Euskaraz irakurri: 2024ko gizonezkoen Frantziako Tourra Italiatik irtengo da eta Nizan amaitu, 34 kilometroko erlojupeko batekin

He 2024 Men’s Tour de France will come out of Italyspecifically from Florencethe next June 29Saturday, and will end on Niceon Sunday July 21with a stage 34 kilometer time trial. This Wednesday, the organization of the Tour de France has presented the complete route of its next edition, which will be the 111th in history; In it, the race will begin for the first time in Italy, and it is also the first time it won’t end in Paris. The 2024 Tour de France will ascend the Apennines, the Alps of Italy and France, the Massif Central and the Pyrenees, will have in total two stages against the clock and will include, also for the first time, stretches along rocky, unpaved roads.

There are many new features, in this way, in the next Tour de France. Several of them are originated by the Olympic Gameswhich Paris will host between July 26 and August 11, 2024. As a result, the race will start a week earlier than usual, on the last Saturday of June, instead of on the first of July, and that is also why it is not going to end in the capital of France.

The 2024 Tour will have 3,492 kilometers, and a total elevation gain of 52,230 meters. It will cross Italy, San Marino, France and Monaco, two time trial stages, seven mountain stages and four high finishes. Participants will have to climb 27 large passes: three in the Apennines, one in the Italian Alps, 12 in the French Alps, three in the Massif Central, and eight in the Pyrenees.

The first stage It will be, according to the organization, the “hardest start in the history” of the Tour de France, with 206 kilometers between Florence and Rimini, which cross the Apennines in a totally rugged profile. The high mountains will arrive “earlier than ever”, starting with the fourth stage, which includes the ascent of Galibier, whose summit is located 19 kilometers from the finish line of Valloire.

That will be the first of two visits to the French Alpsbefore descending to Burgundy-Franche-Comté, where the seventh stage poses a 25 kilometer time trial between Nuits-Saint-Geroges and Gevrey-Chambertin; That day will have a small elevation, but its route is essentially flat, suitable for specialists.

The tribute to General De Gaulle in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, where his tomb rests, will precede the unpaved roads in Champagne, in a stage starting and finishing in Troyes. After the first day of rest, the wind may be the protagonist of the tenth stage, the eve of an explosive day in the Massif Central, located between the volcanoes of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, with up to four climbs in its final stretch; The last one, arriving at Le Lioran, has an average gradient of almost 6%.

After two days of transition, the Tour de France will reach the Pyreneeswith two high finishes: one, in Saint-Lary-Soulan, after having ascended the Tourmalet and the Hourquette d’Ancizan, and another, in the endless Plateau de Beille and its 15.8 kilometers at a 7.9% gradient .

The second day of rest and a flat day will take the cyclists back to the Alps, with two mid-mountain aperitifs in Superdévouly and Barcelonnette, before facing Isola 2000 three days from the end. First, they must climb Bonette, a little-known pass that is reached by a road built exclusively to exceed its 2800 meters of altitude; That will be the top of the next edition of the test. Its 22.9 kilometers at 6.9% are also a nod to the late Federico Martín Bahamontes, the first cyclist to cross this pass in the lead, which has only been climbed five times.

The final fireworks will take place around Nicewith a high mountain stage on the Paris-Nice routes and the final in La Couillole, 15.7 kilometers at 7.1%, before the final time trial that will give the final touch to the general classification.

With two climbs, La Turbie (8.1 kilometers at 5.6%) and Éze (1.6 kilometers at 8.1%), this last stage will not allow the time trial specialists to unleash their watts, although its end On the flat it does not allow it to be classified as a time trial.

Stages of the 2024 edition of the men’s Tour de France:

Stage 1 (June 29): Florence – Rimini (206 km)

Stage 2 (June 30): Cesenatico – Bologna (200 km)

Stage 3 (July 1): Plaisance – Turin (229 km)

Stage 4 (July 2): Pinerolo – Valloire (138 km)

Stage 5 (July 3): Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne – Saint-Vulbas (177 km)

Stage 6 (July 4): Mâcon – Dijon (163 km)

Stage 7 (July 5): Nuits-Saint-Georges – Gevrey-Chambertin (25 km, CRI)

Stage 8 (July 6): Semur-en-Auxois – Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (176 km)

Stage 9 (July 7): Troyes – Troyes (199 km)

First day of rest (July 8): Orléans

Stage 10 (July 9): Orléans – Saint-Armand-Montrond (187 km)

Stage 11 (July 10): Evaux-les-Bains – Le Lioran (211 km)

Stage 12 (July 11): Aurillac – Villeneuve-sur-Lot (204 km)

Stage 13 (July 12): Agen – Pau (171 km)

Stage 14 (July 13): Pau – Saint-Lary-Soulan (152 km)

Stage 15 (July 14): Loudenvielle – Plateau-de-Beille (198 km)

Second day of rest (July 15): Gruissan

Stage 16 (July 16): Gruissan – Nimes (187 km)

Stage 17 (July 17): Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux – Superdévoluy (178 km)

Stage 18 (July 18): Gap – Barcelonnette (179 km)

Stage 19 (July 19): Embrun – Isola 2,000 (145 km)

Stage 20 (July 20): Nice – Col de la Couillole (133 km)

Stage 21 (July 21): Monaco – Nice (34 km, CRI)

Source: Eitb

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