2023-10-25 13:13:56
It is therefore through a legend that the girls of the 2024 Women’s Tour de France will finish on August 19. In order to further mark an event which seems to have already found its place in just two editions, the organizers have therefore decided to make their event even tougher to offer it even more readability. For more than a year, ASO, the organizer of the event, had been thinking about the legendary 21 bends of Alpe-d’Huez. Last year’s ascent of the Tourmalet where, despite the usual failures, no girl found the climb too inhumane, convinced them to give it a try.
“Our request from the start is to go to the legendary places of the Tour,” explains Marion Rousse, the director of the event. And with Alpe-d’Huez, we’re served. It will be the hardest stage in the history of the event. We will first go through the Col du Glandon. So we will have two passes out of category. In total, this will make 3900 m of elevation gain. That’s 900 m more than the 2023 Tourmalet stage.”
“It makes complete sense.”
Obviously, some will wonder if this is not too copious a menu after only three years of existence of the event. “I absolutely do not question the level of the girls,” retorts Marion Rousse. They have it. There should be no doubt about it”
“We must have said the same thing when we launched the women’s Paris-Roubaix,” says Christian Prudhomme, the boss of the men’s Tour. And, on the contrary, from the first year, we saw an extraordinary spectacle. We continue the symbols. The first year, we went to the Vosges where the first Tour took place in 1903. Last year, it was the Pyrenees. It’s completely logical.”
How logical it is to have wanted to hit hard and finish, in an event stuck between the Olympics and the Paralympics, with a final bouquet known to all of cycling France.
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