The 2024 Tour de France will end with a person time-trial from Monaco to Good, the primary time-trial on the ultimate day of the Tour in 35 years.
The day past will probably be a mountain stage from Good to Col de la Couillole.
The ultimate stage of the Tour, which is able to begin in Italy for the primary time, is historically held on the Champs Elysees in Paris, however has been moved to Good with the French capital internet hosting the Olympic Video games subsequent yr.
It is going to be the primary time-trial finale since 1989 when American Greg LeMond famously made up 50 seconds on French rider Laurent Fignon to beat him by eight seconds to take the yellow jersey.
That is still the closest a French rider has come to successful the tour since Bernard Hinault’s fifth and last success in 1985.
“For the Tour de France to complete removed from its conventional Parisian finale is already a historic first,” organizers mentioned on Monday.
“However for the final two days of the 2024 version, a particularly promising menu has been ready, together with all the mandatory elements for main upsets on the high… on the Saturday in addition to on the Sunday.”
The penultimate stage will probably be a troublesome 132-kilometer journey whereas the 21st stage is a difficult 35-kilometer time-trial with climbs on La Turbie and Col d’Eze earlier than ending in Good’s historic Place Massena as organizers look to make competitors for the yellow jersey harder.
The Tour will begin on June 29, with the grand departure from Florence to Rimini on the Adriatic coast.
-Reuters/DPA
