Everything you need to know about cycling in France your independent guide
Watching the Tour de France in person
Nothing quite beats the feeling of waiting in the french countryside or at the top of a mountain for the tour de france to roll by. roger dunne * has this guide to watching the world's largest annual spectator event..
A front row view in Brussels in 2010. Photo: Kmeron
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- Tour de France OFFICIAL RACE GUIDE
Stage-by-stage logistics (road closures, parking advice etc etc).
*** We strongly advise getting a copy of the Official Tour de France Race Guide to help your planning. It has all stage times and maps in one place. It sells out every year so order it early. ***
The Tour de France has grown over the years to be known as the greatest race on Earth. The sheer endurance needed to ride an average of 100km for a duration of three weeks in some of the most physically challenging terrain is testimony to the riders passion, drive and commitment to the sport.
For the French, the Tour is a national celebration and it is a great honour for ones town or city to be chosen as a host venue. Every year hundreds of thousands of spectators line the streets of every village, hamlet and roadside to be part of the colour, smell, noise and atmosphere.
The Tour is also a great tourist attraction with fans coming from all over the world. There is such a build up to the race coming through and its important to get to where you want to see it at least two hours before as the gendarmes close the roads in preparation.
First through is the publicity caravan made up of many of France's major brands in dedicated vehicles advertising their wares and giving away free gifts. It's great fun trying to grab the freebie chocolates, key rights, and race caps from the moving vehicles but be careful not to get caught in the stampede. It's quite amazing what people will do to get a free gift! The caravan lasts about 45 minutes and is entertaining for the spectators who may have waited many hours to catch a glimpse of the riders. In fact, one survey found that 39% of spectators come to see the publicity parade rather than the actual riders.
George Hincapie is cheered up the mountain in 2004. Photo: bryan88
On the mountains
The mountain stages in the Pyrenées and the Alps are always a magnificent spectacle where thousands of people flock and create a great atmosphere. These stages are always popular as often you can see the pre-race cavalcade followed by the riders. The incline of the mountain naturally slows down the passing cavalcade and race so that its spectacle is slowly absorbed by the crowd.
It's also worth noting when the rest days are, as these give you a chance before or after a stage to see more of the surrounding area or to travel on to another stage.
Alpe d'Huez, 2011. Photo: www.instantes-cyclistes.fr
Finding Tour de France accommodation
The sheer number of people from around the world that follow the Tour means the minute the Tour route is announced there is a rush to book accommodation , cycling holidays following the tour , car hire etc, so make sure you make arrangements as early as possible.
Zoom into the map below to find accommodation on your section of the route. It's a work in progress and we're adding to it all the time (suggestions welcome via [email protected] ).
You can also browse bike-friendly accommodation across all of France via our Where to Stay section .
If you're planning on camping out on top of the more popular mountains, try to arrive a good two days prior to the race coming through to get a prime parking and/or camping space.
Road closures
Once you have decided where you would like to see the Tour, check prior to arriving – or with the local tourist office as soon as you arrive – to see which roads are going to be closed (and when). You also need to find out what time the stage will be approximately coming through at the place you hope to see it. If you are following a particular stage on bike, it may be advisable to ride the route the day before to familiarise yourself with how long it will actually take so you don’t miss the race going through. I try and log Tour de France road closure information here as it comes to hand each year.
Official race guide
*** We strongly advise getting a copy of the Official Tour de France Race Guide to help your planning. It has all stage times and maps in one place. ***
Waiting for the peloton. Photo: bishib70
What to take with you
*** Again, we strongly advise getting a copy of the Official Tour de France Race Guide to help your planning. It has all stage times and maps in one place. ***
It's advisable to bring as much water as possible with you as it is the summer and will generally be hot and sunny, particularly the further south you go. If you are on bike or even following the race in a car, it might be wise to take a small packed lunch with you as the French are very strict on when they serve food – generally 12-2pm and it may be difficult to find anything outside those hours, particularly if you are in a rural village. You should also bring sun cream, hat, camera, video camera , mobile phone and if you are going by bike some form of identification, even if its a hand written note of your name and contact telephone number in case of accident.
Bike hire for the Tour de France
It can be hard to find a high-spec road bike to ride Tour stages before or after the peloton. Bike hire, like accommodation, tends to get booked up months in advance, particularly on popular mountain stages. Away from the mountains, standard road bike or hybrid hire is easier to find, but high quality carbon fibre bikes can still be difficult to find outside well-known road cycling areas. For bike rental options across France, see our bike hire pages . It is also worth considering bicycle hire services that deliver to your door . If you are taking an organised cycling holiday in France to tie in with the Tour de France, your tour company should be able to arrange bike hire for you.
If you're going to a stage by bike and need to park it up by the side of road either keep a very close eye on your bike or preferably bring a chain to lock it up. The majority of spectators are there to see the race but there’s always the opportunistic thief, so just have your wits about you.
If you're cycling to one of the mountain stages, you will be climbing the mountain with thousands of others which is a great experience as everyone is cheering everyone else on. However, the descent after the race can be nerve wracking as you are again surrounded by thousands of cyclists of all abilities and also pedestrians, cars and other vehicles, so again, be careful and be sensible.
Many people plan their whole year around following the tour and make a holiday out of it taking in the atmosphere in the lead up to the stage coming through, so just be organised. Also keep an eye on the weather forecast to ensure you're kitted out for rain or sunshine.
More Tour de France information here
See also A Beginner's Guide to the Tour de France and the Tour de France in Numbers .
*Roger Dunne was a retired semi-professional cyclist who represented Great Britain and rode with teams in France and Luxembourg. An early supporter of Freewheelng France, he passed away in 2015.
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What goes on inside a Tour de France bus during those closed-door meetings
Each day of the three-week Tour, the riders wake up early and eat breakfast in their team hotel before boarding the bus and driving to the start. Once the bus is parked, the window blinds are pulled down, the music is turned off, the rider chatter stops, and the space becomes quiet, the only sound being that of the big motor humming in the belly of the bus and the AC blowing through the vents. EF-Drapac's head sports director, Charly Wegelius, stands at the front of the bus to begin the meeting. A former pro rider himself, Wegelius brings decades of experience to the team.
The meetings typically don't feature many slides, but the ones Wegelius does use help communicate visually what he believes is the important information to know. He lists in bullet points the "keys to the game" and goes over each. It helps the riders get their head in the race and prepared for what's to come.
The day we visited the bus was not a very complex stage, but on days in the mountains things do get more complicated in terms of planning and strategy.
"Everything about today, on paper, is straightforward," Wegelius tells the riders. "There's a headwind the whole day, but it's not a complex stage. Normally when I do the planning online I have a lot of notes, but today it's only a few."
Wegelius was speaking at the start of stage eight, a mostly flat day for the sprinters. (The next day, however, the stage to Roubaix, would prove to be one of the most difficult of the entire Tour, featuring over a dozen miles of hellish cobbled roads.)
"Everybody knows what's coming tomorrow — we know what's coming tomorrow," he goes on. "So what we need to do today is get a balance between saving energy for tomorrow and still keeping our heads in today, because today is still a stage of the Tour de France. However simple it may be, we've still got to get from A to B with Rigo without losing any time. So we need to race it smart without thinking too much about tire pressure for tomorrow."
"Rigo" is the nickname of the team leader Rigoberto Urán, who finished runner-up to Team Sky's Chris Froome last year. EF-Drapac's strategy this Tour was for Rigo to win the race, with every rider on the team working for him.
