Tour de France Tour de France 2024 route rumours and announcements

[RedheadDane]

Apologies if this has been explained before but can someone please explain what Beautiful wife syndrome means?

It's a reference to that time when Bjerg said he didn't want to risk it on the descent of the (longer) ITT in Tour de Romandie, because he has a beautiful wife. So, it has become a bit of a joke that if a rider has a beautiful wife, he's a bad descender.

But here's a picture of Bardet and his wife, disproving that theory:

 

[Rob5091]

Yeah, Bjerg gave us the "beautiful wife" quote, and back at the 2021 Giro, Dan Martin gave us a similar one, ""I told my wife this morning that I won't crash, so for me personally cycling is not worth the risk." Dan Martin retired in 2021.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

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Nice one…

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

"4,350 m of elev, 3rd most of all stages" (Le Lioran)

Confirmed, apparently.

Most of it false flat, though, from the looks of it. If you start counting 5% and up only it likely wouldn't be anywhere near the top. It's basically just 3 short climbs and a 3rd category hill.

Couillole is the only other stage at or above 4,350 m of elevation so far. Isola 2000 and Valloire (I guess) should be well below

So, what's the other one, Plateau de Beille? Would work better as a soft, almost Unipuerto stage, IMO.

It would make more sense to add a 4th climb to the Pla d'Adet stage. (As opposed to just Tourmalet - Ancizan, Pla d'Adet)

Fingers crossed.

 

[gavia88]

"4,350 m of elev, 3rd most of all stages" (Le Lioran)

Confirmed, apparently.

Most of it false flat, though, from the looks of it. If you start counting 5% and up only it likely wouldn't be anywhere near the top. It's basically just 3 short climbs and a 3rd category hill.

Couillole is the only other stage at or above 4,350 m of elevation so far. Isola 2000 and Valloire (I guess) should be well below

So, what's the other one, Plateau de Beille? Would work better as a soft, almost Unipuerto stage, IMO.

It would make more sense to add a 4th climb to the Pla d'Adet stage. (As opposed to just Tourmalet - Ancizan, Pla d'Adet)

Fingers crossed.

Plateau de Beille is rumoured to be the "queen" stage, with 5000m +

but ASO style, with a big gap between the second last and last climb

 

[gavia88]

Besides, the rumoured 2 stage finishes in Troyes seems to be incorrect. Finish on Saturday seems to be Colombey and afterwards a stage Troyes - Troyes.

 

[Berniece]

Livestream can be followed on the website of the Tour de France. You need to be a member of their club though. Not sure if it's streamed somewhere else too.

 

[OlavEH]

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Nice one…

This would be awesome if they had something like 5-6 cat 2 and 3 climbs and 20-30 extra kms before Peyrol. Now it is quite good, but nothing more than that.

 

[OlavEH]

Plateau de Beille is rumoured to be the "queen" stage, with 5000m +

but ASO style, with a big gap between the second last and last climb

Haha, so meaningless. PdB is okay as a big MTF, but it's not very well connected to any other climbs. Having it in the queen stage is just a waste if that means they prioritze adding climbs to this instead of other mountain stages.

 

[gavia88]

Haha, so meaningless. PdB is okay as a big MTF, but it's not very well connected to any other climbs. Having it in the queen stage is just a waste if that means they prioritze adding climbs to this instead of other mountain stages.

it's actually incredible how to manage to almost always use it a last Pyrenees stage. Instead of hard mountain finish at the beginning of the Pyrenees.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Livestream can be followed on the website of the Tour de France. You need to be a member of their club though. Not sure if it's streamed somewhere else too.

It’s also streamed live on Twitter.

 

[noob]

Where's the suit comments? Jonas looked like being strangled by his sweater :O

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Livestream can be followed on the website of the Tour de France. You need to be a member of their club though. Not sure if it's streamed somewhere else too.

It's live on GCN and Eurosport as well. Very boring tho, I always wondered who does actually enjoy going there in person, given that the interesting reveal is about 15 minutes long with the rest just pointless talks.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

4 stages being 150 km or longer in the women's race will be interesting. The ITT is obviously too short, and they should just have had one longer time trial instead of two stages on day 2, but I guess they wanted to keep it at 8 stages to avoid controversy.

