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Start Times and Order Tour de France 2023 stage 16 Time-Trial

Start Times and Order Time Trial. This Tuesday, July 18, the 16th stage of the Tour de France 2023 will take place, an individual time trial of 22.4 kilometers between Passy and Combloux with a quite hard profile that could define the general classification between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard .

Let's remember that the Slovenian will arrive on Tuesday after the second rest day with 10 seconds behind Jonas Vingegaard, and the challenge against the clock could prove absolutely crucial upon such gaps.

PREVIEW | Tour de France 2023 stage 16 - Decisive time-trial could turn the tide for yellow jersey battle between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar

The first to start will be the Danish Soudal Quick-Step rider, Michael Morkov, who will do so at 13:05CET. The last riders in the general classification will start every two minutes.

The last man in the top 10, Guillaume Martin, will start at 16:42. The top 5 will have the following start times: Jai Hindley at 16:52, Adam Yates at 16:54, Carlos Rodriguez at 16:56, Tadej Pogacar at 16:58 and Jonas Vingegaard at 17:00.

Route Analysis | Profiles & Route Tour de France 2023

START TIMES TIME TRIAL STAGE 16 TOUR DE FRANCE 2023:

Order Bib Time Name Team Country

1 58 13:05:00 MØRKØV Michael SOQ DEN

2 192 13:06:00 BOL Cees AST NED

3 194 13:07:00 FEDOROV Yevgeniy AST KAZ

4 185 13:08:00 FRISON Frederik LTD BEL

5 128 13:09:00 ZINGLE Axel COF FRA

6 64 13:10:00 BAUHAUS Phil TBV GER

7 144 13:11:00 EDMONDSON Alexander DSM AUS

8 148 13:12:00 WELSFORD Sam DSM AUS

9 142 13:13:00 DEGENKOLB John DSM GER

10 76 13:14:00 MEEUS Jordi BOH BEL

11 127 13:15:00 RENARD Alexis COF FRA

12 164 13:16:00 GROENEWEGEN Dylan JAY NED

13 115 13:17:00 PETIT Adrien ICW FRA

14 207 13:18:00 WÆRENSKJOLD Søren UXT NOR

15 145 13:19:30 EEKHOFF Nils DSM NED

16 183 13:21:00 DE BUYST Jasper LTD BEL

17 196 13:22:30 MOSCON Gianni AST ITA

18 168 13:24:00 REINDERS Elmar JAY NED

19 178 13:25:30 PICHON Laurent ARK FRA

20 55 13:27:00 DEVENYNS Dries SOQ BEL

21 177 13:28:30 MOZZATO Luca ARK ITA

22 188 13:30:00 VERMEERSCH Florian LTD BEL

23 201 13:31:30 KRISTOFF Alexander UXT NOR

24 12 13:33:00 BJERG Mikkel UAD DEN

25 211 13:34:30 SAGAN Peter TEN SVK

26 54 13:36:00 DECLERCQ Tim SOQ BEL

27 34 13:37:30 LE GAC Olivier GFC FRA

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28 172 13:39:00 BIERMANS Jenthe ARK BEL

29 163 13:40:30 DURBRIDGE Luke JAY AUS

30 103 13:42:00 GOGL Michael ADC AUT

31 63 13:43:30 ARNDT Nikias TBV GER

32 152 13:45:00 BOIVIN Guillaume IPT CAN

33 111 13:46:30 GIRMAY Biniam ICW ERI

34 105 13:48:00 KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren ADC DEN

35 166 13:49:30 JENSEN Juul Christopher JAY DEN

36 102 13:51:00 DILLIER Silvan ADC SUI

37 167 13:52:30 MEZGEC Luka JAY SLO

38 78 13:54:00 VAN POPPEL Danny BOH NED

39 205 13:55:30 TILLER Rasmus UXT NOR

40 18 13:57:00 TRENTIN Matteo UAD ITA

41 42 13:58:30 AMADOR Andrey EFE CRC

42 86 14:00:00 PEDERSEN Mads LTK DEN

43 116 14:01:30 SMITH Dion ICW NZL

44 107 14:03:00 RICKAERT Jonas ADC BEL

45 84 14:04:30 KIRSCH Alex LTK LUX

46 57 14:06:00 LAMPAERT Yves SOQ BEL

47 53 14:07:30 CAVAGNA Rémi SOQ FRA

48 15 14:09:00 LAENGEN Vegard Stake UAD NOR

49 69 14:10:30 WRIGHT Fred TBV GBR

50 104 14:12:00 HERMANS Quinten ADC BEL

51 106 14:13:30 PHILIPSEN Jasper ADC BEL

52 153 14:15:00 CLARKE Simon IPT AUS

53 93 14:16:30 COSNEFROY Benoit ACT FRA

54 122 14:18:00 COQUARD Bryan COF FRA

55 218 14:19:30 TURGIS Anthony TEN FRA

56 203 14:21:00 CHARMIG Anthon UXT DEN

57 117 14:22:30 TEUNISSEN Mike ICW NED

58 212 14:24:00 BOASSON-HAGEN Edvald TEN NOR

59 157 14:25:30 STRONG Corbin IPT NZL

60 217 14:27:00 OSS Daniel TEN ITA

61 206 14:28:30 TRÆEN Torstein UXT NOR

62 45 14:30:00 NIELSEN Magnus Cort EFE DEN

63 52 14:31:30 ASGREEN Kasper SOQ DEN

64 5 14:33:00 LAPORTE Christophe TJV FRA

65 8 14:34:30 VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan TJV BEL

66 215 14:36:00 FERRON Valentin TEN FRA

67 43 14:37:30 BETTIOL Alberto EFE ITA

68 125 14:39:00 LAFAY Victor COF FRA

69 175 14:40:30 GUGLIELMI Simon ARK FRA

70 98 14:42:00 PETERS Nans ACT FRA

71 73 73 14:43:30 HALLER Marco BOH AUT

72 202 14:45:00 ABRAHAMSEN Jonas UXT NOR

73 94 14:46:30 DEWULF Stan ACT BEL

74 184 14:48:00 EENKHOORN Pascal LTD NED

75 96 14:49:30 NAESEN Oliver ACT BEL BEL

76 113 14:51:00 COSTA Rui ICW POR

77 82 14:52:30 GALLOPIN Tony LTK FRA

78 162 14:54:00 CRADDOCK G Lawson JAY USA

79 75 14:55:30 KONRAD Patrick BOH AUT

80 48 14:57:00 URAN Rigoberto EFE COL

81 112 14:58:30 CALMEJANE Lilian ICW FRA

82 216 15:00:00 LATOUR Pierre TEN FRA

83 38 15:01:30 VAN DEN BERG Lars GFC NED

84 126 15:03:00 PEREZ Anthony COF FRA

85 88 15:04:30 STUYVEN Jasper LTK BEL

86 147 147 15:06:00 VERMAERKE Kevin DSM USA

87 67 15:07:30 MOHORIC Matej TBV SLO

88 143 15:09:00 DINHAM Matthew DSM AUS

89 85 15:10:30 LOPEZ PEREZ Juan Pedro LTK ESP

90 36 15:12:00 PACHER Quentin GFC FRA

91 174 15:13:30 DELAPLACE Anthony ARK FRA

92 77 15:15:00 POLITT Nils BOH GER

93 23 15:16:30 FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar IGD ESP

94 118 15:18:00 ZIMMERMANN Georg ICW GER

95 176 15:19:30 LOUVEL Matis ARK FRA

96 101 15:21:00 VAN DER POEL Mathieu ADC NED

97 46 15:22:30 POWLESS Neilson EFE USA

98 17 15:24:00 SOLER Marc UAD ESP

99 156 15:25:30 SCHULTZ Nicholas IPT AUS

100 123 15:27:00 GESCHKE Simon COF GER

101 173 15:28:30 CHAMPOUSSIN Clément ARK FRA

102 182 182 15:30:00 CAMPENAERTS Victor LTD BEL

103 187 15:31:30 VAN GILS Maxim LTD BEL

104 33 15:33:00 KÜNG Stefan GFC SUI

105 208 15:34:30 WILSLY Gregaard Jonas UXT DEN

106 137 15:36:00 OLIVEIRA Nelson MOV POR

107 97 15:37:30 PARET PEINTRE Aurélien ACT FRA

108 24 15:39:00 KWIATKOWSKI Michal IGD POL

109 133 15:40:30 ARANBURU DEBA Alex MOV ESP

110 135 15:42:00 JORGENSON Matteo MOV USA

111 136 15:43:30 MÜHLBERGER Gregor MOV AUT

112 154 15:45:00 HOULE Hugo IPT CAN

113 124 15:46:30 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Ion COF ESP

114 155 15:48:00 NEILANDS Krists IPT LAT

115 7 15:49:30 VAN BAARLE Dylan TJV NED

116 204 15:51:00 JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland UXT NOR

117 195 15:52:30 LUTSENKO Alexey AST KAZ

118 32 15:54:00 GENIETS Kévin GFC LUX

119 146 15:55:30 HAMILTON Christopher DSM AUS

120 151 15:57:00 WOODS Michael IPT CAN

121 66 15:58:30 HAIG Jack TBV AUS

122 51 16:00:00 ALAPHILIPPE Julian SOQ FRA

123 158 16:01:30 TEUNS Dylan IPT BEL

124 81 16:03:00 CICCONE Giulio LTK ITA

125 134 16:04:30 IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka MOV ESP

126 21 16:06:00 BERNAL Egan IGD COL

127 68 16:07:30 POELS Wout TBV NED

128 2 16:09:00 BENOOT Tiesj TJV BEL

129 74 16:10:30 JUNGELS Bob BOH LUX

130 198 16:12:00 TEJADA CANACUE Harold Alfonso AST COL

131 83 16:13:30 JENSEN Skjelmose Mattias LTK DEN

132 213 16:15:00 BURGAUDEAU Mathieu TEN FRA

133 171 16:16:30 BARGUIL Warren ARK FRA

134 14 16:18:00 GROSSSCHARTNER Felix UAD AUT

135 6 16:19:30 VAN AERT Wout TJV BEL

136 91 16:21:00 O'CONNOR Ben ACT AUS

137 35 16:22:30 MADOUAS Valentin GFC FRA

138 92 16:24:00 BERTHET Clément ACT FRA

139 3 16:25:30 KELDERMAN Wilco TJV NED

140 165 16:27:00 HARPER Chris JAY AUS

141 16 16:28:30 MAJKA Rafal UAD POL

142 22 16:30:00 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan IGD ESP

143 72 16:32:00 BUCHMANN Emanuel BOH GER

Jonas Vingegaard delighted to put on a show: "It keeps getting better and better for the spectators!"

144 62 16:34:00 LANDA Mikel TBV ESP

145 37 16:36:00 PINOT Thibaut GFC FRA

146 26 16:38:00 PIDCOCK Thomas IGD GBR

147 95 16:40:00 GALL Felix ACT AUT

148 121 16:42:00 MARTIN Guillaume COF FRA

149 31 16:44:00 GAUDU David GFC FRA

150 161 16:46:00 YATES Simon JAY GBR

Tadej Pogacar reaches second rest day 10 seconds behind Vingegaard: "We can head into the third week with lots of confidence"

151 65 16:48:00 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello TBV ESP

152 4 16:50:00 KUSS Sepp TJV USA

153 71 16:52:00 HINDLEY Jai BOH AUS

154 19 16:54:00 YATES Adam UAD GBR

155 27 16:56:00 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos IGD ESP

156 11 16:58:00 POGAČAR Tadej UAD SLO

157 1 17:00:00 VINGEGAARD Jonas TJV DEN

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Tour de France 2023: Start times stage 16

Michael Mørkøv is the first rider to leave the starting ramp at 13.05 (CEST). Yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard is the last one at 17.00.

Most important start times ITT 13.05 – Michael Mørkøv 13.18 – Søren Wærenskjold 13.33 – Mikkel Bjerg 13.40 – Luke Durbridge

14.06 – Yves Lampaert 14.07 – Rémi Cavagna 14.31 – Kasper Asgreen 14.54 – Lawson Craddock 14.57 – Rigoberto Uran

15.22 – Neilson Powless 15.30 – Victor Campenaerts 15.33 – Stefan Küng 15.35 – Nelson Oliveira 15.39 – Michal Kwiatkowski 15.46 – Ion Izagirre 15.52 – Alexey Lutsenko

16.13 – Mattias Skjelmose 16.19 – Wout van Aert 16.30 – Jonathan Castroviejo 16.38 – Tom Pidcock

16.42 – Guillaume Martin 16.44 – David Gaudu 16.46 – Simon Yates 16.48 – Pello Bilbao 16.50 – Sepp Kuss 16.52 – Jai Hindley 16.54 – Adam Yates 16.56 – Carlos Rodriguez 16.58 – Tadej Pogacar 17.00 – Jonas Vingegaard

Another interesting read: route ITT to Combloux.

Tour de France Stage 16 Preview: Bring On the Crucial Time Trial

A 22.4-kilometer time trial after a rest day could prove to be decisive in the epic GC battle.

Stage 16 - Passy to Combloux (22.4km Individual Time Trial) - Tuesday, July 18

After another rest day, the race resumes on Tuesday with the Tour’s only individual time trial, a 22.4km race against the clock from Passy to Combloux that–thanks to a Category 2 climb near the end of the course–should favor the Tour’s GC contenders over the Tour’s time trial specialists.

The stage begins in Passy, which isn’t far from the base of the climb to Saint-Gervais, which hosted the summit finish to Stage 15. From the start the riders will race north toward the day’s first obstacle: the uncategorized Côte de la Cascade de Cœur, which they’ll summit after just 4.1km.

Once over the summit they’ll race down toward the first time check, 7.1km into the stage, and then on to Sallanches. This is the fastest section of the course as the riders speed downhill from the top of the Côte de la Cascade de Cœur and toward the town that hosted the world road championships in 1964 and 1980, the latter of which was won by French legend Bernard Hinault.

