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2024 Tour de France begins June 29 and includes historic firsts. Everything to know

The Paris Olympics and Paralympics will not be the only prestigious international sporting event held in France this summer. 

The Tour de France, the preeminent event on the men’s cycling calendar, will return for its 111th edition from June 29 to July 21. During the three-week ride, 176 cyclists, representing 22 teams of eight, will complete 21 stages across hilly, flat and mountainous terrain. The course includes a grueling 52,230 meters (over 170,000 feet) of elevation gain and is 3,492 kilometers (2,170 miles) long. The taxing schedule includes only two rest days. 

This year’s race will start in Florence, Italy, and conclude at the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. It will be the first time the finish line is not in or near Paris because the city will be hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games. And the first time since 1975 the race will not finish on the Champs-Élysées.

The final stage will also break from tradition as it will be one of two time trial stages, which means the leader could be determined in the final leg. The last time the Tour de France ended with a time trial was in 1989.

In addition to Italy and France, the route passes through San Marino and Monaco. The route is famous for its picturesque scenery, from quaint rural villages to the towering Alps. 

Each stage is timed, and the rider with the lowest cumulative time across all stages wins the acclaimed maillot jaune, or yellow jersey, to signify the general classification winner. Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, 27, hopes to seek a coveted three-peat but is still working his way back from a serious crash that hospitalized him for 12 days in April. If he does race, he will face fierce competition from a talented field that includes 2020 and 2021 winner Tadej Pogača of Slovenia.

Separate awards are also given to the best sprinter, climber and young cyclist. 

Sepp Kuss, who finished as the top American in 12th place at last year’s Tour de France, is also set to return. Like last year, he will race on the same team as Vingegaard. 

How to watch the 2024 Tour de France live

All stages of the Tour de France, as well as pre- and post-race coverage, will be available to stream live on Peacock. USA Network will also stream some of the stages. 

NBC will simultaneously broadcast select stages of the event. 

Stage 1 will begin June 29 at 6 a.m. ET. The rest of the stages typically start between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. ET. 

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The 111th edition of the Tour de France starts in Florence, Italy, on Saturday, June 29 and ends three weeks later in Nice on Sunday, July 21. It is the first time the Tour starts in Italy. The Tour de France will not finish in Paris as it usually does. Instead, the finish is in Nice to avoid the preparations for the 2024 Olympics Games, which begin just a week later in Paris.

The 2024 Tour de France route is 3,492km long with some 52,320 metres of overall elevation , passing through four nations – Italy, San Marino, France, and Monaco. It features two individual time trials for a total of 59km, four mountain-top finishes, a series of gravel sections on stage 9, and a final hilly time trial to Nice. The official route was unveiled on October 25 in a special ceremony in Paris.

Who is riding the Tour de France 2024 ? Check out our 2024 Tour de France start list .

Tour de France favourites and contenders : Defending champion  Jonas Vingegaard  (Jumbo-Visma) won his second GC title last year and, if he can recover from his crash injuries in time , will be back to defend his title against top rival Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who finished second overall. Vingegaard is likely to face a huge challenge from not just Pogačar, but also Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) and former teammate turned rival Primož Roglič (Bora-Hansgrohe).

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The 2024 Tour de France includes 52,230 metres of vertical gain across 3497.3km of climbs, sprints and time trialling from Italy into France, with fewer high climbs than in the past and shorter stages. 

It is a balanced three weeks of racing that includes eight flat stages, four mountain-top finishes and two individual time trials, the final test against the clock is a hilly time trial to Nice that could create suspense. The race has 25km of racing above 2,000 metres and 27 mountains classified as second, first, or HC.

Florence, Italy, will host the team presentation, and stage 1 will roll out from Piazzale Michelangelo to open the Grand Tour for the first time.

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Defending Tour de France champion  Jonas Vingegaard will again have a strong Jumbo-Visma team to support his quest for a third title, but this time, former team leader Primož Roglič has turned to rival as he looks to give Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe top billing. Vingegaard will also face huge challenges from Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep). 

In the flat stages, look for last year's green jersey victor Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) to contest for another title against Fabio Jakobsen , now with Team dsm-firmenich, and Caleb Ewan , now with Jayco-AlUIa. And fastman Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) is back for an 18th pro season to mix it up in the sprints, on the hunt for a record-breaking 35th Tour de France stage victory.

And there will be opportunities across the three weeks for breakaway riders to shine, including the likes of Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-QuickStep), Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck).

Tour de France teams

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• Ineos Grenadiers
• Intermarché-Wanty
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• Lotto Dstny
• Movistar Team
• Soudal-QuickStep
• Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
• Team Jayco-AlUla
• Visma-Lease a Bike
• TotalEnergies
• UAE Team Emirates
• Uno-X Mobility

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What to Know About This Year’s Tour de France (Which Begins in Italy)

Two previous winners are the leading contenders to win cycling’s most famous race, which, in a rarity, does not end in Paris.

By Victor Mather

For three weeks starting Saturday, the world’s best cyclists will do battle in the Tour de France, racing through valleys, hills and high mountains. Though 176 riders will start, most eyes will be on a pair of two-time winners who seek title No. 3.

After more than 2,000 miles and dozens of punishing climbs, will the winner be Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark, who took the last two Tours de France but was hurt in a crash this year? Or Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia, the 2020 and 2021 winner ? Or will an unexpected contender jump up and surprise them?

And, wait: Is it really the Tour de France if the race doesn’t finish on the Champs-Élysées? Here’s a primer to read before the race gets underway.

Where will they race?

For the first time, the race will start in Italy , with the opening stage beginning in Florence and winding through the Apennine Mountains to Rimini, a city on the Adriatic coast. It will be more difficult than most opening stages, with several uphill climbs.

After a few days in Italy, the race will enter France, then go counterclockwise around the country, passing through the Alps, the Massif Central, the Pyrenees and then the Alps again.

Who are the favorites?

Vingegaard won last year’s event by an emphatic seven and a half minutes. But after a good start to the 2024 cycling season, he crashed badly in the Tour of the Basque Country in April and spent 12 days in the hospital with a broken collarbone. He is expected to ride in the Tour de France, but there is uncertainty as to what kind of shape he will be in.

As a result, Pogacar, who has been in fine form, is the favorite to win and regain his crown.

Pogacar rode in the Giro d’Italia, or Tour of Italy, in May. Unlike riders in that race who hold back to preserve their strength for the Tour de France, he gave it his all, winning by almost 10 minutes. If Pogacar claims the Tour as well, he will be the first cyclist since Marco Pantani, in 1998, to win the Giro and the Tour in the same season.

After the big two, other possible contenders include Primoz Roglic of Slovenia, the 2023 Giro winner, and Remco Evenepoel of Belgium, who won the 2022 Tour of Spain.

Though an individual wins the Tour, his team can help a lot, pacing him in the mountains and blocking attacks from rivals. Last year’s leading team, Jumbo-Visma (now Visma–Lease a Bike) has broken up; Vingegaard is still its leader, but Roglic left to join Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe. UAE Team Emirates will support Pogacar with a squad that includes Adam Yates of Britain, a rider with the talent to win the Tour himself; he placed third last year.

Tell me the days that really matter.

The first stage to focus on is July 2, when the riders travel from Italy to France. It includes a climb up the Galibier, one of the Tour’s toughest mountains, and one that still has snow on the side of the roads.

In the midst of a week of flat stages that won’t change the leaderboard much, there is a time trial on July 5 in Burgundy wine country. The riders will race alone against the clock, with no help from teammates, which is why a time trial is known as “the race of truth.”

The real action comes at the end, with five mountain stages. The July 13 stage is particularly notable; it includes a climb up the Tourmalet in the Pyrenees and ends with an uphill — or more accurately, up-mountain — finish that is sure to winnow out any pretenders. Also make note of July 14, 17, 19 and 20 as four more brutal mountain stages where the Tour is likely to be won, or lost.

But even the flat stages, which are usually won by sprinters and seldom affect the overall standings, may have some extra interest this year. The great sprinter Mark Cavendish, 39, has 34 career stage victories and needs one more to break the record he shares with Eddy Merckx, the dominant rider of the 1960s and ’70s.

