The 111th edition of the Tour de France starts tomorrow, Saturday 29 June. Busy departure with 7 GPM from Florence to Rimini: the Italian triptych will liven up the weekend and the beginning of next week with arrivals in Bologna and Turin. All eyes are on the reigning double champion Vingegaard, who has however returned from a serious injury, and on Tadej Pogacar, eager to aspire to the Giro-Tour double that has been missing since the Pirate days. The Tour is live on Eurosport, channel 210, and streaming on NOW
ALL THE STAGES
It starts again Tour de France. And it does it from Italy, more precisely from Florence with a long stage 206 kilometers to Rimini. A fraction in which the protagonists could immediately be the men in the standings.
The altimetry and GPM of the 1st stage
206 kilometers long and just 73 meters of difference in altitude between start and finish. In the middle, however, a continuous up and down with many climbs, from the first to Three Beech Pass al km 12,5 all’ultima a San Marino on Mount Titano about 18 km from the finish line on the plain on the Riviera Romagnola. Between the two there are also the Colle delle Forche, the Carnaio, the Colle di Barbotto, the Colle di San Leo and the Colle di Montemaggio. These are seven second and third category GPMs, very demanding for being the start of a long stage race and with maximum gradients of 7.7%. The Grand Boucle will also pass through Ponte a Ema to pay homage to Gino Bartali. The winner of the Tour in 1938 and 1948 will be celebrated in the town of his birth, also home to the museum dedicated to him.
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The three Italian stages
Italy will be the protagonist of a Tour that on July 21st will not arrive in Paris as usual, but in Niceto avoid overlapping with the days preceding the Olympics (lighting of the Olympic flame on the 26th) for reasons of public order. Sunday will be the turn of the Cesenatico-Bologna with a suggestive finish line at the Sanctuary of San Luca, while on Monday it will be the turn of the quiet one Piacenza-Turin, fraction for sprinters. The Tour de France will be broadcast live in its entirety on Eurosport, channel 210 of the Sky platform, also available on Sky Go and streaming on NOW.
