from July 1 to July 23, 2000. The race covered a total distance of approximately 3,662 kilometers (2,274 miles) and consisted of 21 stages, including a prologue and a final stage in Paris.

Lance Armstrong’s Dominance: The most notable aspect of the 2000 Tour de France was the dominance of Lance Armstrong. The American cyclist, riding for the U.S. Postal Service team, won his second consecutive Tour de France title. Armstrong displayed exceptional climbing and time trial abilities, securing his status as one of the greatest cyclists of his era.

Final Podium: The final podium in Paris saw Armstrong atop, with the German cyclist Jan Ullrich (Team Deutsche Telekom) finishing in second place and the Kazakh rider Alexander Vinokourov (Team Telekom) in third.

Doping Controversy: While Armstrong’s achievements during the 2000 Tour de France were initially celebrated, subsequent years brought doping allegations and investigations. In 2012, Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from professional cycling for life by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) due to his involvement in systematic doping.

Team Time Trial Incident: One memorable incident during the race was the Team Time Trial stage where Armstrong’s handlebar got caught on a spectator’s bag. Despite the incident, Armstrong and his team performed well in the stage.

Final Stage in Paris: The traditional final stage on the Champs-Élysées in Paris concluded the 2000 Tour de France. Armstrong celebrated his victory on the podium, marking the beginning of his remarkable seven consecutive Tour de France victories.

Despite later controversies, Armstrong’s performance in the 2000 Tour de France remains a significant chapter in the history of the race.

2000 Tour de France: Yellow Jersey, Green Jersey, Polka Dot Jersey and White Jersey

In the 2000 Tour de France, the jersey winners were as follows:

• Yellow Jersey (Overall Leader): Lance Armstrong (United States) – Riding for the U.S. Postal Service team, Armstrong secured the yellow jersey as the overall winner of the race. (LATER NULLIFIED)
• Green Jersey (Points Classification): Erik Zabel (Germany) – The German sprinter, riding for Team Telekom, won the green jersey for leading the points classification. Zabel was known for his sprinting prowess and consistently performed well in the flat stages.
• Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountains): Santiago Botero (Colombia) – Riding for the Kelme-Costa Blanca team, Botero excelled in the mountainous stages and earned the polka dot jersey for being the best climber in the race.
• White Jersey (Best Young Rider): Francisco Mancebo (Spain) – Mancebo, riding for the Banesto team, won the white jersey as the best young rider in the general classification.

These jersey winners were recognized for their achievements in specific categories throughout the 2000 Tour de France.

Overall Ranking – Tour de France 2000:

Winning the Tour de France involves excelling in the general classification, which takes into account the overall time a rider takes to complete all the stages of the race. The rider with the lowest cumulative time at the end of the race wears the coveted yellow jersey and is declared the overall winner.

• Lance Armstrong (United States) – U.S. Postal Service (LATER NULLIFIED)
• Jan Ullrich (Germany) – Team Deutsche Telekom
• Joseba Beloki (Spain) – Festina
• Christophe Moreau (France) – Festina
• Roberto Heras (Spain) – Team Kelme-Costa Blanca
• Richard Virenque (France) – Team Polti
• Santiago Botero (Colombia) – Team Kelme-Costa Blanca
• Fernando Escartín (Spain) – Team Kelme-Costa Blanca
• Francisco Mancebo (Spain) – Banesto
• Daniele Nardello (Italy) – Mapei–Quick-Step

These rankings represent the final standings of the top 10 riders in the general classification at the conclusion of the 2000 Tour de France.

Stage Winners – Tour de France 2000:

The stages of the 2000 Tour de France varied in terms of terrain, distance, and difficulty. Here’s a breakdown of the types of stages and notable characteristics:

• Prologue: A short individual time trial held in Futuroscope, setting the initial overall standings.
• Flat Stages: Several flat stages, such as Stage 2 from Futuroscope to Loudun, Stage 3 from Nantes to Laval, and Stage 5 from Châteaudun to Tours. These stages were well-suited for sprinters.
• Time Trials: The race included individual and team time trials. The prologue and Stage 18 (Montpon-Ménestérol to Saint-Émilion) were individual time trials, while Stage 2 (Loudun to Nantes) featured a team time trial.
• Mountain Stages: Challenging mountain stages were a crucial part of the race, testing the climbers. Notable mountain stages included Stage 9 from Dax to Hautacam, Stage 11 from Castelnaudary to Ax-3 Domaines, and Stage 14 from Tarascon-sur-Ariège to Cap d’Agde.
• High Mountain Finish: Stage 12 from Perpignan to Plateau de Bonascre and Stage 15 from Saint-Gaudens to Pla d’Adet featured high mountain finishes, adding an extra layer of difficulty.
• Transitional Stages: Some stages, like Stage 10 from Luchon to Revel and Stage 13 from Saint-Girons to Loudenvielle, served as transitional stages, providing riders with a mix of terrain.
• Individual Stages of Note: Stage 20 from Mourenx to Bordeaux was a flat stage, and Stage 21 from Évry to Paris Champs-Élysées marked the traditional final stage in Paris.

The route was designed to challenge riders with a mix of flat sprints, time trials, and challenging mountainous terrain, ultimately determining the overall winner of the Tour de France. Lance Armstrong’s dominance in the mountain stages and time trials played a significant role in securing his victory in the 2000 edition.

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General classification of the 2000 tour de france.

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Stages of the 2000 tour de france.

Stage 1 (Futuroscope - Futuroscope, 16.5 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 2 (Futuroscope - Loudun, 194 km)

Stage 3 (Loudun - Nantes, 161.5 km)

Stage 4 (Nantes - St Nazaire, 70 km in Team Time Trial)

Stage 5 (Vannes - Vitré, 202 km)

Stage 6 (Vitré - Tours, 198.5 km)

Stage 7 (Tours - Limoges, 205.5 km)

Stage 8 (Limoges - Villeneuve sur Lot, 203.5 km)

Stage 9 (Agen - Dax, 181 km)

Stage 10 (Dax - Lourdes/Hautacam, 205 km)

Stage 11 (Bagnères-de-Bigorre - Revel, 218.5 km)

Stage 12 (Carpentras - Mont Ventoux, 149 km)

Stage 13 (Avignon - Draguignan, 185.5 km)

Stage 14 (Draguignan - Briançon, 249 km)

Stage 15 (Briançon - Courchevel, 173.5 km)

Stage 16 (Courchevel - Morzine, 196 km)

Stage 17 (Evian les Bains - Lausanne, 155 km)

Stage 18 (Lausanne - Fribourg en Brisgau, 252 km)

Stage 19 (Fribourg en Brisgau - Mulhouse, 59 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 20 (Belfort - Troyes, 248 km)

Stage 21 (Paris - Paris/Champs Elysées, 138 km)

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The Bianchi bike on which Marco Pantani rode in his final Tour de France in 2000, when he beat Lance Armstrong atop Mount Ventoux, has been sold at auction for €66,000. 

Italian national coach Davide Cassani, backed by a group of Italian business people, outbid a number of collectors, including a football player from Italy’s Serie A who wanted to remain anonymous.

A second Bianchi bike prepared for the 2000 Sydney Olympics went for €46,000, with a number of pink jerseys and other trophies and paintings raising a total of  €161,000. 

All the bikes and objects come from the Mercatone Uno museum. The Italian home goods chain sponsored Pantani for much of his career but has recently gone into bankruptcy.

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Pantani used the Bianchi bike at the 2000 Tour de France, where he battled with Lance Armstrong on Mont Ventoux and also won the stage to Courchevel, before eventually abandoning the race with stomach problems. It is black and celeste but also has touches of pink to match the Mercatone Uno pink colours that replaced the usual yellow to avoid clashing with the maillot jaune of race leader.  

Pantani died on February 14, 2004, after barricading himself in a hotel room in Rimini under the effects of cocaine and antidepressants. The winner of the 1998 Giro and Tour suffered greatly with substance abuse and mental health-related problems following his disqualification from the 1999 Giro due to a high haematocrit level.

The Italian auction house Bolaffi said it would forgo its usual fee of 25% of the sale price if the bike was donated to the Pantani museum now run by his family in Cesenatico. The final €66,000 was more than double than the expected price.

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“The idea is to donate the bike to the museum on January 13, Marco’s birthday,” Cassani told La Gazzetta dello Sport .

“We’re donating it to the Pantani museum so that everyone can see it. I have to thank the group of friends who helped us with the funds for the auction. Without them it would have been impossible to offer such a high price." 

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Tour de France 2024 route: Your complete guide

The Tour de France 2024 route includes five summit finishes, 59km of individual time trialling, and gravel sectors on stage nine.

It begins on the 29 June, and finishes on the 21 July, three weeks later. 

T he race will begin in Italy for the first time , with stages from Florence to Rimini, Cesenatico to Bologna and Piacenza to Turin. It will mark 100 years since the first Italian winner of the Tour, Ottavio Bottecchia.

Another first is that the Tour will not conclude in Paris for the first time ever, due to the 2024 Paris Olympics, with the final stage coming in Nice. It also means that for the first time since 1989, the final stage will be contested, in a time trial. 

On the way, the race tackles the Alps, the Massif Central and the Pyrenees, including four summit finishes at Pla d'Adet, the Plateau de Beille, Superdévoluy, Isola 2000 and the Col de la Couillole, and 59 kilometres of time trialling across stages seven and 21.

There are 14 gravel sectors on stage nine from Troyes to Troyes, totalling 32km, with six packed into the final 35km in what could be a decisive point of the race. The longest is 4km.

With the final day a hilly time trial in Nice and not the usual procession in to Paris, it is hoped that the race will be alive right to the end of the race. The whole final week, in fact, will be crucial for general classification, with four of the six days potentially decisive.

According to the race organisers, there are eight sprint opportunities along the way, although some are not as straightforward as others, with a breakaway sure to contest some of them. Mark Cavendish will be looking forward to Saint-Amand-Montrond on stage 13, where he won in 2013, and Nîmes on stage 16 especially, where he won in 2008.

Last year, the race was dominated by Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), who crushed all of his competition, including Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), on the stage 16 time trial to Combloux and stage 17's summit finish in Courchevel .

Tour de France 2024 route: stage summary

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The 2024 Tour de France begins how it means to go on, with a lot of climbing. Stage one begins in Florence, and includes 3,800km over 205km, the most ever in an opening stage, according to race director Christian Prudhomme.