What’s different this year?

The day after that last mountain stage, the race will end, but not with the traditional ceremonial cruise down the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Instead, the field will hold a time trial to finish the Tour for the first time since 1989. If the race is close, the winner could be decided on that final day, as it was in 1989. That year, the American Greg LeMond snatched the Tour from Laurent Fignon of France in a time trial by a mere eight seconds, still the closest margin in history.

To avoid the Paris Olympics, which open five days later, the time trial will run from Monaco to Nice. It is the first time since 1974 the race has not ended on the Champs-Élysées and the first time ever it has not ended in Paris or its environs.

Remind me what the jerseys mean.

In each stage, whoever is the overall leader wears the yellow jersey to make him easier to spot for TV viewers and the thousands of fans along the route.

But there are other jerseys, too. Finishing near the front in individual stages, especially flat ones, earns points toward the green jersey for best sprinter. Last year’s winner of this jersey was Jasper Philipsen.

The first riders to reach the top of the race’s many mountains earn points toward the garish polka-dot jersey for best climber. The top contenders for yellow are also favored to win this jersey, as is Giulio Ciccone of Italy, who won last year.

Are there any Americans racing?

The days of American favorites like LeMond and Lance Armstrong are over for the time being. Moreover, Sepp Kuss, the American who won the 2023 Tour of Spain, is out because of a Covid-19 infection.

Matteo Jorgenson, 24, on the Visma team, is the top-ranked American. He won this year’s weeklong Paris-Nice race, and some think he can contend for the tour’s title in the future, or maybe, if all goes well, this year.

How can I watch?

Stages generally start around 6 or 7 a.m. Eastern time and last four to five hours. In the United States, Peacock will stream every stage live. Some stages will be shown on NBC and USA as well.

Other broadcasters include ITV and Eurosport (United Kingdom), SBS (Australia), FloBikes (Canada), France Televisions (France), ARD (Germany) and J Sports (Japan).

Victor Mather , who has been a reporter and editor at The Times for 25 years, covers sports and breaking news. More about Victor Mather

Tour de France 2024 pits Tadej Pogačar against Jonas Vingegaard. When is it and how to watch

Sport Tour de France 2024 pits Tadej Pogačar against Jonas Vingegaard. When is it and how to watch

A historic Tour de France is set to get underway in Italy this weekend, with a genuine modern great hoping to achieve something that few have attempted, let alone achieved in the sport's illustrious history.

Tadej Pogačar, winner of this year's Giro d'Italia, is aiming to become the first man in 26 years to win the Giro-Tour double.

Standing in his way is the two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard Hansen, named in Visma-Lease a Bike squad despite the appalling injuries he suffered at the Tour of the Basque Country earlier this year.

But it's not just these two winners of the last four Tours de France who are expected to be in contention.

There's four-time grand tour winner Primož Roglič, who also claimed his second Critérium du Dauphiné victory earlier this month backed by new team Bora-Hansgrohe, while 2022 World Champion and Vuelta winner Remco Evenepoel is also in the mix, although he will have to hope to put some of his wretched recent fortune behind him to contest properly.

Then there's two-time grand tour winner Egan Bernal, who is on the return from life-threatening injuries suffered in 2022 and leads a strong Ineos-Grenadiers team.

The Pogačar double is on

The list of names to have achieved something approaching cycling's holy grail is a list of the sport's greatest names.

Fausto Coppi (twice). Jacques Anquetil. Eddie Merckx (three times). Bernard Hinault (twice). Stephen Roche. Miguel Indurain (twice) and Marco Pantani.

It is indisputable that Pogačar has the verve, panache and skill to join them — his insatiable appetite to win across grand tours and one day races alike has seen him referred to by Merckx's old nickname of "Cannibal", but with a twist, "Cannibale Gentile".

The parallels between Pog and Pantani were firmly established during this year's Giro d'Italia , a near-uncontested romp to victory in which Pogačar proved he was a cut above the rest of the opposition.

On stage 2 , Pogačar repeated a feat achieved by Pantani on the infamous 1999 Giro by overcoming a puncture at the foot of the steep 11 kilometre climb to Santuario di Oropa before powering past the entire field to win the stage.

Pogačar went on to win the race by 9 minutes and 56 seconds, the largest winning margin at the Giro in 59 years.

"If I arrive at the Tour de France with these legs that I have now, I think it's going to be just fine," Pogačar said at the end of the Giro, ahead of taking a week off to "enjoy some coffee rides and good cake" before heading back to altitude.

He is backed by an extraordinary UAE Team Emirates squad, featuring a bevvy of stars all geared to assist him in the high mountains.

Riders have come close to the double in the years since Pantani managed it — Chris Froome won the Giro then finished third at the Tour in 2018 for one.

British rider Froome, incidentally, is the last rider to win two grand tours in the same year, when he won the Tour and the Vuelta in 2017.

What form does Vingegaard have?

Vingegaard Hansen was having a brilliant start to 2024 before disaster struck in the Basque Country in March.

The two-time Tour champion won both stage races he completed, O Gran Camiño and Tirreno-Adriatico, including the mountain classification.

But then, on the slippery, dangerous roads of the Itzulia Basque Country, disaster struck.

Vingegaard Hansen, Roglič, Evenepoel and Australian Jay Vine all went down on the fourth stage from Etxarri Aranatz to Legutio , suffering an assortment of injuries.

Vingegaard Hansen broke his ribs, collarbone and punctured his lung in the incident that saw Vine fracture a cervical vertebra and suffer two additional fractures in his thoracic spine.

The Danish star has not raced since and, up until the Visma-Lease a Bike team was named, was no certainty to race at the Tour.

The situation is an intriguing reversal of the situation the pair faced last year when it was Pogačar who was injured leading into the France showdown after be broke his wrist at Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

Pogačar seemed to be OK until the 17th stage, when he dramatically imploded on the slopes of the Col de la Loze.

"I'm gone. I'm dead," he said over the team radio before limping home over five minutes behind Vingegaard Hansen.

Can Vingegaard Hansen use his team to maintain the pressure on Pogačar? If he does he'll have to do it without chief lieutenant and Vuelta a España winner Sepp Kuss, who is out of the race with COVID.

(By the way, if you're confused by the addition of Hansen to Vingegaard's name, don't be. Vingegaard, who was officially Vingegaard Rasmussen, officially took the last name of his wife, Trine Marie Hansen, last year, but will likely still be called Vingegaard as Danes typically drop their second family name.)

Mark Cavendish going for the record. Again

After last year's crushing disappointment, when the Manx missile crashed out on the eighth stage of the Tour .

The bunch sprint specialist was aiming for a record 35th stage win at the race, bettering the record of 34 that he currently shares with Merckx.

When he clambered into the back of an ambulance last year, it appeared that his quest would be over.

Having battled debilitating illnesses, loss of form and multiple crashes over a road career that has extended almost two decades, Cavendish appeared done.

However, the now 39-year-old, newly knighted sprint star is back for one more attempt at the record.

He'll be up against a full cast of challengers, including four-time stage winner at last year's Tour Jasper Philipsen and the ultra-aggressive, take-no-prisoners approach from his Alpecin-Deceuninck team.

How will the Aussies go?

Australia's best chance of success at this year's race may well be vicariously through their teammates.

Former Giro winner Jai Hindley will ride fully in support of Roglič at Bora-Hansgrohe, while Jack Haig will work for Santiago Buitrago at Team Bahrain Victorious.

The main focus for Australia's hopes will be at Team Jayco AlUla.

Dutch sprinter Dylan Groenewegen will be the main source of investment in stage wins, but one-time green jersey winner Michael Matthews will also likely be a factor in the tougher sprints.

How do I watch the Tour de France?

The Tour de France will be available to watch on SBS from June 29.

The coverage will be available via the television channel and online through SBS On Demand.

When does the Tour de France start?

The Tour starts in Florence, Italy on Saturday, July 29.

Coverage of the race in Australia will start at 7:50pm (AEST) on SBS On Demand, with TV coverage starting at 8:30pm AEST.

It is the first of 21 stages, with the race concluding on July 21 with an individual time trial in Nice .

It's the first time the race will ever finish outside of Paris and the first time since 1989 when the race will finish with a time trial.

