Cycling: the return of the women's Tour de France
Christian Prudhomme and Marion Rousse during the presentation of the Women's Tour de France, October 14, 2021. Anne-Christine Poujoulat AFP
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The 2022 Women's Tour de France will start from the Eiffel Tower on July 24.
The route will include eight stages, and will end at the top of Planche-des-Belles-Filles in the Vosges mountains.
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For the first time, in 2021, women attacked the cobblestones of Paris-Roubaix.
In 2022, they will taste the rebirth of the women's Tour de France, after twelve years of absence.
It was organized in parallel with the Men's Tour from 1984 to 1989, it then took place with other organizers under other names before disappearing at the end of the 2000s for lack of funding.
In 1989, Jeannie Longo won his third and last Tour de France at the time.
An event with a prize of 250,000 euros
Marion Rousse, recently appointed director of the event organized by ASO, unveiled on Thursday the route of this "first", eight stages long for a distance exceeding 1,000 kilometers.
“An eight-day stage race is not a three-week event, it's true.
The card will inevitably be different from that of the men but sportingly speaking, yes there will be something for all profiles
”, told RTBF.
The Tour de France Women 2022 will kick off in Paris on July 24, in front of the Eiffel Tower, on the day of the arrival of the Tour 2022 men.
He will arrive seven days later at the top of Planche-des-Belles-Filles in the Vosges mountains.
The new event will be endowed with 250,000 euros in prizes, including 50,000 for the winner, i.e. an amount greater than the one-week races for men (the total amount of the Paris-Nice prizes is for example 144,300 euros, including 16,000 to the winner).
The course of the race officially named "Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift" will take the direction of eastern France over four plain stages, two others with a hilly profile and two days in the mountains.
Twenty-two teams of six riders
Symbolically, the competitors will climb the Ballon d'Alsace, the first pass climbed by the Tour de France in 1905, and will compete for the last yellow jersey at the top of the super Planche-des-Belles-Filles which will also be a finish of the Grande Men's loop next year.
If the climax of the event is set at the Grand Ballon (1336 m above sea level), in the 7th and penultimate stage leading to the Alsatian station of Markstein, the longest stage will reach 175 kilometers between Bar-le -Duc and Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (5th stage).
Twenty-two teams of six riders will be entered in the Women's Tour de France and the race will benefit from a live broadcast of 2.5 hours per day on France Télévisions.
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