After looping through Sallanches, the riders head south toward Domancy on a long, straight false flat that ends with the day’s second time check, 16.1km into the stage. This is the power portion of the course, where riders will need to push a big gear at a high cadence, while still saving their legs for the sting in this course’s tail: the Category 2 Côte de Domancy (2.5km at 9.4%).

The road goes up immediately after the second time check and the riders will have to adjust from pushing a big gear on the road from Sallanches to spinning a lighter gear on the climb’s steep slopes. Managing that shift–and pacing their efforts so as to have something left for the climb itself–will determine which riders set the fastest times.

The riders “summit” the Côte de Domancy 3.5km from the finish line, but that’s a bit deceiving as the road–despite easing out for a kilometer after the KOM banner and the day’s final time check–continues to climb all the way to the finish line in Combloux.

Riders to watch

This stage should favor the Tour’s top-2 riders, Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who also happen to be two of the race’s best time trialists. Both can push big gears on the stage’s flat and downhill sections and up their cadences–and their wattage outputs–on the final climb to the finish line. Vingegaard has a slight mental edge given the fact that–as the race leader–he’ll start after Pogačar and therefore have the benefit of knowing all of the Slovenian’s times as he passes through the course’s three checks. But at the end of the day, we won’t be surprised if the gaps between the two of them aren’t enormous.

If one of these two doesn’t win the stage, our money’s on Belgium’s Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma). Desperate for a stage victory, he came close to winning Stage 15 on Sunday and is one of the world’s best when it comes to racing against the clock. His team will let him go all-out–his splits will help them plan Vingegaard’s own effort–and he can probably hold his own on the final climb.

We’re also keeping an eye on Spain’s Carlos Rodríguez (INEOS-Grenadiers) who currently sits third overall. The 22-year-old’s not a bad time trialist, and a good ride Tuesday will go a long way toward giving him the gap he needs to hold-off Great Britain’s Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) and Australia’s Jai Hindley (BORA-hansgrohe) for the Tour’s final podium spot.

When to Watch

Beginning around 7:00 a.m. EDT, the riders will start the stage in reverse order of the Tour’s GC standings, with the majority of the racers hitting the course at 1-minute intervals. A second group will start at 90-second intervals, and the Tour’s best riders will start the stage at 2-minute intervals. The fastest riders should cover the course in about 32 minutes.

The list of starting times hadn’t been finalized by the time we went to press, but we’ll probably tune-in around 10:30 a.m. EDT to watch the final hour of the stage. We know that Rodríguez begins at 10:56 a.m. EDT, Pogačar begins at 10:58 a.m. EDT, and Vingegaard, the last rider to hit the course, rolls down the start ramp at 11:00 a.m. EDT.

Since getting hooked on pro cycling while watching Lance Armstrong win the 1993 U.S. Pro Championship in Philadelphia, longtime Bicycling contributor Whit Yost has raced on Belgian cobbles, helped build a European pro team, and piloted that team from Malaysia to Mont Ventoux as an assistant director sportif. These days, he lives with his wife and son in Pennsylvania, spending his days serving as an assistant middle school principal and his nights playing Dungeons & Dragons.

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Stage result

General classification.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 16 of the 2023 Tour de France!

Around 40 minutes to go until the decisive time trial begins.

Here's a look at the official profile. It's a tough one.

And the stage map, twisting around from Passy to Combloux. Just 22.4km but it packs a big punch.

Take a look at our preview for stage 16 here...

Tour de France 2023 stage 16 preview - Race of truth

Hilly time trial offers Tour de France tiebreaker for Vingegaard and Pogačar before Col de la Loze

Just 10 seconds between Vingegaard and Pogačar heading into today. What will the gap be this evening?

And there's plenty to fight for below them in the standings, including that third spot on the podium...

16:58 and 17:00 start times for the big two, so some time to go until we see them roll down the start ramp.

Tour de France stage 16 time trial start times

35 minutes to go until Cees Bol kicks the stage off.

156 riders set to start today.

Matteo Jorgenson will not be among them. His Movistar team have confirmed that he's out of the race with a torn thigh muscle.

Matteo Jorgenson abandons Tour de France ahead of stage 16

One of the big questions today is whether riders will be swapping to road bike for the finale of the stage, which includes the second-category climb of the Côte de Domancy (2.5km at 9.4%) and the 3.5km uphill run to the finish line.

Tadej Pogačar reportedly did the swap during his recon ride yesterday. Today he checked his road bike before climbing aboard his TT bike...

Pogačar arrives for the TT, checks out his road bike before getting on TT bike. He might do a bike change for the final climb, he did one yesterday during his rest day ride https://t.co/TJO3LNjDkD July 18, 2023

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Here's Ineos Grenadiers deputy principal Rod Ellingworth on today's stage and their podium contender Carlos Rodríguez.

"We're not doing bike changes but the pacing of this is going to be really crucial and the heat as well – that's one of the biggest factors, to be honest. The final climb is around 6km isn't it with the first 2.5km at 10%. If they get that wrong then you can make a big difference in the last few kilometres.

"We're focussed on Carlos more than anybody at the moment. He's so chilled out that sometimes he's a bit too laid back. He's mature enough to say that he's not focussing on the podium as such, just on doing his own job and doing the best he can.

"He knows that time trialling is always a challenge for him but he's done some good ones as we saw in the heat at the Vuelta last year. He's as prepared as he can be and from what I can see last night he's quite up for it."

Just a few minutes to go!

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Former pro Adam Blythe says on Eurosport that changing bikes would be "pointless" today because the aerodynamic advantage will outweigh the weight saved by changing to a climbing bike, plus the time lost switching.

Ineos and Bahrain riders won't be switching. No confirmation from UAE or Jumbo, of course.

Here's a look at the finale today, the reason why everybody is discussing about the merits of bike changes.

It's not a cut-and-dry decision – not a big mountain to end the day, but tough enough to pose the question.

Actually it's Michael Mørkøv who sets off first – sorry for that mistake earlier. The Dane is starting now and then it's Cees Bol.

Uphill almost from the start today. Not one for those at the rear of the standings heading out early...

Riders like Yevgeniy Fedorov, Sam Welsford, Jordi Meeus, Dylan Groenewegen, Adrien Petit heading off early.

A trio of dsm-firmenich men set off one after another – Edmondson, Welsford, Degenkolb.

Degenkolb crashes heading around the first corner! His back wheel slides out but he's quickly back up and running.

7.1km is the first checkpoint. Further checks come at 16.1km and 18.9km before the finish at 22.4km.

12:03 for Mørkøv at the first checkpoint.

Cofidis rider Alexis Renard has also crashed at the first corner! Is it the white lines or is there some oil there?

It's another fall that doesn't look too serious in terms of injury, though.

Renard's teammate Axel Zingle now the quickest at the first check, clocking a time of 11 minutes.

Adrien Petit has been in the wars this Tour de France, battling on after going down hard in the mass crash on stage 14. He manages to avoid further disaster on the first corner.

Zingle 52 seconds up on everybody else at the first checkpoint at the moment.

Nils Eekhoff sets off... and he goes down on the first corner too!

Again, his back wheel slides forward as he turns it and he slides out.

Mørkøv now through the second checkpoint – 22:08.

Just over 5km to go for the Dane as he tackles the climb.

Mikkel Bjerg heads off. He's a very good time triallist so should be easily the quickest of these early starters.

Zingle now the quickest at the second checkpoint – 21:21.

Adam Blythe on the Eurosport moto says that rain showers are forecast after 3pm local time – around an hour and a half.

Big names including Kristoff, Sagan, Declercq among the recent starters.

Mørkøv now past the top of the climb at 31 minutes. 3.5km to go for him.

A bike change for Søren Wærenskjold. The Norwegian TT champion is starting the climb.

Mørkøv now coming towards the finish line. 500 metres to go.

As the first rider home he sets the quickest time at 39:46, but that won't last very long. Not that he'll mind.

Zingle quickest at the final check at 30:13 but now Gianni Moscon is coming across quicker, just a second shy of 30 minutes.

Bjerg 12:31 at the first checkpoint. He's obviously taking it easy to help Pogačar in the coming days as he's 1:31 down on Zingle there.

Mezgec, Kragh Andersen, Girmay among those recently starting.

Trentin, Pedersen, Lampaert coming up.

Dries Devenyns, who recently announced that he'll retire at the end of the season, is the quickest at the top of the climb so far. His time of 29:16 is 45 seconds up on Moscon.

A bike change for Bjerg at the bottom of the climb. Testing out the process for Pogačar later on?

He hasn't exactly been going full gas so hard to say how useful it will be.

37:39 for Moscon at the finish line. The quickest so far by 1:26 to Zingle in second.

Devenyns quickest at the top now, just two seconds up on Moscon, who made up 43 seconds on the Belgian in that final run.

Here's what Degenkolb said about his crash at the start. He said he didn't know what happened to cause it...

"I didn't start too crazy or enthusiastic. I think that's the first time I crashed in a TT. It's the last thing you want on a day like this. I'm lucky I didn't break something but I got quite some road rash. It was really unfortunate.

"I think I was on the white marks of the tarmac but normally it's not a problem. I couldn't correct it – my front wheel was slipping and I was straight away gone."

Lampaert, Cavagna , Wright, Philipsen, Clarke, Cosnefroy among the major names who are just starting out.

An update from Matteo Jorgenson following his abandon.

My @LeTour ends here 😔An ultrasound on the rest day yesterday confirmed what I thought after coming down in the big crash on sunday. My right hamstring has a very similar tear to my left leg after a crash in paris-nice last year. It will only get worse from racing👋 pic.twitter.com/dbwzTJOk6C July 18, 2023

Bjerg comes to the finish line at fifth fastest with a time of 39:12, 1:35 down on Devenyns. He's sped up since taking the road bike after having a slow start.

Green jersey Philipsen sets off. another day that isn't for him to get through.

Mads Pedersen quickest at the first check with 10:46 but Cavagna soon goes quicker, four seconds up.

Nikias Arndt coming to the finish and he should be the quickest man so far!

The German is 18 seconds up on Devenyns and he takes over the hot seat. 37:19 at the finish.

The likes of Cavagna, Pedersen, Wright quicker than his at the first checkpoint, though.

Spots of rain on the TV moto camera lens as we follow Cavagna into the final 10km.

Cavagna top of the standings – 19:56 with 13 seconds on Pedersen as he starts the climb. At the top, Pedersen is quickest with a time of 28:08, 1:08 up on Dries Devenyns.

Cavagna up the climb and 24 seconds up on Pedersen!

The Dane is now the fastest at the finish. His time of 36:07 is 1:!2 up on Arndt.

Cavagna into the final kilometre now.

The French TT champion is set to take the lead.

He duly does just that. 35:42 for him, 25 seconds up on Pedersen, 1:37 on Arndt.

Lafay, Naesen, Costa, Gallopin, Craddock among those just starting their rides.

Cavagna's teammate, Danish TT champion Kasper Asgreen is heading into the final 7km. He was fourth at the first check, third at the second.

Tony Gallopin head off to start, like Dries Devenyns earlier on, his final Tour de France time trial.

Green jersey Jasper Philipsen ticks off the time trial at 24th from 51 finishers, 3:44 down.

UAE Team Emirates DS Andrej Hauptman has reportedly confirmed that Pogačar will change to a road bike for the Côte de Domancy and uphill run to the line today.

We'll wait and see...

Here's what stage 16 leader Remi Cavagna said after finishing his ride.

"I think I could've done better but I struggled a bit on the climb and in the final kilometres. It's a decent time but I will be beaten.

"The route was tough. I think the favourites will go about a minute quicker than me. I'm here wearing the tricolor and I just wanted to do the best I could. It wasn't easy and it's always tricky in a time trial. It's great competing at the Tour in this jersey so it's a moment to savour."

Asgreen fourth at the top of the climb, 42 seconds down.

Fred Wright passed the finish line a little while ago. He's currently third quickest, the last man within a minute of Cavagna's time, 53 seconds down.

Stuyven, Mohoric, Lopez, Politt, Fraile among the next riders starting their time trials.

The fastest man on stage 16 so far – Remi Cavagna.

Asgreen now making his way towards the finish line.

He's up on Cavagna's time heading into the final 400 metres, but he's not going to beat his teammate.

Asgreen crosses the line in Combloux in third place. He sets a time of 36:17, 35 seconds down.

The last drag to the line and that final kilometre is a deceptively long one.

Nobody out on course threatening the top of the standings at the moment. Pierre Latour sixth at the first checkpoint, 21 seconds down on Cavagna.

The second-quickest man so far, Mads Pedersen.

Under two hours to go until the top GC men head out to take on the 22.4km course.

Of course we're well into the final week of the men's Tour de France, which means that the Tour de France Femmes is coming up fast. The race kicks off on Sunday in Clermont-Ferrand and makes its way to the Col du Tourmalet and a closing time trial in Pau. Check out our rundown of the top contenders at the link below.

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UAE Team Emirates boss Mauro Gianetti tells Eurosport about Pogačar's bike switch strategy...

"We do our tests and in the end we realise that chaning the bike takes some time but in terms of time it gives some benefit. Maybe now so much, 2-3-5 seconds maybe. In our calculation it gives an advantage."

Victor Lafay falls off his bike on the final run to the finish line!

The stage 2 winner's chain seems to have jammed or jumped as he was riding along standing on the pedals. His bike twisted left to right and he hit the ground.

Lafay is back up and running, though, and crosses the line to finish his ride.

Mathieu van der Poel heads down the start ramp to huge cheers.

Powless, Soler, Geschke coming up soon.

Time trial specialists Victor Campenaerts and Stefan Küng also heading out within the next 10 minutes.

Latour seventh at the bottom of the climb, sixth at the top at 1:03 down on Cavagna.

The French climber could yet race into the top five so far given the road the line is all uphill too.

Campenaerts and Küng on the way. Let's see how they fare.

Kasper Asgreen out on course on the way to third place.

Apologies for the geo-restricted (UK) video but here's what Mikkel Bjerg had to say about the bike change and the climb...