The last time the race did so, American Greg LeMond beat Frenchman Laurent Fignon by just eight seconds, the smallest winning margin in Tour de France history. 

Is there a Tour de France Femmes this year?

There is, but unlike last year, where the Tour de France Femmes followed on immediately after the men's race, this year the women will have to wait until after the Olympics.

That means the Tour de France Femmes will not start until August 12, getting underway in Rotterdam before finishing on Alpe d'Huez.

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The Tour de France 2024 begins on Saturday 29 June and marks the 111th edition of cycling's flagship race. In the first Grand Départ for Italy, the race starts in Florence and traces a path east across the country, before heading back west towards France and into the Alps. 

The riders will also take on the Apennines, Massif Central and Pyrenees mountain ranges, and pass through Italy, San Marino, Monaco and France.

With Paris busy preparing for the Olympic Games in August there will be no room for the Tour de France's traditional final stage finish on the Champs-Elysées. Instead the race will finish in Nice – the first time it has ever finished outside the capital.

The world's best riders are set to vie for overall victory, with newly crowned Giro d'Italia winner Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) due to take on Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease A Bike) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) – both of whom are currently returning from injury – and Primož Roglič (Bora-Hansgrohe).

The three-week event is the second in the trio of Grand Tours, coming after the Giro d'Italia and before the Vuelta a España .

Check out our page on the  Tour de France 2024 route  for everything you need to know about the 21 stages from Florence to Nice, and look at  our almost complete start list for the race .

This will be the first Tour since  GCN+ closed down , so make sure you read our how to watch the Tour de France guide carefully to make sure you can be fully tuned in. 

Tour de France 2024: Overview

Tour de france 2024: the route.

One for the climbers, the 2024 Tour de France route incorporates four summit finishes, spans four mountain ranges, and features the hilliest opening stage in Tour de France history.

One of the most interesting and intriguing routes of recent years, sitting between the predominantly hilly week one and week three sits a flatter week two, and stage nine – with an abundance of white roads; 14 sectors in total.

There's plenty for the sprinters as well as the general classification and climbing specialists, although there are going to be some tough mountains to get over to reach the sprint stages, and to finish the three weeks.

For the first time in 35 years, a final stage means the yellow jersey won't be decided on the penultimate day, but with a time trial in Nice.

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Tour de france 2024: the teams.

There will be 22 teams of eight riders at the 2024 Tour de France. This includes all 18 UCI WorldTour teams, as well as the two best-ranked UCI ProTeams, and two further squads invited by the organiser, ASO. 

The teams racing the 2024 Tour de France are:

• Alpecin-Deceuninck
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• Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale
• dsm-firmenich PostNL
• EF Education-EasyPost
• Groupama-FDJ
• Ineos Grenadiers
• Jayco-AlUla
• Intermarché-Wanty
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• Lotto Dstny
• Soudal Quick-Step
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• UAE Team Emirates
• Uno-X Mobility
• Visma-Lease a Bike

Tour de France 2024: General classification riders

When it comes to potential yellow jersey winners, there are four riders due to take the start line in Florence on June 29. 

The quartet comprises Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who has just won the Giro d'Italia; Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step), Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease A Bike), and Primož Roglič (Bora-Hansgrohe) . 

Reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard is the only rider over whom hangs a significant questions mark for the race. Along with Roglič and Evenepoel, he came down in a nasty crash on stage four of the Itzulia Basque Country in April. All were injured but the Dane came off worst, and he only began riding outside in May. All three will still go, but it is not known how well they will perform.

Following the route announcement in October, Tadej Pogačar said that the "end of the journey makes me smile", with the final two stages starting and finishing close to his home in Monaco. Pogačar is hoping to take back the top step in 2024 after two years of missing out on yellow to Vingegaard. The Slovenian won the Giro earlier this year.

Remco Evenepoel will make his Tour de France debut in 2024. Although he took a win in 2022 at the Vuelta, his performance in other Grand Tour races has been either inconsistent or blighted by illness. If he's to compete against the likes of Vingegaard and Pogačar, he'll have to up his game. After coming 5th overall and taking a stage win in his Tour debut in 2023 , Carlos Rodríguez will lead Ineos Grenadiers .

Tour de France 2024: Sprinters

It's going to be a tough year for the sprinters. Jasper Philipsen of Alpecin-Deceuninck was one of the star men of last year's Tour de France, taking four stage wins and the green sprinter's jersey at the end of the three weeks. He has had a fine season so far, with a win at Milan-San Remo and second at Paris-Roubaix and is likely to be the rider to beat at the Tour.

Like Philipsen, Mads Pederson of Trek-Segafredo has enjoyed a successful early season, with a win at Gent-Wevelgem and (unlike Philipsen) a hatful of sprint victories. He's likely to be the Belgian's main rival in the bunch finishes.

All eyes will be on Mark Cavendish in the 111th Tour de France after he postponed retirement to target the Tour win record, currently shared with Eddy Merckx, and gain his 35th win. He said, however, that he was "in shock" and that this was the "toughest course" he had ever seen , when it was revealed in October. 

Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-AlUla) and Fabio Jakobsen (dsm-firmenich-PostNL) are also set to be there and should challenge for wins.

Tour de France 2024: On TV

As you'd expect the Tour de France will be avialable to watch in a lot of places this July.

The race is expected to be live-streamed on Discovery+ and Eurosport , as well as ITV4, in the UK and in Europe. Subscription costs are £6.99/month or $8.99/month, and £39.99 or $49.99 for a year.

A Flobikes  annual subscription will cost you $209.99 if you want to watch in Canada, while in the USA  NBC Sports  via Peacock Premium ($4.99 per month) will show the race. Australians can can watch the Tour for free on SBS on Demand.

And, of course, if you want to watch your local stream from anywhere in the world you'll need a VPN from a trusted company like ExpressVPN .

Tour de France: The jerseys

Much like every year in recent memory, the Tour de France jerseys and classifications are yellow for the overall leader, green for the leader in the points standings, polka-dot for the mountain classification, and white for the best young rider.

Along with the jersey prizes, there is an award for the most combative rider of each stage, with the winner wearing a red number on the following day. This is awarded each day, with a 'Super Combativity' award decided by a jury at the end of the race for the most active rider throughout the entire event.

There is also a team classification where the time of the first three riders from each team is put together to create a single time. This is then done in a similar way as the individual general classification.

In addition, there are plenty of bonus seconds up for grabs at the race. There are ten, six and four bonus seconds available at the end of each stage for the first three riders, as well as bonus sprints that are dotted throughout the race on key climbs to try and make the racing more entertaining for spectators.

Of course, there's also prize money up for grabs. For winning the 2023 edition of the race, Jonas Vingegaard collected €535,220 (£463,100), a sum which is customarily shared out among the team's riders and staff.

Tour de France past winners in the last 12 years

• 2012: Bradley Wiggins (GBr) 
• 2013: Chris Froome (GBr) 
• 2014: Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) 
• 2015: Chris Froome (GBr) 
• 2016: Chris Froome (GBr) 
• 2017: Chris Froome (GBr) 
• 2018: Geraint Thomas (GBr) 
• 2019: Egan Bernal (Col) 
• 2020: Tadej Pogačar (Slo) 
• 2021: Tadej Pogačar (Slo)  
• 2022: Jonas Vingegaard (Den)
• 2023: Jonas Vingegaard (Den)

Tour de France FAQ

How does the tour de france work.

The Tour de France is one of a trio of races that are three weeks long, known as the Grand Tours, alongside the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. The Tour is the best known and arguably the most prestigious.

It is the second of the three races in the calendar with the Giro taking place in May, the Tour usually in July, and the Vuelta in August and September.

The Tour, like all Grand Tours, takes on varying terrain with flat days for sprinters, hilly days for puncheurs and mountains for the climbers and GC riders, along with time trials, so that a winner of the race has to be able to perform on all types of road.

The main prize in the race, known as the general classification, is based on time with the overall leader wearing the yellow jersey. The race leader and eventual winner is the rider who has the lowest accumulated time over the 21 days of racing. Riders can win the Tour de France without winning a stage, as Chris Froome did in 2017. Time bonuses of 10, six, and four seconds are given to stage winners though, creating incentive for those general classification riders to chase individual victories and lower their overall time.

