the 2024 Women’s Tour de France will be held the day after the Paris Games, from August 12 to 18, announces the International Cycling Union

The International Cycling Union (UCI) published the men’s and women’s WorldTour race calendars for the 2024 season on Thursday June 29. Due to the Olympic Games (July 26-August 11), the start of the Tour de France women is thus postponed to August 12, the day after the closing ceremony of Paris 2024, for an arrival on the 18th. The men’s Tour de France will be brought forward, as is the case during the years of the Olympic Games, to start the June 29 and end on July 21.

“The calendars are largely similar to those of 2023, although the dates of several races have been changed slightly to facilitate participation in the road events of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games next July and August,” explained the UCI in a press release published on its website.

For its first edition in 2022, like this year’s, the women’s Grande Boucle took place during the fourth week of July, after the arrival of the men’s race. In total, the 2024 women’s season will include 82 days of racing spread over 28 events between the Santos Tour Down Under in Australia from January 12 and the Tour of Guangxi in China, run from October 20, 2024. La Vuelta España (from 29 April to May 5) and the Giro d’Italia (July 7 to 14) will be two of the highlights of the season, such as the women’s Paris-Roubaix (April 6), contested the day before the men’s race.