"If it didn't make any sense we wouldn't try the bike change. There's a lot of headwind on the last part of the climb so you don't go that fast. Maybe that also favours the road bike over the TT bike."

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Latour does indeed ride into the top five with that final climb to the line. He's up in fourth at the moment, 51 seconds down on Cavagna's leading time of 35:42.

Campenaerts taking it easy during his ride. He passes the first checkpoint at 7.1km at 1:59 down on Cavagna.

Stefan Küng passes through the checkpoint and he's clearly giving it his all today. The Swiss rider is quickest so far there, going six seconds up on Cavagna with a time of 10:36.

No change in the top 10 at the line since Latour passed through in fourth place.

Cavagna at the top with Pedersen, Asgreen, Latour, Wright, Costa the only men within a minute of his time.

After Victor Lafay, Cofidis' second stage winner of the Tour, Ion Izagirre, sets off. Let's hope he doesn't fall victim to a crash today, as his teammate did.

Neilson Powless tackles the climb now. He's on a regular road bike today, only fitted with aero bars and possibly a rear wheel aero cover. He's going all out for the points on the climb.

Meanwhile, Küng blasts past his 1:30 man Maxim Van Gils.

Lutsenko, Woods, Haig, Alaphilippe, Teuns among the next batch of riders to set off.

Küng neck and neck with Cavagna on the live timing as he races into the final 7km of the course.

Powless passes the top of the climb at 2:53 down. He was at 3:18 at the bottom.

According to Procyclingstats he's the quickest on the climb so far with a time of 7:24 up there. Next quickest is Latour at 7:44.

Meanwhile Küng switches to a road bike at the bottom of the climb.

Küng has lost time on the climb. He was two seconds down on Cavagna at the bottom and he crosses the top at 28 seconds down.

Does changing bikes work? That's the big question of the day.

The Swiss rider heading towards the final kilometre now.

Ion Izagirre having a good ride. Fifth at the first check, sixth at the second – 43 seconds down on Cavagna.

Küng slower than Cavagna with 300 metres to go.

Fifth for him at the line, 52 seconds behind Cavagna. He lost almost all of it from the Côte de Domancy onwards.

A shot of Küng tackling the climb.

Jungels, Benoot, Poels, Bernal among the latest rider to set off.

Wout van Aert starts in five minutes.

Izagirre sixth at the top of the climb, 56 seconds down on Cavagna.

Cavagna top of every checkpoint apart from the first one, where Küng beat him by six seconds.

40 minutes to go until Pogačar and Vingegaard set off to start their rides.

Wout van Aert is off! Ben O'Connor next up.

The Belgian is perhaps the favourite for the stage win outside of the big two.

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Ion Izagirre comes to the finish at 1:06 down on Cavagna. Like Küng, he's another rider who lost time from the climb onwards.

In the polka dot jersey, Giulio Ciccone is about to head on up the climb.

He's on a road bike and will hope to beat his mountain classification rival Neilson Powless' time of 7:24 on the way up.

Ciccone's teammate Mattias Skjelmose is 10th at the first check, 25 seconds down.

Van Aert a few minutes away from that point.

Jonas Vingegaard warming up in a 'cooling tent', basically a small gazebo by the Jumbo-Visma bus with some big fans blasting the riders.

Tadej Pogačar, meanwhile, is reportedly warming up in the UAE Team Emirates mechanic's truck with the air-con turned up.

A top ride from Alexey Lutsenko. He goes fourth at the finish, 49 seconds down on Cavagna.

Van Aert passes the first check in third, a second down on the Frenchman.

Back to Ciccone and he's still working his way up the Côte de Domancy. Here's a shot of him before he switched bikes, which he did some time before the start of the climb.

Ciccone crosses the top in his full polka dot outfit with a time of 29:49, 2:05 down on Cavagna.

The Italian set a time of 6:44 on the way up! That's by far the quickest time on the climb with Powless in second at 7:24.

Big names heading down the start ramp now – Pinot, Landa, Buchmann.

Pidcock, Gall, Martin, Gaudu, Simon Yates, Bilbao, Kuss coming up... We're at the sharp end.

Alaphilippe the latest rider to finish, 12th at 1:43 down.

Van Aert fourth at the second checkpoint, 20 seconds down on Cavagna.

Van Aert onto the climb – no bike change for him.

Ciccone, job done, finishes his ride in 33rd place, 2:53 down. Now he'll hope that the big GC men don't blast his time on the climb away.

Into the top 10 riders now as Guillaume Martin begins his ride.

Van Aert gaining on the climb. Live timing says he's 13 seconds down now.

Eurosport reporting a road bike on the top of Pogačar's UAE follow car. They've said they'll do a bike change so...

Gaudu and Simon Yates get underway.

Van Aert now leading the time trial on the road. He's two seconds up on Cavagna at the top of the climb!

Pello Bilbao is off.

Just Kuss, Hindley, Adam Yates, Rodríguez, Pogačar, and Vingegaard left to start.

Pidcock 23 seconds at the first checkpoint.

Skjelmose flew to the finish. He went from 10th at the first two checkpoints to second at the line, 15 seconds down on Cavagna.

Van Aert out on course going for the win.

Adam Yates next up in two minutes as Hindley goes.

Van Aert into the final kilometre...

Van Aert comes to the line and he's done it!

The Belgian TT champion had plenty of time to play with on the run to the finish. He powers home with a time of 35:27, 15 seconds up on Cavagna.

A new rider in the hot seat.

Meanwhile, Adam Yates sets off, followed by Rodríguez.

Gaudu 23 seconds down at the first checkpoint.

Gaudu defending an 11-second lead over Martin for ninth place overall.

Pogačar and Vingegaard are about to start!

Simon Yates second at the first checkpoint, a nice start. Two seconds down on Küng.

Pogačar takes some deep breaths on the ramp before he's counted off. His time trial is now underway.

Vingegaard goes in two minutes.

Seventh-placed man Bilbao also good at the first check – third at three seconds.

Vingegaard start and dashes away around the first corner.

Kuss seventh at 10 seconds at the first checkpoint. Pidcock 17th at the second.

Just over half an hour of tension coming up...

Hindley 23rd at the first check, 30 seconds down. He's over 2:30 up on Kuss so his fifth overall shouldn't be in danger today.

Adam Yates almost matches his brother's time. He's three seconds down on Simon, five down on Küng.

The live timing shows Vingegaard as 20 seconds up on Van Aert after four minutes of racing... That doesn't sound super realistic, but we'll see...

Pogačar seven minutes into his ride – just over three to go until he passes the first checkpoint.

Pogačar flying at the first checkpoint! He sets a time of 10:10, 26 seconds up on Küng. Wow.

Vingegaard is even faster!!

The Dane has 16 seconds on Pogačar after 7.1km...

Vingegaard 16 up on Pogačar, 42 up on Küng.

Kuss 11th at 49 seconds at the second checkpoint before the climb.

Vingegaard bombing along on stage 16.

Hindley a minute down at the second check. Gaudu 54 seconds down at the top of the climb.

Landa, Buchmann, Castroviejo, Majka finishing their riders but nobody threatening the top of the standings.

Simon Yates third at the third check at the top of the climb, three seconds down on Van Aert.

Yates is eighth, 37 seconds down on Bilbao on the GC.

His brother Adam 27 seconds down on Cavagna at the second check. We'll soon see how Rodríguez fares in comparison in the battle for third place.

Vingegaard reportedly only gaining time on Pogačar. Live timing says 30 seconds!

The yellow jersey passes the 10km to go banner. That's a 30-second gap after just over 12km of racing.

Rodríguez 38 seconds down heading into the climb. 10 seconds lost to Adam Yates, leaving nine to play with to defend third.

Bilbao fourth at 21 seconds at the top of the Côte de Domancy.

Now Pogačar passes the second checkpoint. He's quickest, 20 seconds up on Cavagna.

No sign of a bike change for Pogačar as he starts the climb.

WIll they do it? Or was all the bike change talk just a mind game?

He stops. 5.6km to go and onto the road bike.

He's quickly underway – will he make up the time lost?

Now Vingegaard is through the checkpoint. 31 seconds up on Pogačar, 51 on Cavagna.

This battle is not as close as any of us expected today. 31 seconds, wow.

Gaudu fifth at the finish line, 40 seconds down on Van Aert.

No bike change for Vingegaard so far.

Hindley at the top of the climb, 1:24 down on Van Aert.

Simon Yates with a great ride at the finish, second place at seven seconds behind Van Aert.

His brother Adam is fourth over the top of the climb. He stayed on his TT bike and is 15 seconds down on Van Aert there.

Pogačar out on the road before his bike change.

Live timing now saying he's 50 seconds down on Vingegaard!

A great ride from Pello Bilbao to take second from Simon Yates at the finish. The Bahrain Victorious rider and stage 10 winner is four seconds down on Van Aert.

Rodríguez 22 seconds down at the top of the climb, seven seconds down on Adam Yates. He has gained time and is defending his third place!

Pogačar has blown everyone away at the top of the Côte de Domancy. 26:57 and he's 45 seconds up on Van Aert there!

Under two minutes before Vingegaard passes through that checkpoint.

18.9km done for Pogačar. 3.5km to go

Vingegaard is going even faster though...

The yellow jersey passes the checkpoint with a time of 25:52. He's 1:05 up on Pogačar!

A top 10 at the finish for his teammate Sepp Kuss. 49 seconds down on Van Aert there.

Ciccone is still the fastest man up the climb in all of this. Vingegaard's time up there was second best of the day at 6:47, three seconds slower.

Third place is Simon Yates at 7:20, while Pogačar climbed it in 7:21.

Hindley at the finish, 20th at 1:46 down.

2km to go for Vingegaard.

Adam Yates finishes 21 seconds down in fifth place so far.

1.5km to go for Pogačar.

Just three men left to finish now after Yates.

Vingegaard now closing in on the cars behind Pogačar.

Live timing says he's over 1:30 up!

The pair head into the final kilometre.

Pogačar has almost caught Rodríguez.

He finishes just behind him with a time of 34:14.

Now Vingegaard comes through.

32:36 for Vingegaard! He's put 1:38 into Pogacar...

In the hot seat, Wout van Aert takes his cap off to his teammate and smiles at the camera.

36:12 for Rodríguez at the line, by the way. He has lost 24 seconds to Adam Yates and with it third place.

Total dominance by this man today.

A fistbump between Pogačar and Vingegaard as the pair begin to warm down after the finish.

Tour de France: Vingegaard removes all doubt, crushes Pogacar in stage 16 time trial

Defending champion puts 1:38 into second-placed rival as Yates overtakes Rodriguez in GC

Vingegaard now leads the GC by 1:48 to Pogačar.

Adam Yates is third at 8:52, while Rodríguez is down to fourth, a further five seconds back.

Vingegaard only 22 seconds shy of catching Pogačar today... He would've caught and passed every other rider on the course, had they started when Pogačar did.

Here's what third-placed Wout van Aert said after the finish...

"Finally it's a stage win for our team. I'm really happy. It's been an unbelievable effort. Jonas was amazing. After the last few stages, I didn't think a really big gap like this was possible.

"[Jonas] has been very strong and he's really improved in the time trial in the last few years. It was a tough course and he still had something in the legs towards the end.

"It's hard to understand what happened because it was extraordinary. But we've seen it throughout the whole Tour – those two are just so much stronger than the rest. In the end, I'm happy to make it into the top three.

"It's a positive step forwards to secure yellow. We're looking really good and we won last year but a few years ago we lost the Tour late on so we need to stay really focussed until Paris. The stages in the next few days will be tough and crucial. Now e need to recover and make sure we're ready for tomorrow."

Pogačar cools down after finishing the time trial. Tour over?

That was Jonas Vingegaard's 24th career win but only his second time trial triumph after winning the closing stage at O Gran Camiño back in February.

Here's what stage 16 winner and Tour de France leader Jonas Vingegaard had to say after the stage...

"I was feeling great today. I think it was the best time trial I've ever done. I'm really proud of what I did today and I'm really happy about the victory.

"I think today I even surprised myself with the time trial I did. I didn't expect to do so well in the time trial today, to be honest.

"There's still a lot of hard stages to come so we have to keep fighting the next days and we're looking forward to it.

"It was divided in four parts – first was the flat part and then the climb. You go quite hard until the climb, you go really hard on the climb, you try to recover in the descent, try to hold a little back on the flat part and then the last climb was just full gas. But you have to keep something for the last flatter part."

The current GC standings at the 2023 Tour de France after stage 16

Vingegaard dominates time trial to cruise ahead in the battle for the yellow jersey

A huge day at the Tour de France, possibly deciding the destination of the yellow jersey this Sunday in Paris.

Tomorrow they're back it in the mountains with the highest climb of the Tour, the Col de la Loze ...

Back in yellow tonight, possibly for good – Jonas Vingegaard.

Tadej Pogačar very much not in yellow but he's in white as best young rider and in second overall. And ready to go on the offensive tomorrow, surely.

Meanwhile, Giulio Ciccone has the polka dot jersey in hand. The Italian focussed his effort on today's climb, blasted up it, and grabbed five points.

He's now on 63 points to Neilson Powless' 58. Vingegaard looms in third on 57.

Of course, Jasper Philipsen is in the green jersey. No change there. He has 323 points to Mads Pedersen's 186 and looks a sure thing to take it to Paris as long as he avoids misfortune.

What is left to say about today's stage? The TV coverage is over, riders and teams have done their media obligations and will be on the way to their hotels.

Our reporters on the ground, Barry Ryan, Sophie Smith, and Alasdair Fotheringham will be writing up news and reaction to the momentous stage 16 time trial as we speak.

Stay tuned for stories on Jumbo-Visma, Vingegaard, Pogačar, Van Aert, Jumbo-Visma, UAE Team Emirates, dsm-firmenich, Bora-Hansgrohe, a preview of stage 17, and more...

But that's all from me for the stage 16 live coverage for today.

We'll be back tomorrow and for the rest of the Tour with more minute-by-minute reporting, so be sure to come back for stage 17 and the Col de la Loze!