"And there's one thing that's different about today in that it's the 14th of July," Wegelius adds, "the French national holiday, Bastille Day, which means that the volume on even the simplest stage will be turned up, because for the French a day like today is a big deal."
In bike racing it's critical to understand which way the wind is blowing, and its strength. For example, strong crosswinds can wreak havoc, and if you're suddenly caught out, your race could be over before you know it.
"There's the wind for today," Wegelius says, pointing to a slide with the day's wind forecast. "Somewhere between 7 and 11 kilometers per hour, and therefore not a big deal. And again, there is not much on the stage in the way of technicalities."
Wegelius uses a mix of screenshots from Google Maps, including Street View, to help riders visualize the most critical parts of the course — for example, where the road narrows or there are tricky turns. Meanwhile, way ahead of the race, the codirector Andreas Klier, also a former pro, drives the course separately all the way to the finish, often sending text updates about changes in wind direction and photos from his phone to Wegelius via the team's mobile Slack channel. Wegelius can relay any critical information on the road to the riders, who all wear two-way radios.
"This is the final," Wegelius says, pointing to a detailed map of the last kilometers, which run through a dense city center with lots of sharp turns. "So I suggest bringing Rigo up to the front of the race at between 5 and 7 k to go because moving up after that will be impossible."
That means when Wegelius gives the order over the race radio toward the finish, all the riders will gather and escort Urán up toward the front of the bunch, where he's safer from crashes and less likely to lose any time to his rivals. By this point in the race it is, of course, second nature to Urán's lieutenants, but it's a point Wegelius believes is worth reiterating so the objective is crystal clear.
"So we still keep our heads with a focus on the race today. Take tomorrow's stage and put it in your rucksack till you get back on the bus later. OK? Manage the energy."
The meeting takes less than 10 minutes. At the end of it, Wegelius sums up the main points and asks whether anyone has questions. He finishes up with a smile for the riders.
"Remember that the rest day is coming when you guys will be able to relax, so just keep focused on today," he concludes. "Enjoy, and have a good day out there."
And with that the blinds go up, the music is turned back on, and the riders finish getting ready for another day at the office, in the world's biggest bike race.
Best-laid plans
Though Uran made it safely through stage eight without losing time to his rivals, the next day turned out to be a disaster — he crashed hard on the cobbles, injuring himself, and lost time.
He tried to recover on Monday's rest day, and he completed stage 11, wrapped in bandages, but he lost even more time. He pulled out of the Tour de France on the morning of stage 12, leaving Wegelius and Co. to come up with a new plan.
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What really goes on inside a Tour de France bus during those closed-door meetings
DREUX, France — For the Tour de France cyclists, the team bus is a sanctuary. Outside their hotel rooms, it's the only place the riders can enjoy some semblance of privacy. There are no fans in their faces badgering them for selfies, no journalists peppering them with the same questions day after day.
For an hour or so before and after each stage, the athletes get to relax in the air-conditioned coaches, with their covered windows, reclining seats, Spotify playlists, TVs, showers, espresso machine, and refrigerators packed with fresh food and cold drinks. And no matter how sultry it is outside, inside it's always cool and dark.
But the bus is also a working office, and as in any job there's a time to get down to business, to talk strategy and how to get results. The 22 Tour teams show up to win, after all, be it individual stages or the race overall. And they do need results — their jobs and sponsorship depend on it.
Success in the world's biggest bike race often comes down to executing a winning plan, and it's on the bus that each day's plan is reviewed in detail, or redrawn depending on how the race unfolds. The American outfit EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale invited Business Insider inside its team bus for one of its daily meetings.
Here's what we saw:
As we've learned, the job of a professional bike racer is not unlike that of many other jobs. There are responsibilities, goals, challenges, opportunities, and even performance reviews (very public ones). They show up for work every day and are expected to perform their best. It's just that they get paid to ride bikes.
Each day of the three-week Tour, the riders wake up early and eat breakfast in their team hotel before boarding the bus and driving to the start. Once the bus is parked, the window blinds are pulled down, the music is turned off, the rider chatter stops, and the space becomes quiet, the only sound being that of the big motor humming in the belly of the bus and the AC blowing through the vents. EF-Drapac's head sports director, Charly Wegelius, stands at the front of the bus to begin the meeting. A former pro rider himself, Wegelius brings decades of experience to the team.
The meetings typically don't feature many slides, but the ones Wegelius does use help communicate visually what he believes is the important information to know. He lists in bullet points the "keys to the game" and goes over each. It helps the riders get their head in the race and prepared for what's to come.
The day we visited the bus was not a very complex stage, but on days in the mountains things do get more complicated in terms of planning and strategy.
"Everything about today, on paper, is straightforward," Wegelius tells the riders. "There's a headwind the whole day, but it's not a complex stage. Normally when I do the planning online I have a lot of notes, but today it's only a few."
Wegelius was speaking at the start of stage eight, a mostly flat day for the sprinters. (The next day, however, the stage to Roubaix, would prove to be one of the most difficult of the entire Tour, featuring over a dozen miles of hellish cobbled roads.)
"Everybody knows what's coming tomorrow — we know what's coming tomorrow," he goes on. "So what we need to do today is get a balance between saving energy for tomorrow and still keeping our heads in today, because today is still a stage of the Tour de France. However simple it may be, we've still got to get from A to B with Rigo without losing any time. So we need to race it smart without thinking too much about tire pressure for tomorrow."
"Rigo" is the nickname of the team leader Rigoberto Urán, who finished runner-up to Team Sky's Chris Froome last year. EF-Drapac's strategy this Tour was for Rigo to win the race, with every rider on the team working for him.
"And there's one thing that's different about today in that it's the 14th of July," Wegelius adds, "the French national holiday, Bastille Day, which means that the volume on even the simplest stage will be turned up, because for the French a day like today is a big deal."
In bike racing it's critical to understand which way the wind is blowing, and its strength. For example, strong crosswinds can wreak havoc, and if you're suddenly caught out, your race could be over before you know it.
"There's the wind for today," Wegelius says, pointing to a slide with the day's wind forecast. "Somewhere between 7 and 11 kilometers per hour, and therefore not a big deal. And again, there is not much on the stage in the way of technicalities."
Wegelius uses a mix of screenshots from Google Maps, including Street View, to help riders visualize the most critical parts of the course — for example, where the road narrows or there are tricky turns. Meanwhile, way ahead of the race, the codirector Andreas Klier, also a former pro, drives the course separately all the way to the finish, often sending text updates about changes in wind direction and photos from his phone to Wegelius via the team's mobile Slack channel. Wegelius can relay any critical information on the road to the riders, who all wear two-way radios.
"This is the final," Wegelius says, pointing to a detailed map of the last kilometers, which run through a dense city center with lots of sharp turns. "So I suggest bringing Rigo up to the front of the race at between 5 and 7 k to go because moving up after that will be impossible."
That means when Wegelius gives the order over the race radio toward the finish, all the riders will gather and escort Urán up toward the front of the bunch, where he's safer from crashes and less likely to lose any time to his rivals. By this point in the race it is, of course, second nature to Urán's lieutenants, but it's a point Wegelius believes is worth reiterating so the objective is crystal clear.
"So we still keep our heads with a focus on the race today. Take tomorrow's stage and put it in your rucksack till you get back on the bus later. OK? Manage the energy."
The meeting takes less than 10 minutes. At the end of it, Wegelius sums up the main points and asks whether anyone has questions. He finishes up with a smile for the riders.
