Tour de France 2024 to conclude with hilly individual time trial from Monaco to Nice ahead of Paris Olympics
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Updated 13/03/2023 at 12:29 GMT
Due to preparations for next year’s Olympics in Paris, the 2024 Tour de France will not conclude in the French capital for the first time in the event’s history. Organisers have now announced the penultimate stage will be one in the mountains and the final day will be a hilly individual time trial. The 2024 Tour de France takes place from June 29 to July 21.
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The 2024 Tour de France will finish with a hilly individual time trial from Monaco to Nice, race organisers have confirmed.
In December, it was announced cycling’s biggest race would not conclude in Paris for the first time in the event’s history due to the Olympics starting less than a week later in the French capital.
The last time the Tour finished with a time trial was in 1989 when Greg LeMond pipped Laurent Fignon to the title by just eight seconds, which remains the smallest winning margin.
"For the Tour de France to finish far from its traditional Parisian finale is already a historic first," organisers said in a statement.
"But for the last two days of the 2024 edition, an extremely promising menu has been prepared, including all the necessary ingredients for major upsets at the top....on the Saturday as well as on the Sunday."
The hilly 35.2km route on the final day will see the riders tackle the La Turbie, an 8.1km climb at 5.6% with the Col d'Eze coming just a few kilometres later.
The Col d’Eze is a short steep 1.6km climb at 8.1% and peaks with 17km to go, with the majority of the second half of the course being a descent into Nice.
Organisers have also confirmed the penultimate day will be a mountain stage from Nice to the top of the Col de la Couillole. It will be a brutal day for the peloton with hardly any flat sections.
The Col de Braus, Col de Turini, Col de La Colmiane and a summit finish on Col de la Couillole stand in the way on what should be a very exciting 132km stage.
Confirmation of next year's Tour beginning in Italy for the first time was announced last year, as Florence hosts the Grand Depart.
Stage 1 will be a medium-mountain stage ending up in Rimini after a trek along the Adriatic coast.
As well as that first stage, days two and three will also be in Italy, and they will contain - at various stages - commemorations to previous titans of Italian cycling, including the likes of Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali, both two-time Tour winners.
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