In 2020 it took race winner Tadej Pogačar 87 hours 20 minutes and 5 seconds to complete the race with the second-place rider overall 59 seconds slower. That continues all the way down to the last place rider, which was Roger Kluge (Lotto-Soudal) who finished 6 hours 7 minutes and 2 seconds behind.

The white best young rider's jersey is worked out in the same way but only riders under the age of 26 are eligible for the jersey.

The polka-dot mountains jersey and the green points jersey are based on a points system and not time. The only reason time would come into account would be if riders are tied on points, then it would go to who is the best placed in the general classification.

The team classification is based on the general classification times of the first three riders of a team on each stage. The time of those three riders is added up and put onto their team's time, creating a GC list much like in the individual classifications. The leading team gets to wear yellow numbers and helmets on each stage.

The final classification available is the combativity prize. This is decided by a race jury or, in more recent years, Twitter. This takes place just before the end of each stage and often goes to a rider from the breakaway who has put in a daring performance or attempted to liven up the stage by attacking. The winner of the combativity award gets to wear a special red race number on the following day's stage.

There is a final prize added to this with the Super Combativity prize being awarded on the podium in Paris. This is decided in a similar fashion to pick out the most aggressive, entertaining, and daring rider of the whole three weeks. Again, usually going to a rider who has featured regularly in the breakaway.

Stage winners do not wear anything special the day after apart from getting a small yellow jersey to stick on their number on their bike, this can be replaced if they win multiple stages.

Teams used to come to the race with nine riders but the UCI, cycling's governing body, decided that nine riders from each team was too dangerous and dropped it to eight, however more teams now take part.

How long is the Tour de France?

The Tour de France takes place over 23 days with 21 of them being race days. The riders get two days of resting; they usually fall on the second and third Monday of the race.

This year's race is 3,492km long, which is 2,170 miles, around the same distance from Washington DC to Las Vegas, or Helsinki to Lisbon. 

Road stages can range from anything around 100km to something approaching 250km, sometimes more. This year the shortest road stage is stage 20, from Nice to Col de la Couillole, with the longest being 229km on stage three in Italy, from Plaisance to Turin.

Road stages often take around four to five hours with the longer days sometimes nudging over seven hours.

Time trials are always much shorter. Team time trials have long since gone out of fashion in the world of road racing so individual time trials are the main focus these days. 

In 2024, the Tour has two individual time trials for the riders to tackle, the first on stage seven at 25km long from Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin, and the second on the final stage from Monaco to Nice, at 34km long.

When does the Tour de France start?

The 2024 Tour de France starts on June 29 in Florence, Italy, with a road stage. There will be three full stages in Italy, before the fourth heads into France. The race finishes in Nice three weeks later.

The 2024 edition of the race runs from 29 June - 21 July, covering 21 stages. 

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Tour de France 2024: TV and streaming, schedule, stages, route, and what to watch for

Cycling’s premier event is about to get underway.

And it will look a little different than in year’s past.

The 2024 Tour de France, the 111th in history, begins on Saturday June 29. However, the starting point for this year’s Tour de France, as well as the finish line, will mark a series of firsts for the event.

To mark 100 years since Ottavio Bottecchia became the first Italian rider to win the Tour de France, this year’s race will begin in Italy, with riders setting off in Florence. The first three stages of this year’s Tour de France will keep riders in Italy, before the Tour’s fourth stage sees riders make the journey from Pinerolo in Italy, to Valloire in France.

In addition, this year’s Tour de France schedule coincides with the 2024 Paris Summer Games, which begin in Paris at the end of July. As such the Tour de France will conclude in Nice, with the final stage of the 2024 Tour de France bringing riders from Monaco to Nice.

This year’s Tour de France also concludes with an individual time trial, the first time the event has concluded with an ITT since 1989. That year saw the legendary duel on the final day between Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon.

This year’s event has no shortage of storylines, starting with the battle between Dane Jonas Vingegaard, riding for Visma—Lease a Bike, and Slovenian Tadej Pogačar of UAE Team Emirates.

Vingegaard is the reigning Tour de France champion, winning in both 2022 and 2023 ahead of his rival Pogačar. But his status for this year’s Tour de France is a huge question mark, as Vingegaard endured a horrific crash at the Tour of Basque Country in April. The Danish cyclist suffered a broken collarbone, several broken ribs, a pulmonary contusion and a pneumothorax as a result of the crash, and spent 12 days in the hospital.

Vingegaard’s questionable form has opened the door for Pogačar to perhaps claim another title. The Slovenian took home the prestigious yellow jersey, the maillot jaune, in both 2020 and 2021; his victory in 2020 at the age of 21 made him the second-youngest winner in race history.

The two are the odds-on favorites to compete for the top spot on the podium again in 2024, but Vingegaard’s recent crash has made his rival the favorite.

Beyond the two favorites, there are some other riders in the field who could challenge for the yellow jersey. Primož Roglič from Slovenia, riding for Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe, is one of the older riders in the field but might have some unfinished business after losing out to fellow Slovenian Pogačar in 2020. Roglič failed to finish in both 2021 and 2022, but won the Critérium du Dauphiné at the start of the month, fending off a late challenge from Matteo Jorgenson from Visma—Lease a Bike.

Remco Evenepoel from Soudal Quick-Step is another rider to watch. The Belgian cyclist suffered a crash of his own at Basque Country, but seemed back in form during the Critérium du Dauphiné when he was part of the chasing pack that put Roglič under pressure in the final stage. Considered one of the sport’s premier time trialists, the schedule sets up well for him with the 2024 Tour de France containing a pair of time trials, including the one on the final day previously mentioned.

For American fans Jorgenson represents your best hope for Tour de France glory. However, his role this year might best be described as “undetermined,” given Vingegaard’s questionable form. Should Vingegaard be healthy Jorgenson may serve as an auxiliary leader for Visma, and one of the sport’s premier domestiques. But if Vingegaard struggles with his health as a result of his recent crash, the 24-year-old could be thrust into a major role. And given his recent performance — including finishing just eight seconds behind Roglič at Dauphiné — he is certainly worth keeping an eye on.

For more on the favorites in the 2024 Tour de France field Bernd Buchmasser has you covered here .

Here is how to watch, a look at each stage, and more.

How to watch the 2024 Tour de France

NBC Sports is your home for every stage of the 110th Tour de France, with the bulk of the coverage airing live each day on Peacock. NBC and USA Network will also air live coverage during of three stages of the 2024 Tour de France: Stage 8, Stage 14, and Stage 20.

All NBC and USA Network coverage also streams on NBCSports.com/live, as well as the NBC Sports app.

Here is the full broadcast schedule:

What teams are competing in the 2024 Tour de France

22 teams are competing in the 2024 Tour de France: That includes all 18 UCI WorldTeams, and 4 UCI ProTeams.

18 UCI WorldTeams

Alpecin-Deceuninck

Arkéa-B&B Hotels

Astana Qazaqstan Team

Decathalon-AG2R La Mondiale

EF Education-EasyPost

Groupama-FDJ

Ineos Grenadiers

Intermarché-Wanty

Movistar Team

Red Bull—Bora—Hansgrohe

Soudal—Quick-Step

Team Bahrain Victorious

Team dsm—firmenich PostNL

Team Jayco-AlUla

Visma—Lease a Bike

UAE Team Emirates

UCI ProTeams

Israel—Premier Tech

Lotto—Dstny

Team TotalEnergies

Uno-X Pro Mobility

The 2024 Tour de France map

Here is the official map of the 2024 Tour de France:

You can also view the map on the official Tour de France website.

Stages, dates, and distances for the 2024 Tour de France

Here are the stages for the 2024 Tour de France. According to the official website there are eight stages classified as flat, four stages classified as hilly, seven mountain stages (including four summit finishes: Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet in Stage 14, Plateau de Beille in Stage 15, Isola 2000 in Stage 19, and Col de la Couillole in Stage 20). There are also two individual time trials, along with a pair of rest days.