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Tour de france stage 16 preview analysis: the time trial that could decide the winner, we look at the 22.3-kilometer time trial that could decide the tour de france between jonas vingegaard and tadej pogačar.

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Only 10 seconds separate the top two riders in the battle for the yellow jersey at this year’s Tour de France . Jonas Vingegaard leads Tadej Pogačar after 15 stages, and up next is an unorthodox individual time trial from Passy to Combloux. The Stage 16 time trial is 22.3km long with 647m of elevation gain, but most of the climbing comes in the final 6km, which averages 6.9%.

In my opinion, a bike swap is unlikely for the GC contenders because there are only 1.2 steep kilometers of climbing that average over 10%. The rest of the climbing is 5-8% on average, with flatter sections where the riders will gain significant speed. Modern-day time trial bikes are super lightweight and the world’s best will be going around 20kph for a couple of minutes on the slowest section of the time trial.

In this preview, we’re going to take a closer look at the time trial performances of Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar and predict what could happen in Stage 16 of the Tour de France.

First, let’s break down the time trial into three different parts: opening 4km with the Côte de la Cascade de Coeur, the downhill and flat section to Domancy, and the final climb to Combloux.

Power Analysis: Tour de France – Pogačar, Vingegaard, and Victor Lafay
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Opening 4km of the TT

After a flat start, the riders will ascend the Côte de la Cascade de Coeur, which is 1.5km at 8.5%, with pitches exceeding 10%. This could be an advantage for Pogačar, who has a sharper kick than Vingegaard, especially when both riders are fresh.

Wout Van Aert - First 4km of TT of stage 16 of the Tour de France

Descent and flat section

After the Côte de la Cascade de Coeur, there is about 6km of descending and another 6km of flat before the final climb. The downhill looks fast and not too technical, which could mean that the heavier Pogačar takes time on Jonas. However, we’ve seen in other time trials that weight and power can be canceled out by world-class time power and aerodynamics (i.e., Remco Evenepoel consistently beating Flippo Ganna, Stefan Küng, and Wout Van Aert).

Tour de France stage 16 Wout van Aert descent and flat

Final climb to Combloux

The last and most crucial portion of the time trial is the 6km, 6.9% climb to Combloux. However, the first section of this climb includes the Côte de Domancy (2.8km at 8.5%), which includes a 1.5km section at nearly 11%. This is where teams will have to do a bike swap, or their riders will remain on their TT bikes for 3.3km more of climbing.

Overall, the final climb to Combloux should take about 15-20 minutes. Coupled with the Côte de la Cascade de Coeur in the opening kilometers, there are about 20-25 minutes of climbing in the Stage 16 TT and only 12-14 minutes of flat and downhill.

Tour de France stage 16 Wout van Aert final climb

Recent form, peak power, and prediction

It’s hard to argue which rider is currently in better form: Vingegaard or Pogačar. Both riders have had an off-day but have resisted completely blowing up. They have both put their teams on the front, asking for more, and then going all-in with a violent acceleration. But more often than not, in this year’s Tour de France, Vingegaard and Pogačar have been glued to each other’s wheels.

Power and aerodynamics will determine the result of this individual time trial, but that’s impossible to predict since we don’t know Vingegaard or Pogačar’s exact numbers. But we do know of many other factors that could influence the outcome of this TT.

First and foremost, the Stage 16 time trial comes after a rest day, which is notorious for messing with a rider’s form. After a week or more of consecutive racing, a 90-minute spin on a rest day can make or break a rider’s legs, especially before a time trial. Neither Vingegaard nor Pogačar has a history of poor performances after rest days, but it’s certainly worth mentioning.

Second, Pogačar crashed and broke his wrist at Liège-Bastogne-Liège in April, which meant that the Slovenian probably spent a lot of time on his time trial bike on the indoor trainer during his recovery. With a wrist in a cast or brace, it is common for professional cyclists to return to indoor training on their TT bike because it takes the pressure off of the wrists and instead places it on the forearms. In a Tour de France being decided by a handful of seconds, Pogačar’s extra time on the TT bike could make a huge difference.

Third, history may suggest that Pogačar has the advantage. Excluding team time trials, Pogačar has beaten Vingegaard six times to three in individual time trials. However, a closer look at the data and we can see that two of Vingegaard’s three head-to-head TT wins came in the third week of the Tour de France.

Vingegaard beat Pogačar by 35 seconds in Stage 20 of the 2021 Tour de France, a pan-flat 30.8km TT. At the end of the 2022 Tour, Vingegaard beat Pogačar by eight seconds in Stage 20, a lumpy 40.7km TT in which Vingegaard notably took it easy on the descents to preserve his three-and-a-half minute lead over Pogačar.

When you take everything into consideration, I think Jonas Vingegaard comes out on top, narrowly beating Pogačar by less than 10 seconds in this year’s Stage 16 time trial. While logic may suggest that Pogačar will be better fresh, that he will be faster on the downhills and flats, and that the shorter climbs suit him, I believe that the data suggests otherwise.

Vingegaard has made massive improvements to his flat time trial speed over the past few seasons, and his descending is clearly better than Pogačar’s despite their weight difference. History suggests that Vingeaard is stronger than Pogačar in the third week of a Grand Tour and that Vingegaard’s short climbing efforts are stronger than ever.

At the beginning of the 2023 Tour de France, it was said that the Col de Marie Blanque was the perfect climb for Pogačar and that Vingegaard needed longer and harder climbs to attack. But then the Dane dropped Pogačar with a ridiculous 23-minute effort not too dissimilar from the climb coming up to Combloux.

That’s what I think will happen. But then again, I never would’ve predicted that Victor Lafay would be the only rider to stay with Pogačar and Vingegaard on the Côte de Pike, that Jasper Philipsen would clean up four sprint stages in the first 11 days of the Tour, and that Carlos Rodríguez would win Stage 14 ahead of Pogačar and Vingegaard.

This Tour is full of surprises.

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Date: 16 July 2024
Start time: 13:30
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Distance: 187 km
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Tour de France 2023 stage 16 preview - the one and only time trial

For those riders who excel at time trials, this is their only chance to gain some time on their rivals

Words: Stephen Puddicombe

Photos: Zac Williams/SWPix.com

Distance: 22.4km ITT Start location: Passy Finish location: Combloux Start time: 13:05 CEST Finish time (approx): 17:36 CEST

From the town of Combloux, where the 22.4km individual time trial sets off from, you can enjoy spectacular clear, full views of Mont Blanc in all of its glory. It’s a sight to behold. A wonder of nature that prompted Victor Hugo to describe the town as ‘the pearl of the Alps’, but might be received from certain riders in the peloton as a mocking gesture from the ASO organisers who designed this year’s Tour de France route. From the perspective of time trial specialists, it’s a reminder of just how mountainous this race has been, at the expense of more stages like this that would have benefited their GC bids.

As has been much discussed, this is the only ‘race of truth’ in the whole edition, amounting to the least amount of individual time trial kilometres since 2015. It’s a decision that’s had big ramifications, with some of the peloton’s top stars opting to target the Giro instead, and others who usually skip the Tour making a rare appearance. For the time trial-favouring GC riders who have decided to ride the Tour anyway, it’s imperative to squeeze everything they can out of these 22.4 kilometres to maximise their gains, while time trial specialists will have battled their way through the first two weeks of racing all for this one shot of a stage win.

Stage 16 profile sourced via ASO

Yet even now the organisers have to some extent denied the time trialists, as the route contains too much climbing to be one for the purists. Nestled within the Alps, it does not steer clear of climbing altogether, and after a flat opening two-thirds the final 6km are all uphill. First the riders will climb to the top of the 2.5km, 9.4%-averaging Côte de Domancy, the climb that was the centrepiece of the 1980 World Championships road race, and was hard enough to be used by Bernard Hinault as the basis for what was the only world title of his career. Then comes an uncategorised continued rise for the final 3.5km to the finish at Combloux.

It’s reminiscent of the final time trial of the 2016 Tour de France, which also travelled through Combloux via the Côte de Domancy. On that occasion the amount of climbing significantly mitigated the advantage of the specialists, producing no changes in the top six of the GC, none of whom (even noted time trial-averse Romain Bardet) lost more than 1-30 to stage winner and yellow jersey Chris Froome. This route isn’t quite so hilly, but enough to ensure that no lighter rider will lose too much.

This is the only opportunity for those who specialise in racing against the clock, aftering enduring a gruelling two weeks battling through the challenging stages in the Pyrenees, the Massif Central and now the Alps.

Only 10 seconds separate first and second place, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo Visma), and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates). Both riders have shown exceptional strength in the mountains, but with this the first time trial of this year’s edition, it remains to be seen how they will perform against the clock. They have both proven themselves against the clock at the Tour; Pogačar twice a time trial stage winner while Vingegaard finished second to his team-mate Wout van Aert in last year's final TT. Like the mountains, the time trial could be an exceptionally close affair between the Tour's top two rivals.

Although Groupama-FDJ are yet to win a stage at this year’s Tour, Stefan Küng may change that for the French team. He is a strong time trialist and recently won the ITT in this year’s Tour de Suisse. However, the climb at the end of the stage might hinder his chances. As someone who has never won a stage at the Tour, Küng will be eager to use his expertise to secure a victory for himself and his team.

French national time trial champion Rémi Cavagna (Soudal-Quick-Step) is a rider to keep an eye on as he seeks a stage win in his home country. He displayed good form at the Critérium du Dauphiné last month, finishing third behind Vingegaard and Mikkel Bjerg (UAE Team Emirates). Bjerg will certainly be a contender for stage 16, having claimed first place at the Dauphiné. However, his weaker climbing abilities might put him at a disadvantage compared to some of his rivals.

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) is a formidable time trialist who also excels on uphill terrain, as is Fred Wright (Bahrain-Victorious). Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Nelson Oliveira (Movistar) and Søren Wærenskjold (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) could also be strong contenders for the stage.

Prediction

We think Jonas Vingegaard will take the stage. Not only is he an excellent time trialist and climber, but he will want to put a bit of distance between himself and Tadej Pogačar before they head back into the mountains for the final week.

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TOTAL: 3 498 km

This will be the first Grand Départ in Italy and the 26th that’s taken place abroad First finale in Nice. Due to the Olympic and Paralympic Games taking place in Paris, the race will not finish in the French capital for the first time.

Two time trials. 25 + 34 = 59km in total, the second of them taking place on the final Monaco>Nice stage. This will be the first time the race has seen a finale of this type for 35 years, the last occasion being the famous Fignon - LeMond duel in 1989.

Apennines (Italy), the Italian and French Alps, Massif Central and Pyrenees will be the mountain ranges on the 2024 Tour route.

The number of countries visited in 2024: Italy, San Marino, Monaco and France. Within France, the race will pass through 7 Regions and 30 departments.

The number of bonus points 8, 5 and 2 bonus seconds go to the first three classified riders, featuring at strategic points along the route (subject to approval by the International Cycling Union)these will have no effect on the points classification. Bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds will be awarded to the first three classified riders at road stage finishes.

Out of a total of 39, the locations or stage towns that are appearing on the Tour map for the first time . In order of appearance: Florence, Rimini, Cesenatico, Bologna, Piacenza, Saint-Vulbas, Gevrey-Chambertin, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, Évaux-les-Bains, Gruissan, Superdévoluy, Col de la Couillole.

The number of sectors on white roads during stage nine, amounting to 32km in total .

The number of stages: 8 flat, 4 hilly, 7 mountain (with 4 summit finishes at Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet, Plateau de Beille, Isola 2000, Col de la Couillole), 2 time trials and 2 rest days.

The number of riders who will line up at the start of the Tour, divided into 22 teams of 8 riders each.

The height of the summit of the Bonette pass in the Alps, the highest tarmac road in France, which will be the “roof” of the 2024 Tour.

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Tour de France 2024 preview: Full schedule, teams and how to watch live

Jonas Vingegaard bids for a third consecutive victory in the Tour de France

The Tour de France 2024 is almost upon us with the world’s most prestigious cycling race getting underway on Saturday 29 June.

All eyes are on the duel between Slovenian rider Tadej Pogačar and defending champion Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark. The pair have won the last four titles between them with each aiming to win a third Tour de France.

After his emphatic victory in the Giro d'Italia, Pogačar goes into the event as favourite to add to his two wins from 2020 and 2021. It could be an incredible few weeks for the Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist with the Tour de France ended just days before the Olympic Games Paris 2024 .

Meanwhile, Vingegaard has made a late comeback from injury to be fit for the Tour as he seeks to become the sixth rider - and the first Scandinavian - to win three consecutive yellow jerseys.

This year’s race is unique for a number of reasons. It will be the first edition to begin in Italy , marking 100 years since Ottavio Bottecchia became the first Italian winner of the Tour de France.

The 'Grand Départ' is in Florence with the field traversing the Italian Alps before crossing the border into France during Stage 4. This will also be the first Tour to finish outside of Paris - due to its proximity to the Olympic Games - with the final stage an individual time trial from Monaco to Nice which will decide overall victory.

Here is everything you need to know about this year’s Tour de France.

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As well as the big two - Pogačar and Vingegaard - other challengers for the yellow jersey include Remco Evenepoel and Primož Roglič .

Evenepoel has played down his chances of general classification success on his Tour debut, but his pedigree suggests he will be a threat. The Belgian has some impressive results to his name including winning the 2022 road race world title, and GC at the 2022 Vuelta a España in 2022. He also boasts two Liège-Bastogne-Liège victories.

Roglič, the 2020 runner-up behind compatriot Pogačar, will take some confidence from his overall victory at the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Jasper Philipsen is the favourite to retain the sprinters' green jersey after winning Milan-San Remo and finishing second at Paris-Roubaix. Denmark's Mads Pedersen , road race world champion five years ago, is among his main challengers while Mark Cavendish needs just one stage win to break his tie with Eddy Merckx (both on 34) for the most stage victrories in race history.

