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12.15: What a welcome to the Tour! Parade of runners between two wings of the Florentine crowd!
12.10: Just before leaving, what do you do? A nice selfie between national champions!
12.05: The transfer is very long: 16 kilometres. But in so much wonder it’s worth it. And then be careful: you immediately go uphill as soon as you leave Florence.
12.00: We start from Florence, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. GO!!!!!!!!!!!
11.57: Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Piedmont will be crossed by this Great Departure in Italy.
11.55: We still have before our eyes the splendid images of the presentation of the teams in Piazzale Michelangelo. But we’re here now, just a few minutes left.
11.48: Prepare for the long live broadcast by studying today’s stage in detail: it’s 206 kilometers that are anything but trivial. Who will be the first yellow jersey of this Grande Boucle?
11.40: And here, twenty minutes from the start, is the definitive start list of the Tour that starts from Florence and will arrive in Nice in three weeks. There are 176 starters, divided into 22 teams. Only 8 are Italians.
11.30: A parenthesis. Some of you will certainly be lucky enough to see the Tour de France pass by your house (or at least close to your house) in these Italian days. Don’t forget to send us the photos you take. We will publish them all: this is the Tour de France through your eyes.
11.22: To better fill these moments of eve, Davide Bernardini went to talk to Luca Guercilena. Hear what the manager of Lidl-Trek told him about current cycling.
11.16: Staying with Pogacar, here’s what the winner of the Giro had to say about these weeks without races. Unfortunately, there was also a bereavement in his life, he lost his grandfather.
11.10: The services of our correspondents bring you inside the eve in these few minutes remaining until the official start. Luca Neri spoke with Andrej Hauptman to take stock of the conditions of Tadej Pogacar, who is back in the running a month after his triumph in Rome. The Slovenian champion said he had Covid in recent weeks between the Giro and Tour.
11.05: Good morning and welcome. It is with great emotion that we welcome you to the first, historic departure of the Tour de France from Italy. We start from the great beauty of Florence and arrive in Romagna, in Rimini, but not before having crossed the border even abroad, in the small Republic of San Marino.
It opens Tour de France 2024 and the LIVE of quibicisport.it which will accompany you from today until the grand finale of Nice every day with the full live broadcast of the twenty-one stages. We start with the Florence-Rimini crossing the Tuscan-Romagna Apennines for a total of 206 kilometers and seven Mountain Grand Prix.
In order, the following will be climbed: Valico Tre Faggi (12.5 km at 5.1%), Forche (2.5 km at 6.2%), Spinello (7.1 km at 6%), Barbotto (5.8 km at 7.6%), San Leo (4.6 km at 7.7%), Montemaggio (4.2 km at 6.6%) and San Marino (7.1 km at 4.8%).
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