Overall, the 2024 Tour e France route covers 3,498 kilometers (2,174 miles) and contains 52,230 meters (171,358 feet) of total vertical climb.

If riders were hoping to ease into the 2024 Tour de France, they have another thing coming. The opening stage of this year’s Tour not only marks the first time the race has started in Italy, but it might be the toughest opening stage in history, featuring 3,600 meters (11,811 feet) of climbing. The final climb into San Marino, featuring over seven kilometers (4.35 miles) of climb at nearly five degrees.

The two toughest stretches are likely Stages 14 and 15, as well as Stages 19 and 20. Not only are all four stages mountain stages — meaning riders will have to conquer the mountains on back-to-back days — but all four stages contain a summit finish: Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet in Stage 14, Plateau de Beille in Stage 15, Isola 2000 in Stage 19, and Col de la Couillole in Stage 20.

Stage 9 is a very intriguing stage. While it is classified as “hilly” Stage 9, which sees riders start and finish in Troyes, it also contains 14 “white road” sectors. White roads on the Tour de France are dusty, gravel roads that have been a feature of this event.

In addition, the 2024 Tour de France concludes with an Individual Time Trial, the second ITT of this year’s race and the first time the Tour de France will finish in such fashion since the legendary LeMond-Fignon duel in 1989.

2024 Tour de France results

Stage 1: Florence to Rimini

Stage Winner: Romain Bardet, Team dsm-firmenich PostNL

Overall Leader: Romain Bardet, Team dsm-firmenich PostNL

Romain Bardet, aided in large part by his Team dsm-firmenich PostNL teammate Frank Van den Broek, captured the difficult first stage of the 2024 Tour de France on Saturday. For Bardet, who is competing in his final Tour de France after announcing his upcoming retirement following next year’s Critérium du Dauphiné before a switch to gravel. This stage win was his first in seven years, and he’s the first Frenchman to don the famous yellow jersey since Julian Alaphilippe in the 2021 race.

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The Tour de France 2024 is a 21-day endurance race that features some of best cyclists in the world.

The race will course through France starting on Saturday, June 29 with a start time of 6 a.m. ET/3 a.m. PT and ending on Sunday, July 21.

It airs on NBC and USA Network, but will also stream live in its entirety on Peacock . Cord-cutters can also watch the race with any live TV streaming service that carries NBC and USA Network, like DirecTV Stream , Fubo , Hulu + Live TV and Sling Blue .

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The Tour de France airs on NBC and USA Network, so the best way to watch the cycling event on TV is with DirecTV Stream or Fubo . Both streaming services offer a 5-day and a 7-day free trial, respectively, so you can watch few days of the Tour de France for free.

The event is also available to stream with Sling Blue (starting at $22.50 for your first month of service) and Hulu + Live TV  (starting at $76.99/Mo.) — both of which offer NBC and USA Network. Although Sling doesn’t have a free trial, Fubo and Hulu + Live TV has a three-day free trial to try out the service before you commit for the month.

The Tour De France broadcasts on NBC and USA Network, and livestreams via DirecTV Stream and Peacock starting on Saturday, June 29 through Sunday, July 21.

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Tour de France 2024: How to watch the cycling Super Bowl, full schedule, livestream info and more

The 111th Tour de France begins in Florence, Italy this Saturday, June 29. The annual long-distance race will bring together some of the biggest names in cycling, including two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard, Tadej Pogačar, Primož Roglič, Remco Evenepoel, Juan Ayuso, Carlos Rodríguez, Adam Yates, João Almeida and Matteo Jorgenson. The Tour De France will cover 2,170 miles across 21 days of racing, finishing in Nice on July 21. This year's Tour will be the first ever to not finish in Paris (due to the 2024 Olympics).

Want to tune into the 2024 Tour de France (AKA the cycling Super Bowl)? Here's everything you need to know about the cycling event, including the odds of who will take home the yellow jersey in 2024, where to stream the 2024 Tour de France and more.

How to watch the Tour de France from the US:

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Tour de France dates: June 29 - July 21

Tour de France TV channel: NBC

Tour de France streaming: Peacock

How to watch the 2024 Tour de France without cable:

Starting at just $6 a month, a Peacock subscription is the easiest way to stream live sports and events airing on NBC, including this year’s Tour de France! On top of access to the Tour de France, the streaming platform is the home of the 2024 Olympics, and the easiest way to stream most live sports and events airing on NBC. You’ll also get access to thousands of hours of shows and movies, including beloved sitcoms such as Parks and Recreation and The Office . For $12 monthly you can upgrade to an ad-free subscription which includes live access to your local NBC affiliate (not just during designated sports and events) and the ability to download select titles to watch offline.

Is there a free Tour de France livestream?

Don’t want to pay for Peacock to watch the Tour de France? UK-based streaming platform ITVX will have a free livestream of their Tour de France coverage throughout the race. To access this free livestream though, you’ll need a VPN.

To watch ITVX from the US, you’ll need to sign up for a good streaming VPN and choose a UK server. From there, you should be able to watch ITVX totally free from the US.

A VPN (virtual private network) helps protect your data, can mask your IP address and is perhaps most popular for being especially useful in the age of streaming. Whether you’re looking to watch Friends on Netflix (which left the U.S. version of the streamer back in 2019) or tune in to a boxing match this weekend without paying the PPV prices, a VPN can help you out. Looking to try a VPN for the first time? This guide breaks down the best VPN options for every kind of user .

Stream free Tour de France coverage

ExpressVPN offers “internet without borders,” meaning you can catch free coverage of the 2024 Tour de France without shelling out for Peacock. All you'll need to do is sign up for ExpressVPN, change your server location to the UK and then find free livestream coverage on one of the streaming platforms mentioned above. 

ExpressVPN’s added protection, speed and range of location options make it an excellent choice for first-time VPN users looking to stretch their streaming abilities, plus, it's Endgadget's top pick for the best streaming VPN . New users can save 49% when they sign up for ExpressVPN’s 12-month subscription. Plus, the service offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, in case you're nervous about trying a VPN.

How long is the Tour de France?

The 2024 Tour de France will cover 3,492km (2,170 miles) across 21 days of racing. The longest day of racing will be Stage 3, Piacenza to Turin, at 229km (142 miles).

Where does the Tour de France end?

The Tour de France cycles to a stop on July 21, 2024 in Nice, France. It'll mark the first time in Tour De France history that the ride won't finish in Paris.

How many riders are in the Tour de France?

176 cyclists are riding in the Tour de France this year, making up 22 Tour de France teams.

2024 Tour de France full schedule:

Florence to Rimini (Italy), 128 miles (hilly stage) - Coverage begins at 6:30 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Cesenatico to Bologna (Italy), 120 miles (hilly stage) - Coverage begins at 6:05 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Piacenza to Turin (Italy), 142 miles (flat stage) - Coverage begins at 6:50 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Pinerolo (Italy) to Valloire (France), 86 miles (mountain stage) - Coverage begins at 7 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Saint-Vulbas, 110 miles (flat stage) - Coverage begins at 6:55 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Mâcon to Dijon, 101 miles (flat stage) - Coverage begins at 7 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin, 16 miles (individual time trial) - Coverage begins at 7:10 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Semur-en-Auxois to Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, 109 miles (flat stage) - Coverage begins at 6 a.m. ET (Peacock, NBC)

Troyes to Troyes, 124 miles (hilly stage) - Coverage begins at 7:05 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Orléans to Saint-Amand-Montrond, 116 miles (flat stage) - Coverage begins at 6:55 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Évaux-les-Bains to Le Lioran, 131 miles (mountain stage) - Coverage begins at 6:55 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Aurillac to Villeneuve-sur-Lot, 127 miles (flat stage) - Coverage begins at 6:55 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Agen to Pau, 106 miles (flat stage) - Coverage begins at 7:30 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Pau to Saint-Lary-Soulan, 94 miles (mountain stage) - Coverage begins at 6:30 a.m. ET (Peacock, NBC)

Loudenvielle to Plateau de Beille, 123 miles (mountain stage) - Coverage begins at 6:55 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Gruissan to Nîmes 187 km, 116 miles (flat stage) - Coverage begins at 6:50 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to SuperDévoluy, 111 miles (mountain stage) - Coverage begins at 6:05 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Gap to Barcelonnette, 111 miles (hilly stage) - Coverage begins at 6:55 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Embrun to Isola 2000, 90 miles (mountain stage) - Coverage begins at 7:05 a.m. ET (Peacock)