Old cyclocross rivals Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert will also be in the mix for stage wins. The latter is back as one of Vingegaard's chief lieutenants in the Visma Lease a Bike team after sustaining multiple fractures in a crash at March's Dwars door Vlaanderen.

The 2024 Tour features seven mountain stages, including four summit finishes, and will suit the climbers. Pogačar (2020, 2021) and Vingegaard (2022) are past winners of the King of the Mountains' polka-dot jersey and are likely contenders once more.

Tour de France 2024 route and important stages

Also among the 21 stages of the 2024 Tour de France are two individual time trials and gravel sectors covering a total distance of 3,492km.

Starting from Florence, the 2024 Tour will complete three full stages in Italy traversing the Italian Alps before crossing the border into France from Pinerolo.

With no Alpe d'Huez or Mont Ventoux on this year's route, the Queen stage is the penultimate stage - a testing 132km cycle from Nice to the summit of the Col de la Couillole .

In recent years, the final individual time trial has been held on the penultimate day with the finale a procession on the Champs-Elysées on the Sunday. But, due to preparations for Paris 2024, this year's race will conclude with a 33.7km time trial from Monaco to Nice.

That means the yellow jersey could potentially be decided on the final day. The last time the Tour ended with a time trial was in 1989 when Greg Lemond overturned a 50-second deficit to Laurent Fignon to take victory by just eight seconds, still the smallest winning margin in race history.

Day-by-day route of the 2024 Tour de France

Saturday 29 June: Stage 1 - Florence - Rimini (206 km)
Sunday 30 June: Stage 2 - Cesenatico - Bologne (199.2 km)
Monday 1 July: Stage 3 - Plaisance - Turin (230.8 km)
Tuesday 2 July: Stage 4 - Pinerolo - Valloire (139.6 km)
Wednesday 3 July: Stage 5 - Sant-Jean-de-Maurienne - Saint-Vulbas (177.4 km)
Thursday 4 July: Stage 6 - Mâcon - Dijon (163.5 km)
Friday 5 July: Stage 7 - Nuits-Saint-Georges - Gevrey-Chambertin (25.3 km, individual time trial)
Saturday 6 July: Stage 8 - Semur-En-Auxois > Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (183.4 km)
Sunday 7 July: Stage 9 - Troyes - Troyes (199 km)
Monday 8 July: Rest Day
Tuesday 9 July: Stage 10 - Orléans - Saint-Amand-Montrond (187.3 km)
Wednesday 10 July: Stage 11 - Évaus-les-Bains - Le Lioran (211 km)
Thursday 11 July: Stage 12 - Aurillac - Villeneuve-sur-Lot (203.6 km)
Friday 12 July: Stage 13 - Agen - Pau (165.3 km)
Saturday 13 July: Stage 14 - Pau - Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d'Adet (151.9 km)
Sunday 14 July: Stage 15 - Loudenvielle - Plateau de Beille (198 km)
Monday 15 July: Rest Day
Tuesday 16 July: Stage 16 - Gruissan - Nîmes (188.6 km)
Wednesday 17 July: Stage 17 - Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - Superdévoluy (177.8 km)
Thursday 18 July: Stage 18 - Gap - Barcelonnette (179.5 km)
Friday 19 July: Stage 19 - Embrun - Isola 2000 (144.6 km)
Saturday 20 July: Stage 20 - Nice - COl de la Couillole (132.8 km)
Sunday 21 July: Stage 21 - Monaco - Nice (33.7 km, individual time trial)

Tour de France 2024 - Teams: Provisional list (subject to change)

Team visma | lease a bike.

Jonas Vingegaard (DEN)
Sepp Kuss (USA)
Tiesj Benoot (BEL)
Matteo Jorgenson (USA)
Christophe Laporte (FRA)
Jan Tratnik (SLO)
Wout van Aert (BEL)
Wilco Kelderman (NED)

Alpecin - Deceuninck

Jasper Philipsen (BEL)
Mathieu van der Poel (NED)
Gianni Vermeersch (BEL)
Silvan Dillier (SUI)
Robbe Ghys (BEL)
Soren Kragh Andersen (DEN)
Axel Laurance (FRA)
Jonas Rickaert (BEL)

Astana Qazaqstan Team

Mark Cavendish (GBR)
Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
Davide Ballerini (ITA)
Cees Bol (NED)
Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ)
Yevgeniy Fedorov (KAZ)
Harold Tejada (COL)
Michele Gazzoli (ITA)

BORA - hansgrohe Team

Jay Hindley (AUS)
Aleksandr Vlasov
Danny van Poppel (NED)
Nico Denz (GER)
Matteo Sobrero (ITA)
Primoz Roglic (SLO)
Bob Jungels (NED)
Marco Haller (AUT)

EF Education - EasyPost

Richard Carapaz (ECU)
Neilson Powless (USA)
Ben Healy (IRL)
Marijn van der Berg (NED)
Alberto Bettiol (ITA)

INEOS Grenadiers

Thomas Pidcock (GBR)
Geraint Thomas (GBR)
Carlos Rodriguez (ESP)
Michal Kwiatkowski (POL)
Egan Bernal (COL)
Laurens De Plus (BEL)
Ben Turner (GBR)
Jonathan Castroviejo (ESP)

Lidl - Trek

Carlos Verona (ESP)
Giulio Ciccone (ITA)
Jasper Stuyven (BEL)
Julien Bernard (FRA)
Mads Pedersen (DEN)
Ryan Gibbons (RSA)
Tim Declercq (BEL)
Toms Skujinš (LAT)

Soudal Quick-Step

Remco Evenepoel (BEL)
Mikel Landa (ESP)
Ilan van Wilder (BEL)
Louis Vervaeke (BEL)
Casper Pedersen (DEN)
Yves Lampaert (BEL)
Gianni Moscon (ITA)

Team Jayco AlUla

Dylan Groenewegen (NED)
Luka Mezgec (SLO)
Simon Yates (GBR)
Elmar Reinders (NED)
Luke Durbridge (AUS)
Chris Harper (AUS)
Christopher Juul-Jensen (DEN)
Michael Matthews (AUS)

Israel - Premier Tech

Guillaume Boivin (CAN)
Jake Stewart (GBR)
Jakob Fuglsang (DEN)
Stephen Williams (GBR)
Pascal Ackermann (GER)
Derek Gee (CAN)
Hugo Houle (CAN)
Krists Neilands (LAT)

Uno-X Mobility

Magnus Cort (DEN)
Johannes Kulset (NOR)
Rasmus Tiller (NOR)
Odd Christian Eiking (NOR)
Alexander Kristoff (NOR)
Soren Waerenskjold (NOR)
Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR)
Jonas Abrahamsen (NOR)

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team

Felix Gall (AUT)
Dorian Godon (FRA)
Oliver Naesen (BEL)
Sam Bennett (IRL)
Nicolas Prodhomme (FRA)
Paul Lapeira (FRA)
Bruno Armirail (FRA)
Nans Peters (FRA)

Arkea - B&B Hotels

Arnaud Demare (FRA)
Kevin Vauquelin (FRA)

Bahrain - Victorious

Matej Mohoric (SLO)
Wout Poels (NED)
Pello Bilbao (ESP)
Phil Bauhaus (GER)
Santiago Buitrago (COL)
Jack Haig (AUS)
Fred Wright (GBR)
Nikias Arndt (GER)
Bryan Coquard (FRA)
Guillaume Martin (FRA)
Piet Allegaert (BEL)
Axel Zingle (FRA)
Alexis Renard (FRA)
Simon Geschke (GER)
Jesus Herrada (ESP)
Ion Izagirre (ESP)

Groupama - FDJ

David Gaudu (FRA)
Valentin Madouas (FRA)
Romain Gregoire (FRA)
Stefan Kung (SUI)

Intermarche - Wanty

Louis Meintjes (RSA)
Biniam Girmay (ERI)
Laurenz Rex (BEL)
Hugo Page (FRA)
Mike Teunissen (NED)
Georg Zimmermann (GER)
Kobe Goossens (BEL)
Gerben Thijssen (BEL)
Vito Braet (BEL)
Lorenzo Rota (ITA)
Rein Taaramae (EST)
Gijs van Hoecke (BEL)
Adrien Petit (FRA)

Movistar Team

Enric Mas (ESP)
Oier Lazkano (ESP)
Nelson Oliveira (POR)
Davide Formolo (ITA)
Alex Aranburu (ESP)
Fernando Gaviria (COL)
Javier Romo (ESP)
Gregor Mühlberger (AUT)

Team dsm-firmenich PostNL

Fabio Jakobsen (NED)
Romain Bardet (FRA)
Warren Barguil (FRA)

UAE Team Emirates

Tadej Pogacar (SLO)
Juan Ayuso (ESP)
Joao Almeida (POR)
Adam Yates (GBR)
Pavel Sivakov (FRA)
Marc Soler (ESP)
Tim Wellens (BEL)
Nils Politt (GER)

Lotto Dstny

Arnaud De Lie (BEL)
Victor Campenaerts (BEL)
Maxim van Gils (BEL)
Cedric Beullens (BEL)
Brent Van Moer (BEL)
Jarrad Drizners (AUS)
Harm Vanhoucke (BEL)
Sebastien Grignard (BEL)

TotalEnergies

Mathieu Burgaudeau (FRA)
Steff Cras (BEL)
Anthony Turgis (FRA)
Jordan Jegat (FRA)
Thomas Gachignard (FRA)
Matteo Vercher (FRA)
Sandy Dujardin (FRA)
Fabien Grellier (FRA)

How to watch the 2024 Tour de France live

The Tour de France will be shown live in 190 countries. Here is a list of the official broadcast partners across different territories.

Basque Country - EiTB
Belgium - RTBF and VRT
Czech Republic - Česká Televize
Denmark - TV2
Europe - Eurosport
France - France TV Sport and Eurosport France
Germany - Discovery+ and ARD
Ireland - TG4
Italy - Discovery+ and RAI Sport
Luxemburg - RTL
Netherlands - Discovery+ and NOS
Norway - TV2
Portugal - RTP
Scandinavia - Discovery+
Slovakia - RTVS
Slovenia - RTV SLO
Spain - RTVE
Switzerland - SRG-SSR
United Kingdom - Discovery+ and ITV
Wales - S4C
Canada - FloBikes
Colombia - CaracolTV
Latin America & Caribbean: ESPN
South America - TV5 Monde
United States - NBC Sports and TV5 Monde

Asia Pacific

Australia - SBS
China - CCTV and Zhibo TV
Japan - J Sports
New Zealand - Sky Sport
South-East Asia - Global Cycling Network and Eurosport

Middle East and Africa

The Middle East and North Africa - BeIN Sports and TV5 Monde
Subsaharan Africa - Supersport and TV5 Monde

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 day time trial means the yellow jersey won't be decided on the penultimate day.

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Tour de france 2024: the teams.

Three professional riders at the Tour de France 2023

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.

Tour de France 2024: General classification riders

Pogacar and Vingegaard climbing the Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc

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

Jasper Philipsen celebrates his win on stage 11 of the 2023 Tour de France

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

Vingegaard in the Tour de France yellow jersey

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: Dates, times, routes stage details and where to watch

The Tour de France is one of the three grand tours – the others being the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España – that form the backbone around which the cycling season is structured.

This is the biggest and most important bike race in the world, with an estimated 80 per cent of most WorldTour team’s sponsorship income being based around the Tour.

Founded in 1903 by Henri Desgrange, editor of L’Auto newspaper, the Tour may not be the favourite stage race of the cycling cognoscenti but it is one that captures the imagination of the wider sporting public. As a result, the race is the biggest annual sporting event in the world with more live spectators than even the Olympics or football World Cup. Read the latest news before the race starts here .

How many stages are there in the Tour de France?

The second grand tour of the season comprises 21 stages and will be contested over 3,498 kilometres (2,173 miles). This year’s Tour consists of eight flat stages, four hilly stages, seven mountain stages with four summit finishes, two individual time trials and two rest days.

What time does the 2024 Tour de France start?

This year’s race gets under way with the 206km opening stage from Florence to Rimini on Saturday June 29, 2024. Racing starts at 11.40am.

How long does the Tour de France last?

The Tour de France last three weeks. After setting off from Florence on June 29, the race concludes with a 33.7km individual time trial from Moncao to Nice. Eschewing to traditional stage into Paris as a knock-on effect of the Olympic Games, this will be the first time since 1989 when the race has ended with a time trial.

Will the 2024 Tour de France be shown on TV?

Every stage of the race can be watched live on Eurosport, while terrestrial channels ITV4 and S4C will also be broadcasting the action. Live shows and highlights programmes will be shown at different times each day.

Alternatively, if you are stuck at work then you can follow the action, as it unfolds, right here with Telegraph Sport . Almost every stage will be live blogged by our team while selected race details and standings in the main classifications will also be published.

How many teams are there in the Tour de France?

Twenty-two teams will take part in the race. As with all WorldTour races, each team from the top-flight of professional cycling received an invitation and in the case of the Tour de France, all 18 of them are contracted to compete in the grand tour. In addition they will be joined by four UCI ProTeams – the two highest placed UCI ProTeams in 2023 (Lotto Dstny and TotalEnergies), along with Uno-X and Israel-Premier Tech who were selected by Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the organisers of the Tour.

How many people compete at the Tour de France?

Twenty-two teams comprising eight riders will start. In total 176 riders will be on the start line in Florence.