The second stage is also hilly, starting from Marco Pantani's hometown of Cesenatico, finishing in Bologna through Emilia-Romagna. It copies the route of the Giro dell'Emilia, including the final climb of San Luca - 1.9km at 10.6 per cent - which is tackled twice.

There is a chance for the fast men on stage three, which covers 225km from Piacenza to Turin. 

Stage four sees the race finally reach France, via the Alps. The Sestriere, the Col de Montgenèvre and the Col du Galiber are all tackled before a descent to Valloire.

Stages five and six, to Saint-Vulbas and Dijon, should be sprint opportunities, but the fast men could be ambushed.

The race's first individual time trial comes on stage seven, but it will be a technical affair as opposed to a pure rouleur 's course, before stage eight should be another chance for the sprinters.

Stage nine could be the highlight of the opening week, and is certainly something new, using the gravel roads of the Champagne region to mix things up. The 32km of gravel across 14 sectors is inspired from the Tour de France Femmes 2022, which used two of the same tracks; it is the biggest use of gravel at the Tour to date.

Tour de France 2024 route week two

After a rest day in Orléans, the closest to Paris the race gets in 2024, there are four stages which head south towards the Pyrenees.

Stage ten will surely be a sprint stage, but the winds could blow, as they did in 2013, when Cavendish won, while stage 11 is a return to medium mountains. The stage to Le Lioran is similar to the one which Greg Van Avermaet triumphed on in 2016, taking the yellow jersey in the process. 4,500m of climbing will make this a tough test for everyone.

It's back to sprinting or breakaways on stages 12 and 13 to Villeneuve-sur-Lot and Pau, respectively, with the latter looking more nailed on for a bunch finish.

Stage 14 is the first Pyrenean test, finishing atop the Pla d'Adet, which marks Raymond Poulidor's victory up there 50 years ago; it follows the Col du Tourmalet and the Hourquette d’Ancizan in just 152 km.

After that, the climbing does not stop. On Bastille Day, Catorze Juillet , the race heads from Loudenvielle to Plateau de Beille, in a stage that covers 198 km, with 4,850 metres of climbing. The Peyresourde is tackled first, followed by the Col de Menté, the Col de Portet d’Aspet, the Col de la Core, and Col d’Agnès, before the final test to Plateau de Beille. It will surely help decide the direction of the race.

Tour de France 2024 route week three

A classic transition stage follows the second rest day from Gruissan to Nîmes, which is planned as a sprint stage, but if the winds blow, mayhem could ensue.

Stage 17 is a return to the mountains with a finish in the ski resort of Superdévoluy on the fringes of the Alps, before stage 18 looks set to be a breakaway day as the race travels from Gap to Barcelonnette.

It is the final three days where the 2024 champion will be crowned, however, with two back-to-back summit finishes in southeast France. Stage 19 finishes atop Isola 2000, with the Col de Vars, at 2,120m, before the Col de la Bonnette, at 2,802m, marks the high point of the race, and then there's Isola 2000.

Stage 20 feels like a Paris-Nice penultimate stage, and kind of is, with some of the favourite climbs from the race tackled consecutively. The Col de Braus is first, 10.2km at 6.3 per cent, before the Col de Turini, 20.6km at 5.6 per cent, and then the Col de La Colimiane, 7.6km at 6.8 per cent, and then, finally the Col de la Couillole, 15.7km at 7.1 per cent. That's 4,500m of elevation in just 132km.

However, that is not the end of the race. This year, there is a final day time trial around Nice, not a procession in Paris. The 35km course includes La Turbie, 8.1km at 5.6 per cent, and the Col d’Eze, 1.6km at 8.1%, before concluding on the Promenade des Anglais.

Stage one: Florence > Rimini (206km)

Today’s route Starting in Florence, the birthplace of legendary Italian cyclist Gino Bartali as well as Renaissance art and architecture, the first stage is a lumpy route travelling east to Rimini on the Adriatic coast. 

There are seven categorised climbs on the menu and the first, the 11km Col de Valico Tre Faggi, will top out after just one hour of racing. Then comes a succession of short but difficult climbs, with the final ascent denoting the entrance to the principality of San Marino. From there, it’s a 26km fast downhill race back to the Italian coast. 

What to expect  

The teams with general classification ambitions might be happy to let a rider who isn’t thinking about Paris take the race’s first yellow jersey – and with it all the attention and obligations – and the sprinters’ teams won’t be working either. But with a yellow jersey up for grabs, there is little chance an excited peloton will let a break go the distance. 

It’s a difficult enough day and some outside contenders might have their dreams dashed on day one, but don’t expect any full-gas attacks from the bigger GC riders – there’s no need to fire too many bullets on the opening weekend, however tempting it might be.

Stage two: Cesenatico > Bologna (199.2km)

It’s a seaside start in the spa resort of Cesenatico, home to the late Marco Pantani, the last rider to achieve the Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double in 1998. Ironically, a stage that harks back to 'Il Pirata' is mostly flat. There are two little bumps in the first 140km as well as a spin around the Imola racing circuit, the venue of the 2020 World Championships. 

Then come two short back-to-back climbs before the peloton arrives in Bologna for two circuits that take in the San Luca climb (1.9km at 10.6%), used as a summit finish in the autumn-held Giro dell'Emilia. Today, however, the riders have 12km over the top of the final climb to get organised for the finale in Bologna. 

What to expect 

Despite those bumps in the profile, this should be a fairly straightforward stage for a peloton with fresh legs. A group will no doubt go clear but with lots of riders fancying their chances, and with GC riders being wary of losing time through inattention, speed will be high and the break won’t be given much time. The two climbs of San Luca are a perfect launchpad for a Classics rider who thinks they can hold off the bunch, while a sprinter in great form will also think the stage is up for grabs.

Stage three: Plaisance > Turin (230.8km)

At 230km, it is the longest stage of this year’s Tour, with the whole Tour caravan heading west to Turin. Before it gets to Italy’s fourth most populous city, there’s a passage through Tortona, the town where the iconic Fausto Coppi, a winner of two Tours and five Giri d’Italia, died in 1960 due to misdiagnosed malaria. 

Two fourth-category climbs have to be tackled ahead of what will be a fast and largely arrow-straight run-in to Turin for the finale. 

A doomed breakaway, possibly with just two or three riders, will go clear, but they will know their fate from the moment the peloton lets them loose. Expect one of the lowerranked teams, such as Uno-X Mobility, to be present. 

The bunch will make the catch in plenty of time in anticipation of the first mass sprint of the race. A sprint without hiccups is not a foregone conclusion, though, with all the sprint trains fighting for position and the usual first-week nerves and tension often causing crashes at decisive moments.

Stage four: Pinerolo > Valloire (139.6km)

Not since stage two of the 1979 Tour, a time trial to the Pyrenean ski resort of Superbagnères, has the Tour climbed above 1,800m so early in the race. 

Given that stage four – which starts in Italy – exceeds 2,000m after only 50km with a passage through Sestrières, and then another taxing test (the Col de Montgenèvre) precedes the mighty Col du Galibier, it’s little wonder this is being labelled as the most difficult start to a Tour on record.

Race organisers have at least resisted the temptation of a summit finish on top of the Galibier, with riders having to descend 19km into the town of Valloire before they catch sight of the finish line. 

What to expect A short stage that goes straight up a mountain is the stuff of nightmares for sprinters. Contesting a fast finish yesterday, today they’ll be terrified of a fast start, getting dropped and the broomwagon looming large behind them. The break will form on the first climb to Sestrières and only once that has formed will the bunch sit up and take a collective breath. 

The action will hot up again for the GC riders in the thin air over the top of the fabled Galibier, but with a long, and in the most part not too technical, descent to Valloire there is time for mountain domestiques to chase back to their leaders and help close any gaps.

Stage five: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne > Saint-Valbus (177.4km)

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, a frequent staging post of the Tour, is the start town for the peloton’s speedy exit towards central France. The unclassified, long but shallow Col de Couz comes just before the midway point, and then there’s the climb of the Côte de Lhuis (4.4km at 4.2%) 34km before the finish. 

The river Ain is crossed inside the final few kilometres, with the sprinters expecting their glory in the sleepy, tiny village of Saint-Vulbas. 

It’s only day five, but already fatigue will be creeping into riders’ legs, especially after the efforts of the previous day in the Alps. The GC teams will therefore be more than content to let the sprinters control the day, and thus the breakaway riders will have to fight hard to resist the collective pull of the fast men and their brothers in arms. 

The climb of the Côte de l’Huis does at least offer something for the escapees to launch a move on, but they would have to put in an almighty time trial effort to hold the charging peloton at bay. 

All the sprinters should make it over the final categorised climb, although don’t be surprised to see one or two sprint teams pushing hard on the ascent in an effort to distance some rivals.

Stage six: Mâcon > Dijon (163.5km)

From Mâcon, a frequent host town of the Critérium du Dauphiné, the race goes north through the Burgundy wine region, and specifically embarks on its own Route des Grands Crus. The most famed red wine from this area is produced from pinot noir grapes and is known for its dry texture, while the best white wines are made from chardonnay grapes. 

The journey through the vineyards is a flat one before an 800-metre straight finale in Dijon, hosting its first Tour finish since 1997. Whoever is victorious might just get to experience one of the region’s famous wines. Just don’t tell Visma-Lease a Bike’s boss Richard Plugge, who criticised Groupama-FDJ for drinking alcohol on a rest day last year. 

The race might be heading towards Paris, but this is no stage 20 last-chance saloon for a big breakaway group. Instead, the sprinters’ teams will only let a break go - probably a small one - once they’re happy they can control it. That means sitting on the front of the bunch and keeping them at a comfortable distance before reeling them in towards the end. 

The race’s first time trial is tomorrow so the GC contenders will be taking it easy, and no doubt warming down on their TT bikes as soon as they’re safely back at their buses.

Stage seven: Nuits-Saint-Georges > Gevrey-Chambertin ITT (25.3km)

The race remains firmly nestled among the vineyards in the east of the country, with a 25km time trial between two wine-making villages. The route’s general direction is set to north, although it will deviate west to take in the Côte de Curtil-Vergy. However, coming at the halfway point of the stage, and being relatively tame at just 6.5% for 1.5km, riders won’t be ditching their road bikes to tackle the ascent. 

