2023-11-14 14:35:00
The people of Lille can rejoice. The 2025 Tour de France will start from the North and the European metropolis of Lille, Amaury Sport Organization, organizer of the competition, announced in a press release on Tuesday. The details of the “grand departure” and the stages will be revealed during a press conference on Thursday November 30 at 11:30 a.m. in Lille, ASO said.
After three consecutive editions marked by a start abroad, in Copenhagen in 2022, Bilbao in 2023 and Florence next year, the “grand departure” of the Tour will therefore return to France. For the fifth time since its creation in 1903, the Grande Boucle will start from the Hauts-de-France region, after the 1960 (Lille), 1969 (Roubaix), 1994 (Lille) and 2001 (Dunkirk) editions.
The Tour de France 2024 (June 29 – July 21), the route of which is already known, will begin, for the first time, in Italy with an arrival in Nice and not in Paris, as usual, due to the Olympic Games.
On the occasion of the 2024 Olympic Games (July 26 – August 11), the Lille metropolis will host the handball and basketball competitions at the Pierre Mauroy stadium, in Villeneuve d’Ascq.
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