"Remember that the rest day is coming when you guys will be able to relax, so just keep focused on today," he concludes. "Enjoy, and have a good day out there."
And with that the blinds go up, the music is turned back on, and the riders finish getting ready for another day at the office, in the world's biggest bike race.
Best-laid plans
Though Uran made it safely through stage eight without losing time to his rivals, the next day turned out to be a disaster — he crashed hard on the cobbles, injuring himself, and lost time.
He tried to recover on Monday's rest day, and he completed stage 11, wrapped in bandages, but he lost even more time. He pulled out of the Tour de France on the morning of stage 12, leaving Wegelius and Co. to come up with a new plan.
“We tried to get ahead of it, but the crash from this week was very complicated, and today during the race, my back hurt a lot. We are behind quite a bit now, so we’ll regroup as a team and see what we can do. Of course I won’t exit the race, but we have to look at how to make the race now. It’s obvious that when you have a crash like this you have to reconsider your options.” - @RigobertoUran on #TDF2018 A post shared by EF - Drapac p/b Cannondale (@rideargyle) on Jul 17, 2018 at 5:56pm PDT Jul 17, 2018 at 5:56pm PDT
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It was not quite the scale of the Orica-GreenEdge mishap from 2013 when the bus got stuck under the finish line gantry, but the EF Education-EasyPost team ran into a sticky situation at the Tour de France ahead of the start of stage 10 on Tuesday.
The team bus snagged on the ground when rounding a tight downhill bend close to the team bus paddock in Morzine, leading to it being jammed for quite some time and necessitating some quick thinking to fix the problem.
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Pictures from the start show the brightly colored bus wedged in place. The predicament meant that other team buses couldn’t get into the team paddock for some time.
First it was Orica and now it is the EF bus that is very stuck. Blocking access for other team coaches to paddock at the beginning of stage 10. Hands at the ready to help. A lot of burnt rubber. #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/MmJmOxlfXx — Sophie Smith (@SophieSmith86) July 12, 2022
https://twitter.com/bleusavoie/status/1546812915281547265?s=20&t=A_Jva0B_m_9vhziX7FgGtA
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https://twitter.com/gael_robic/status/1546798818863316993?s=20&t=rfWvhGxXs6IssiZOqgHStw
The bus was eventually freed with the help of some heavy machinery, ending a stressful start to the stage for team staff.
EF bus has just been pulled back onto four wheels by a hastily commandeered digger as riders wait to get down to the start in Morzine #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/df9196H7BN — Peter Cossins (@petercossins) July 12, 2022
Le bus @EF a pris le virage trop serré et s'est retrouvé bloqué plus de 20 minutes, coinçant tous les autres derrière sur la route du départ à Morzine ! Tout vient de rentrer dans l'ordre 😉 #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/UIX26kGf4B — Thomas Siniecki (@siniecko) July 12, 2022
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With just ten days until the 2024 Tour de France , we are due squad announcements, but Uno-X Mobility are the first to release their lineup.
The Norwegian team will be led by Magnus Cort and Alexander Kristoff, two riders who have tasted success at the French Grand Tour in the past.
The pair will be joined by six more Scandinavians - all Norwegians, incidentally - Jonas Abrahamsen, Tobias Halland Johannessen, Rasmus Fossum Tiller, Søren Wærenskjold, Johannes Kulset and Odd Christian Eiking.
2024 will be the second consecutive year that Uno-X will be present at the Tour, after an aggressive debut in 2023, which saw them finish in the top 10 on stages 11 separate times. However, they are still chasing a stage win.
Cort might be the difference maker. The Dane won the team's first ever WorldTour stage at the Critérium du Dauphiné earlier this month, and has won stages at all three Grand Tours. He last won at the Tour in 2022.
"Our focus in the team selection has been to find a good combination of lead-out skills, climbing skills, and general riding strength," Thor Hushovd, Uno-X's general manager, said on Monday. "The riders we have selected complement each other very well, and I am confident that we will make our mark on several stages throughout the race."
Johannessen is the best climbing option among the group, with the 24-year-old victorious at the Tour de l'Avenir in 2021.
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The 2024 race begins on Saturday 29 June in Florence, Italy, and finishes in Nice, France, just over three weeks later on 20 July. Read our guide to the Tour's route here .
Eight men are allowed in each squad, with a mix of climbers, sprinters, general classification hopefuls and domestiques. All 18 WorldTour teams will be present, alongside ProTeams Israel-Premier Tech, Lotto Dstny, Uno-X, and TotalEnergies.
Below are the confirmed squads for the race. We will update this page with more riders as teams are announced.
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Uno-X Mobility CORT Magnus (Den) KULSET Johannes (Nor) TILLER Rasmus (Nor) EIKING Odd Christian (Nor) KRISTOFF Alexander (Nor) WÆRENSKJOLD Søren (Nor) JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland (Nor) ABRAHAMSEN Jonas (Nor)
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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.
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What Does it Take to Race the Tour de France?
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We take a closer look at the demands of the most famous grand tour, and how the pros train for three weeks of intense racing.
For three weeks each July, we watch as the best bike racers in the world tear themselves apart for five-plus hours per day at the Tour de France .
Over 21 stages, nearly 200 incredible athletes race an event that would shatter most of us in just one day. But then they also have to contend with answering reporter’s questions, pleasing sponsors, transferring between hotels, trying to eat enough food to cover the day’s expenditures, and, finally—and perhaps most importantly—trying to get quality sleep.
It’s a feat that’s hard to comprehend. In this brief review, we’ll explore what it takes to race the Tour—physiologically and psychologically. We will look at the Tour from a numbers perspective—and describe why the numbers really don’t tell the tale. Then we’ll dive into how the riders train for the Tour before discussing what amateur riders should and shouldn’t take away from how Tour riders train.
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The tale of the Tour in numbers
Compared to what everyday cyclists do, the raw numbers of a Tour de France effort are staggering. Over the course of three weeks, riders will average around 100 hours of racing. And that doesn’t include anything extra that they might do: warming up, cooling down, or rest-day rides.
On a course that averages around 3,500 kilometers, Tour riders will expend about 5,000 to 7,000 calories per day, or over 120,000 calories over the three weeks. The true number depends on things like rider size, their role on the team, and so on.
Interestingly, when you look at the average power over the 21 stages, it can be as low as 170 watts for some light climbers who are in protected roles and who spend a lot of the time off the front of the peloton. It’s just that they will also need to produce those sudden moments of very high power outputs.
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“It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a lot if you’re holding that for 110 hours,” says Ciaran O’Grady, a sport scientist and lead coach at Israel-Premier Tech professional cycling team. “It’s going to certainly add up in terms of physiological load. It’s absolutely astonishing what these guys go through over those 21 stages.”
According to O’Grady, 70 percent of the time the riders spend, on average, during the race is in zone 1 (in a three zone model). So it’s a prolonged sub-threshold pace. Above threshold? For most of the riders, it’s around 10 to 15 percent of the total time.
On a course that averages around 3,500 kilometers, Tour riders will expend about 5,000 to 7,000 calories per day, or over 120,000 calories over the three weeks.
“Again, it doesn’t sound like much on paper, but when you add it up over the course of 21 stages, it’s a fair old physiological whack,” O’Grady proclaims.
Training a Tour engine
The first thing to appreciate about riding the Tour is the sheer volume—over 100 hours of pedaling. So, one of the first training considerations is, no surprise, pure volume on the bike.
