Paris, Europe Brief News – Tour de France Femmes is scheduled to kick off on in Paris on Sunday 24th July, the same day the men’s Tour finishes in the French capital.
For the first time in a very long time, there will be two pelotons in Paris racing the Tour de France.
The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift begins on July 24 and runs for eight days across northeast France.
The race features 144 women from 24 teams, and it covers 640 total miles of racing.
There are four flat stages, two hilly ones, and two mountain stages, with one finishing up the legendary La Super Planche des Belles Filles climb in the Vosges mountains.
The Tour de France Femmes will be broadcast in 170 countries across Europe, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa – excluding China, Japan and New Zealand – by Discovery Sports on its channels Eurosport, GCN+ and Discovery+.
Race organizer, sponsors, and media partners have promised that this will not be the first and last Tour de France Femmes.
Presenting sponsor Zwift has pledged to back the race for at least four years, and fitness app Strava is in for three.
Stage 1 kicks off at the Eiffel Tower, where the peloton will race 12 laps of the legendary circuit that ends at the Champs-Élysées. The stage is flat and fast—the women are anticipated to finish in around two hours, preceding the men’s arrival in the city.
