Tour de France Tour de France 2024 route rumours and announcements

[Devil's Elbow]

Final (mid?)-mountain stage on stage 20, then ending with an ITT.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1598273441056296960

https://twitter.com/x/status/1598272407860842497

 

[KZD]

Its about time the last stage of the Tour is not a parade.

 

[DNP-Old]

A time trial!? I am seething.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

A time trial!? I am seething.

I’m not happy about it, but at least the Nice area should be used on stage 20 if I interpret the ASO post correctly.

 

[DNP-Old]

I’m not happy about it, but at least the Nice area should be used on stage 20 if I interpret the ASO post correctly.

A long, hard mountain stage, followed by a copy + paste of the usual short, ultimate stage of Paris - Nice. It really isn't that hard. It was there for the taking and they blew it, in typical ASO fashion.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

A long, hard mountain stage, followed by a copy + paste of the usual short, ultimate stage of Paris - Nice. It really isn't that hard. It was there for the taking and they blew it, in typical ASO fashion.

The last time a GT ended with a point-to-point stage as opposed to a TT or a circuit stage is... probably far longer ago than the last time the Tour finished with a TT, and a Quatre Chemins circuit would lap half the peloton. That leaves the point-to-point stage or the TT, and I'm skeptical on the city of Nice being open to the former regardless of what ASO wanted (which, tbf, might also have been the TT).

Either way, stage 20 should still be great unless they do something stupid like a Turini MTF. In which case this final weekend will be the biggest waste in ASO history.

 

[Red Rick]

Just stereotypical Paris-Nice Col d'Eze stage followed by a 12km TT

HERE
WE
GO

 

[Gotland]

Can we maybe see Bonnet in action again 2024?
Izoard - Vars - Bonnet would be a good route from Alps to Nice.

 

[Big Doopie]

Just stereotypical Paris-Nice Col d'Eze stage followed by a 12km TT

HERE
WE
GO

praying it will be way longer than 12 km. and that it is not the only ITT in the entire race.

#firePrudhomme

 

[RedheadDane]

Imagine the scenario:

A French rider - possibly Gaudu, or Martin - has yellow heading into the final stage, and then... loses it to an Anglo-guy by just a few seconds! It that happens, I think they might just about write it into official French law that the TdF must never end with an ITT.

 

[tobydawq]

Imagine the scenario:

A French rider - possibly Gaudu, or Martin - has yellow heading into the final stage, and then... loses it to an Anglo-guy by just a few seconds! It that happens, I think they might just about write it into official French law that the TdF must never end with an ITT.

Lol, Gaudu or Martin will never have the yellow jersey that late in the race....

 

[RedheadDane]

Lol, Gaudu or Martin will never have the yellow jersey that late in the race....

They were the only French GC riders I could think of. And of course they're both known for not exactly being Ganna on a TT bike, or even Pogacar.

(Yes, I know, I know. Gaudu and Martin obviously aren't Ganna or Pogacar on a TT bike, they're Gaudu and Martin!)

 

[OlavEH]

Final (mid?)-mountain stage on stage 20, then ending with an ITT.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1598273441056296960

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Would much rather see a BIG mountain stage on stage 20, then a Paris-Nice similar stage on stage 21. No ITT.

But at least they should REALLY take advantage of this opportunity for a very big Mercantour mountain stage on stage 20. Including several of the high altitude passes there. Especially Bonette an Cayolle.

 

[BigCoward]

Would much rather see a BIG mountain stage on stage 20, then a Paris-Nice similar stage on stage 21. No ITT.

But at least they should REALLY take advantage of this opportunity for a very big Mercantour mountain stage on stage 20. Including several of the high altitude passes there. Especially Bonette an Cayolle.

It could be biiig mountain stage 19, PN 20 and decent length (2nd or 3rd) TT 21. I'd take that.

 

[OlavEH]

This would be a proper stage 19 or 20 in 2024.

Or this one. Like in 1993:

 

[houtdffan]

just do stage 2 of the 2020 tour with a modification. Add another large climb to the start, and eliminate the final lap. Just go straight from Eze to the finish

 

[Mayomaniac]

Just stereotypical Paris-Nice Col d'Eze stage followed by a 12km TT

HERE
WE
GO

Nah, something like the final road stage of the 2015 edition of Paris Nice (or something even harder) and then a Col d'Eze MTT at the end. That was actually a fun race.

 

[tobydawq]

They were the only French GC riders I could think of. And of course they're both known for not exactly being Ganna on a TT bike, or even Pogacar.

(Yes, I know, I know. Gaudu and Martin obviously aren't Ganna or Pogacar on a TT bike, they're Gaudu and Martin!)

There are also Pinot and Bardet.

 

[RedheadDane]

There are also Pinot and Bardet.

I think they have both pretty much declared themselves to not wanna be (GT) GC riders anymore.

 

[tobydawq]

I think they have both pretty much declared themselves to not wanna be (GT) GC riders anymore.

Bardet was riding for the Giro win just this year.

 

[RedheadDane]

Bardet was riding for the Giro win just this year.

I was sure I'd read somewhere that he - too - was tired of being considered a GC rider for the Tour, with all the pressure.

 

[Red Rick]

Nah, something like the final road stage of the 2015 edition of Paris Nice (or something even harder) and then a Col d'Eze MTT at the end. That was actually a fun race.

I really fear it will be a 100km meme stage that only works because it's in PN and gaps are tiny but when gaps are minutes at the end of the TdF it'll be ***.

 

[Pantani_lives]

The Tour concludes with a time trial on the Belgian National Holiday. Did anyone say Remco?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

How about Pavel Sivakov and Kévin Vauquelin then?

 

[tobydawq]

I really fear it will be a 100km meme stage that only works because it's in PN and gaps are tiny but when gaps are minutes at the end of the TdF it'll be ***.

Of course you do.