During the base phase of a pro rider’s training program, they will have months where the training load is 100 or more hours, to mimic the conditions of the race. Once they’ve bult that ability to handle the volume, then they work on their ability to produce explosive, intense efforts.
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That said, most of the riders who race the Tour, or any grand tour, will have been a professional for several years. Their endurance engine is already very well developed. So the bulk of those 100 hours may have fairly low average power. When they do training blocks, they’ll strategically add intensity to that high volume.
“This is what I call dirty intervals: you go out and ride for three hours at tempo pace, burn maybe 2,500 to 3,000 kilojoules, and then start the intervals,” O’Grady says. “It’s all about making sure that the body is able to work when it is fatigued.”
After doing that day by day by day, with the proper recovery to allow for the adaptive process, you create the engine to perform in a grand tour environment, according to O’Grady. This assumes the athlete already has the genetic predisposition to do so.
A study that analyzed six years of training data from Pierre Rolland, a former Tour de France GC rider, confirms this approach.
In short, his five-second power, 30-second power, and one-minute power didn’t change much over the course of those six years, as he developed into a top-10 finisher at the Tour. However, his training volume over those six years increased 79 percent. The development was focused on the aerobic engine, and on the ability to resist fatigue.
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At the start of the six-year study, he managed to do only three big training blocks filled with extremely stressful, big volume, big intensity workouts. However, by the time he finished in the top 10 at the Tour de France, he was completing 11 of those training weeks in a year.
The focus was never about building huge power. It was much more about that ability to resist the grind.
For the mortals among us (that’s you!)
It goes without saying: these guys are professionals, so what they do is not usually what a recreational rider should do.
This [type of training] would probably set us mortals back more than it would drive us along. We’re just not able to assimilate those adaptations that are being made by the stresses.
“This [type of training] would probably set us mortals back more than it would drive us along,” O’Grady says. “We’re just not able to assimilate those adaptations that are being made by the stresses that we would be putting our body under.”
If you had a week off from work, you could do a huge amount of volume in that week . But then to make quality adaptations from that, it’s going to be extremely difficult without the proper recovery.
It’s always important to be mindful of your limitations. Don’t try to replicate the rides of the pros, particularly if you work full-time.
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However, one aspect of their training is highly relevant. The so-called polarization of their training—spending most of the time at a relatively low intensity, and then doing very specific hard efforts only sparingly—leads to the biggest gains with the smallest risks.
This is the type of training you see time and time again from the bulk of the professional peloton. It takes time, it takes discipline, but if their efforts at the Tour are any indication, it works very well.
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A s the 2024 Tour de France rolls out from Florence, Italy on June 29, there will be 176 riders competing across 22 teams – some with a target on overall victory, others looking for stage wins and more still pleased with any opportunity that comes along their way to gather publicity on the biggest cycling stage in the world.
All 18 WorldTour teams, plus the two best-ranked ProTeams – Israel-Premier Tech and Lotto-Dstny – got their automatic invitations to race while organisers ASO handed out wild card entries to Uno-X Mobility and TotalEnergies.
Crashes, form and Olympic goals have shaped the selections and ambitions for the teams but regardless all will be fighting to make an impression as the 21 days of racing over 3497.3km from Tuscany to Nice in the south of France unfolds.
Cyclingnews has pored through every squad, assessing their leaders, objectives and chances of success to bring you this comprehensive team-by-team guide.
Alpecin-Deceuninck
- Team leader: Jasper Philipsen
- Objective: Stage wins, points classification
- Rider to watch: Mathieu van der Poel
In the bunch sprints of the Grand Tours of recent years, one team has stood out above the rest as masters of the lead-out train: Alpecin-Deceuninck .
They were a prominent presence throughout the bunch finishes at the recent Giro d’Italia, but Kaden Groves wasn’t able to ride them to victory. However, at the Tour de France, the team will have Jasper Philipsen , the quickest sprinter in the peloton.
Philipsen was one of the stars of last year’s Tour, storming to four stage wins (as many as any sprinter has managed at a single Tour since the 2011 edition), as well as riding consistently enough to claim the green jersey. He didn't slow down this spring, either, with victories at Milan-San Remo and the Classic Brugge-De Panne, as well as a second place at Paris-Roubaix, among his very impressive results.
Not only is Philipsen the quickest sprinter in the race, but he’ll also have the quickest lead-out man riding for him in Mathieu van der Poel . The pair work brilliantly together, as seen not just at last year’s Tour sprints, but also during the spring, when Van der Poel helped Philipsen to triumph at Milan-San Remo, and vice versa at Paris-Roubaix.
Van der Poel will also go hunting for stage wins on appropriate stages, most likely on days with punchy parcours too hard for sprinters but not hard enough for climbers. For a man so untouchable in the Classics, it’s perhaps surprising that he only has one stage win to his name from three Tour appearances, but he has often ridden here with a future goal in mind, as will be the case this year as he builds towards the Olympics.
Arkéa-B&B Hotels
- Team leader: Arnaud Démare
- Objective: Stage wins
- Rider to watch: Kévin Vauquelin
With Warren Barguil having followed Nairo Quintana out the door, Arkéa-B&B Hotels are going in a fresh direction for the 2024 Tour with sprinter Arnaud Démare as their new talisman.
Having grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of opportunities provided him by his former Groupama-FDJ team, who selected him for only one Tour de France start in the last five years, Démare has moved to a team where he won’t just be picked but will command unified support behind him.
It’s hoped that as a winner of two Tour stages in the past, Démare can deliver the team their long-awaited first-ever following ten winless Tours, but does the Frenchman have the shape to do so? He hasn’t made the top ten of any race for almost four months, and recently fractured a finger at the 4 Jours de Dunkerque, plunging his Tour preparations into doubt.
It could therefore be up to others in the line-up to deliver, from which Kévin Vauquelin has shown particular potential. The 23-year-old has done everything this year, from making the top 10 at both Itzulia Basque Country and Tirreno-Adriatico, finishing second on the Mur de Huy at La Flèche Wallonne and winning a time trial at Etoile de Bessèges. He could be a contender for a variety of different stages though specialises in climbing hills and mountains.
Astana Qazaqstan
- Team leader: Mark Cavendish
- Rider to watch: Alexey Lutsenko
At last, it's nearly time for the race that Astana Qazaqstan 's whole season has been building up towards.
Since signing Mark Cavendish in January 2023, they've made it their foremost mission to deliver the Manxman to the elusive win number 35, move clear of Eddy Merckx, and thereby become the outright record holder for most stage wins at the Tour de France.
It had initially been intended as a one-year plan, but after the heartbreak of last year’s race, where Cavendish crashed out at the end of the first week , he and the team have decided to have one last shot at history this July.
Unlike last year, when he went into the Tour off the back of a final-day victory in Rome at the Giro d’Italia, Cavendish has shown only sporadic signs of form this season, confined to smaller races. He won a stage during his first race of the season at the Tour of Colombia in February but had to wait another three months for a first victory on European roads at the Tour of Hongrie.
The Astana team is set to be built entirely around him. Veteran lead-out master Michael Mørkøv was signed exclusively to deliver him in the sprints, while Cees Bol and Davide Ballerini will sacrifice their own sprinting ambitions to form part of his lead-out train.
One rider who might be granted some freedom to ride for himself is Alexey Lutsenko . He showed great form by winning Il Giro d’Abruzzo before abandoning the Giro d’Italia and finishing seventh and eighth on GC in 2021 and 2022, respectively. He has two Tour de France GC top 10s, as well as a stage win in 2020, on his palmarès, so another top showing isn't out of the question.