Alpecin-Deceuninck (Bel)

Silvan Dillier (Swi), Robbe Ghys (Bel), Soren Kragh Andersen (Den), Axel Laurance (Fra), Jonas Rickaert (Bel), Mathieu van der Poel (Ned), Gianni Vermeersch (Bel), Jasper Philipsen (Bel)

Arkéa-B&B Hotels (Fra)

Amaury Capiot (Bel), Clément Champoussin (Fra), Arnaud Démare (Fra), Raúl García Pierna (Spa), Daniel McLay (GB), Luca Mozzato (Ita), Cristián Rodríguez (Spa), Kévin Vauquelin (Fra)

Astana Qazaqstan (Kaz)

Davide Ballerini (Ita), Cees Bol (Ned), Mark Cavendish (GB), Yevgeniy Fedorov (Kaz), Michele Gazzoli (Ita), Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz), Michael Morkov (Den), Harold Tejada (Col)

Bahrain Victorious (Brn)

Nikias Arndt (Ger), Phil Bauhaus (Ger), Pello Bilbao (Spa), Santiago Buitrago (Col), Jack Haig (Aus), Wout Poels (Ned), Fred Wright (GB), Matej Mohoric (Slo)

Bora-Hansgrohe (Ger)

Nico Denz (Ger), Marco Haller (Aut), Jai Hindley (Aus), Bob Jungels (Lux), Primoz Roglic (Slo), Matteo Sobrero (Ita), Danny van Poppel (Ned), Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus)

Cofidis (Fra)

Piet Allegaert (Bel), Bryan Coquard (Fra), Simon Geschke (Ger), Jesús Herrada (Spa), Ion Izagirre (Spa), Guillaume Martin (Fra), Alexis Renard (Fra), Axel Zingle (Fra)

Decathlon-Ag2R La Mondiale (Fra)

Bruno Armirail (Fra), Sam Bennett (Ire), Felix Gall (Aut), Dorian Godon (Fra), Paul Lapeira (Fra), Oliver Naesen (Bel), Nans Peters (Fra), Nicolas Prodhomme (Fra)

DSM-Firmenich PostNL (Ned)

Romain Bardet (Fra), Warren Barguil (Fra), John Degtenkolb (Ger), Nils Eekhoff (Ned), Fabio Jakobsen (Ned), Oscar Onley (GB), Frank Van Den Broek (Ned), Bram Welten (Ned)

EF Education-EasyPost (US)

Alberto Bettigol (Ita), Stefan Bissegger (Swi), Richard Carapaz (Ecu), Rui Costa (Por), Ben Healy (Ire), Neilson Powless (US), Sean Quinn (US), Marijn Van Den Berg (Ned)

Groupama-FDJ (Fra)

David Gaugu (Fra), Kevin Geniets (Lux), Romain Grégoire (Fra), Stefan Kung (Swi), Valentin Madouas (Fra), Lenny Martinez (Fra), Quentin Pacher (Fra), Clément Russo (Fra)

Ineos Grenadiers (GB)

Egan Bernal (Col), Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa), Laurens De Plus (Bel) Michal Kwiatkowsi (Pol), Tom Pidcock (GB), Carlos Rodríguez (Spa), Geraint Thomas (GB), Ben Turner (GB)

Intermarché-Wanty (Bel)

Biniam Girmay (Eri), Kobe Goossens (Bel), Louis Meintjes (SA), Hugo Page (Fra), Laurenz Rex (Bel), Mike Teunissen (Ned), Gerben Thijssen (Bel), Georg Zimmermann (Ger)

Jayco-AlUla (Aus)

Luke Durbridge (Aus), Dylan Groenewegen (Ned), Chris Harper (Aus), Christopher Juul-Jensen (Den), Michael Matthews (Aus), Luka Mezgec (Slo), Elmar Reinders (Ned), Simon Yates (GB)

Lidl-Trek (US)

Julien Bernard (Fra), Giuluo Ciccone (Ita), Tim Declercq (Bel), Ryan Gibbons (SA), Mads Pedersen (Den), Toms Skujins (Lat), Jasper Stuyven (Bel), Carlos Verona (Spa)

Movistar (Spa)

Alex Aranburu (Spa), Davide Formolo (Ita), Fernando Gaviria (Col), Oier Lazanko (Spa), Enric Mas (Spa), Gregor Mühlberger (Aut), Nelson Oliveira (Por), Javier Romo (Spa)

Soudal-Quick Step (Bel)

Remco Evenepoel (Bel), Jan Hirt (Cze), Yves Lampaert (Bel), Mikel Landa (Spa), Gianni Moscon (Ita), Casper Pedersen (Den), Ilan Van Wilder (Bel), Louis Vervaeke (Bel)

UAE Team Emirates (UAE)

Joao ALmeida (Por),l Juan Ayuso (Spa), Tadej Pogacar (Slo), Nils Politt (Ger), Pavel Sivakov (Fra), Marc Soler (Spa), Tim Wellens (Bel), Adam Yates (GB)

Visma-Lease a Bike (Ned)

Tiesj Benoot (Bel), Matteo Jorgenson (US), Wilco Kelderman (Ned), Christophe Laporte (Fra), Bart Lemmem (Ned), Jan Tratnik (Slo), Wout van Aert (Bel), Jonas Vingegaard (Den)

Israel-Premier Tech (Isr)

Pascal Ackermann (Ger), Guillaume Boivin (Can), Jakob Fuglsand (Den), Derek Gee (Can), Hugo Houle (Can), Krists Neilands (Lat), Jake Stewart (GB), Stephen Williams (GB)

Lotto Dstny (Bel)

Cedric Beullens (Bel), Victor Campenaerts (Bel), Arnaud De Lie (Bel), Jarrad Drizners (Aus), Sébastien Grignard (Bel), Maxim Van Gils (Bel), Brent Van Moer (Bel), Harm Vanhoucke (Bel)

TotalEnergies (Fra)

Mathieu Burgaudeau (Fra), Steff Cras (Bel), Sandy Duijardin (Fra), Thomas Gachingard (Fra), Fabien Grellier (Fra), Jordan Jegeat (Fra), Anthony Turgis (Fra), Mattéo Vercher (Fra)

Uno-X Mobility (Nor)

Jonas Abrahamsen (Nor), Magnus Cort (Den), Odd Christian Eiking (Nor), Tobias Halland Johannessen (Nor), Alexander Kristoff (Nor), Johannes Kulset (Nor), Rasmus Tiller (Nor), Soren Waerenskjold (Nor)

Latest news in the countdown to the Tour de France

Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard has been dealt a blow after team-mate Sepp Kuss was ruled out of this year’s Tour de France after the American failed to recover from Covid ahead of this weekend’s grand départ.

Kuss was lined up to compete in a support role for Visma-Lease a Bike leader Vingegaard but fell ill during this month’s Critérium du Dauphiné. The winner of last year’s Vuelta a España has been replaced in the eight-man team by Bart Lemmen.

“This is, of course, very hard for Sepp in the first place. His contribution is always very important in the team, but then of course he has to be completely fit,” sporting director Merijn Zeeman said. “Unfortunately, we had to conclude together that this is insufficient.”

What does each stage profile at the Tour de France look like?

Saturday june 29, stage one: florence to rimini, 206km, sunday june 30, stage two: cesenatico to bologna, 199.2km, monday july 1, stage three: piacenza to turin, 230.8km, tuesday july 2, stage four: pinerolo to valloire, 139.6km, wednesday july 3, stage five: saint-jean-de-maurienne to saint vulbas, 177.4km, thursday july 4, stage six: mâcon to dijon, 163.5km, friday july 5, stage seven: nuits-saint-georges to gevrey-chambertin (individual time trial), 25.3km, saturday july 6, stage eight: semur-en-auxois to colombey-les-deux-eglises, 183.4km, sunday july 7, stage nine: troyes to troyes, 199km, tuesday july 9, stage 10: orléans to saint-amand-montrond, 187,3km, wednesday july 10, stage 11: évaux-les-bains to le lioran, 211km, thursday july 11, stage 12: aurillac to villeneuve-sur-lot, 203.6km, friday july 12, stage 13: agen to pau, 165.3km, saturday july 13, stage 14: pau to saint-lary-soulan pla d’adet, 151.9km, sunday july 14, stage 15: loudenvielle to plateau de beille, 197.7km, tuesday july 16, stage 16: gruissan to nîmes, 188.6km, wednesday july 17, stage 17: saint-paul-trois-châteaux to superdévoluy, 177.8km, thursday july 18, stage 18: gap to barcelonnette, 179.5km, friday july 19, stage 19: embrun to isola 2000, 144.6km, saturday july 20, stage 20: nice to col de la couillole, 132.8km, sunday july 21, stage 21: monaco to nice (individual time trial), 33.7km.

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As 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.

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Team leader: Jasper Philipsen
Objective: Stage wins, points classification
Rider to watch: Mathieu van der Poel

Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen proved a winning combination at the 2023 Tour

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.

Team leader: Arnaud Démare
Objective: Stage wins
Rider to watch: Kévin Vauquelin

Arnaud Démare will be Arkéa-B&B Hotels' sprint hope this July

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.

Team leader: Mark Cavendish
Rider to watch: Alexey Lutsenko

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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. His recent participation at the Tour de Suisse was mainly to sharpen his climbing form ahead of the Tour de France.

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.

Team leaders: Santiago Buitrago
Objective: GC, stage wins
Riders to watch: Pello Bilbao, Matej Mohorič, Wout Poels

Bahrain Victorious's Colombian cyclist Santiago Buitrago celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 4th stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race, 183 km between Chalon-sur-Saone and Mont Brouilly, on March 6, 2024. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

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.

The team have revealed Santiago Buitrago as their leader for the Tour de France. He 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.

The team also have Pello Bilbao , has a solid contender, too, 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. He was also second overall at the Tour of Slovenia, and while the field was not the same level as what he will face at the Tour de France, the results undoubtedly helped to build confidence.

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.

Climber Guillaume Martin leads the French squad

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. He recently finished 19th overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné with a top 10 in a stage, but will be aiming to improve on that at the Tour.

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.

Team leader: Felix Gall
Rider to watch: Sam Bennett

After a breakthrough 2023, Felix Gall will once again target a high overall placing

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 will also miss out on the Tour to focus on the Olympics.

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, and is looking to be on target with a 10th overall at the Tour de Suisse. 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.

Team leader: Fabio Jakobsen, Romain Bardet
Rider to watch: Warren Barguil

Home favourite Romain Bardet heads up DSM-Firmenich PostNL

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. He revealed that he would not be going for GC, but instead, target stage wins.

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.

Team leader: Richard Carapaz
Rider to watch: Neilson Powless, Ben Healy

Richard Carapaz attacks on the way to his first WorldTour win for EF at the Tour De Romandie

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.

However, Carapaz and Alberto Bettiol were forced to abandon the recent Tour de Suisse after crashing on stage 4, but expressed that their 'goal remains the Tour de France'.

Even though Carapaz’s form is still uncertain, the team announced he will lead the team at the Tour, and the team will focus on stage wins.

Tthere 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.

Team leader: David Gaudu
Rider to watch: Stefan Küng

David Gaudu leads the home nation's GC hopes this July

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 , newly crowned Swiss champion in the time trial, will, as ever, be a candidate for both the time trials as well as select breakaways.

Team leaders: Carlos Rodríguez, Egan Bernal
Objective: GC
Rider to watch: Tom Pidcock, Geraint Thomas

Tom Pidcock, Egan Bernal, and Carlos Rodríguez will take starring roles for Ineos Grenadiers

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 one of the more obvious choices 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, second place behind Juan Ayuso at Itzulia Basque Country and fourth overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné.

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 .

Egan Bernal and Tom Pidcock showed Tour de France leadership form at Tour de Suisse , finishing fourth and sixth place, respectively.

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 remained in Switzerland for additional training before heading to the Grand Depart.

And 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, top tens at Paris-Nice and the Tour de Romandie, and fourth at the Tour de Suisse 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 Dauphiné.

Team leader: Biniam Girmay, Louis Meintjes
Rider to watch: Georg Zimmermann

Biniam Girmay scored his second win of the season at the Circuit Franco-Belge in May

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.

Team leader: Stephen Williams, Derek Gee
Rider to watch: Pascal Ackermann

Derek Gee is one of the riders to watch at the Tour following his Dauphiné stage win and podium

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 was fighting for selection and eager to avoid a repeat of last year when he was left out of the Tour line-up, but he will once again not start the Tour de France with Israel-Premier Tech .

The team has put their support behind Stephen Williams and Derek Gee with the aim of winning stages at this year's event.

Williams is enjoying a terrific season, having won both La Flèche Wallonne and the Tour Down Under, and recently finished second in a stage at the Tour de Suisse. He'll, therefore, be a top contender for stage wins in the hilly terrain.

Gee, 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 .

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).

Team leader: Simon Yates, Dylan Groenewegen
Riders to watch: Michael Matthews

Simon Yates' big win in 2024 came at the AlUla Tour back in February

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.

However, he will lead the general classification charge with key support rider Chris Harper alongside, as he hopes to, this year, break Visma-Lease a Bike and UAE Team Emirates' stranglehold on the podium.

Jayco-AlUla aren’t putting all their eggs in the single basket of Yates’ GC bid. Dylan Groenewegen , who recently won a stage at the Tour of Slovenia, 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 , recently second in a stage at the Tour de Suisse, 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
Objective: stage wins
Rider to watch: Giulio Ciccone

Mads Pedersen represents Lidl-Trek's best chance of success this July

As a team boasting a diverse range of talent, Lidl-Trek could feasibly compete for all a couple of major jerseys .

For the yellow jersey, they had high hopes for Tao Geoghegan Hart , but COVID-19 and a fractured rib due to a crash at the Dauphiné prevented him from toeing the start line . He’s only done the Tour de France once in his career and was eager to target GC here while still in his prime years.

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. His victory in the opening stage at the Dauphine suggests that he is in great form heading into this Tour.

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. Unfortunately, he was also unwell due to the flu following the Dauphiné, and so his form is uncertain.

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.

Team leader : Arnaud De Lie
Rider to watch: Maxim Van Gils

Sprint star Arnaud De Lie makes his Grand Tour debut this July

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. A recent podium finish in a stage at the Tour de Suisse suggests that he is taking a step forward ahead of the Tour.

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: Alex Aranburu, Oier Lazkano, Davide Formolo

Perennial Grand Tour contender Enric Mas aims for a top spot after two Tour de France DNFs in recent years

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, sixth at the Tour de Romandie and seventh at the Tour de Suisse. Considering that he normally ups his game for the Grand Tours, that’s encouraging.

The team also have Alex Aranburu , who recently won a stage and finished third overall at the Baloise Belgium Tour. He could be marking stage wins and a support role. Oier Lazkano and new signing for 2024 Davide Formolo will all have their chances in the breakaways.