Nice to Col de la Couillole, 83 miles (mountain stage) - Coverage begins at 7:35 a.m. ET (Peacock, NBC)

Monaco to Nice, 21 miles (individual time trial) - Coverage begins at 10:10 a.m. ET (Peacock)

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Britain’s Mark Cavendish crosses the finish with a considerable delay in the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 206 kilometers (128 miles) with start in Florence and finish in Rimini, Italy, Saturday, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Britain’s Mark Cavendish who was distanced by the pack, second right, is brought to the finish line by his Astana Qazaqstan Team in the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 206 kilometers (128 miles) with start in Florence and finish in Rimini, Italy, Saturday, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Four Astana Qazaqstan Team riders set the pace for Britain’s Mark Cavendish, rear, who got distanced from the pack during the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 206 kilometers (128 miles) with start in Florence and finish in Rimini, Italy, Saturday, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Britain’s Mark Cavendish who was distanced by the pack, third right, is brought to the finish line by his Astana Qazaqstan Team in the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 206 kilometers (128 miles) with start in Florence and finish in Rimini, Italy, Saturday, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

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RIMINI, Italy (AP) — Mark Cavendish appeared to struggle with stomach and heat issues during the opening stage of the Tour de France on Saturday.

He barely finished within the maximum time limit to keep alive his pursuit of breaking a tie with Eddy Merckx for the most career stage wins in cycling’s biggest race.

Vomiting while on his bike, Cavendish dropped behind the pack on the very first climb, the second-category Col de Valico Tre Faggi, and four Astana teammates dropped back to help the British rider.

But Cavendish hung on and finished 174th of the 175 riders who completed the stage. He crossed 39 minutes, 12 seconds behind stage winner Romain Bardet .

Cavendish equaled Merckx’s mark of 34 stage wins during the 2021 Tour and came close to winning a 35th on the seventh stage in 2023. He then crashed during the eighth stage last year, breaking his right collarbone. So the 39-year-old Cavendish put off retirement by a year to come back and try again at breaking his tie with Merckx.

The 206-kilometer (128-mile) route from Florence to the Adriatic coastal resort of Rimini marked one of the toughest Tour starts in recent memory, featuring seven categorized climbs and more than 3,600 meters (11,800 feet) of ascending.

Heat was also a factor on the opening day, with the temperature soaring to 36 degrees (97 F). Teammates dumped water over Cavendish’s head to try and cool him down. Then Cavendish vomited twice, once near the top of the opening climb and again on the descent.

Cavendish, who won his first Tour stage way back in 2008, was just hoping to get by in the opening two stages before aiming for the record in Monday’s third leg, the first flat stage that sets up well for sprinters. There’s another handful of flat stages later in the race.

It was a rough day for the entire Astana team as Tour rookie Michele Gazzoli — one of the riders who dropped back to help Cavendish — abandoned the race midway through the stage.

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How To Watch the Tour de France in 2024

Cheer on your favorite riders and teams as the Tour de France comes to NBC Sports platforms this June and July.

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The Tour de France pedals onto TV every summer—showcasing the world’s greatest road cyclists. As in recent seasons, NBC Sports will broadcast this year’s event across NBC and Peacock .

Peacock is our favorite service for watching the race because it carries every stage live and on demand. It’s also the streaming home of the Tour de France Femmes and Vuelta a España.

Keep scrolling for a closer look at watching Tour de France 2024 TV coverage—including the complete schedule with channel listings.

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What channel shows the Tour de France?

You can watch the Tour de France on NBC and Peacock . You’ll get the most live coverage from Peacock, which streams every stage and the daily Tour de France Pre-Race Show . Meanwhile, NBC will carry select portions of the Saturday stages—including an encore of Stage 20.

Can’t get enough of Le Tour? Check out the behind-the-scenes docuseries Tour de France: Unchained on Netflix . Each season covers the previous year’s tour by chronicling the experiences of top racers like Jasper Philipsen, Jonas Vingegaard, and Mark Cavendish.

2024 Tour de France TV schedule

This year’s Tour de France begins on June 29 in Italy before crossing into France on the fourth day. As usual, the 21-day route features a solid mix of flat to mountainous terrain. Two rest days break up the action before racers make their way to Nice—a departure from the usual Avenue des Champs-Élysées finish in Paris.

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2024 Tour de France Femmes schedule

Just as the Summer Olympics wraps up in Paris, the Tour de France Femmes takes off from the Netherlands. This third edition of the women’s race features an eight-stage route that ends with a scenic climb in the Western Alpes.

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Best Tour de France TV plans

A Peacock subscription is the best way to watch the Tour de France. Starting at $5.99 a month, the streaming service provides live and on-demand access to every stage of the men’s and women’s races. You’ll also get daily pre- and post-race studio coverage during the men’s competition, plus race highlights and rider interviews. During the 2024 race, episodes of Lance Armstrong’s THEMOVE podcast will also be available for on-demand access via Peacock.

If you’re only interested in Le Tour, you can cancel your Peacock subscription after the final stage. Otherwise, the service’s cycling coverage doesn’t stop there. Peacock hosts the Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Critérium du Dauphiné, Vuelta a España, and Paris Tours. It’s also home to the Paris Olympics , which features road race and track cycling events days after the Tour de France ends.

Fan verdict: At CableTV.com, we’ll be watching the 2024 Tour de France on Peacock because it’s the only platform in the U.S. that provides live coverage of every stage. This exclusivity is crucial for dedicated fans who want to experience the race in its entirety. Peacock also offers the advantage of full-stage replays, which is especially important because of the race’s early start times.

Which TV providers carry the Tour de France?

Besides Peacock, most TV services carry Tour de France coverage via NBC. Our table below illustrates which popular providers offer the two channels.

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The most convenient way to watch the Tour de France for free is by using an over-the-air (OTA) antenna to pick up your local NBC station. Unfortunately, NBC doesn’t show a lot of race coverage—only three Saturday presentations. But it never hurts having an antenna in your TV setup.

If you don’t have an antenna, most cost between $20.00 and $60.00. We recommend the Mohu Leaf 50 for its 60-mile range and slim design. But you’ll want to verify the distance of your nearest NBC station by entering your zip code into the Federal Communications Commission’s Reception Map Tool . That’ll help determine if you need a more robust antenna, which we feature on our Best OTA Antennas page.

Can I stream the Tour de France for free? You can watch select Tour de France stages for free using a live TV streaming trial . Otherwise, you can also catch free race recaps on NBC Sports’ YouTube channel .

How to watch the Tour de France FAQ

Can you watch the tour de france on nbc.

Yes, some Tour de France coverage airs on NBC. But you’ll want a Peacock Premium subscription to watch every stage from start to finish.

How can I watch today’s Tour de France stage?

If today’s date is between June 29 and July 21, you can watch the current Tour de France stage live and on demand via Peacock . Check out our complete Tour de France 2024 schedule for race start times and channel listings.

Is every cycling Grand Tour race on NBC?

No, not every race in the Grand Tour of Cycling airs on NBC. While NBC Sports channels and platforms televise the Tour de France and Vuelta a España, the Giro d’Italia streams on Max’s  B/R Sports Add-On .

What cycling events are on Peacock?

Popular cycling events featured on Peacock include the Tour de France, Vuelta a España , and Olympic cycling . Other major UCI World Tour races like the Giro d’Italia, Milan–San Remo, and Tour of Flanders stream on services like FloBikes and Max’s B/R Sports Add-On .

Is there an official Tour de France app?

Yes, you can heighten your Tour de France viewing experience by downloading the official mobile app on your Android or iOS device. The app comes with course maps, real-time stats, and live commentary.

Why you should trust us

Our sports experts researched and tested the best ways to watch this year’s Tour de France. We examined which channels and platforms carry each Tour de France stage, then determined our viewing recommendations based on race coverage, pricing, and ease of use.

