Basque: 2024 French Tours 3rd stage profile and availability: Piacenza-Turin (230.5 km)

The third stage of the 2024 Tour de France is planned for the Monday July 1forks the longest of this 111th edition of the test. It will be held, one more day, in its entirety in Italy; the start, scheduled for 11:15 hourswill be held in Piacenzaand the finish line, whose line will be crossed by the first runner to do so between 4:57 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., it’s located in TurinIt is a flat stage, where victory could be decided by a sprint, and which is also characterised by the fact that, at 230.5 kilometres, it is the longest stage of this Tour.

After a race start, in the first two stages, with the middle mountains taking centre stage, this is a day that promises to be for sprinters and adventurers. However, those trying to get into the breakaway will not have it easy, because the teams of the fast men will try to control the peloton to play their cards.

There is three qualifying climbs, all three of them 4th category; They are short, they do not have excessive hardness (the one with the greatest slope, the Barbaresco Coastreaches 6.5% on average), and are not close to the Turin goal, since the last one, the Côte de Sommariva Bolt, is 46 kilometers from the arrival. The passage through the Tortone Coastvery close to the place where the legendary Fausto Coppi had his residence, the Tour de France will thus pay tribute to one of its historical heroes, a two-time winner of the Tour, in 1949 and 1952.

Turin will be the place where this third stage of the 111th Tour de France concludes, which We will be able to watch, live, with the EITB broadcast, through eitb.eus starting at 1:05 p.m. and on ETB1 at 3:00 p.m.

STAGE PROFILE

Profile of stage 3 of the 2024 Tour de France. Image: letour.fr.

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