Paris-Nice 2024, a taste of the Tour de France

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The final weekend in the Nice hinterland of this prestigious eight-day stage race (March 3-10) will take several routes from the finale of the next Tour de France. Including the penultimate stage which will lead to the unprecedented arrival at Paris-Nice in Auron and will pass close to the La Couillole and Isola 2000 passes which could be the justices of the peace for the Grande Boucle next summer.

On the last day, Paris-Nice will also pass through the Col d’Eze which will also be on the Tour program in July on the occasion of a final, potentially decisive individual time trial.

“ In March, on Paris-Nice, we imagine ourselves in July, we project ourselves, we make plans », Commented the director of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme, on Tuesday.

The first six stages of “the Race to the Sun” will be traditional, first with a loop in Yvelines around Mureaux. There will be, like this year, a team time trial, where the time will be taken from the first rider of each team, in Auxerre.

Two arrivals planned for previous editions, but canceled due to bad weather, have also been put back on the program. The peloton will thus climb to Mont Brouilly and will also cross the line at La Colle-sur-Loup which was unable to host the race in 2023 due to a violent storm.

As for the protagonists, the organizers of ASO hit hard in 2023 by attracting the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar and the Dane Jonas Vingegaard. The first flew over the event while the double winner of the Tour de France finished third, behind the Frenchman David Gaudu.

(With AFP)