Returning star Nairo Quintana won't make the race, meanwhile, after breaking his hand in a crash at the Tour de Suisse.

Team leaders: Primož Roglič
Riders to watch: Jai Hindley, Aleksandr Vlasov

Primož Roglič heads to the Tour with a Critérium du Dauphiné win in the books

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 .

Team leader: Remco Evenepoel
Rider to watch: Mikel Landa, Ilan Van Wilder

Soudal-QuickStep set their sights on GC success with Remco Evenepoel

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. However, he faded hard in the closing three mountain stages, losing 2:25 to Primož Roglič and finishing seventh overall in the GC. 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 .

Team leader: Mathieu Burgaudeau
Rider to watch: Steff Cras

Mathieu Burgaudeau in polka dots at Paris-Nice

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.

Now that Sagan has 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, their 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.

Team leaders: Tadej Pogačar
Rider to watch: Adam Yates, Juan Ayuso

Tadej Pogačar takes aim at the first Giro-Tour double since 1998

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, and the team have announced that recent winner of the Tour de Suisse Adam Yates , and runner-up João Almeida , along with Juan Ayuso will support Pogačar's bid for victory at the Tour de France .

In 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. 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 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.

Team leader: Alexander Kristoff
Riders to watch: Andreas Leknessund, Magnus Cort

Alexander Kristoff will hope to add to his four career Tour de France stage wins

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.

Team leader: Jonas Vingegaard
Rider to watch: Wout van Aert

Jonas Vingegaard accelerates away during his dominant Tirreno-Adriatico win

The final decision arrived just one week before the start of the Tour de France: Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert were confirmed in Visma-Lease a Bike’s Tour de France line-up, ending weeks of speculation about their fitness and ambitions for the biggest race of the 2024 season.

But as the Tour approaches, however, Visma-Lease a Bike are still cautious on the fitness of 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 will return in time for the Tour de France 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.

The team has stated that Vingegaard has recovered enough from the crash to achieve a good result, while the Dane himself has said, “The last few months have not always been easy, but I thank my family and Team Visma-Lease a Bike for their unwavering support. We have worked together to get to this moment, and of course, I am very excited to see where I stand. I feel good and very motivated."

The team initially included Sepp Kuss , who could have potentially filled a GC role. However, he abandoned the Critérium du Dauphiné before the final day of racing as he wasn't feeling 100%, and the team later announced that he would not compete at the Tour due to symptoms of COVID-19 .

Like Vingegaard, Van Aert, too, was a doubt as he tried 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.

Van Aert has won nine stages at the Tour de France and won the green points jersey in 2022. He was keen to return to the Tour after missing the Giro. He has stated that his main goal is to "ride a top classification with Jonas."

Also on the team will be Tiesj Benoot , Jan Tratnik, Christophe Laporte and Wilco Kelderman . 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.

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Tour de France 2024, your ultimate stage-by-stage guide: From Florence to Nice, here's everything you need to know

First Published Jun 19, 2024

A first-time Grand Départ in Italy, and an unprecedented finish outside Paris as the race concludes in Nice on the Côte d’Azur – whatever else happens on this year’s 111th edition of the Tour de France, those two aspects alone will make it a unique and, let’s hope, memorable one.

Florence has the honour of hosting the start of the opening stage on Saturday 29 June, fittingly for this perhaps most multi-faceted of sports.

Florence (licensed CC BY 2.0 by Gary Campbell-Hall)

If you see cycling as poetry, you have the city of Petrarch and Dante; as art, Michelangelo and Leonardo; as engineering and science, Brunelleschi and Galileo; as politics, the Medici family and Machiavelli; and if it’s sporting heroes you prefer, you have the great Gino Bartali.

He’s one of a trio of Italian riders who each left their unique mark on the race and will be commemorated as the Tour makes its way across the roads they grew up and trained on, the others being Marco Pantani and Fausto Coppi.

But while history, whether of the sporting kind or in its wider, more general context, will never be far from the mind in the opening days of the Tour, besides the landscapes and the architecture, the other thing that draws us to follow the race is of course how the three weeks will play out on the road itself, before the Tour reaches its climax on Sunday 20 July with a 33.7km individual time trial from Monaco to Nice. It's the first time the Tour has ended with an ITT since Greg LeMond famously snatched victory from Laurent Fignon on the final day of the 1989 edition.

This preview focuses on the route rather than the riders, but as ever it is worth touching on a couple of the narratives that will be resolved during July. They’re often familiar ones, but with each year that passes, subtle shifts can occur.

Jonas Vingegaard at 2023 Tour de France, stage 20 (Zac Williams/SWPix.com)

Picture: Zac Williams/SWpix.com

Take the question of whether Tadej Pogačar can regain his crown from Jonas Vingegaard. It’s a question that was valid last year too, of course, the difference being that while 12 months ago it was the Slovenian who had to overcome an injury that disrupted his preparations, this time round it is the Dane, the defending champion, who must do so.

Both are now two-time winners of the race, but it is Pogačar who heads here fresh from a storming Giro d’Italia win that gives him the opportunity to become the first man since Pantani to win the Italian and French Grand Tours in the same year.

Tadej Pogačar wins the 2024 Giro d'Italia (Giro d'Italia)

But will his relentless pursuit of stage wins in Italy in a race he dominated from the start cost him in France, and if so will Vingegaard, still recovering from his crash in April, be fully fit to capitalise on it?

Among other contenders, the spotlight is on Primož Roglič, Vingegaard’s former team-mate and now leading Bora-Hansgrohe’s challenge. Being undisputed team leader takes some of the pressure and tension away, but while he comes here on the back of victory at the Dauphiné, it so very nearly slipped through his hands on the last day.

Roglič came so close of course to winning the 2020 Tour over his friend and compatriot, Pogačar, and with the Giro d’Italia also now in his palmarès can join the select group of riders to have won all three Grand Tours.

Among the first to do so was Eddy Merckx, which leads us onto one of the other big questions to be answered in this year’s Tour, again just as it was 12 months ago – can Mark Cavendish, who two years ago drew level with the Belgian great in number of Tour de France stages won on 34 apiece, forge ahead to claim the record outright?

Cavendish, who is now a Sir after he was knighted last week , crashed out of last year’s race the day after finishing second on Stage 7 in Bordeaux 12 months ago. He had also been pipped to the line in Paris on the final stage the previous year, days after drawing level with Merckx’s haul. He’s since been persuaded to defer his planned retirement and remain with Astana-Qazaqstan for one final season to try and clinch that elusive 35th stage.

Mark Cavendish at Tour de France 2023 (Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)

Picture: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com

Whether he does or not, he is still indisputably the most successful sprinter in the history of the Tour – but one final crossing of the line, arms aloft, would be a hell of a way to bid the race adieu.

That’s just a snapshot of a couple of things we will be looking out for in the next few weeks – and as always happens at cycling’s biggest stage race, there will be thrills and spills, smiles and tears, and in all likelihood things we can’t just predict, from cops tear-gassing the peloton to spectators causing crashes while greeting their grandparents on TV, and of course athletes at the top of the sport competing against some of the best scenery that Italy and France have to offer.

Here’s our stage-by-stage preview to the race, and don’t forget that if you fancy yourself as an armchair directeur sportive, you can play our Fantasy Tour de France game – head over here to learn more and sign up .

Stage 1 Saturday 29 June Florence – Rimini (139km, hilly)

The 111th edition of Le Grand Boucle begins in Florence, Gino Bartali’s home city, with a tough stage to Rimini on the Adriatic coast that will is likely to see some hard racing from the start especially with Italian riders fighting to get in the break on home roads. Including seven categorised climbs, the 3,600 metres of climbing is unprecedented in the opening stage of the race.

The last of those takes the riders up to the hilltop republic of San Marino, the 13th country visited by the race, Covering 7.1km at an average gradient of 4.8 per cent it is crested 27km from the finish, followed by what could be a hectic descent towards the coast. As ever, the peloton will be nervous on the opening day, and any attacks from hopefuls for the overall title could blow the stage apart.

Stage 2 Sunday 30 June Cesenatico – Bologna (199km, hilly)

This stage starts in the birthplace of Marco Pantani, the last man to complete the Giro-Tour double in the same season way back in 1998. Played out entirely in Emilia-Romagna, while there is less climbing today there are still five categorised ascents, the last of those, the climb to the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca above Bologna familiar from finale of the Giro dell’Emilia, tackled twice.

Primož Roglič is a three-time winner of that race, while Aleksander Vlasov and Enric Mas have also triumphed there, but a three-week Grand Tour is a very different proposition to a late-season one-day race, and today’s stage finishes not at the top of the climb, but after a descent into the city centre. You’d expect a puncheur to win today, either solo or from a very select bunch sprint.

Stage 3 Monday 1 July Piacenza – Turin (230.5km, flat)

All eyes today will be on Mark Cavendish as, in what will be his final participation in the race, he gets his first opportunity to clinch the outright record for stage wins at the Tour with victory number 35. The first of his 34 wins came 16 years ago, and to do so in Italy, his base for many years since his days at the British Cycling Olympic Academy in Quarrata, would bring his career full circle.

It’s a mainly flat stage which early on passes through Tortona, where two-time yellow jersey winner Fausto Coppi died, and with around 50km remaining after the final Category 4 climb, there’s plenty of time for the sprinters’ teams to hunt down the day’s break. Cavendish may not be consistently the fastest man in the peloton nowadays, but no-one reads a finish like him, and there would be no more popular winner.

Stage 4 Tuesday 2 July 2024 Pinerolo – Valloire (140km, mountain)

An unusually early first visit to the mountains, and one that starts in a town that has hosted the race before, with Edvald Boasson Hagen taking a memorable solo win in 2011 on an Alpine stage that finished there, the peloton setting off the following morning towards the Galibier where Andy Schleck took yellow only to be overhauled by Cadel Evans in the penultimate day’s time trial.

After a pair of Category 2 climbs, the second of which sees the race cross the border into France at around the halfway point of the stage, the riders face the Hors-Catégorie Galibier, averaging 5.1 per cent over its 23km. There’s still a descent of around 20km to be tackled, but there are time bonuses available at the summit, as well as the Souvenir Henri Desgranges prize for the first rider over.

Stage 5 Wednesday 3 July 2024 Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne – Saint-Vulbas (177.5km, flat)

The second sprinter-friendly stage of the race takes the riders north-west through the Alps along the valley of the river Arc towards Chambéry, and while there is some climbing, the second Category 4 ascent of the afternoon is crested with around 35km remaining, giving ample opportunity for anyone with an eye on the win who may have been distanced ample opportunity to get back into the group.

It’s the kind of transitional stage you might expect to see later in the race, though with a break composed of fewer riders that will be kept on a reasonably tight leash by teams looking to contest the expected bunch finish. The intermediate sprint, which comes with around a third of the stage remaining, should provide a strong pointer of who has ambitions to win the green points jersey.

Stage 6 Thursday 4 July Maçon – Dijon (163.5km, flat)

As yesterday, the strong likelihood is that today will end with a bunch sprint, and the relatively short parcours will be welcomed by those still feeling the climb of the Galibier in their legs, or who are nursing injuries from crashes earlier in the race, as the peloton heads north through the vineyards of Burgundy.

The sole Category 4 climb of the day is crested after just 10km have been ridden, so it could be a fast start as riders jostle to get into the break, which is likely to be established once the riders are on the descent. It’s then pan-flat all the way to the finish, with a straight 800-metre run-in to the line, which will count against any remaining escapees looking to keep the chasing peloton at bay.

Stage 7 Friday 5 July Nuits-Saint-Georges – Gevrey-Chambertin (25.3km, individual time trial)

The first of two individual time trials in this edition of the Tour is a short and predominantly flat one, which should limit any potential time gaps between those fighting for the overall victory. That said, there’s likely to be some shuffling of places towards the top of the general classification, and by the end of the day we’ll have a clearer picture of the chief contenders for the main prize this year.

As far as the day’s parcours which begins on forestry before heading through vineyards and forestry goes, the 1.6km climb of the Côte de Curtil-Vergy at an average gradient of 6.1 per cent is the sternest test, but you’d expect the stage win to go to an out-and-out specialist against the clock who will be targeting it specifically, rather than one of the overall contenders.

Stage 8 Saturday 6 July Semur-En-Auxois – Colombey-Les-Deux-Églises (183.5 km, flat)

France goes to the polls tomorrow for the second round of the snap parliamentary election called in June by President Emmanuel Macron; by coincidence, today’s stage finishes in a town forever associated with the towering figure of the country’s politics in the 20th Century, Charles de Gaulle, who made his home in Colombey-Les-Deux-Églises in the 1930s and is buried there.

The peloton faces five categorised climbs, the first three of which are short but punchy, and it could be a while until a break finally takes shape with the terrain likely to encourage counterattacks. Of the three ‘flat’ stages to date, this seems the one most suited to seeing the escapees prevail – although as the afternoon wears on, the sprinters’ teams will be riding hard to try and set up a bunch finish.

Stage 9 Sunday 7 July Troyes – Troyes (199km, hilly)

Time trials aside, it’s highly unusual for a Tour stage to start and finish in the same place, but that is by no means the most remarkable thing about today – instead, it’s the Champagne region’s white gravel roads, similar to Tuscany’s fabled strade bianche and used in the 2022 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, that take centre stage with 14 sectors in all to be crossed.

That could prompt some interesting bike and tyre choices in the peloton, and the weather will also have an influence on how the day turns out – if it’s been dry in the days leading up to the stage, the Tour cavalcade will kick up clouds of dust, if it’s raining, it will be a mud-fest. With lumpy terrain including a quartet of four Category 4 climbs, it has all the makings of a mini-Classic.

Rest day Monday 8 July Orléans

Stage 10 Tuesday 9 July Orléans – Saint-Amand-Montrond (187.5km, flat)

The race resumes in Orléans in the Loire Valley – as close as it will get to Paris this year, the day’s parcours taking the peloton south – with another stage that is all but guaranteed to end in a sprint in a town that as far as the Tour is concerned is best known for being where Carlos Sastre saw off the challenge of Cadel Evans in the final individual time trial to seal his overall victory in 2008.