Bahrain Victorious
- Team leaders: Pello Bilbao
- Objective: GC, stage wins
- Riders to watch: Santiago Buitrago, Matej Mohorič
What Bahrain Victorious lacks in a single stand-out GC contender, they make up for in strength in depth. Following Antonio Tiberi’s fifth place at the Giro d’Italia, they’re hoping to extend their run of top-six finishes on GC to a fifth consecutive Grand Tour and have several riders potentially capable of doing so.
Their best candidate is Pello Bilbao , based on his performance at the Tour last year and in stage races so far in 2024. He was sixth place last year and has been building nicely towards that level again this year with sixth-place finishes at Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Itzulia Basque Country, plus third at the UAE Tour in between.
Santiago Buitrago is poised to make his Tour debut. He brings with him considerable expectations off the back of his stage wins and top-ten finish at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España, respectively, as well as his impressive showing at Paris-Nice earlier this year.
It’s also hoped that Jack Haig can rediscover some form ahead of the race, while even veteran Wout Poels could post a high GC finish based on his recent third and sixth-place finishes at the Tour de Hongrie and Tour of the Alps, respectively.
Poels and Bilbao were two of the three different riders to win a stage at last year’s Tour, along with Matej Mohorič, who will again be using his nous and engine to target breakaways. The Slovenian has three Tour stage wins on his career palmarès and it wouldn't be a surprise to see him add another win here.
With Phil Bauhaus , a debutant last summer, also posing a threat in the bunch sprints, Bahrain Victorious has the resources to target a win on almost every stage.
- Team leaders: Guillaume Martin
- Riders to watch: Bryan Coquard, Ion Izagirre.
For the first time in many years, Cofidis can go into a Tour de France without being badgered about questions of whether this will be the year they at last manage to claim a stage win.
By triumphing on stage 2 of last year’s edition, Victor Lafay ended the team’s 15-year drought and then Ion Izagirre added another stage a week later.
Lafay has since left for Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale but Izagirre remains and is set to ride, with stage wins on hilly and mountainous days again likely to be the target.
Guillaume Martin will ride his eighth consecutive Tour de France and will be the team’s leading GC hope. He’s placed eighth, 10th, 11th and 12th in past appearances, but has never won a stage, so he may prioritise trying to take one from a breakaway.
Bryan Coquard is another rider without a Tour stage win to his name despite many near misses, including a couple of fourth-place finishes last year. He’ll be the team’s man for the bunch sprints, especially on hillier days that weaken the specialists.
While these riders bring experience, 25-year-old Axel Zingle has form and potential. He’s been consistently in contention for multiple semi-Classics over the last few months and could win from a breakaway if he picks the right move.
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale
- Team leader: Felix Gall
- Rider to watch: Sam Bennett, Benoît Cosnefroy
In the middle of an exceptional season, in which they have already racked up more victories than they managed in the last two seasons combined, expectations are high for Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale as they head into the biggest race of the year.
Although the men who delivered stage wins (Valentin Paret-Peintre and Andrea Vendrame) and fourth overall (Ben O’Connor) at the Giro d’Italia will sit this one out as they rest and recover, the core of the other names who have made 2024 such a success are set to be present.
Benoît Cosnefroy has been the team’s biggest contributor with seven of their 23 wins (as of the end of May) and will target the hilly stages, while Dorion Godon will be a candidate in reduced bunch sprints, having won two sprint finishes at the Tour de Romandie in late April.
In the pure flat finishes, Sam Bennett will still be their main candidate, having recently shown signs of returning to form with a haul of wins and GC at the 4 Jours de Dunkerque.
Felix Gall might have had a quieter season to date, but he'll still be the team’s main man for the mountains and their GC candidate. He finished eighth overall last year after breaking through with a series of good performances in the spring, while he'll also be hoping to replicate his breakaway stage win at Courchevel.
DSM-Firmenich PostNL
- Team leader: Fabio Jakobsen, Romain Bardet
- Rider to watch: Warren Barguil
For the Tour de France, DSM-Firmenich PostNL are making the unusual move of deploying the same two leaders as they did at the Giro d’Italia.
In the bunch sprints, Fabio Jakobsen will again line up as he continues to rediscover his mojo. The Dutchman still only has one win to his name (at the Tour of Turkey) since signing for the team this year, and he failed to get involved in the Giro bunch sprints before abandoning during the second week. However, the team still retains faith that he can reach the level that saw him win a stage on his Tour debut two years ago.
Romain Bardet fared better at the Giro than Jakobsen, finishing ninth overall while coming close to a stage win on Bocca della Selva. Though he has made the top 10 in all but two of the eight Tours he has finished throughout his career, his excursions in Italy may mean he targets stage wins this time instead.
With 11 wins to their name – including just one WorldTour race and only three outside the Tour of Turkey – DSM need some big results. That means that another French climber, Warren Barguil , will likely be given the freedom to attack and get into breakaways.
EF Education-EasyPost
- Team leader: Richard Carapaz
- Rider to watch: Neilson Powless, Ben Healy
Last season was the first in EF Education-Easy Post ’s 16-year history that they did not place a rider in the top 10 of any of the Grand Tours. That run continued at the Giro d’Italia last month, where they aggressively targeted stage wins rather than GC via constant attacks, and were eventually rewarded in the final week with success from Georg Steinhauser in the Dolomites.
Nevertheless, they intend to strive to finish as high as possible at the Tour with Richard Carapaz as their leader. The 2021 podium finisher and 2019 Giro champion was signed in 2023 to do precisely that but he endured an under-par season last year and is only just showing signs of some form recently, with a stage win and seventh overall at the Tour de Romandie.
With Carapaz’s form still uncertain, there ought to be plenty of scope for the rest of the line-up to chase their own personal ambitions. Neilson Powless , for instance, could either chase GC as he did in 2023 (when he finished 12th), or stage wins and the polka-dot jersey as he did last year.
Irish puncheur Ben Healy is set to make his Tour debut, and if his Giro debut from last year and performances in the Classics are anything to go by, we can expect him to attack at every opportunity.
Alberto Bettiol ’s form during the spring suggests he could add a Tour stage win to the one he managed at the 2021 Giro, while Marijn van den Berg has also earned a spot on the team thanks to his impressive early season performances.
Groupama-FDJ
- Team leader: David Gaudu
- Rider to watch: Stefan Küng
A new dawn awaits Groupama-FDJ as they embark upon the first Tour de France of the post-Thibaut Pinot era. Before retiring at the end of last year, Pinot had been the fulcrum of the team, appearing for them in all but two of the last 12 editions — sometimes with great success, other times with great heartbreak.
David Gaudu will seek to fill the void left by Pinot, as he has for several years now. Fourth overall in 2022 remains his highest finish at any Grand Tour, and though a repeat of that looks ambitious given his stuttering form this year, he’s still dreaming of a podium finish.
If Gaudu doesn’t have the legs to mount a serious GC challenge, targeting stage wins may be the team’s optimum approach, and they have plenty of riders capable of delivering on that front.
Rising star Lenny Martinez misses the race in favour of the Vuelta a España, but 21-year-old Romain Grégoire is set to make his Tour debut on the back of some very impressive results this year, including a stage win at Itzulia Basque Country
Valentin Madouas has become a recognisable face from recent Tours without quite winning a stage, though he certainly has the talent to do so. Stefan Küng will, as ever, be a candidate for both the time trials as well as select breakaways.
