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Tour de France 2024: Full schedule, stages, route, length, TV channel & live stream
The Tour de France is here for 2024.
The iconic cycling event is a test of physical and mental endurance, with riders tackling long distances and challenging routes over three weeks.
Reigning Giro d’Italia champion and two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar is the clear favourite for 2024, and deservedly so.
However, last year’s victor Jonas Vingegaard is fighting to defend his crown, recovering in time from a nasty crash in April, which saw him break his collarbone and ribs and suffer a collapsed lung.
Tour de France 2024 schedule, route, stages, start times
As has become tradition, the ‘Grand Depart’ was held outside of France, with Stage 1 beginning in the Italian city of Florence.
Riders will make their way into France by Stage 4 where they will stay for the remainder of the Tour (aside from a finale in Monaco).
A few flat stages will follow, with the sprinters set to battle it out in frantic finishes.
The focus will turn to the general classification in the back half of the Tour, with three mountain stages on either side of the second rest day.
An individual time trial from Monaco to Nice will cap off this year’s race.
Tour de France 2024 route, map
This year’s Tour consists of eight flat stages, four hilly stages and seven mountain stages, broken up by a pair of time trials and rest days.
How long is the Tour de France? Miles, kilometres for 2024
In the 111th edition of the Tour de France, riders will cover a total distance of 3,492km (2,170 miles).
This makes it the longest of the three Grand Tours in 2024, with the Giro d’Italia at 3,317km and the Vuelta a Espana at 3,265km.
Tour de France teams 2024
We have 22 teams competing in the 2024 edition of the Tour de France.
Each team has eight riders, meaning there is a total of 176 riders in the field.
Jumbo–Visma (now Visma-Lease a Bike) took out the team classification last year.
Tour de France past winners
Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard claimed his second consecutive Tour de France victory in 2023.
He defeated rival Tadej Pogacar by 7 minutes and 29 seconds – the largest margin of victory since 2014.
Lance Armstrong won seven straight races from 1999 to 2005, but his victories have been vacated due to doping.
Tour de France Stage 7 Preview: The ITT Will Test the GC Favorites
Stage 7 – Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin ITT (25.3km) – Friday, July 5
Friday’s Stage 7 brings the first individual time trial of the 2024 Tour de France, a 25.3km race against the clock through the vineyards of Burgundy, one France’s most famous wine regions.
Once through this first time check, the road really kicks up as the riders ascend the Côte de Curtil-Vergy on their way to the second time check in Curley, the highest point in the stage. From here the road descends for about 5km before passing through the third and final time check in Morey-Saint-Denis, 5.4km from the finish in Gevrey-Chambertin. This final section is straight and flat, with just a few corners inside the final 2km as the riders approach the line. Riders who paced themselves on the first, uphill half of the stage should have an advantage on the run-in to the finish.
The weather will be cloudy, with temperatures in the 70s and a slight wind coming from the south. This should give the riders a light tailwind as they climb up to the second time check during the first half of the stage–and again as they power their way along the flat road from the third time check toward the finish in Gevrey-Chambertin.
Stage 7 could prove to be one of the most important first week battlegrounds for the Tour’s overall contenders–perhaps even more decisive than Tuesday’s trip over the Col du Galibier.
It’s the perfect course for the Tour’s top-3 riders: Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step), and Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike). All three are among the best in the world in the discipline, and Stage 7 will be our first chance to see them race against one another in a Tour de France time trial.