 

[noob]

It's live on GCN and Eurosport as well. Very boring tho, I always wondered who does actually enjoy going there in person, given that the interesting reveal is about 15 minutes long with the rest just pointless talks.

People who likes wearing suits and show off? 2021 we all talked about suits. Suits and more suits.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Women's route is terrible, jesus. They managed to make it worse each year after a decent edition in 2022. The LBL stage is fantastic and maybe the Morteau stage is decent but outside of that a boring start in the Netherlands (6km ITT, wtf!) and a horrible uninspiring finish in the Alps. Basically a pure w/kg shootout on Grand Bornand and Alpe d'Huez will simply decide the race, you can't do anything else on these stages.
Also, am I missing something regarding stage 2? 67km flat? What?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

4 stages being 150 km or longer in the women's race will be interesting. The ITT is obviously too short, and they should just have had one longer time trial instead of two stages on day 2, but I guess they wanted to keep it at 8 stages to avoid controversy.

I wish there had been a big descent finish on stage 7, but stage 8 with both Glandon and AdH is definitely going to be spectacular. Pierre Boué approves.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Women's route is terrible, jesus. They managed to make it worse each year after a decent edition in 2022. The LBL stage is fantastic and maybe the Morteau stage is decent but outside of that a boring start in the Netherlands (6km ITT, wtf!) and a horrible uninspiring finish in the Alps. Basically a pure w/kg shootout on Grand Bornand and Alpe d'Huez will simply decide the race, you can't do anything else on these stages.
Also, am I missing something regarding stage 2? 67km flat? What?

Stage 2 and 3 will be held on the same day.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

While the TdFF route has plenty of problems, surely it's an improvement over this year? The queen stage is way better and there are actual GC-relevant stages (Liège, Grand Bornand) that precede it. The Morteau stage is also pretty good for being the fourth-hardest stage of an eight-stage race. Only the TT length (as well as the time spent outside France, I guess) is a major downgrade.

 

[gavia88]

While the TdFF route has plenty of problems, surely it's an improvement over this year? The queen stage is way better and there are actual GC-relevant stages (Liège, Grand Bornand) that precede it. The Morteau stage is also pretty good for being the fourth-hardest stage of an eight-stage race. Only the TT length (as well as the time spent outside France, I guess) is a major downgrade.

Actually there is only 1 day with a clear bunch sprint, the first day. The second day has already an ITT. Other stages all has something interesting. Only the ITT is somewhat to short and maybe the final stage a bit to decisive compared to all other stages. But it surely isn't a bad route.

 

[tobydawq]

I'm shocked that Vingegaard has deigned to go to the presentation.

 

[yaco]

While the TdFF route has plenty of problems, surely it's an improvement over this year? The queen stage is way better and there are actual GC-relevant stages (Liège, Grand Bornand) that precede it. The Morteau stage is also pretty good for being the fourth-hardest stage of an eight-stage race. Only the TT length (as well as the time spent outside France, I guess) is a major downgrade.

It's a much better route than the last 2 years - I like the short ITT because it can throw up unexpected results.

 

[Netserk]

While the TdFF route has plenty of problems, surely it's an improvement over this year? The queen stage is way better and there are actual GC-relevant stages (Liège, Grand Bornand) that precede it. The Morteau stage is also pretty good for being the fourth-hardest stage of an eight-stage race. Only the TT length (as well as the time spent outside France, I guess) is a major downgrade.

How exposed are the first two stages? I guess the best bet is stage 1 for crosswinds.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

People who likes wearing suits and show off? 2021 we all talked about suits. Suits and more suits.

I'm all excited that Danish Anakin Skywalker isn't bothering to hide Darth Vader anymore.

 

[gavia88]

How exposed are the first two stages? I guess the best bet is stage 1 for crosswinds.

In August the changes for crosswinds are actually not to high. If it was March or April, yes. But not so much in August.