a great departure from Florence, an unprecedented arrival far from Paris?

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According to the Gazzetta dello Sport, the Tour de France 2024 would, for the first time, take off from Italy to end far from the Champs-Élysées.

After the big start of the 2022 Tour of Copenhagen on 1is July and that of 2023 from San Sebastian, the Tour de France 2024 should, according to La Gazetta dello Sport, start from Florence. It would be, on the occasion of the 111e Grande Boucle, from the first big start of the Tour of Italy. Florence (supported in particular by Matteo Renzi) candidate for the big start in 2014 had, in extremis, been overtaken by Yorkshire who had planted the big start in Leeds.

The Italian daily reveals the first stages (1st stage: Florence-Rimini; 2e étape: Cesenatico-Bologne; 3e stage: Modena-Piacenza). And especially the Italian daily, the Tour de France would not live its epilogue in Paris (since 1903) and its traditional parade on the Champs-Élysées (since 1975). Due to the proximity of the Paris Olympic Games (July 26-August 11), the Tour would live its last stage (Sunday July 21) in Nice, which was the scene of the big start of the Giro 1998.

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