initially published on 4 September 2023 at 10.20PM, updated on 8 September at 3.05PM, on 11 September at 11.54PM, on 12 September at 8.34AM, on 18 September at 10.47PM and on 23 September at 4.27PM
It's early September, so a little earlier than in recent years, velowire.com is once again featuring the "rendez-vous annuel" article on the search for the route of the forthcoming Tour de France, based on rumours.
In this case it's the Tour de France 2024 and the article is being published a little early because I was able to work on it a little bit earlier than usual and also because there are quite a few rumours that seem to be getting pretty solid already, compared with previous years.
At the start of the last week of the Tour de France 2023 and in the middle of the Alps programme of this race (see the Tour de France 2023 race route on Open Street Maps), an individual time trial between Passy and Combloux, over a distance of 22.4 km could well become decisive for the candidates for the general classification, in the fight for the Yellow jersey!
The day before this time trial, you can find in this article the start order and -times for the different riders, in the opposite order of the general classification. At first, the riders will start every minute, later on every minute and a half and finally every two minutes, according to the start times shown below.
The list of Tour de France starters and their bib numbers
The 176 starters of the Tour de France 2023 in 22 teams in statistics
22 teams, each with 8 riders, will line up at the start of this edition of the Grande Boucle. Among them are 27 nationalities, of which France will be the most strongly represented, with 32 riders. Belgium (21), Spain and the Netherlands (14), Australia (12), Denmark (11) and Norway (8) follow. Australia is also at 8, while Italy is under-represented compared to usual, with 7 rid ...> Read the whole story | no comments | shown 42474x