Usually, the differences between the main general classification riders aren't huge on flat courses of less than 20 miles, but TT world champ Remco Evenepoel, the strongest TTer of the GC riders, has made a habit of gaining between 30 and 60 seconds on rivals on courses like this. GC riders on top of their game with good aero packages are hard to beat, even by TT specialists, so the gaps won’t be huge.

Do expect Giro’s Aerohead TT helmet to once again cause a stir, as millions of people across the world tune into a cycling race for the first time this year and shout, "What’s that on their heads?!" at the television.

Stage eight: Semur-en-Auxois > Colombey-Les-Deux-Églises (183.4km)

We’re just a stone’s throw from Dijon – teams will no doubt be enjoying the limited travel times before and after these stages. Today the race departs from Semur-en- Auxois, which has a population of just 4,200. 

The stage begins with a flurry of three categorised climbs in the first 40km, then three more just after the halfway point. The undulating parcours continues late into the stage with a final small climb 17km from the end, before a finishing kilometre that averages 3%. The average speed over such terrain will help shape the result. If it’s a steady day, all the sprinters will fancy their chances; if it’s fast, it will favour the fastmen in good form. 

None of the climbs are long or hard enough to affect the order of the GC, but if a big breakaway goes clear, controlling the stage will be a challenging task for the sprint-focused teams. If this stage were later in the race the odds would be stacked in favour of a big break. But there will still be plenty of fastmen in the bunch, thus ensuring their teams take charge. So expect a small break brought back within 15km of the finish.

Stage nine: Troyes > Troyes (199km)

The origins of this route can be traced back to 2022, the year the Tour de France Femmes was reborn. On stage four of the race, the women’s peloton rode across four lots of white roads, with Marlen Reusser eventually taking the win. 

For the men this year the challenge is even greater, with 14 gravel sections totalling 32km to be tackled over the course of today's circular route – albeit with different start and finish locations in the city of Troyes. The first half of the stage is a little hillier, but the four fourth-category climbs will be inconsequential compared to the gravel sectors and the fight for position that will inevitably happen before each one. The final half-a-dozen gravel sectors are all grouped together in just 24km and it’s a day for constant attentiveness and high tension. 

When the route was announced, Visma-Lease a Bike’s boss, Richard Plugge, said, “Gravel, for me, is not necessary in a race such as this,” and Soudal-Quick Step’s always outspoken boss Patrick Lefevere simply said: “I’m not a fan of it.” 

The reason for their disdain is clear: a stage like this – ditto when the Tour traverses the Paris-Roubaix cobbles – can severely dent a rider’s overall ambitions, with a badly timed mechanical or slip on the uneven surface often proving more damaging than a bad day in the mountains.

What to expect

When the TdF Femmes undertook a varied version of this stage two years ago, the differences between the overall contenders were minimal, and on a similar-looking course at the Giro d’Italia this May, time gaps were nil. 

But today is a unique opportunity for GC riders confident of their abilities to put their team-mates on the front and their rivals under pressure. Splits are likely to occur, and as soon as they do those at the front will seize the opportunity to push on and open up the gaps. Speed will be high not only over the gravel but in the approach to each section as the stronger teams get their leader to the front and maintain a high pace to keep them there. A break is still likely to go clear, and perhaps a large one. That group, as well as the peloton, will then fragment later in the stage. 

Keep an eye on the weather forecast, as wind and rain will only heighten the risk and therefore the tension in the bunch. When that happens, time gaps can be significant.

Stage 10: Orléans > Saint-Amand-Montrond (187.3km)

Beginning in the city of Orléans – yesterday's rest-day location – riders head due south, with not a single categorised climb on today’s parcours. 

But with three changes of direction in the final 30 kilometres taking riders onto exposed roads in a region famed for its wind, a bunch sprint in Saint- Amand-Montrond, the hometown of Soudal-Quick Step’s non-competing Julian Alaphilippe, could be in doubt. 

The lack of any elevation makes it an unappealing stage for a break, so today might turn into one of those long days where one rider from a smaller team – step forwards TotalEnergies and Arkéa-B&B Hotels – spends several hours off the front with only the TV moto for company. 

If wind is forecast – expect teams to be analysing the weather intently in advance – you’ll see the pace increase as teams of the GC riders and the sprinters are all told to get to the front at the same time. This not only increases speed, but nerves too. If the wind is blowing, expect Classics riders hitting the front to line it out and create the echelons. The sprinters will be alert, and are used to fighting for position, it’s the GC riders with no big burly team-mates you need to worry about. If this happens, the break's lead will drop like a stone and they’ll be caught and dropped before they know it.

Stage 11: Évaux-Les-Bains > Le Lioran (211km)

It’s a relatively benign opening 150km as the peloton crosses through the majestic Massif Central. But the calmness will almost definitely precede a storm with four categorised climbs jammed into the final hourand- a-bit of racing that features a gradual rise in elevation to the finish line at 1,242 metres above sea level. 

The Col de Néronne (3.8km at 9.1%) is a mere warm-up to the volcanic first-category Puy Mary where the final two kilometres average 12%. A fast descent is followed by the Col de Pertus (4.4km at 7.9%) with some bonus seconds over the top, then the final climb of the Col de Font de Cère (3.3km at 5.8%). The finish line is 2.8km further on from the summit although not categorised as a climb in its own right. 

It’s likely there will be a big battle to get into the day’s break, but  not until after the intermediate sprint at 56km. As soon as the categorised climbs begin, so will the attacks. 

With 4,350m of elevation gain, it’s one of the most climb-laden stages of the entire race, and the roads of the Massif Central are not as wide, straight or smooth as the rest of France. All of which means the GC riders and their hard-working team-mates need to be switched on all day. Tadej Pogačar’s UAE Emirates team-mates are most likely to be on the front today.

Stage 12: Aurillac > Villeneuve-sur-Lot (203.6km)

Crossing west across central France, there are just three classified climbs on today’s route, but all are fourth-cat climbs and are likely to pass without the slightest shift of rear mechs for anyone safely tucked away in the peloton. The second climb of Côte de Rocamadour was used in the penultimate stage of the 2022 Tour, a time trial won by Wout van Aert. This year, however, the race passes over the summit from the opposite side. 

The latter half of the stage profile sees it gradually smooth itself out, and even the presence of a slight rise inside the final 10 kilometres won’t be enough to deny the sprinters. 

With more than 2,300m of elevation gain throughout the stage, there’ll be many riders hoping that the undulating nature favours the break. That said, the climbs themselves are relatively insignificant; from start to finish, there is an overall loss of 537m, meaning there will be plenty of freewheeling in the bunch and therefore effort saved. It’s difficult to see how an escapee could triumph, unless there is a botched or incohesive chase from the peloton. 

With sprint opportunities diminishing – there are only two left after this one – the sprint teams will be at the head of the peloton as soon as the flag drops, keeping the break in check and then preparing for a showdown. Curiously, though, on the race’s only two previous finishes in Villeneuve-sur- Lot, it has been a sole rider from the breakaway that has prevailed.

Stage 13: Agen > Pau (165.3km)

Beginning from Agen, a small city that last featured in the race in 2000, the Pyrenees in the distant background will gradually get closer throughout the day. 

It’s an undulating route south with a pair of fourth-category climbs in the final quarter, but their gradients are tame and a descent precedes the fast finish in Pau, the third most-visited city in the history of the Tour. 

The hilly terrain throughout, with just under 2,000m of climbing in total, is helpful to the breakaway, as is the size of the roads. This is no sweeping route on wide, straight roads, but a more winding route on narrower roads. This can favour the break if the peloton can’t sweep along at 54kph when they need to reel them in. The two climbs, the Côte de Blachon and the Côte de Simacourbe, may also disrupt proceedings if they tempt riders into attacking or see a key sprinter momentarily dropped. It’s not out of the question that a break could spoil the sprinters’ plans. 

Look out for the intermediate sprint at 88km. If the sprinters’ teams want to keep things together in order to contest the points, expect a frantic hour-and-ahalf of racing as every attempt at an escape gets chased down.

Stage 14: Pau > Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d'Adet

As with most Pyrenean stages, today starts outside the big mountains with their valley roads, in a city on the periphery. For the 75th time, Pau is where the stage begins, resulting in a gradual incline for the first 70km until the foot of the Col du Tourmalet, site of the intermediate sprint. 

Ascending the most-climbed mountain in Tour history from its west side (the longer of the two), the peloton then have two climbs to come: Hourquette d’Ancizan (8.2km at 5.1%) – a modern-day regular first used in 2011 and now featuring for the sixth time – follows the Tourmalet, before a summit finish at Pla d’Adet. At just over 10km, the opening stretches regularly exceed 10%, but the severity lessens towards the top. The climb was last visited a decade ago when a young Rafał Majka triumphed.

Being the first mountain summit finish of the race, riders on the hunt for the maillot jaune don’t need to be reminded how crucial stage 14 is to the overall result of the race. Lose contact with the lead group on one of the three cols, and a rider will be waving au revoir to their chances. 

A big breakaway group will form after the intermediate sprint, with riders from the big GC teams among them, ready to drop back later in the stage to assist their appointed leaders. 

The peloton will take a breather on the Tourmalet - relatively speaking - with the team of the highest-placed GC rider (the yellow might be on the shoulders of a breakaway rider) asserting control. Speed will be increased on the Hourquette d’Ancizan and a few big-name riders will be gapped. They will no doubt chase back on, but in doing so will know that they’re going to be dropped again on the final climb when UAE, Visma or Ineos sit on the front and ride at an uncomfortably high pace. The question we’re all asking is: when will the likes of Tadej Pogačar or Primož Roglic make their move? Early or late on the climb?

Stage 15: Loudenvielle > Plateau de Beille

Imitating a portion of the Raid Pyrénéen route, stage 15 crisscrosses five of the region’s peaks from west to east, starting with an ascent of the Col de Peyresourde as soon as the flag drops. 

The Col de Menté (9.3km at 9.1%) and Col de Portet-d’Aspet (4.3km at 9.6%) are next, but there’s a 60km lull before the riders reach the Col d’Agnes (10km at 8.2%). The following short climb of the Port de Lers is not classified but could catch riders unaware. However, after that there’s a 35km descent for any dropped riders to regroup before the formidable Plateau de Beille, a 15.5km slog that averages 7.9%.

