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.
The official presentation of the route of the Tour de France 2024 as well as the 3rd edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (which will start in the Netherlands with 3 stages around the city of Rotterdam, during the first 2 days of the event, which this ti ...
Every time the route of the Tour de France is presented, the same comments are made in France, especially by residents of areas ignored by the upcoming edition: "The Tour never goes this way or that way."
But that's not quite true: even if there are areas that the Tour de France visits less often than others, all regions of France, and even all departements, have featured on the route of the Grande Boucle over the years.
Of course, this is easy to say but more difficult to verify, which is why velowire has created a map of the Tour de France routes over the last 16 years (2008-2023) on Open Street Maps. Every year, the complete route of the new edition of the Grande Boucle ...
article originally published at monday 4 September 2023 at 10:20 pm and updated on friday 8 September 2023 at 03:05 pm, monday 11 September 2023 at 11:54 pm, tuesday 12 September 2023 at 08:34 am, monday 18 September 2023 at 10:47 pm, saturday 23 September 2023 at 04:27 pm, friday 29 September 2023 at 08:36 am, sunday 1 October 2023 at 02:57 pm, sunday 1 October 2023 at 11:27 pm, monday 2 October 2023 at 08:17 pm, saturday 7 October 2023 at 04:47 pm, tuesday 10 October 2023 at 10:14 pm, wednesday 11 October 2023 at 09:57 pm, thursday 12 October 2023 at 11:48 pm, saturday 14 October 2023 at 05:43 pm, monday 16 October 2023 at 11:01 pm, wednesday 18 October 2023 at 11:56 pm, saturday 21 October 2023 at 10:58 pm and on monday 23 October 2023 at 12:29 am
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.
The official presentation of the route of the Tour de France 2024 as well as the 3rd edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (which will start in the Netherlands with 3 stages around the city of Rotterdam, during the first 2 days of the event, which this ti ...> Read the whole story | 453 comments | shown 199,405x