Euskaraz irakurri: Alpe d’Huezen bukatuko da 2024ko emakumezkoen Tourra

Behind the Tourmalet, the great attraction of the 2023 editionhe Women’s Tour de France will go up to Alpe d’Huez in 2024with its 21 legendary curves as the final judge of an edition that will begin in the Netherlands on August 12 and end on the 18th of the same month and will travel through Belgium and eastern France.

In this way, the women’s Tour delays its start a few weeks so as not to overlap with the Paris Olympic Games (July 26 – August 11), and will take place shortly before the Paralympics (August 28 – September 8). In addition, for the first time it will start outside France.

The Games will also be forced to start on a Monday and, to maintain the eight stages of the first two editions, the organizers have proposed a double program on Tuesday the 13th, with 67 flat kilometers in the morning between Dordrecht and Rotterdamand a time of 6.3 in the afternoon around the latter city.

“The Netherlands has a great cycling tradition and great champions, it was evident that when we decided to start abroad it would be there,” explained the director of the event, Marion Rousse.

That country will host three stages in two days, completely flat, before the arrival in Belgium crashes the profile, with a day ending in Liege that will take many of the routes of the classic to which that city gives its name.

The next stage will begin, in Bastogne, on another eventful day that will take the peloton to France, where the sixth stage will take place in the Vosges, ending in Morteau.

However, it will be the last two days that mark the edition, in the Alps, with two explosive finishes, the first in the Grand-Bornand and its 7 kilometers at 5.1% gradient. But above all the second, with the finish line at the Alpe d’Huez, which will host the final podium, after its 13.8 kilometers at 8.1% gradient, the greatest difficulty proposed in this women’s event.

“Last year’s edition showed us that the runners are prepared for this type of difficulties,” said Rousse.

The rise to Alpe d’Huez It represents “a leap forward” in difficulty, since they will first climb the Glandon, which accumulates almost 4,000 meters of positive slope, 900 more than in the Tourmalet stage last year.

Stages of the Women’s Tour de France:

Stage 1 (August 12): Rotterdam – The Hague (124 km)

Stage 2 (August 13): Dordrecht – Rotterdam (67 km)

Stage 3 (August 13): Rotterdam – Rotterdam (6.3 km, CRI)

Stage 4 (August 14): Valkenburg – Liège (122 km)

Stage 5 (August 15): Bastogne – Amnéville (150 km)

Stage 6 (August 16): Remiremont – Morteau (160 km)

Stage 7 (August 17): Champagnole – Le Grand-Bornand (167 km)

Stage 8 (August 18): Le Grand-Bornand – Alpe d’Huez (150 km)

Source: Eitb

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