Riders will be warming up on their turbos today, getting themselves ready to react to the immediate attacks from those wanting to be in the break. Expect plenty of French faces in the large break that will form, each of them hoping to become the first French stage winner on Bastille Day since Warren Barguil in 2017. 

With a lot of nothingness separating the third and fourth climb, the race will no doubt enjoy some calm in that middle section before stirring back to life on the penultimate col. If there’s no GC threat nestled among the escapees, they have a good chance of going all the way, albeit in ones and twos up the final climb. 

The yellow jersey group is likely to bide its time, but attacks are guaranteed on the Plateau de Beille. There’s also another contest to keep an eye out for: this is a huge day in the King of the Mountains competition with 10 points for the first rider over the cat-one climbs and 20 on the finish line.

Stage 16: Gruissan > Nîmes (188.6km)

Gruissan, a beautiful circular coastal town built around a castle, makes its debut as a Tour host. From the departure, it’s mostly northeast towards Nîmes, a city that features for the 36th time. 

Aside from the Côte du Mas de Cornon (7km at 3.4%) at the halfway mark, and a few slight rises early on, it’s a fairly flat journey towards what should be a sprint finish. The one thing that could disrupt proceedings, though, is the Mistral, a strong northwesterly wind that comes down the Rhône river and through southern France. If that’s blowing hard enough, echelons could form. 

The sprinting teams will not let the breakaway have any sizeable advantage, knowing full well that this is their last chance to experience glory. Expect the break to be caught with plenty of time, and then the fastmen's domestiques to all gather at the front of the peloton in preparation for the final face-off between the sprinters. 

If crosswinds are a possibility, the team defending the yellow jersey will be manning things up ahead, cautious that echelons can produce time gaps of several minutes – more than a key mountain stage.

Stage 17: Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux > Superdévoluy

There is the feel of a typical Pyrenean stage to this test, one that starts gentle and snoozy until the mountains are reached. But we’re back in the Alps, and after 130km of warming the legs, three climbs come in the space of just 50km. 

The Col Bayard (6.8km at 7.3%) will get the party started, but it’s the much tougher first-category Col du Noyer (7.5km at 8.4%) that will do the damage. It is crested 12km before the finish at the small ski station of SuperDévoluy (3.8km at 5.9%), used in the Tour for the first time. 

With the points classification more than likely sewn up, and the intermediate sprint 114km away, the peloton will let the breakaway form from the get-go, and it’s likely to be stacked full of teams who are still looking for their first win. The day’s winner is almost guaranteed to come from the break. 

The GC riders, meanwhile, will be looking to the penultimate climb of the Col du Noyer to attack, the final two kilometres having sustained ramps of double-digit gradients. Anyone who does go clear will need a healthy cushion to stay away on the descent, ahead of a final climb that isn’t too strenuous.

Stage 18: Gap > Barcelonnette (179.5km)

Gap, making its 50th appearance as a Tour host, is the starting point of a stage that doesn’t touch the bigger peaks of the Alps, but does cross many smaller ones, adding up to an accumulated total of over 3,000m of elevation gain. 

First heading west, then north, before south-east to the finish in Barcelonnette, the biggest climb is first up, the Col du Festre, taking the riders to 1,442m, while the most difficult is the penultimate, the Côte de Saint-Apollinaire (3.6km at 5.4%). Following the final KoM and taking the riders to the finish line is a gradual ascent that is better described as a false flat. 

With the hardest stage of the race just 24 hours away, and any sprinters left having little to ride for, the peloton will be happy to let the breakaway take the win. 

Expect a big group to go clear early on and for it to split into smaller groups as the afternoon wears on. There could be a decisive attack on one of the two final climbs, but it’s more likely to end in a sprint from a reduced group. At this stage, the GC battle depends on whether or not the yellow jersey has minutes in hand, or just seconds.

Stage 19: Embrun > Isola 2000

It’s a gentle opening 20 kilometres for the peloton from the start in Embrun, but after that comes several hours of suffering. The 2,109m Col de Vars (18.8km at 5.7%) is the first col to be crested, and then it’s onto the monstrous Cime de la Bonette, a mythical 2,802m climb last used in the 2008 Tour.

It's 22.9km long, averages 6.9%, but has gradients that are considerably tougher for the most part and rear up to above 10% in the final kilometre. Windswept, barren and devoid of almost all vegetation, the road encircles the peak’s summit before it reaches the race's highest point. 

A lengthy descent of 40km is followed by the day’s final challenge: the 16.1km climb to the ski resort of Isola 2000. Sections of its road feature gradients with double-digit ramps at the beginning and an overall average of 7.1%.

A breakaway, probably a big one and definitely containing those with eyes on the King of the Mountains jersey, will clip off the front on the first climb, but a short stage might see one of the GC teams setting a fast pace from the off in order to inflict maximum damage. 

There’s too long between the Bonette and Isola 2000 for a maillot jaune contender to attack on the barbaric climb, so expect them instead to make their move when the ski lifts at Isola come into view. Keep an eye out for any sprinters that fall behind the autobus today. They’ll be hoping it forms on the lower slopes of the Col de Vars, but if a sprinter is left out on his own, the threat of the time cut will be hovering over them all day.

Stage 20: Nice > Col de la Couillole (132.8km)

Using climbs that Paris-Nice visits most years, and are therefore familiar to the peloton, the stage is a short one at just over 130km, but there’s even more elevation gain than stage 19’s arduous route, with almost 4,800 metres – that's half an Everesting. 

The Col de Braus, the first col, is summited after 25km, and the longest, the Col de Turini at 20.7km in length, is reached after 60km. Then it’s to the shorter Col de la Colmiane (7.5km at 7.1%) and deeper into the Alpes- Maritimes with a summit finish at Col de la Couillole (16.7km at 7.1%). 

If the fight for the polka-dot jersey is still raging and one of the GC men isn’t expected to claim it, those involved will be shooting out of the peloton straight away in an effort to nab as many points as possible. 

There’ll be a high pace set on the front of the peloton all day, but such is the difficulty of the final climb – there is no let-up in the consistent gradients – the race for yellow will not ignite until they turn onto the Col de la Couillole.

Stage 21: Monaco > Nice ITT (33.7km)

Not since 1905 has the Tour finished outside of Paris, and it’s also the first time since 1989 that the race ends with an individual time trial. Beginning in the principality of Monaco – home to several Tour winners such as Tadej Pogačar, Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas – this is not an easy time trial: after only 1,500m, the road turns skyward with the 8.1km ascent of La Turbie that averages 5.6%. 

A short descent precedes the short, sharp climb of Col d’Eze, used almost every year in Paris-Nice, before a final 17km downhill, then flat, stretch onto the Promenade des Anglais on the Mediterranean coast. The winner’s podium celebration will also be held on the famous seafront.

Most talk pre-stage will be whether or not the overall contenders will tackle the first half and the 700 metres of elevation on their road bikes before switching to their time trial machines for the remainder. Some might judge La Turbie as a power climb that doesn’t require a more agile and lighter road bike, but others will not want to risk using their time trial machine for the entire duration of what is essentially a mountain TT. 

Even if one rider already has what looks like a firm grip on yellow, it was only four years ago that Tadej Pogačar famously overturned a 57-second deficit to Primož Roglič on the penultimate day’s time trial to win the race by 59 seconds. Anything is therefore possible.

Tour de France 2024 start list: Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen lead Alpecin-Deceuninck

All the teams and riders for the 111th Tour de France

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With just ten days until the 2024 Tour de France , the squad announcements are gradually beginning to come in. 

Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen will lead Alpecin-Deceuninck at the Tour, a fact which has been known for a long time, but it was confirmed on Monday.

The duo, who have finished first and second at Paris-Roubaix for the last two editions, will once again team up on the roads of Italy and France.

They will be joined by Søren Kragh Andersen and Gianni Vermeersch, among others.

Groupama-FDJ, in their first Tour since Thibaut Pinot retired , will once again be led by David Gaudu. The mercurial Frenchman will be joined by Valentin Madouas, Stefan Küng and Lenny Martinez.

Oscar Onley is set to make his debut at the French Grand Tour, in a dsm-firmenich PostNL squad hunting for stage wins.

The young Brit will be joined by the experienced Romain Bardet, Warren Barguil and John Degenkolb, while Fabio Jakobsen will also be there looking for results in the sprint stages.

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Also on the team are Nils Eekhoff, Frank van den Broek, and Bram Welten.

Ineos Grenadiers' general classification bid will be led by Carlos Rodríguez, stage winner and fifth overall last year, but the British team also has star power and experience through Tom Pidcock and Geraint Thomas.

The trio will be helped by Egan Bernal, Jonathan Castroviejo, Laurens De Plus, Michał Kwiatkowski, and Ben Turner.

Also announced on Monday were the lineups for Movistar, Astana Qazaqstan and Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale.

For Astana Qazaqstan, it is all about Mark Cavendish , who is targeting one more stage win to make history. He will be assisted by Michael Mørkøv, Alexey Lutsenko, Yevgeniy Federov, Cees Bol, Harold Tejada, Davide Ballerini, and Michele Gazzoli.

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, meanwhile, go with a split strategy between GC and stage wins. Felix Gall is their man for the mountains, after his stage win last year, and Sam Bennett will be there for the sprints.

It is a multi-layered team, though, with Bruno Armirail, Paul Lapeira, Dorian Godon, Nans Peters, Oliver Naesen, and Nicolas Prodhomme all presenting different options.

Lidl-Trek, without Tao Geoghegan Hart , will aim for stage win glory through Mads Pedersen, a winner at the two previous editions, and Giulio Ciccone, the King of the Mountains at last year's race.

The pair will be joined by Julien Bernard, Tim Declercq, Ryan Gibbons, Toms Skujiņš, Jasper Stuyven, and Carlos Verona.

Lotto Dstny will be led by newly-crowned Belgian champion Arnaud De Lie at the Tour, which will not only be his first time at the race, but any Grand Tour. Having beaten last year's green jersey winner, Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) at the nationals, he will hope he can do it again.

Together with Maxim Van Gils, Victor Campenaerts, Brent Van Moer, Jarrad Drizners, Harm Vanhoucke, Sébastien Grignard and Cedric Beullens, the goal is stage wins.

Meanwhile, Movistar will be led by Enric Mas, as the Spaniard mounts another GC challenge; his highest finish was fourth overall in 2021.

