Tours de France 2024 - Presentation

Dorset_Boy
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Route presentations being streamed now on the likes of Facebook

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  • gethinceri
    gethinceri Posts: 1,663
    Great, I could do with a snooze.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    Femmes

  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    Tour de france Femmes finishes up the Alpe, with another stage finish at Le Grand Bornard. Start is in Rotterdam with 3 stages, then basically heads south down the eastern side of France.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572

  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    High mountains on Stage 4:

  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    Couple of hard days in the Pyrenees:





  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    Almost the end:
    St 19


    St20

  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    Looks like Stage 20 is the Etape du Tour stage
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    I thought it was quiet on the pre season 2024 thread!

    A 34km ITT on the final Sunday replacing the usual procession.
    I like…..especially after the two mountain stages that look brutal.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    No gravel?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    mididoctors said:

    No gravel?

    There is gravel, on St 8 or 9 I think.
  • neonriver
    neonriver Posts: 228
    mididoctors said:

    No gravel?

    Stage 8 has 14 sections I think
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pleased they're not in Paris for the finish for a change.

    Appreciate the hand was forced by the Olympics but I have always found the Paris finish a snooze. Curious to see if moving it around would be an improvement.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    mididoctors said:

    No gravel?

    It's stage 9.
    14 sectors of "strade bianche" amounting to over 30kms.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,337
    Will make a change on the last stage to watch the final 15 minutes of a TT instead of the last 15 minutes of a sprint build-up. 😉
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  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Some high altitude climbs on the route.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Vingers gotta be happy with the final week.

    Mountainous and high.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I wonder if French Bike Radar has a thread where all the northerners are moaning how it isn't going past their houses again. At first glance I thought this year's map had been posted by mistake. Having several stages in Italy feels weird, I'm used to it travelling to foreign parts but to the home of the second GT seems a bit pointless.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Looking at the profiles an Cime de la Bonette really chucks everything out of scale, the other two climbs look small then you realise they are both over 2000m!
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    When was the last time they went up the Bonette?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    thegreatdivide said:

    When was the last time they went up the Bonette?

    Schleck and cadel I think ?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    rick_chasey said:

    Vingers gotta be happy with the final week.

    Mountainous and high.

    Definite lip licking going on. High and hard with a mountain TT in the third week is perfect, especially as the first two weeks look pretty tough as well
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,553
    edited October 2023
    mididoctors said:

    thegreatdivide said:

    When was the last time they went up the Bonette?

    Schleck and cadel I think ?
    2008. John-Lee Augustyn led over the top, then crashed spectacularly shortly afterwards.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    andyp said:

    mididoctors said:

    thegreatdivide said:

    When was the last time they went up the Bonette?

    Schleck and cadel I think ?
    2008. John-Lee Augustyn led over the top, then crashed spectacularly shortly afterwards.
    Didn't G crash for Barlow world too?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Getting mixed up memories
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,161
    Am I the only one a bit nervous about stage 4?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Looks like Kom break frenzy to Me ..... Lashing out for the GC in nice is risky ....if one+ of the GC contenders gets dropped on the final climb they ain't getting back on
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm

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