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Can pogačar do the double these 5 stages will decide who wins the tour de france, where will the yellow jersey be won a stupid-hard opener, some gravel, and the most explosive tour de france finale in decades will decide..

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Can Tadej Pogačar follow Marco Pantani’s pedal strokes and win both the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in one season?

Jonas Vingegaard , Primož Roglič , Remco Evenepoel , and one of the most fiendishly tricky Tour de France routes in decades will decide.

A stupidly hard opening stage, 32km of dirt roads, an extended trip to high altitude, and a wild rollercoaster TT ride around Nice stand between uber-favorite “Pogi” and his place in history.

So cancel work, lock your family out of the house, and stock up on snacks.

These are the five must-watch stages that will decide the 2024 Tour de France:

Stage 1: Firenze-Rimini

• Saturday June 29
• 206km/3,800m+

The Florence grand départ will be the rudest slap in the face imaginable for the “Big 4″ of the Tour de France.

Seven categorized climbs – yes, seven – over a 200km+ course makes this the hilliest first stage of the Tour in history.

It’s an Italian mini-classic out of the Lombardia and Liège playbook that will show who’s hot and who’s not in what will be a wild opening day for a tightly wound, nerve-riddled peloton.

None of the Tuscan climbs on the stage 1 menu are huge, but they’re relentlessly stacked back-to-back-to-back. Former Liège-Bastogne-Liège champions Pogačar and Evenepoel would be licking their chops with delight if this was a one-day race.

The “Big 4” could end up butting heads after just 100 or so clicks of the 80+ hour Tour de France on a course like this.

Pogačar will likely be playing the Tour a lot cooler than his flamethrower approach to the Giro d’Italia. But if he’s feeling fresh and recovered just 31 days after his rampage through Italy, don’t be surprised to see the supreme Slovene burning up Le Tour from day one.

For defending champion Vingegaard, there will be no room for post-injury cobwebs .

Stage 9: Troyes-Troyes

• Sunday July 7
• 199km/2,000m+

Expect gravel beefs aplenty in the opening week of the Tour.

The race’s opening phase finishes with a stage stacked with dirt road sectors that will have old-school directors fuming and tarmac aficionados wailing.

A total of 14 chemins blancs , or white roads, line the course of this tricky, technical stage through Troyes.

Sure, a total of 32km of dirt means this is no Strade Bianche, but there’s three times more sterrato than what we saw on stage 6 of this year’s Giro d’Italia, and the most off-road Le Tour has seen in some time.

The “dirtiness” of the chemins blanc is unknown – it could be a stone-packed puncturefest or it could be hard clay that’s a cruise for any adept pro.

Yet any surface that’s not smooth asphalt comes laden with risk. Remember how Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma nearly unraveled during a wild and wacky day on the pavé in 2022?

Punctures, crashes, and potentially slow support from team cars could do a lot of damage to a peloton starting to run on fumes after nine days of racing.

Pogačar isn’t going to be pulling any sort of Strade Bianche redux with an 80km solo raid on the Tour’s ninth stage. But he’s undoubtedly the multi-surface master of the GC pack and could be poised to profit.

Some of the classification contenders could be heading into the Tour’s first rest day after stage 9 with some serious grumbles about gravel in grand tours.

Stage 14: Pau-Pla d’Adet

• Saturday July 13
• 152km / 4000m+

“4,000 meters of climbing in 80km? Yes please,” said nobody in the peloton when they looked at the course for stage 14.

This first of two days in the French Pyrénées is an interval session of ascents that won’t take any prisoners. Expect mountain trains and lots of pain in what could work out the most explosive climbing stage of the Tour.

Three high passes including the Tourmalet in little more than two hours of racing will provide the teams of the “Big 4” a true amphitheater opportunity to put the hurt on their rivals.

Teams with depth and ambition like UAE Emirates and its armada of top Pogi-supporting climbers could turn the Tour upside down on a stage short enough to be steamrollered with both feet on the accelerator.

If Pogačar still has gas in his fifth week of 2024 grand tour racing, early attacks and ambushes could be options for UAE Emirates instead of a traditional “train” approach.

If there aren’t race-shifting time gaps on GC after this short ‘n’ severe Saturday, there certainly will be 24 hours later. The under recovered peloton will be slapped with a traditional “queen stage” mountain procession through the Ariège Pyrénées the next day on stage 15.

One of the “Big 4” is sure to explode during beastly back-to-back.

Stage 19: Embrun-Isola 2000

• Friday July 19
• 145km/4,500m+

Stage 19 packs 58km – that right, FIFTY-EIGHT KILOMETERS – of uphill into just 145km. It’s a killer.

And as if the total 4,500m of total gain isn’t enough, a chunk of the elevation loaded into this 19th stage of the Tour de France is in the strength-sapping thin air of high altitude.

Each of the day’s three climbs is mind-bendingly long and crosses the lethal 2,000m elevation mark, and the Cime de la Bonnette is one of the highest paved roads in Europe.

It used to be said Pogačar had a chink in his armor when a race went this high.

The doubters thought again this May when the Slovenian slayed all his GC rivals by three minutes during the Giro’s high-altitude stage to Livigno. Roglič, Vingegaard, and Evenepoel will pray they’re similarly well adapted after their torpedoed 2024 training programs.

If “Pogi” is running on fumes, if Vingegaard is undertrained, or if Roglič and Evenepoel didn’t do the work after the Critérium du Dauphiné, the GC favorites could be scattered all through the French Alps in this decisive mountain stage.

Half the peloton stayed atop Isola during their final pre-Tour training camps. Many of them won’t enjoy going back.

Stage 21: Monaco-Nice

• Sunday July 21

Will stage 21 of this year’s Tour de France the best grand tour finale in decades? Quite possibly.

This year’s closing TT marks the first time in history that Le Tour has finished outside of Paris, and ASO designed a stunner to mark the historic occasion.

Rolling out of Pogačar’s European hometown Monaco and straight up popular test climbs La Turbie and Col d’Èze, stage 21 is a rollercoaster ride through the spectacular training roads of half the pro peloton.

La Turbie and Col d’Èze aren’t super hard, but they will be tough enough to cause consternation as Pogačar and Co. click through their turbo trainer warm-ups ahead of the stage.

If the GC is still close ahead of this final Sunday, the Tour will see it’s first competitive final since that time trial in 1989 when Greg LeMond usurped Laurent Fignon at the very last.

A twisting, high-speed descent from the Èze and into Nice means nerves could be jangling for every inch of the final 17km of this Tour de France.

All of the “Big 4” are monsters on a time trial bike, and if they’re on form the margins could be tight.

Pogačar will be hoping the race is a done deal by this point.

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NBC Sports, Peacock and the Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) today announced a six-year extension for exclusive U.S. media rights for the Tour de France.

Beginning with the 111 th Tour de France in June 2024, Peacock will become the exclusive home of the Tour de France in the United States through 2029 with live start-to-finish coverage of every stage . Select stages will also simulcast live on NBC throughout the three-week event. Daily coverage on Peacock will include NBC Sports-produced pre- and post-race studio shows, full-stage replays, highlights, stage recaps, rider interviews, and more.

As part of its previous agreement, NBC Sports and Peacock will present full live coverage of 110th Tour de France this summer (July 1-23, 2023). NBC Sports’ full coverage schedule for the 2023 Tour de France will be announced in the coming months.

“We’re excited to reach this long-term agreement with A.S.O. to present the world’s most prestigious cycling event live on Peacock for years to come,” said Jon Miller, President, Acquisitions and Partnerships, NBC Sports. “With the Tour de France and our extensive cycling portfolio, we are proud to continue as the home of cycling in the United States, while continuing to bolster Peacock’s best-in-class slate of live sports programming.”

“We are delighted to be able to extend our long-term partnership with NBCUniversal, which promotes the Tour de France and all the major A.S.O. sporting events to the American public on a cross-platform basis, including women’s cycling such as the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift that NBC Sports has supported since the first edition in July 2022. The combined coverage via Peacock, which will show the entire races from the beginning to the end, and network television, will ensure that everyone has access to the best of world cycling. Super fans won’t miss any of the twists and turns that cycling holds. NBC Sports will remain the home of cycling in the United States for another six years and in 2029 we will celebrate the 29th anniversary of a historic partnership that is proof of America’s sincere love for cycling and the Tour,” declared Yann Le Moenner, CEO of A.S.O.