He will be joined by Oier Lazkano, Davide Formolo, Nelson Oliveira, Alex Aranburu, Fernando Gaviria, Gregor Mühlberger and Javier Romo.

Bahrain-Victorious will take 2023 stage winners Pello Bilbao and Matej Mohorič , along with the former British champion Fred Wright . The latter will be hoping his luck finally holds if he makes it into a breakaway.

The trio will be joined by Wout Poels, Phil Bauhaus, Santiago Buitrago, Jack Haig and Nikias Arndt, in a team strong in stage-winning potential, with a GC bid also a possibility.

UAE Team Emirates' lineup was all but confirmed already , but it was published last week.

Assisting Tadej Pogačar in his bid for history - a Giro d'Italia and Tour double - will be Juan Ayuso, Pavel Sivakov, Marc Soler, Nils Politt, Adam Yates, João Almeida and Tim Wellens.

In Ayuso, Yates and Almeida, UAE have three hyper-domestiques who could be team leaders at a Grand Tour themselves. Yates, in particular, will be key, with the Briton winning the recent Tour de Suisse, and also finishing third at the Tour de France last year.

Israel-Premier Tech also released their eight-man team sheet, which includes four debutants, two of whom are Brits: Jake Stewart, Stevie Williams, Pascal Ackermann and Derek Gee. Williams and Gee, in particular, have shown their top form at times this year.

The team has experience, in Guillaume Boivin, Jakob Fuglsang, Hugo Houle and Krists Neilands. Notably, there is no Chris Froome .

Visma-Lease a Bike will be led by Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert . The pair were judged to have sufficiently recovered to be there at the French Grand Tour when it gets underway.

The pair will be joined by Matteo Jorgenson,  Sepp Kuss , Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot, Wilco Kelderman, and Jan Tratnik.

Both Vingegaard and Van Aert have had injury-interrupted seasons, with the former in serious doubt for the Tour, with the defending champion rushing to recover from injuries sustained in the  horror crash at Itzulia Basque  Country in April. The Dane suffered  multiple broken ribs , a collapsed lung, and a broken collarbone in the incident.

However, his team confirmed that he has recovered enough to "fight for a good result" in the Tour.

Jayco AIUIa confirmed that Simon Yates, Michael Matthews and Dylan Groenewegen would lead the charge for the team as they hunt for stage wins and a high general classification finish for Yates. 

Luke Durbridge, Chris Harper, Chris Juul-Jensen, Luka Mezgec and Elmar Reinders complete the Jayco lineup. 

Uno-X Mobility were the first team to release their lineup.

The Norwegian team will be led by Magnus Cort and Alexander Kristoff, two riders who have tasted success at the French Grand Tour in the past.

The pair will be joined by six more Scandinavians - all Norwegians, incidentally - Jonas Abrahamsen, Tobias Halland Johannessen, Rasmus Fossum Tiller, Søren Wærenskjold, Johannes Kulset and Odd Christian Eiking.

The 2024 race begins on Saturday 29 June in Florence, Italy, and finishes in Nice, France, just over three weeks later on 20 July. Read our guide to the Tour's route here .

Eight men are allowed in each squad, with a mix of climbers, sprinters, general classification hopefuls and domestiques. All 18 WorldTour teams will be present, alongside ProTeams Israel-Premier Tech, Lotto Dstny, Uno-X, and TotalEnergies.

Below are the confirmed squads for the race. We will update this page with more riders as teams are announced.

Tour de France 2024 start list

Alpecin-Deceuninck DILLIER Silvan (Sui) GHYS Robbe (Bel) KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren (Den) LAURANCE Axel (Fra) PHILIPSEN Jasper (Bel) RICKAERT Jonas (Bel) VAN DER POEL Mathieu (Ned) VERMEERSCH Gianni (Bel)

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Astana-Qazaqstan CAVENDISH Mark (GBr) MØRKØV Michael (Den) LUTSENKO Alexey (Kaz) FEDOROV Yevgeniy (Kaz) GAZZOLI Michele (Ita) TEJADA Harold (Col) BALLERINI Davide (Ita) BOL Cees (Ned)

Bahrain-Victorious MOHORIČ Matej (Slo) POELS Wout (Ned) BILBAO Pello (Esp) BAUHAUS Phil (Deu) BUITRAGO Santiago (Col) HAIG Jack (Aus) WRIGHT Fred (GBr) ARNDT Nikias (Deu)

Bora-Hansgrohe

Cofidis ALLEGAERT Piet (Bel) COQUARD Bryan (Fra) GESCHKE Simon (Deu) HERRADA Jesus (Esp) IZAGIRRE Ion (Esp) MARTIN Guillaume (Fra) RENARD Alexis (Fra) ZINGLE Axel (Fra)

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale GALL Felix (Aut) PETERS Nans (Fra) GODON Dorian (Fra) NAESEN Oliver (Bel) BENNETT Sam (Ire) PRODHOMME Nicolas (Fra) LAPEIRA Paul (Fra) ARMIRAIL Bruno (Fra)

dsm-firmenich PostNL BARDET Romain (Fra) BARGUIL Warren (Fra) DEGENKOLB John (Deu) EEKHOFF Nils (Ned) JAKOBSEN Fabio (Ned) ONLEY Oscar (GBr) VAN DEN BROEK Frank (Ned) WELTEN Bram (Ned)

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Groupama-FDJ GAUDU David (Fra) GENIETS Kevin (Lux) GRÉGOIRE Romain (Fra) KÜNG Stefan (Sui) MADOUAS Valentin (Fra) MARTINEZ Lenny (Fra) PACHER Quentin (Fra) RUSSO Clément (Fra)

Ineos Grenadiers RODRÍGUEZ Carlos (Esp) THOMAS Geraint (GBr) PIDCOCK Tom (GBr) KWIATKOWSKI Michał (Pol) BERNAL Egan (Col) DE PLUS Laurens (Bel) TURNER Ben (GBr) CASTROVIEJO Jonathan (Esp)

Jayco-AlUla DURBRIDGE Luke (Aus) GROENEWEGEN Dylan (Ned) HARPER Chris (AuS) JUUL-JENSEN Chris (Den) MATTHEWS Michael (Aus) MEZGEC Luka (Slo) REINDERS Elmar (Ned) YATES Simon (Gbr)

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Israel-Premier Tech ACKERMANN Pascal (Deu) BOIVIN Guillaume (Can) FUGLSANG Jakob (Den) GEE Derek (Can) HOULE Hugo (Can) NEILANDS Krists (Lat) STEWART Jake (GBr) WILLIAMS Stevie (GBr)

Lidl-Trek BERNARD Julien (Fra) CICCONE Giulio (Ita) DECLERCQ Tim (Bel) GIBBONS Ryan (RSA) PEDERSEN Mads (Den) SKUJINŠ Toms (Lat) STUYVEN Jasper (Bel) VERONA Carlos (Esp)

Lotto Dstny VAN GILS Maxim (Bel) DE LIE Arnaud (Bel) CAMPENAERTS Victor (Bel) VAN MOER Brent (Bel) DRIZNERS Jarrad (Bel) VANHOUCKE Harm (Bel) GRIGNARD Sébastien (Bel) BEULLENS Cedric (Bel)

Movistar MAS Enric (Esp) LAZKANO Oier (Esp) OLIVEIRA Nelson (Por) FORMOLO Davide (Ita) ARANBURU Alex (Esp) GAVIRIA Fernando (Col) ROMO Javier (Esp) MÜHLBERGER Gregor (Aut)

Soudal Quick-Step

TotalEnergies BURGAUDEAU Mathieu (Fra) CRAS Steff (Bel) TURGIS Anthony (Fra) JEGAT Jordan (Fra) GACHIGNARD Thomas (Fra) VERCHER Mattéo (Fra) DUJARDIN Sandy (Fra) GRELLIER Fabien (Fra)

UAE Team Emirates POGAČAR Tadej (Slo) ALMEIDA João (Por) AYUSO Juan (Esp) POLITT Nils (Deu) SIVAKOV Pavel (Fra) SOLER Marc (Esp) WELLENS Tim (Bel) YATES Adam (GBr)

Uno-X Mobility CORT Magnus (Den) KULSET Johannes (Nor) TILLER Rasmus (Nor) EIKING Odd Christian (Nor) KRISTOFF Alexander (Nor) WÆRENSKJOLD Søren (Nor) JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland (Nor) ABRAHAMSEN Jonas (Nor)

Visma-Lease a Bike BENOOT Tiesj (Bel) JORGENSON Matteo (USA) KELDERMAN Wilco (Ned) KUSS Sepp (USA) LAPORTE Christophe (Fra) TRATNIK Jan (Slo) VAN AERT Wout (Bel) VINGEGAARD Jonas (Den)

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From Florence to the Beaches of Nice: How to Watch the 2024 Tour de France

This year’s edition starts in Italy and features one of the toughest opening stages ever, a 206-kilometer ride from Florence to Rimini taking riders through the heart of the Apennine mountains.

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The Tour de France was first raced in 1903 when journalist (and former bike racer) Henri Desgrange organized the event to promote L’Auto-Vélo, a French sporting newspaper that he edited–and is known today as L’Equipe. The newspaper was actually printed on yellow paper, which fuels one of the narratives surrounding the origins of the maillot jaune . That year’s Tour covered 2,428 km (1,509 mi) spread over just six stages–the average stage length was about 405 km (251 mi)–and only 21 of the original 60 starters finished the inaugural event.

Despite the low number of finishers, the event was an overwhelming success, and the Tour has since become one of the largest sporting events in the world, an event for which teams with multi-million dollar budgets spend years trying to win. For the riders, just a single stage win or day in the yellow jersey is a career-defining achievement. Riders who win the overall title–even just once–go down in history.

This year’s race covers 3,492 km (2,165 mi) spread over 21 stages, with eight days for the sprinters, two individual time trials, seven mountain stages, and about four stages for the punchy opportunists who head up the road in search of “do-or-die” breakaway stage victories–we love those guys.

Here’s everything you need to know about the 2024 Tour de France:

The route of the 2024 Tour de France is unlike any we’ve ever seen, mainly because it’s bookended by two of the biggest “firsts” in the event’s 110-year history: it’s the first to begin in Italy and the first to end outside of Paris (in Nice).

