The organizers of the Tour de France announced today (Thursday) that after 110 editions that ended near or in Paris, the most prestigious Grand Tour of all, will end for the first time away from the capital in 2024 when the 21st section will be held in Nice on July 21.
If that's not enough, the final section, which has traditionally been a sprint on the Champs-Elysées, will also be a time-trial section, the first time this has happened since the legendary result in 1989 when Frenchman Laurent Pignon lost the yellow jersey by just eight seconds to American Greg Lemond.
As usually happens in an Olympic year, the start of the 111th edition that should start for the first time from Italy and the city of Florence will be brought forward by one week.
The race will therefore start on June 29 and will end on July 21, five days before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris.
It will also be the third year in a row that the Grand Tour will start outside of France, with Denmark's capital Copenhagen hosting the first stage this year and Bilbao in Spain doing the honors next year.
Nice has hosted the tour 37 times in the past, when the first section also opened twice in the city: in 1981 and in 2020 during the peak of the Corona epidemic.
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