a final time between Monaco and Nice for the last day
Unheard of between Monaco and Nice. In principle, this Saturday December 3, the organization of the Tour de France 2024 has announced that the ultimate individual time trial will take place between the two localities. A great first, decisive for the runners.
Between the principality and the queen event of road cycling, it’s a long story. But the year 2024 will be remembered by all lovers of the Grande Boucle. Olympic Games obliging, the arrival of the Tour de France, which necessarily takes place on the Champs Elysées, in Paris, will be experienced on the Côte d’Azur, in Nice.
This was announced on Thursday, December 1, at Mediterranean University Centerthe mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, and the director of Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme. A cycling race that accompanies more than 42 million viewers on the antennas of France Televisions.
In the last stage of this Tour 2024, it is indeed an individual time trial which decides the Winner of the event. A final decisive race capable of overturning the classification.
On July 21, 2024, the last day of the Tour de France, it is indeed a time trial between Monaco and Nice which will be run between the two localities on the Riviera. The final time, decisive, will therefore be the last stage of this Grande Boucle, the arrival of which has been relocated.
This was announced by Christian Prudhomme this Saturday during a press conference at the Yacht Club de Monaco.
The premier event of international road cycling has rubbed shoulders with the Principality more than once, but never before in this configuration. In 2009, the Tour de France restarted in the city-statewith two stages : a first time trial followed by a stage between Monaco and Brignoles, in the Var.
The benchmark cycling event has trod the Monegasque roads 11 times since 1947. Monegasque territory has seen the start of a stage six times, and five finishes of the race created in 1903.