The Tour begins in Florence on Saturday, June 29th, the first of three-and-a-half stages in Italy. And we’re expecting fireworks right away: Stages 1 and 2 are two of the toughest opening stages we’ve ever seen, even harder than the opening stages of last year’s Tour, which took place in the hilly Basque region of northern Spain.

After a day for the sprinters on Stage 3, Stage 4 begins in Pinerolo and brings the race back into France via the 2,642m Col du Galibier. The second-highest climb in this year’s race, the first rider to the summit will win a cash prize given each year in honor of Degrange. By the end of one of the earliest mountain stages in Tour history, the GC battle will be in full swing.

The sprinters will then get two more chances as the race heads north. But the GC battle will resume on Friday, July 5th, with Stage 7, the first of two individual time trials in this year’s Tour. The first week ends with Sunday’s Stage 9, an exciting stage featuring 14 sections of white gravel roads through France’s Champagne region. This will be the first gravel stage in the history of the men’s Tour de France–the women completed a gravel stage of their own through the region in 2022.

After the Tour’s first Rest Day, the race resumes on Tuesday, July 9th, and begins a southwesterly trip–through the Massif Central, which hosts a rugged finish to Stage 11–toward the Pyrenees. Along the way, the sprinters will have a few more opportunities to win a stage before the high mountains return over the weekend.

And they return in a big way, with back-to-back hors categorie (“beyond category”) summit finishes in the mountains that form the border between France and Spain. Saturday’s Stage 12 takes the riders over the Tourmalet–which Desgrange first thought was too hard for the Tour de France–and ends with a finish at the Pla d'Adet ski resort, while Sunday’s Stage 13 ends on the Plateau de Beille–after almost 198km of racing.

As if the mountains aren’t enough cause for excitement, it’s also a holiday weekend: Sunday is Bastille Day–July 14th–so expect the roads on both days to be packed with “festive” fans. By the end of the day, the list of riders capable of winning the 2024 Tour de France will be much shorter than it was a week prior.

The Tour’s third and final week takes the race back east, where an Alpine finale looms. In all, the riders will spend four days in the mountains during the third week, first in the high Alps–with summit finishes at the end of Stage 17 ( at Superdévoluy) and Stage 19 (at Isola 2000). And don’t snooze on Thursday’s Stage 18, a saw-toothed stage from Gap to Barcelonnette that’s filled with short, jagged climbs and could be the perfect place for an ambush–or a Hail Mary–before the final weekend.

But this year’s final weekend is not what we’ve come to expect from Tours of the past. With the Summer Olympics beginning in Paris just five days after the end of the race, this year’s Tour skips its traditional finish on the Champs Elysees and instead finishes in Nice–after the hardest final weekend we’ve seen in decades.

The weekend opens on Saturday, July 20th, with Stage 20, a short but intense stage through the maritime Alps featuring four categorized ascents, including a summit finish on the Category 1 Col de la Couillole.

And just in case that doesn’t settle things, Sunday’s Stage 21 certainly will, as–for the first time in 35 years–the Tour de France ends with an individual time trial. And it’s a hard one: a 33.7 km race against the clock that takes the riders over the Col d'Èze, a tough Category 2 ascent that always features in the final stage of March’s Paris-Nice, an 8-day stage race that Tour contenders often use to build form during the first part of their seasons.

This might bode well for American fans–for two reasons. First, the last time the Tour de France ended with an individual time trial, American Greg Lemond defeated France’s Laurent Fignon–who entered the day wearing the yellow jersey–to win the Tour by eight seconds.

And this year’s winner of Paris-Nice–which finished with a stage over the Col d'Èze–was American Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), a 24-year-old from Idaho who took the yellow jersey on that final stage. Jorgenson will be lining up at this year’s Tour; could history repeat itself? We can’t wait to find out.

When it comes to watching the Tour de France, you’ve got lots of options. NBC’s Peacock ($5.99/month or $59.99/year) streams all events organized by A.S.O., which means you can watch the Tour de France now and then the Tour de France Femmes in August. (And if you’re looking for ad-free coverage, you’ll need a subscription to Peacock Premium Plus, which runs $11.99 per month or $119.99 for the year.)

The Peacock app is available on Roku, Apple devices, Android and AndroidTV devices, Google platforms, Chromecast, Xbox consoles, PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles, VIZIO SmartCast TVs, and LG Smart TVs. You can also watch online via the Peacock website.

If you have a good cable package and prefer conventional viewing on your television, you’re in luck: NBC will offer the race to cable subscribers via the USA Network and CNBC. Live coverage often starts around 7 a.m. EDT, so 9-to-5ers will likely need to record each stage and watch later. (Check the full schedule for details.)

If you’re in Canada, FloBikes ($29.99/month CDN) is the best way to watch the Tour de France. All 21 stages are available live and on-demand on FloBikes.com, the FloSports iOS app, and the FloSports app for Amazon FireTV, Roku, and Apple TV.

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) won the 2023 Tour de France, defeating Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) to defend his title from 2022. The two champions engaged in a tense battle during the first two weeks of the race and entered the second Rest Day separated by just ten seconds on the Tour’s General Classification.

But Vingegaard exploded at the start of the third week, crushing Pogačar in an individual time trial on Stage 16 and then dropping him in the Alps on Stage 17. In just two stages, the Dane’s lead went from ten seconds to more than seven minutes. Pogačar saved face by winning Stage 20, but for the second year in a row, the winner of back-to-back Tours in 2020 and 2021 was forced to settle for second place–and the white jersey as the Tour’s Best Young Rider. Pogačar’s teammate, Great Britain’s Adam Yates–won Stage 1 and wore the Tour’s first yellow jersey–finished third overall.

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was without question the Tour’s best sprinter. The Belgian won four stages and ran away with the green jersey as the winner of the Tour’s Points Classification. Italy’s Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) won the polka dot jersey as the Tour’s King of the Mountains.

Jonas Vingegaard-Hansen (Visma-Lease a Bike)

At this point in time, we’re waiting to hear if Vingegaard will even be starting this year’s Tour de France. The defending champion was one of several Tour favorites taken down in a massive crash at the Tour of the Basque Country in early April. The Dane spent twelve days in the hospital after breaking several bones and suffering a punctured lung in the fall and only resumed training a few weeks ago. Visma-Lease a Bike recently said he has a 50-50 chance of starting the race, but only will do so if the team feels he’s 100% ready to challenge for a third consecutive victory.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)

The uncertainty surrounding Vingegaard’s participation makes Pogačar the top favorite. The Slovenian won back-to-back Tours in 2020 and 2021 and scored back-to-back second-place finishes behind the Dane in 2022 and 2023. He’s been training since winning six stages and the General Classification at the recent Giro d’Italia and looks on track to become the first rider since Italy’s Marco Pantani (in 1998) to win the Giro-Tour double.

Primož Roglič (BORA-hansgrohe) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal–Quick-Step)

Vingegaard wasn’t the only Tour contender who went down in that terrible crash at the Tour of the Basque Country: Slovenia’s Primož Roglič–who was leading the race at the time–and Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel were victims as well, and both riders immediately abandoned the race. Roglič injured his knee–but suffered no major injuries–but Evenepoel needed surgery after breaking his clavicle and scapula.

Unlike Vingegaard, both riders were able to get back to training relatively quickly, and they both competed at the recent Critérium du Dauphiné . Roglič won two stages and the General Classification despite almost cracking at the end of the final stage. Evenepoel won the Dauphiné’s only individual time trial, but showed he still has some room to improve after fading in the mountains. He finished the race in seventh place overall.

Carlos Rodríguez (INEOS Grenadiers)

Rodríguez, who won a stage and finished fifth in last year’s Tour de France, won the final stage and finished fourth overall at the Dauphiné, the latest in a series of high-stage race finishes for the 23-year-old. He’ll likely be joining Colombia’s Egan Bernal (who won the Tour in 2019) and Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (Who won the Tour in 2018) on the starting line in Florence to form one of the deepest eight-rider line-ups in this year’s race.

Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike)

If Vingegaard proves unable to start the Tour, don’t be surprised if Visma-Lease a Bike turns to Matteo Jorgenson to lead the team in his place. After winning Paris-Nice and Dwars door Vlaanderen in March, the American spent much of April and all of May at training camps, building form for the summer.

Well, it must’ve worked, as the 24-year-old nearly snatched the Dauphiné from Roglič after riding away with Rodríguez at the end of the final day. In the end, he lost the race by only eight seconds–another interesting coincidence given Lemond’s margin of victory at the Tour in 1989.

The American has never captained a team at the Tour de France, but he raced the French grand tour in 2022 and 2023–so he at least knows what the Tour’s pressure-cooker atmosphere feels like. And he should benefit from the presence of his teammate Sepp Kuss , the American who shockingly won last year’s Vuelta a España and played a pivotal role in each of the six grand Tours won by the team prior to his own victory at the Vuelta last September.

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The Tour de France, the most elite bike race in the world, kicks off this Saturday. 176 of the best cyclists in the world will race nearly 2,200 miles across 21 stages and climb over 170,000 feet of elevation into the clouds of the highest mountains in the Pyrenees and Alps. The effort involved can be mind-boggling. So can the business side of cycling.

The Regulator and the Promoter

There are numerous actors and entities involved in professional cycling and their complex interrelationships underlie races like the Tour.

The sport of cycling is regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), a non-governmental, non-profit association, based in Switzerland, which is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the governing body for cycling. The UCI, like all international governing bodies in sports, is governed by a complex hierarchy of committees and executives from around the world.

The UCI is responsible for organizing, regulating, and sanctioning cycling events of various kinds for both men and women of different ages all over the world. The WorldTour is the UCI’s elite professional men’s road cycling tour. Teams and riders participate in races on the WorldTour calendar and earn points and are ranked based on their performance. The Tour de France, as one would expect, is a major contributor to those rankings.

The Tour itself is put on by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), a French sports marketing and event management organization. The ASO’s crown jewel is the Tour de France but it organizes 29 other cycling events, including several important preparatory races for the Tour (such as the Critérium du Dauphiné), the Vuelta a España (another Grand Tour), as well as the Paris Marathon. It also operates the week-long Tour de France Femmes for women in August.

