the Grande Boucle will set off from Rotterdam just after the Paris Olympics

A first departure abroad for the women’s event. The 2024 edition of the Women’s Tour de France will leave Rotterdam on August 12, the day after the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, event director Marion Rousse announced on Monday July 10. “It seemed logical to us that the leading nation of women’s cycling could host the biggest cycling race in the world”she explained in a press release.

Three of the eight stages will take place in the Netherlands, including two on the same day, including a time trial in the streets of Rotterdam, before the finish on Sunday August 18. The entire route will be unveiled on October 25th.

This will be the first departure abroad for the women’s Grande Boucle which was revived last year when it set off from Paris. The 2024 edition represented a headache because of the holding of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, from July 26 to August 11, which made it impossible to organize the Women’s Tour directly as an extension of the Men’s Tour, as is the case Currently. Next year, the men’s Tour de France itself will start a week earlier, from Florence in Italy.