As part of the agreement, NBC Sports will present many additional A.S.O. events throughout the year, including cycling events such as La Vuelta a España, which is the final Grand Tour event of the year following the Tour de France, La Vuelta Feminina by Carrefour.es, the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the Spring Classics including the men’s and women’s Paris-Roubaix, Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift, the Ardennaises Classics (men and women) that are La Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Criterium du Dauphine, and Paris Tours. Also included are the Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris, the world’s second-largest marathon, and the Dakar Rally , the world’s most challenging off-road endurance race.

Comcast/NBC Sports has served as the U.S. home of the Tour de France since 2001.

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Why Primož Roglic’s Tour de France Defeat Was So Damn Soul-Crushing

“It’s hard not to get emotionally invested in these flawed human beings who begin to resemble so much more than just some guys on a bicycle.”

Over the course of the past few days, I have tried to pinpoint exactly why Roglič’s defeat, which has a handful of historical precedents in cycling, seems so acutely devastating. There are upsets in the Tour de France every single year, and the laundry list of tragedies ranges from doping scandals to simple misfortune. In fact, the inevitability of tragedy is part of the unique Romanticism of cycling, a sport that combines every single literary conflict—man vs. himself vs. nature vs. machine vs. man—into a cocktail of the profane and the sublime.

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While there is the more obvious comparison to the 1989 Tour de France LeMond-Fignon scenario (in which Laurent Fignon agonizingly loses the Tour to LeMond by eight seconds in the final time trial), I actually think, emotionally speaking, the closest parallel to what happened in this year’s Tour is the infamous battle between teammates Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault in 1986. By the end of Stage 20, LeMond had made up an over four minute time deficit to unseat Hinault, a five-time Tour winner who was the overwhelming favorite in the court of public opinion (especially in France). Despite the odds that Hinault could come back by way of an aggressive effort in the final time trial, his fate was sealed. It was Hinault’s final Tour before retirement, and at the same time, the much younger LeMond’s victory made him the first American to win the yellow jersey.

This story is famous, partly because it has many of the same elements present in the Roglič-Pogačar conflict: a much younger rider unseating a heavily favored compatriot (in the LeMond case, from the same team rather than from the same nation) in the twilight hours of the Tour, with world-historic consequences in terms of inaugurating a specific country’s legacy within the sport. And yet, as much as the French public wanted Hinault to win, as much as Hinault wanted to win the Tour in his final effort before he threw in the towel, this story is still so much less heartbreaking than the one we experienced on Saturday, September 19th, 2020, not because of what happened but because of who was involved.

It’s incredibly difficult to not use sport as some kind of metaphor for one’s own life or as a synecdoche for a particular place such as one’s nation, college, or hometown and all of the experiences and identities encompassed within. It’s hard not to see oneself in the struggles of others. It’s hard not to get emotionally invested in these flawed human beings who begin to resemble so much more than just some guys on a bicycle. In many ways, Primož Roglič is such a special cyclist because his story, which is unique among professional racers, straddles many different axes of human experience including desire, failure, redemption, and resilience.

The story is well known . Roglič, born to average parents in Kisovec, a small coal mining town in the post-Communist country of Slovenia, started out as a ski jumper. By all means, he was talented: He won several Slovenian youth titles and later medals in bigger events such as the World Junior Championships. A devastating crash in 2007 marked a significant shift in his skiing career, and by the time he was 21, the young skier could not, despite years of dedicated effort after emerging as a talent early in adolescence, secure a spot at the top of the sport.

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At the age of 22, he bought his first racing bike and decided to take up cycling. He won a number of small gran fondos and amateur races before reaching out to the UCI Continental team Adria Mobil, who took a chance on him. Roglič began to more publicly display his emerging talent, and after several strong performances (including winning the Tour of Slovenia in 2015), he was noticed by a recruiter who got in touch with staff at the Dutch UCI WorldTour team Jumbo-Visma. (For those of you in the know, Jumbo-Visma is the latest iteration of Rabobank, which for decades had been considered one of cycling’s strongest teams.) The rest is history.

If you watch interviews of Roglič, you will see a soft-spoken man who keeps to himself, displaying little of the self-assured cockiness natural to cyclists at the pro level. At 30, he is still somewhat early in his career compared to those of similar age, partially because he started out relatively late. Despite his four years of success as a WorldTour professional, one gets the sense that Roglič is continuously, quietly surprised by where he’s at in life. All of these things make him a unique figure in contemporary cycling, which has revolved around training a select few teenagers in intensive development schools to race grand tours by the time they are 21.

We want to believe in Roglič because we want to believe that one can fail—utterly, abjectly—at what one chooses to do as a young person and still go on to succeed at the highest possible level in something else, something previously unexpected. We want to believe that, despite being from humble circumstances, we too can ascend the ranks and achieve great things—that there is still a chance we can realize our deepest desires, our hidden potential. We want to believe that the greatest victories of our lives can come after we turn 30; that a lack of precociousness (whether real or as perceived by others) in our youth or adolescence—the time during which adults intervene to cultivate our talent into a budding career—does not stop us from fighting our way into the recognition we deserve. We want to believe that an outsider, completely isolated from the connections and machinations and politics of a given field, can become that field’s greatest champion.

At once, we realize that we see sport as some kind of grand narrative that allows us to believe in miracles.

It is a bit unfair to say that what we are talking about strictly follows the same, tired narratives of meritocracy because the victory of Tadej Pogačar better embodies that specific construct. Pogačar’s success fits a familiar meritocratic pattern of sports triumph: his talent being recognized, cultivated, after which—through sheer strength of will and despite his youth and lackluster team—he achieves his glory against all odds. The core of the emotional investment in Roglič’s story lies not in his success by way of sheer effort due to some kind of superhuman talent—but in his redemption, as a man no longer young, from failure. The desire to see Roglič win doesn’t come from wanting to see him overpower his competition in spite of a past that defies cycling’s norms (though that is a part of it), but rather from our need to believe that we live in a world that allows us the security and opportunity to do something else with our lives when what we’ve originally chosen doesn’t pan out. This is why the narrative’s emphasis is placed on Roglič’s past as a skier rather than his humble beginnings to working-class parents in a developing country.

Roglič’s loss exposes us to reality: like the myth of meritocracy, the idea that we have the opportunity in our contemporary capitalist society, with all of its entrenched racism, classism, sexism, ableism, ageism—a number of ever-depressing isms—to reach our full potential or follow our dreams at all, much less later in life, is exactly that—a myth. It especially touches on our existing anxieties about age: that the further away from youth we get, the less relevant we are, the less competent we are able to become, the less special our achievements seem.

The strength of his team and how they dominated the race reminds us that no matter how secure we feel—regardless of the fact that we’ve done everything right—we will never be able to fully insure against all possibilities, make the future any less frighteningly enigmatic, or, quite simply, prevent bad things from happening to us. At once, we realize that we see sport as some kind of grand narrative that allows us to believe in miracles, in romantic ideals of individual or collective triumph over the body and the mind and society; in role models whose struggles offer us the sublimation of our deepest desires and transport us—for a little while—away from the quotidian bullshit of our lives.

Even in defeat, figures like Bernard Hinault, Laurent Fignon, Thibaut Pinot, and now Primož Roglič are transformed from mortal men into literary figures, albeit of a more tragic, existential nature. This literary element in cycling has meant its history is written in captivating, fascinating ways, often focusing more on grand, poetic narratives rather than records of individual wins and losses. In a cruel irony, it still remains to be seen whether or not we will remember Tadej Pogačar 50 years from now. Indeed, one must also ask the same question of Roglič, had he won. However, it is all but inevitable that the story of Primož Roglič’s last-second abdication of the 2020 Tour de France, one of the purest examples of cycling’s taste for dramatic cruelty and poetic injustice, will never be forgotten.

Kate Wagner is an architectural and cultural critic whose writing can be found in a variety of publications including The New Republic , The Baffler , and The Atlantic . She rides, with utter devotion, a 2000 Bianchi Volpe.

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