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To be clear, the ASO and UCI are separate entities with sometimes divergent interests. The ASO organizes nine of the 35 races on the WorldTour calendar and understandably seeks to maximize interest and revenue associated with its events, most of which take place in France. Of particular note, the ASO controls and sells the broadcast rights to the Tour to networks around the world. While the specifics of those deals are not clear, they certainly bring in tens of millions of dollars a year to the ASO. Perhaps not surprisingly, the ASO and UCI have long-standing disputes over who controls the sport and reaps any related financial benefits.

Aside from the Tour, the remaining WorldTour events are organized by a variety of parties, including the UCI and organizers in the many countries where races take place.

The WorldTour calendar does not include any events in the United States. The Tour of Utah (2004-19), Tour of California (2006-19), and USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado (2011-15) were former races that attracted some of the best riders in the world. Nevertheless, the organizers ultimately found them financially unsustainable.

The next group worth mentioning are the teams. To the uninitiated, it might be confusing that cycling has teams, since only a single rider can win a race. However, teams are just as essential to victory in cycling as they are in soccer, football, or any other team sport.

Professional cycling teams consist of approximately 30 riders, eight of whom are chosen to be a part of the Tour de France roster. The composition of that roster will depend on the team’s goals. A handful of teams will have a rider they believe capable of winning the Tour de France’s General Classification (GC), signified by the yellow jersey. So the roster will be constructed toward that goal, including by stocking the roster with elite climbers and other riders (collectively known as domestiques) who can support the leader in a variety of ways.

The best teams protect their elite riders by encircling them and keeping them near the front of the race to minimize the chances of crashes. Elite domestiques will lead their stars up the mountains, breaking the wind and chasing down any attacks from competitors.

Other teams are formed around sprinters who try to win flat stages and win the green (points) jersey. Here too the team is tremendously important. In the closing miles of flat stages, the teams with the best sprinters push to the front, often hitting speeds of 40-50 miles per hour. The team’s riders will “lead-out” the sprinter by giving their maximum effort before dropping off and unleashing the sprinter toward the finish line. The Manx sprinter Mark Cavendish has 34 all time Tour de France stage wins, tied for the most all time, in large part due to the incredible lead-out teams he has had in his career.

If your team has neither a GC rider or a sprinter, it might try to win the King of the Mountains polka dot jersey or to win individual stages via creative and aggressive racing strategies.

There are 18 WorldTour teams and 17 ProTour teams. ProTour teams have smaller budgets, staffs, and schedules than their WorldTour counterparts. Beginning with the 2022 season, every three years the two lowest performing WorldTour teams are relegated to the ProTour and the top two ProTour teams are promoted to the WorldTour.

The idea of a “team” though is often remarkably in flux. Teams are identified by their corporate sponsors, which fund the vast majority of a team’s budget, ranging from about $ 10 to $40 million . Sponsorship contracts with teams are often only one or two years and renewals are closely tied to team performance. Consequently, on an annual basis, some teams are desperately looking to retain or find new sponsors in order to keep the team going another year or to avoid being relegated. Inevitably, some teams fold or merge with other teams. Team finances have historically been so shaky that the UCI Regulations require each WorldTour team to obtain a guarantee from a bank to fund its operations.

Additionally, the teams conduct some joint efforts through an organization known as the Association Internationale des Groupes Cyclistes Professionnels (AIGCP), discussed further below. Nevertheless, the AIGCP has no role in organizing races and has minimal influence. Moreover, teams operate out of numerous countries and thus often have cultural differences of opinion on various issues (doping being a notable historical example).

Finally, we get to the riders. Cyclists are represented by the Cyclistes Professionnels Associés (CPA), a non-profit association, but not a labor union under the law of any country.

The CPA negotiates “ Joint Agreements ” with the AIGCP setting forth some minimum terms and conditions of employment, including various insurance coverages. Cycling is a physically grueling sport, where the term “ suffering ” is a point of pride. Unfortunately, most cyclists are not terribly well-paid for their efforts.

The current agreement sets the 2024 minimum salary for a WorldTeam rider at € 68,957 (about $74,300) for veterans and € 55,793 ($60,100) for rookies. ProTeam veterans and rookies are entitled to a minimum of € 55,279 ($59,600) and € 46,234 ($49,800), respectively.

Of course, the stars of the sport make considerably more. Two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar earns a reported € 6 million ($6.47 million) from his team, UAE Team Emirates.

Yet, like the AIGCP, the CPA has little control over the sport, with minimal leverage to negotiate with the ASO or UCI. Indeed, the height of rider authority has been the occasional instance in which the riders “ neutralize ” a race stage due to unsafe conditions, meaning that they collectively agree to ride to the finish line at a moderate pace without contest.

Pogačar is favored to win this year’s Tour, with steep competition expected from fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic of Bora-Hansgrohe and Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (also a two-time Tour winner) of Visma-Lease a Bike if he is able to overcome recent injuries. Otherwise, some of those involved in the Tour will win more than others.

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2026 GRAND DÉPART: THE CROWNING GLORY OF BARCELONA

The Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, hosted the director of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme, at an official ceremony held this morning to announce that the 113th edition will get under way in the Catalan capital on Saturday, 4 July 2026. The host city of the 1992 Olympic Games has already rolled out the red carpet for the Tour de France on three occasions (1957, 1965 and 2009). It also provided the backdrop for the opening of the Vuelta in 2023. The 2026 route will feature two stages inside Catalonia and the start of a stage finishing on French soil.

South we go. The venue chosen for the Grand Départ of the 2026 Tour de France will set a new record in the history of the event, as Barcelona, straddling the 41st parallel, will edge out Porto-Vecchio as the southernmost start of the race by a dozen minutes of latitude. The Grande Boucle has already graced the streets of the Catalan capital, most recently in 2009, when Thor Hushovd outsprinted the Spanish speedsters Óscar Freire and José Joaquín Rojas to take stage 6 right next to Montjuïc Stadium. Since that fleeting Spanish sojourn, the Tour has gone through the wild experience of a Grand Départ in the Basque Country in 2023 and is now gearing up for another equally intense adventure on the shores of the Mediterranean. The Grande Boucle will share a momentous occasion with the people of Barcelona, as the Sagrada Família is slated to finally reach completion in 2026. The cathedral, whose silhouette has become an iconic symbol of Barcelona, sprang from the brilliant mind of the architect Antoni Gaudí, who adorned the city with numerous buildings and part of his whimsical spirit before he died, as fate would have it, in 1926. Barcelona is a global architecture hub and a nexus of sport in Spain. Long before the 1992 Olympic Games, Montjuïc Hill was the scene of a street circuit that hosted events such as the Formula 1 Spanish GP in the 1970s. Even more importantly, the city is the focal point of one of the oldest and most prestigious races on the cycling calendar: the Volta a Catalunya, first held in 1911. The Vuelta a España has visited Barcelona 40 times over the years, including two starts in 1962 and 2023. French fans of a certain age will no doubt recall a blink-and-you-miss-it 3.8 km time trial in 1978, which Bernard Hinault won en route to his first Vuelta a España triumph. There is something for the tifosi too, with Felice Gimondi's world championship victory here in 1973, as well as the poignant memory of Fabio Casartelli's Olympic gold in 1992. The Belgian Claude Criquielion topped the podium when the Worlds returned to Barcelona in 1984. Meanwhile, Spanish cycling maniacs will remember one of their all-time greats, Alejandro Valverde, and his two stage wins in Barcelona in the Volta a Catalunya, a race he won four times. Last but not least, Catalan aficionats have plenty of time to watch the local talent Juan Ayuso continue developing into an even finer rider, primed to shine on home roads in 2026.

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Tour de France 2024 preview: Full schedule, teams and how to watch live

The Tour de France 2024 is almost upon us with the world’s most prestigious cycling race getting underway on Saturday 29 June.

All eyes are on the duel between Slovenian rider Tadej Pogačar and defending champion Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark. The pair have won the last four titles between them with each aiming to win a third Tour de France.

After his emphatic victory in the Giro d'Italia, Pogačar goes into the event as favourite to add to his two wins from 2020 and 2021. It could be an incredible few weeks for the Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist with the Tour de France ended just days before the Olympic Games Paris 2024 .

Meanwhile, Vingegaard has made a late comeback from injury to be fit for the Tour as he seeks to become the sixth rider - and the first Scandinavian - to win three consecutive yellow jerseys.

This year’s race is unique for a number of reasons. It will be the first edition to begin in Italy , marking 100 years since Ottavio Bottecchia became the first Italian winner of the Tour de France.

The 'Grand Départ' is in Florence with the field traversing the Italian Alps before crossing the border into France during Stage 4. This will also be the first Tour to finish outside of Paris - due to its proximity to the Olympic Games - with the final stage an individual time trial from Monaco to Nice which will decide overall victory.

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As well as the big two - Pogačar and Vingegaard - other challengers for the yellow jersey include Remco Evenepoel and Primož Roglič .

Evenepoel has played down his chances of general classification success on his Tour debut, but his pedigree suggests he will be a threat. The Belgian has some impressive results to his name including winning the 2022 road race world title, and GC at the 2022 Vuelta a España in 2022. He also boasts two Liège-Bastogne-Liège victories.

Roglič, the 2020 runner-up behind compatriot Pogačar, will take some confidence from his overall victory at the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Jasper Philipsen is the favourite to retain the sprinters' green jersey after winning Milan-San Remo and finishing second at Paris-Roubaix. Denmark's Mads Pedersen , road race world champion five years ago, is among his main challengers while Mark Cavendish needs just one stage win to break his tie with Eddy Merckx (both on 34) for the most stage victrories in race history.

Old cyclocross rivals Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert will also be in the mix for stage wins. The latter is back as one of Vingegaard's chief lieutenants in the Visma Lease a Bike team after sustaining multiple fractures in a crash at March's Dwars door Vlaanderen.

The 2024 Tour features seven mountain stages, including four summit finishes, and will suit the climbers. Pogačar (2020, 2021) and Vingegaard (2022) are past winners of the King of the Mountains' polka-dot jersey and are likely contenders once more.

Tour de France 2024 route and important stages

Also among the 21 stages of the 2024 Tour de France are two individual time trials and gravel sectors covering a total distance of 3,492km.

Starting from Florence, the 2024 Tour will complete three full stages in Italy traversing the Italian Alps before crossing the border into France from Pinerolo.

With no Alpe d'Huez or Mont Ventoux on this year's route, the Queen stage is the penultimate stage - a testing 132km cycle from Nice to the summit of the Col de la Couillole .

