2024 Tour de France
The 2024 Tour de France is the upcoming 111th edition of the Tour de France. It will start in Florence, Italy on 29 June, and will finish in Nice, France on the 21 July. The race will not finish in Paris for the first time in its history, owing to preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Route and stages In December 2022, Amaury Sport Organisation announced that Italy will host the Grand Départ for the first time. 2024 will be the 100th anniversary of the first Italian winner of the Tour, Ottavio Bottecchia in 1924. The route will also visit the microstate of San Marino, making it the 15th country to be visited by a Tour stage. It was also announced in December 2022 that the race will not finish in Paris, owing to preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Instead, the tour will finish in Nice with an individual time trial—the last time a time trial was the final stage in the Tour was in 1989. In October 2023, the full route was announced by Christian Prudhomme. The route was described as "tough" by riders, with particular concern regarding the gravel tracks on