Ineos Grenadiers
- Team leaders: Carlos Rodríguez
- Objective: GC
- Rider to watch: Tom Pidcock, Egan Bernal
Last year was only the second time in the last decade that Ineos Grenadiers failed to put a rider on the GC podium at the Tour de France. Even since their run of yellow jersey-winning Tours came to an end in 2020, up until then they had still managed to crack the podium through Richard Carapaz (in 2021) and Geraint Thomas (in 2022), but last year their highest finisher, Carlos Rodríguez , finished further down in fifth place.
Still, that result means Rodríguez is the obvious choice to lead the team’s 2024 GC bid, and the 23-year-old has bolstered his status with overall victory at the Tour de Romandie and second place behind Juan Ayuso at Itzulia Basque Country.
Also in the squad are other, more wildcard options for GC. Geraint Thomas would usually be a dependable candidate, but it’s unclear how fresh he will be, having dug deep to seal third place at the Giro d’Italia , while Tom Pidcock has stated that he intends to concentrate on the GC rather than stage wins, despite failing to make the top ten last year.
And what of Egan Bernal ? The 2019 champion has for the first time since his horror crash two and a half years ago shown form approaching his best, with third overall at Volta a Catalunya and top tens at Paris-Nice and the Tour de Romandie, but it remains to be seen if he can manage a sustained GC bid over three weeks.
Michał Kwiatkowski and Laurens De Plus will be on hand to help the aforementioned trio achieve their GC goals, even if the Belgian could harbour ambitions of his own after racing to an unexpected and impressive fifth overall at the Critérium du Daupihiné.
Intermarché-Wanty
- Team leader: Biniam Girmay, Louis Meintjes
- Rider to watch: Georg Zimmermann
Biniam Girmay returns to the Tour de France hoping for a positive turn in fortunes. So far his season has been blighted by interruptions, with promising form in the early spring classics halted by a crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen, and another crash spelling the end of his Giro d’Italia one day after finishing third in Fossano.
He’s since returned to winning ways with victory at the Circuit Franco-Belge , and looks on course to arrive at the Tour in form. As Intermarché-Wanty ’s star, the onus is on the Eritrean to make an impact and he has the chance to make history as the first-ever Black African to win a stage of the Tour de France. His consistency and versatility also make him a candidate for the green jersey.
Like Girmay, who failed to show his best self at last year’s Tour, Louis Meintjes will be hoping to return to the form that saw him finish seventh overall in 2022 rather than crash out last year.
Meintjes will be the team’s GC leader, but the rest of the line-up will have the freedom to get into break and chase stage wins, much as Georg Zimmermann (who was second on stage 10) did last year. Rouleurs like Laurenz Rex and Hugo Page might fancy their chances of winning a stage this way, too.
Israel-Premier Tech
- Team leader: Stephen Williams
- Rider to watch: Derek Gee, Pascal Ackermann
Israel-Premier Tech 's high ambitions from 2021, when they gambled on signing Chris Froome in the hope that he could recover from his horror crash two years earlier and revive his Tour-winning form of old, have since been significantly tempered.
Now no longer a WorldTour team, they've instead depended upon a wildcard to earn entry into the Tour de France, and their hopes are limited to chasing stage wins rather than mixing it up in the battle for the yellow jersey.
Froome himself is still fighting for selection. He’s eager to avoid a repeat of last year when he was left out of the Tour line-up, but his hopes of proving himself worthy were compromised when a fractured wrist sustained during Tirreno-Adriatico forced him to miss almost three months of racing.
His compatriot Stephen Williams is enjoying a terrific season, winning both La Flèche Wallonne and the Tour Down Under. He'll therefore be a top contender for stage wins in the hilly terrain.
The team should have a presence in the sprints, where Tour debutant Pascal Ackermann aims to add to his Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España stage wins and complete the Grand Tour clean sweep.
The rest of the line-up will be made up of stage hunters such as Dylan Teuns (who won here in both 2019 and 2021), and Derek Gee . The Canadian, who last year burst onto the scene with a series of breakaway second places at the Giro d'Italia, makes his Tour debut in the form of his life after scoring a stage win and third overall at the Critérium du Dauphné .
Jayco-AlUla
- Team leader: Simon Yates, Dylan Groenewegen
- Riders to watch: Michael Matthews
For a second successive season, Jayco-AlUla leader Simon Yates has foregone his usual Giro d’Italia participation in order to concentrate more committedly on the Tour de France.
Last year, this approach turned out to be a success, as he came to the Tour with some of the best legs of his career, eventually finishing fourth overall, and only missing out on a podium finish by 87 seconds to his brother Adam. His build-up to this year’s Tour isn’t so encouraging, however, having not shown much form since winning the AlUla Tour in the winter.
Jayco-AlUla aren’t putting all their eggs in the single basket of Yates’ GC bid. Dylan Groenewegen will be led out in the sprints by the likes of Luka Mezgec to see if he can add to his five Tour career stage wins, having come close last year with a second and third-place finish at Moulins and Paris, respectively.
On days too hilly for Groenewegen, Michael Matthews will step up, and may also try to get into some breakaways as he did to win a stage in 2022. He looked in fantastic form this spring, placing second at Milan-San Remo and, before being relegated for deviating from his line, third at the Tour of Flanders.
- Team leader: Mads Pedersen, Tao Geoghegan Hart
- Rider to watch: Giulio Ciccone
As a team boasting a diverse range of talent, Lidl-Trek could feasibly compete for all three of the major jerseys.
For the yellow jersey, they have Tao Geoghegan Hart . He’s only done the Tour de France once in his career and is eager to target GC here while still in his prime years. Victory might seem implausible, but that was also the case when he triumphed at the Giro d’Italia in 2020.
Mads Pedersen finished a distant second to Jasper Philipsen in the points classification last year, though he did score his second stage win in as many years. He's shown the kind of excellent form throughout this year to suggest he could bridge that gap, as well as add to his stage win tally.
As for the king of the mountains, Giulio Ciccone won that classification last year and will now be present to potentially defend that title after saddle sore surgery forced him to skip the Giro d’Italia.
Lidl-Trek might even have had a prime candidate for the white jersey if Matias Skjelmose had opted to ride, but he plans to skip the Tour and save himself for a Vuelta a España overall bid instead.
Lotto-Dstny
- Team leader : Arnaud De Lie
- Rider to watch: Maxim Van Gils
Compared to other teams, Lotto-Dstny have a laser-focussed approach when it comes to the Tour de France. Not only will it be their first Grand Tour of the season, having opted out of the Giro d’Italia, but they have also narrow down their ambitions to focus exclusively on stage wins, having not placed a rider in the top 10 for 14 years.
They haven’t had success on these terms recently, though, with no stage win to their name since Caleb Ewan’s victories in the sprints during the 2020 edition. The Australian has led the team for the past five Tours, bringing much success initially with multiple stage wins in 2019 and 2020, but nothing in the three editions since then.
He’s now left the team for Jayco-AlUla, and taking his place as Lotto’s leader will be Arnaud De Lie . Much is hoped from the 22-year-old debutant based on his rapid rise over the past two years, and he'll be especially threatening on hillier days where the pure sprinters will struggle.
However, the Tour will be a big step up from the level of competition he’s used to, and he’s only recently r eturned to form after suffering from Lyme disease during the spring.