In recent years, the final individual time trial has been held on the penultimate day with the finale a procession on the Champs-Elysées on the Sunday. But, due to preparations for Paris 2024, this year's race will conclude with a 33.7km time trial from Monaco to Nice.

That means the yellow jersey could potentially be decided on the final day. The last time the Tour ended with a time trial was in 1989 when Greg Lemond overturned a 50-second deficit to Laurent Fignon to take victory by just eight seconds, still the smallest winning margin in race history.

Day-by-day route of the 2024 Tour de France

• Saturday 29 June: Stage 1 - Florence - Rimini (206 km)
• Sunday 30 June: Stage 2 - Cesenatico - Bologne (199.2 km)
• Monday 1 July: Stage 3 - Plaisance - Turin (230.8 km)
• Tuesday 2 July: Stage 4 - Pinerolo - Valloire (139.6 km)
• Wednesday 3 July: Stage 5 - Sant-Jean-de-Maurienne - Saint-Vulbas (177.4 km)
• Thursday 4 July: Stage 6 - Mâcon - Dijon (163.5 km)
• Friday 5 July: Stage 7 - Nuits-Saint-Georges - Gevrey-Chambertin (25.3 km, individual time trial)
• Saturday 6 July: Stage 8 - Semur-En-Auxois > Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (183.4 km)
• Sunday 7 July: Stage 9 - Troyes - Troyes (199 km)
• Monday 8 July: Rest Day
• Tuesday 9 July: Stage 10 - Orléans - Saint-Amand-Montrond (187.3 km)
• Wednesday 10 July: Stage 11 - Évaus-les-Bains - Le Lioran (211 km)
• Thursday 11 July: Stage 12 - Aurillac - Villeneuve-sur-Lot (203.6 km)
• Friday 12 July: Stage 13 - Agen - Pau (165.3 km)
• Saturday 13 July: Stage 14 - Pau - Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d'Adet (151.9 km)
• Sunday 14 July: Stage 15 - Loudenvielle - Plateau de Beille (198 km)
• Monday 15 July: Rest Day
• Tuesday 16 July: Stage 16 - Gruissan - Nîmes (188.6 km)
• Wednesday 17 July: Stage 17 - Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - Superdévoluy (177.8 km)
• Thursday 18 July: Stage 18 - Gap - Barcelonnette (179.5 km)
• Friday 19 July: Stage 19 - Embrun - Isola 2000 (144.6 km)
• Saturday 20 July: Stage 20 - Nice - COl de la Couillole (132.8 km)
• Sunday 21 July: Stage 21 - Monaco - Nice (33.7 km, individual time trial)

Tour de France 2024 - Teams: Provisional list (subject to change)

Team visma | lease a bike.

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN)
• Sepp Kuss (USA)
• Tiesj Benoot (BEL)
• Matteo Jorgenson (USA)
• Christophe Laporte (FRA)
• Jan Tratnik (SLO)
• Wout van Aert (BEL)
• Wilco Kelderman (NED)

Alpecin - Deceuninck

• Jasper Philipsen (BEL)
• Mathieu van der Poel (NED)
• Gianni Vermeersch (BEL)
• Silvan Dillier (SUI)
• Robbe Ghys (BEL)
• Soren Kragh Andersen (DEN)
• Axel Laurance (FRA)
• Jonas Rickaert (BEL)

Astana Qazaqstan Team

• Mark Cavendish (GBR)
• Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
• Davide Ballerini (ITA)
• Cees Bol (NED)
• Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ)
• Yevgeniy Fedorov (KAZ)
• Harold Tejada (COL)
• Michele Gazzoli (ITA)

BORA - hansgrohe Team

• Jay Hindley (AUS)
• Aleksandr Vlasov
• Danny van Poppel (NED)
• Nico Denz (GER)
• Matteo Sobrero (ITA)
• Primoz Roglic (SLO)
• Bob Jungels (NED)
• Marco Haller (AUT)

EF Education - EasyPost

• Richard Carapaz (ECU)
• Neilson Powless (USA)
• Ben Healy (IRL)
• Marijn van der Berg (NED)
• Alberto Bettiol (ITA)

INEOS Grenadiers

• Thomas Pidcock (GBR)
• Geraint Thomas (GBR)
• Carlos Rodriguez (ESP)
• Michal Kwiatkowski (POL)
• Egan Bernal (COL)
• Laurens De Plus (BEL)
• Ben Turner (GBR)
• Jonathan Castroviejo (ESP)

Lidl - Trek

• Carlos Verona (ESP)
• Giulio Ciccone (ITA)
• Jasper Stuyven (BEL)
• Julien Bernard (FRA)
• Mads Pedersen (DEN)
• Ryan Gibbons (RSA)
• Tim Declercq (BEL)
• Toms Skujinš (LAT)

Soudal Quick-Step

• Remco Evenepoel (BEL)
• Mikel Landa (ESP)
• Ilan van Wilder (BEL)
• Louis Vervaeke (BEL)
• Casper Pedersen (DEN)
• Yves Lampaert (BEL)
• Gianni Moscon (ITA)

Team Jayco AlUla

• Dylan Groenewegen (NED)
• Luka Mezgec (SLO)
• Simon Yates (GBR)
• Elmar Reinders (NED)
• Luke Durbridge (AUS)
• Chris Harper (AUS)
• Christopher Juul-Jensen (DEN)
• Michael Matthews (AUS)

Israel - Premier Tech

• Guillaume Boivin (CAN)
• Jake Stewart (GBR)
• Jakob Fuglsang (DEN)
• Stephen Williams (GBR)
• Pascal Ackermann (GER)
• Derek Gee (CAN)
• Hugo Houle (CAN)
• Krists Neilands (LAT)

Uno-X Mobility

• Magnus Cort (DEN)
• Johannes Kulset (NOR)
• Rasmus Tiller (NOR)
• Odd Christian Eiking (NOR)
• Alexander Kristoff (NOR)
• Soren Waerenskjold (NOR)
• Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR)
• Jonas Abrahamsen (NOR)

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team

• Felix Gall (AUT)
• Dorian Godon (FRA)
• Oliver Naesen (BEL)
• Sam Bennett (IRL)
• Nicolas Prodhomme (FRA)
• Paul Lapeira (FRA)
• Bruno Armirail (FRA)
• Nans Peters (FRA)

Arkea - B&B Hotels

• Arnaud Demare (FRA)
• Kevin Vauquelin (FRA)

Bahrain - Victorious

• Matej Mohoric (SLO)
• Wout Poels (NED)
• Pello Bilbao (ESP)
• Phil Bauhaus (GER)
• Santiago Buitrago (COL)
• Jack Haig (AUS)
• Fred Wright (GBR)
• Nikias Arndt (GER)
• Bryan Coquard (FRA)
• Guillaume Martin (FRA)
• Piet Allegaert (BEL)
• Axel Zingle (FRA)
• Alexis Renard (FRA)
• Simon Geschke (GER)
• Jesus Herrada (ESP)
• Ion Izagirre (ESP)

Groupama - FDJ

• David Gaudu (FRA)
• Valentin Madouas (FRA)
• Romain Gregoire (FRA)
• Stefan Kung (SUI)

Intermarche - Wanty

• Louis Meintjes (RSA)
• Biniam Girmay (ERI)
• Laurenz Rex (BEL)
• Hugo Page (FRA)
• Mike Teunissen (NED)
• Georg Zimmermann (GER)
• Kobe Goossens (BEL)
• Gerben Thijssen (BEL)
• Vito Braet (BEL)
• Lorenzo Rota (ITA)
• Rein Taaramae (EST)
• Gijs van Hoecke (BEL)
• Adrien Petit (FRA)

Movistar Team

• Enric Mas (ESP)
• Oier Lazkano (ESP)
• Nelson Oliveira (POR)
• Davide Formolo (ITA)
• Alex Aranburu (ESP)
• Fernando Gaviria (COL)
• Javier Romo (ESP)
• Gregor Mühlberger (AUT)

Team dsm-firmenich PostNL

• Fabio Jakobsen (NED)
• Romain Bardet (FRA)
• Warren Barguil (FRA)

UAE Team Emirates

• Tadej Pogacar (SLO)
• Juan Ayuso (ESP)
• Joao Almeida (POR)
• Adam Yates (GBR)
• Pavel Sivakov (FRA)
• Marc Soler (ESP)
• Tim Wellens (BEL)
• Nils Politt (GER)

Lotto Dstny

• Arnaud De Lie (BEL)
• Victor Campenaerts (BEL)
• Maxim van Gils (BEL)
• Cedric Beullens (BEL)
• Brent Van Moer (BEL)
• Jarrad Drizners (AUS)
• Harm Vanhoucke (BEL)
• Sebastien Grignard (BEL)

TotalEnergies

• Mathieu Burgaudeau (FRA)
• Steff Cras (BEL)
• Anthony Turgis (FRA)
• Jordan Jegat (FRA)
• Thomas Gachignard (FRA)
• Matteo Vercher (FRA)
• Sandy Dujardin (FRA)
• Fabien Grellier (FRA)

How to watch the 2024 Tour de France live

The Tour de France will be shown live in 190 countries. Here is a list of the official broadcast partners across different territories.

• Basque Country - EiTB
• Belgium - RTBF and VRT
• Czech Republic - Česká Televize
• Denmark - TV2
• Europe - Eurosport
• France - France TV Sport and Eurosport France
• Germany - Discovery+ and ARD
• Ireland - TG4
• Italy - Discovery+ and RAI Sport
• Luxemburg - RTL
• Netherlands - Discovery+ and NOS
• Norway - TV2
• Portugal - RTP
• Scandinavia - Discovery+
• Slovakia - RTVS
• Slovenia - RTV SLO
• Spain - RTVE
• Switzerland - SRG-SSR
• United Kingdom - Discovery+ and ITV
• Wales - S4C
• Canada - FloBikes
• Colombia - CaracolTV
• Latin America & Caribbean: ESPN
• South America - TV5 Monde
• United States - NBC Sports and TV5 Monde

Asia Pacific

• Australia - SBS
• China - CCTV and Zhibo TV
• Japan - J Sports
• New Zealand - Sky Sport
• South-East Asia - Global Cycling Network and Eurosport

Middle East and Africa

• The Middle East and North Africa - BeIN Sports and TV5 Monde
• Subsaharan Africa - Supersport and TV5 Monde

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