There’s not a single categorised climb today and it’s similar to the type of stage regularly encountered in the opening week 15 or so years ago. But with the intermediate sprint coming fairly early, with 130km still to ride, if the contest for the green jersey is close there could be an incentive for teams with designs on it to neutralise breaks ahead of it to maximise their potential points haul.

Stage 11 Wednesday 10 July 2024 Évaux-Les-Bains – Le Lioran (211km, mountain)

The race may be hitting its halfway point, but the Massif Central today sees just the second mountain stage. There are six categorised climbs in all, the highest ranked of which is the Category 1 Puy Mary Pas de Peyrol, covering 5.1km at an average of 8.1 per cent, its summit coming with 31km remaining ahead of what could be an explosive finish on a day with a total elevation gain of 4,350 metres.

The availability of bonus seconds on the penultimate climb, the Col du Pertus which is crested with just under 15km remaining could give an incentive to teams with overall contenders to sweep up any escapees early, and while the stage is not officially classed as a summit finish, the top of the final ascent, the Col de Font de Cère, comes with a little over 3km remaining.

Stage 12 Thursday 11 July Aurillac – Villeneuve-Sur-Lot (204km, flat)

The start and finish towns today have both hosted the race before – Aurillac making its ninth appearance, Villeneuve-Sur-Lot its third, and on paper at least, the stage looks like one of those on in which the lead group will be swept up by the peloton ahead of the sprinters fighting it out for the win.

But undulating terrain throughout the stage, history suggests that it could be one for the escape artists, who have prevailed on both occasions on which a stage has finished in Villeneuve –two-time Italian national road champion Massimo Podenzano in 1996 and, four years later, the Dutch rider Erik Dekker. Will today be third time lucky here for the sprinters?

Stage 13 Friday 12 July 2024 Agen – Pau (165.5 km, flat)

Since hosting the race for the first time in 1930, nowhere outside Paris has welcomed the Tour more often than Pau, today marking the 75th time a stage has started or finished in the city, its location making it a natural stop on the way into or out of the western Pyrenees. Its extensive history with the race also sees Pau bill itself as The Capital of the Tour .

If the race is heading out of the Pyrenees, the city typically hosts the finish of a mountain stage; heading towards them, it’s likely to be a flat one, as is the case today. As far as the parcours goes, there are a couple of Category 4 climbs late on, and as yesterday, it could be a close-run thing as to whether the break carries the day, or the stage ends with a bunch sprint.

Stage 14 Saturday 13 July 2024 Pau – Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d'Adet (152km, mountain)

It’s been a long wait, but finally the third weekend of the Tour sees the first of this year’s four summit finishes on a day that includes one of the most anticipated climbs of the race whenever it is included, the Col du Tourmalet, which is crested today with a little over 60km still to ride, and where the Souvenir Jacques Goddet prize is up for grabs for whoever rides over the top at the head of the race.

The climb of the Hourquette d’Ancizan precedes the final Hors Catégorie ascent to Pla d’Adet, averaging 7.9 per cent over its 10.6km, but heading into double-digit gradients in its first 4km. The big names in the overall will have been chomping at the bit for today’s stage as the battle for the yellow jersey begins in earnest – and today may show who has the legs for it, and who doesn’t.

Stage 15 Sunday 14 July 2024 Loudenvielle – Plateau de Beille (198km, mountain)

Bastille Day falling on the penultimate Sunday of the Tour invariably means not only big crowds but also a big mountain stage to match, and this could be the pivotal one of this year’s race. There’s a whopping 4,850 metres of climbing on the menu for the Fête National starting the moment the flag drops and the race heads up the Col de Peyresourde.

It’s guaranteed that there will be an almighty fight to get into the break, including from teams or riders who have had a disappointing race to date, while the GC teams will also look to get riders up the road to be able to help their team leaders later on. With four Category 1 ascents ahead of that final Hors-Catégorie climb to the Plateau de Beille, fireworks are pretty much guaranteed.

Rest day Monday 15 July 2024 Gruissan

Stage 16 Tue 16 July 2024 Gruissan – Nîmes (189km, flat)

There may be another five stages to come after today, but with the race skipping Paris this year, it’s the last chance saloon for the sprinters, the sole uphill challenge being a short Category 4 climb with more than 60km remaining. Meanwhile, the GC riders will be looking to stay out of trouble and conserve energy ahead of the battle for the overall title heading back into the mountains.

Should he have drawn a blank so far during the race, it’s also the final opportunity for Mark Cavendish to move ahead of Eddy Merckx in all-time stage victories – and today’s finish is in a city where the Manxman has triumphed before, outgunning Robbie McEwan, now a TV pundit on the race, to take his fourth career stage win at the race back in 2008.

Stage 17 Wednesday 17 July 2024 Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux > Superdévoluy (178 km, mountain)

This is a stage that a punch into its final 30km or so, with three categorised climbs to be tackled including the Category 1 Col du Noyer, which has bonus seconds available at the top. It’s unlikely those will go to anyone challenging for the overall title, with this stage looking more like one that will be contested by a big breakaway group.

In part, that’s because other mountain stages this week appear to provide sterner tests and thereby the opportunity to put more time into rivals through well-planned attacks – but having said that, even if not racing for the win today, any sign of weakness from a rider towards the top of the overall standings could see the GC group explode as rivals try and capitalise.

Stage 18 Thursday 18 July Gap – Barcelonnette (180km, hilly)

Five Category 3 climbs pepper the profile today and while, barring crashes or other unforeseen events it is highly unlikely to prove influential for the overall given the mountain and time trial stages in the days ahead, it could still provide an entertaining day’s racing given that the final three days feature two mountain stages followed by an individual time trial.

Why? Well, we’re a little over a couple of weeks away from the men’s road race at the Olympic Games which features a succession of short but leg-sapping climbs throughout, so for any puncheurs or Classics specialists left at the Tour who are also eyeing up a medal, today represents perhaps their last chance to test their form in an actual race ahead of Paris.

Stage 19 Friday 19 July Embrun – Isola 2000 (145km, mountain)

The race heads towards its final weekend with the first of two summit finishes, this one including the Cime de la Bonnette – the highest paved road in France, and third highest in Europe, topping out at 2,802 metres, and one of three summits of over 2,000 metres that will be tackled today, the others being the Col de Vars and the climb to the finish at the Isola 2000 ski resort.

Whether by coincidence or design, the finish line is placed at 2,024 metres above sea level at the top of a 16.1km climb with an average gradient of 7.1 per cent. While training at altitude is the norm for big-name riders these days, the rarified atmosphere, not least on the 22.9km ascent of the Bonnette, which averages 6.9 per cent, could see some struggle through oxygen deficit.

Stage 20 Saturday 20 July 2024 Nice – Col de la Couillole (133km, mountain)

Less than four-years after Nice hosted the Grand Départ of one of the strangest ever editions of the Tour in 2020, postponed until September of that year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Côte d’Azur metropolis again finds itself at the centre of the cycling world as the race finishes outside Paris for the first time as it prepares for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, now less than a week away.

The remaining riders head out of Nice today for the final mountain stage, returning tomorrow one by one at the end of the individual time trial that brings the curtain down on the race. The penultimate day brings four big climbs, the final one being the Col de la Couillole which averages 7.1 per cent over its 15.7km.

How today plays out depends on the overall standings, due to tomorrow’s live rather than neutralised concluding stage. If things are close at the top of the GC, we’ll see attacks as riders aim to give themselves the best possible opportunity against the clock – and their rivals – tomorrow; if time gaps are too wide, conversely, they may simply defend their positions, making it a day for the break.

Stage 21 Sunday 20 July Monaco-Nice (33.7km, individual time trial)

In the 15 years we’ve been previewing the race, the final stage is the one that writes itself – the photocalls, the Champagne, the procession into Paris, the helter-skelter laps of the Champs-Élysées ahead of a frantic sprint finish and the podium celebrations in the heart of the French capital – but clearly that script has had to be ripped up this year.

It's 35 years since the race ended with an individual time trial, Greg LeMond snatching victory from Laurent Fignon in what remains the closest ever edition of the race. Starting in Monaco, the route includes two climbs, La Turbie and the Col d’Eze, before sweeping down into Nice and along the Promenade des Anglais then switching back towards the finish on Place Massena.

A spot on the final podium and even the overall title could still be in play. The penultimate day’s test against the clock in recent Grand Tours have seen Tadej Pogačar overhauling Primož Roglič to win the 2020 Tour, the latter coping with a late mechanical to take the maglia rosa from Geraint Thomas in last year’s Giro d’Italia. Organisers will be hoping for similar drama today as the 111th Tour concludes.

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road.cc wrote: [stage 16]'s the last opportunity for Mark Cavendish to move ahead of Eddy Merckx

Not necessarily. I could see him (admittedly as a long outsider, but then there are only outsiders on a stage like this) infiltrating the break on stage 18 and then clinging on to the finish.

If I had to put money on him finding a win somewhere, though, doing something similar on stage 12 looks a better bet, or, more likely, sprinting from a small group after a wind-affected day.

mdavidford wrote: Not necessarily. I could see him (admittedly as a long outsider, but then there are only outsiders on a stage like this) infiltrating the break on stage 18 and then clinging on to the finish.

Surely five Cat 3s with 3150m of climbing, including most of the last 20 km being a long drag uphill, would be too much for Cav? I think that one's got rouleur written all over it if there is a breakaway, a couple of good northern classics riders would draw his sting long before the finish. I would, of course, love to be wrong…

Yeah - like I said - very long shot, but he does have form for surprising people on parcours like that once or twice. In all likelihood though, it's too late in the race - there will be too many people seeing it as a last chance, a very large break, and so too many people who can ditch him before the finish. It's not entirely out of the question, though.

Well, I for one am getting a bit excited.

Seems to be starting a bit early, dont recall it starting in the month of June much.

Second week off, birthday week, nice!

ktache wrote: Seems to be starting a bit early, dont recall it starting in the month of June much. Second week off, birthday week, nice!

It has occasionally started in June but the tradition is usually to start the first Saturday after (or on) the first of July, this year they needed to start it early enough so the finish weekend won't overlap the opening of the Paris Olympiad, which it would have done if they'd gone for the more traditional 6th of July.

Have a cracking birthday week, excellent timing!

Awful if it corresponds with the rest day.

Excellent if it's a day in the mountains.

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Tour de France 2024 stage guide: Schedule and key dates as Tadej Pogacar battles Jonas Vingegaard for yellow

Updated 25/06/2024 at 10:53 GMT

The second half of Tadej Pogacar’s ambitious double bid gets under way on Saturday, June 29 as the Giro d’Italia winner from Slovenia squares up against two-time reigning Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark in the quest for the fabled yellow jersey. Felix Lowe looks at the route, key stages and challenges in store as both riders push for a third title on cycling's biggest stage.

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Tour de france 2024 – eight key stages, stage 1, june 29: florence – rimini, 206km (classics style).

Tour de France 2024 stage 1 profile

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Stage 4, July 2: Pinerolo – Valloire, 139.6km (mountains)

Tour de France 2024 stage 4 profile

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

Tour de France 2024 stage 9 profile

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

Tour de France 2024 stage 11 profile

Stage 15, July 14: Loudenvielle – Plateau de Beille, 197.7km (summit finish)

Tour de France 2024 stage 15 profile

Stage 19, July 19: Embrun – Isola 2000, 144.6km (summit finish)

Tour de France 2024 stage 19 profile

Stage 20, July 20: Nice – Col de la Couillole, 132.8km (summit finish)

Tour de France 2024 stage 20 profile

Stage 21, July 21: Monaco – Nice, 33.7km (ITT)

Tour de France 2024 stage 21 profile

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2024 Tour de France: How to watch, schedule, odds for cycling's top race

The biggest cycling event of the year - the 111th Tour de France -- kicks off Saturday from Florence, Italy. The 2024 Tour de France's unusual route starts in Italy for the first time ever to honor 100 years since the first Italian victory in the Tour by Ottavio Bottecchia in 1924. Also, due to the 2024 Summer Olympics, the Tour de France will not finish in Paris for the first time in event history.

The 21 stages will cover more than 2,000 miles from Saturday through July 21. Two-time defending winner Jonas Vingegaard looks to become just the ninth cyclist to win at least three Tour de France races. Last year's runner-up, Tadej Pogačar, is looking to do the same. He won in 2020 and 2021 before finishing second to Vingegaard in 2022 and 2023.

Here's what you need to know about this year's race:

How to watch the 2024 Tour de France

NBC Sports will broadcast the 2024 Tour de France in the U.S. All stages will be available via streaming on Peacock and fuboTV with three stages - 8, 14, and 20 - broadcast on NBC as well.

How to watch: Catch the 2024 Tour de France with a fuboTV subscription

2024 Tour de France stage schedule, distance, characteristics

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2024 Tour de France odds

Pogačar holds a slight edge as the favorite for victory in the 2024 Tour de France, per BetMGM's latest cycling odds . Here's how the field looks:

Odds as of Tuesday afternoon.

Tadej Pogačar (-165)
Jonas Vingegaard (+200)
Primož Roglič (+800)
Remco Evenepoel (+1400)
Juan Ayuso (+3300)
Carlos Rodríguez (+3300)
Adam Yates (+3300)
João Almeida (+3300)
Matteo Jorgenson (+3300)
Egan Bernal (+6600)
Simon Yates (+6600)
Enric Mas (+10000)
Tom Pidcock (+10000)
Felix Gall (+10000)
Richard Carapaz (+10000)
Mikel Landa (+10000)
Geraint Thomas (+10000)
David Gaudu (+30000)
Oscar Onley (+30000)
Wout van Aert (+30000)
Romain Bardet (+50000)
Giulio Ciccone (+50000)
Mathieu van der Poel (+100000)
Mark Cavendish (+500000)

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