De Lie might be the most hyped name, but another young Belgian, Maxim Van Gils , has been the team’s best performer so far this season. He finished second on the stage to Grand Colombier last year and has since established himself as one of the very best puncheurs in the world following podium finishes at Strade Bianche and La Flèche Wallonne, and a fourth place at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
2023 super-combativity winner Victor Campanaerts is also set to ride again, though his season to date has been a quiet one.
- Team leader: Enric Mas
- Rider to watch: Rémi Cavagna
2024 has so far been another difficult season for Movistar , with Pelayo Sánchez’s stage victory at the Giro d’Italia their only win at WorldTour level all year.
That doesn’t bode well for their prospects at the Tour de France, where they have, in recent years, laboured to reach the levels of the past. They’ve now gone two successive Tours without placing a rider in the top 10, having done so in eight of the nine previous editions.
If any of their roster is to break that duck, it’ll be Enric Mas . The Spaniard has generally been one of the most dependable GC riders of his generation, making the top six in six of his last eight Grand Tour appearances.
However, he has been forced to abandon both of his last two Tours de France, with his participation last summer ending on the first day following a crash.
So far, Mas has enjoyed a solid season without causing too much of a stir, finishing fifth overall at Volta a Catalunya and sixth at the Tour de Romandie. Considering that he normally ups his game for the Grand Tours, that’s encouraging.
New signing Rémi Cavagna is a dependable name in the time trials, breakaways and in helping team leaders on the flat, though the Frenchman hasn't scored a WorldTour win of his own since 2021. Returning star Nairo Quintana won't make the race, meanwhile, after breaking his hand in a crash at the Tour de Suisse.
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
- Team leaders: Primož Roglič
- Riders to watch: Jai Hindley, Aleksandr Vlasov
For the 2024 season, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe signed Primož Roglič with the primary objective of winning the Tour de France.
The team might never before have made the podium at any previous edition in their 10-year history, but Roglič has the calibre to challenge for yellow, as well as the desire, having moved from Visma-Lease a Bike for that specific purpose.
The Slovenian has left it to the last minute to show the kind of form he'll need to challenge for the yellow jersey, with his Critérium du Dauphiné victory his best showing of 2024 so far. The week-long warm-up race marked his first race since the heavy crash suffered by him, Remco Evenepoel, and Jonas Vingegaard at Itzulia Basque Country.
His two stage wins at the late summit finishes at Le Collet d'Allevard and Samöens 1600 were his first since the opening day at Itzulia, though a shaky final stage showing – where he shed almost a minute to Matteo Jorgenson and only held onto yellow by eight seconds – could provoke some cause for concern.
Roglič’s presence means last year’s leader Jai Hindley — who enjoyed a day in the yellow jersey after winning stage five in Laruns before back pain contributed to a slip down to seventh on GC — will be demoted to the role of super-domestique.
While Hindley’s form has tailed away since his impressive third-place finish at Tirreno-Adriatico, Aleksandr Vlasov might believe he has the results to justify potential co-leadership status. With a second place at Tour de Romandie, sixth at Volta a Catalunya and fifth at Paris-Nice, he has been among the team's top performers this year. At the Dauphiné, he proved a reliable and strong deputy for Roglič.
Elsewhere, the rest of the team is geared exclusively towards targeting the yellow jersey, with Champs-Elysées-winning sprinter Jordi Meeus missing out on selection as the team looks to domestiques Danny van Poppel , Nico Denz , Marco Haller , Matteo Sobrero , and Bob Jungels .
Soudal-QuickStep
- Team leader: Remco Evenepoel
- Rider to watch: Mikel Landa, Ilan Van Wilder
In a drastic change of approach, Soudal-QuickStep have abandoned their usual Tour de France strategy of targeting bunch sprints and stage wins, and instead are going all in on Remco Evenepoel ’s push for GC.
This is set to be Evenepoel’s debut Tour, and it’s a hugely anticipated one, given the already enormous star profile he’s built for himself through many superb performances and major results including two Liège–Bastogne–Liège victories, the world title in 2022, and the GC at the Vuelta a España that same year.
His build-up has been compromised after a crash and fractured collarbone at Itzulia Basque Country stalled the momentum that had already seen him win Volta ao Algarve and finish second at Paris-Nice, but the plan remains the same.
His first race back, the Critérium du Dauphiné, saw him score a dominant time trial win, though he faded hard in the closing three mountain stages, losing 2:58 to Primož Roglič. That will be a major cause for concern heading into July.
As part of the team building around Evenepoel, Mikel Landa has been signed up as a super-domestique. The Spaniard has performed this role in the past – at Sky to help Chris Froome win the 2017 Tour de France, and at Movistar for Richard Carapaz’s 2019 Giro d’Italia triumph. Second at Volta a Catalunya and 10th at the Dauphiné suggests he has the legs to do something similar this year, too
Landa will be joined by Evenepoel’s familiar right-hand man, Ilan Van Wilder . The Belgian has ridden in support of Evenepoel many times, most notably during his triumphant Vuelta a España effort two years ago and should be in solid form, too, having placed fourth at the Tour de Romandie.
The team’s focus on GC means there will be no room for in-form sprinter Tim Merlier, despite his success at the Giro d’Italia, nor even home favourite Julian Alaphilippe, as the remaining spots instead go to domestiques including Yves Lampaert , Casper Pedersen , Louis Vervaeke and Gianni Moscon .
TotalEnergies
- Team leader: Mathieu Burgaudeau
- Rider to watch: Steff Cras
When TotalEnergies signed Peter Sagan for the 2022 season, they hoped the Slovakian would be the star name to make them protagonists at the Tour de France. His first edition for them was typically consistent, finishing in the top six of five different stages, but lacking the edge of his heyday; by the following year his powers had seriously waned, and he only made the top ten once.
Sagan now having retired, the team must embark on a new direction. They’ve struggled at the Tour in recent years, and haven’t won a stage since Lilian Calmejane in 2017.
It will be hard for them to break that duck this year. Of the four non-WorldTour entries, they probably have the weakest roster, as reflected by the fact that they’d only won three races this season as of the beginning of June.
Consequently, they’re strategy will be to buy daily tickets in the lottery that is getting into the breakaway. Mathieu Burgaudeau is a particular specialist at this, having finished second and third on stages of last year’s race, and placed second in the King of the Mountains classification at this year’s Paris-Nice riding similarly aggressively.
The likes of Pierre Latour, Anthony Turgis, Geoffrey Soupe and Alexis Vuillermoz all provide experienced options for TotalEnergies to potentially select. And though the team don’t tend to target GC anymore, Stef Cras ’ 11th place finish at the Vuelta a España last year suggests he could become their first rider to crack the top ten since Pierre Rolland in 2015 — although his participation remains up in the air due to his involvement in the horror crash at Itzulia Basque Country.
UAE Team Emirates
- Team leaders: Tadej Pogačar
- Rider to watch: Adam Yates, Juan Ayuso
Phase one of UAE Team Emirates ’ great ambition to win the Giro/Tour double this year with Tadej Pogačar was a success, with the Slovenian waltzing to an enormous victory at the first Grand Tour . Now, it’s time for the hard part.
Pogačar won the Giro at a canter, almost 10 minutes clear of second place as he won a staggering six stages without ever appearing to have to stretch himself. But at the Tour, he’ll be up against a much stronger field of GC candidates, none of whom have the accumulated fatigue of having already completed a Grand Tour this season – even if Evenepoel, Roglič, and Vingegaard are all making comebacks from that brutal Itzulia crash.
UAE Team Emirates provided ample support to him at the Giro, with Rafał Majka and Vegard Stake Laengen impressing in particular, but the team is set to ring in the changes with an all-new line-up at the Tour.
On paper, it’s a much stronger group of riders. In Adam Yates , they have the man who finished third last summer, even if his form this year is in more doubt having performed only in patches since winning the UAE Tour in February. Juan Ayuso provides another potential GC option, making his Tour debut on the back of a podium finish at the Vuelta a España and overall victory at Itzulia Basque Country earlier this year.
More climbing firepower will come from João Almeida , another rider who would slot in as a GC leader at most of the other teams in the peloton. Elsewhere, Pavel Sivakov and Marc Soler bolster the climbing line-up along with Tim Wellens and Nils Politt , the latter pairing set to feature in the engine room during flatter stages.
The team will be hoping Ayuso, Sivakov, Wellens, and Politt recover well from a mass spill at the Critérium du Dauphiné, with Ayuso forced out of the race with pain in both hips as a result.
Uno-X Mobility
- Team leader: Alexander Kristoff
- Riders to watch: Andreas Leknessund, Magnus Cort
After making a successful Tour de France debut last year, Uno-X Mobility have been invited back by ASO as a wild card entry again.
Last year, they impressed by being active in the breakaways, with Tobias Halland Johannessen enjoying particular success with three top-six finishes. He’s set to return this year and on the back of some good form, too, having finished sixth at La Flèche Wallonne during the spring.
This time, they’ll have more strings to their bow. In new signing Andreas Leknessund , they have a rider capable of challenging for GC, even if he hasn’t yet shown the form this season that saw him finish eighth overall at the Giro d’Italia last year. And Magnus Cort brings considerable experience as a two-time former stage winner at the Tour, and will be dangerous from an intermediate stage break or reduced bunch sprint.
They will also again have Alexander Kristoff for the bunch sprints, who, though poised to turn 37 during the Tour, has been winning regularly this past month or so and could have it in him to add to his four career Tour stage wins.
But they are also sure to be one of the main presences in the breakaways, with Jonas Abrahamsen posing a particular threat, having recently won the Brussels Cycling Classic that way.
Visma-Lease a Bike
- Team leader: Jonas Vingegaard
- Rider to watch: Sepp Kuss, Wout van Aert
As the Tour approaches, Visma-Lease a Bike are still sweating on the fitness of Jonas Vingegaard . The defending champion’s participation was plunged into doubt when he crashed out of Itzulia Basque Country in April and hasn’t raced since. He has recently returned to training at high altitude, though his exact racing level won't become apparent before the Tour.
Given the severity of that fall, the fact he has a genuine chance of returning in time feels miraculous, but doing so with the form to win the yellow jersey again will be an even bigger ask.
Prior to that crash, Vingegaard had started the season in intimidatingly good form, triumphing at both Tirreno-Adriatico and O Gran Camiño while claiming five stage wins in total, and would surely be the overwhelming favourite for yellow were it not for his fitness and form doubts.
Should the Dane fail to recover in time, it might be up to Sepp Kuss to fill his boots. The peerless climbing super-domestique proved himself as a Grand Tour GC rider by winning the Vuelta a España last year, though he hasn’t shown anything like that form so far this year. On top of that, he abandoned the Critérium du Dauphiné before the final day of racing as he wasn't feeling 100% .
Like Vingegaard, Wout van Aert , too, is a doubt as he tries to recover in time from the injuries that ruled him out of both the Giro d’Italia and the major spring Classics, though he has returned to racing at the Tour of Norway.
He hopes to join other stalwarts of the previous yellow jersey-winning campaigns Tiesj Benoot , Dylan van Baarle and Christophe Laporte . Matteo Jorgenson will make for a very useful addition to the line-up, bringing a diverse range of talents that has this year seen him win Paris-Nice and Dwars door Vlaanderen and score a surprising second overall at the Dauphiné.
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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Moscow's crazy traffic and its excellent metro network mean that the city's buses and trolleybuses aren't the number one option for tourists .
Moscow has hundreds of bus and trolleybus routes , many of which connect the city centre with its otherwise-isolated suburban neighbourhoods. Regular traffic jams mean that the bus network has not always been the most recommendable option , especially as the metro is so efficient.
Having said that, new bus lanes have opened up recently making it a comfortable alternative for certain routes. The bus can be a good, economical option at night , when 13 routes replace the metro after it shuts down (all starting from Kitay-Gorod metro and taking the main roads out to the edge off the city).
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Barcelona confirmed as host of 2026 Tour de France Grand Départ
Opening three days of race to be centred on Catalan capital
The Tour de France organisers have confirmed the longstanding rumours that the 2026 Grand Départ will be in Barcelona, with the race to be present in the city for a period of three days.
The Catalan capital will host the race from July 4-6, 2026. It’s been reported that stage 1 will be run off completely within the bounds of the city, and that stage 2 will also start and finish in Barcelona. After another start in the city on stage 3, the Tour then heads towards more familiar terrain in France.
Negotiations for what will be the fourth foreign Tour de France start in five years have not been fast-moving, although as early as May, it was already being reported as all but a done deal by local media.
The definitive confirmation from ASO came on Tuesday, followed by a ceremony in Barcelona’s town hall. The city will follow Copenhagen in 2022, Bilbao in 2023, Firenze in 2024 and Lille in 2025 as the Grand Départ for men's cycling’s biggest bike race.
Barcelona has already hosted the opening stage of the Vuelta a España in 1962 and 2023. Last year, the opening stage of the Vuelta was an early evening team time trial that was partly overshadowed by controversy concerning insufficient illumination when the race route was unexpectedly affected by heavy rainshowers and cloud cover, while the automatic street lighting, not timed to be activated before full darkness, failed to switch itself on.
That was followed up by a stage 2 finish in Barcelona’s Montjuic Park, widely seen as the epicentre of the city’s well-established relationship with road racing, and which Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme hinted strongly on Tuesday would likely feature in the 2026 Tour’s visit as well.
Long the host to one of the final one-day races of the season, the now defunct Subida a Montjuic - won six times by Eddy Merckx - the entire finishing circuit of the last stage of the Volta a Catalunya has always been held in Montjuic and it often features on stages held by the Vuelta as well. Montjuic was also where the 1973 World Championships and cycling events in the 1992 Olympic Games - both road and track - took place.
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Barcelona itself has been visited by the Tour de France three times in the past, most recently 2009, with an uphill bunch sprint stage win for Thor Hushovd. The next day’s stage, finishing in Andorra at Ordino-Arcalis, also began in Barcelona.
The first time the Tour reached Barcelona was in 1957, with three stages either starting and finishing there, including an individual time trial won by French legend Jacques Anquetil, who went on to claim the first of five overall victories. In 1963, the city witnessed an epic solo victory for local star José Pérez Francés.
The Tour’s start in 2026 will coincide - barring last-minute delays - with the long-awaited completion of one of Barcelona’s best-known religious monuments, the Sagrada Familia cathedral, on which work began back in 1882.
“We love the big cities, be they French or foreign,” race director Christian Prudhomme told L’Équipe . “But on condition that we also continue to visit the smallest places, the villages in France, too. That’s non-negotiable. Barcelona had the political will to do it, but also a sporting interest because of Montjuic.”
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Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews , he has also written for The Independent , The Guardian , ProCycling , The Express and Reuters .
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