Axel May, edited by Laura Laplaud 10:36 am, October 14, 2021
The route of the Tour de France 2022 will be unveiled this Thursday from the Palais des Congrès in Paris.
While we already know that it will leave Denmark on July 1, we still do not know the route in detail.
But the event marks an important comeback: that of the Women's Tour de France, after 13 years of absence.
It is a test that has not taken place for 13 years.
The women's Tour de France will start on Sunday July 24, the day the men's event arrives on the Champs-Elysées in Paris.
The route of the 18th edition of the Women's Tour de France must be revealed around noon, before the route of the Men's Grande Boucle.
An edition that will include eight stages and will take place over one week.
A French champion director of the Women's Tour
This women's Tour de France promises to be spectacular. "It's a little crazy to think that we are going to have our own Tour de France which will really have this title", marvels Jade Wiel, ex-French champion, specialist in cyclo-cross. Now 21 years old, she barely started cycling during the last edition of the women's event in 2009. "It's crazy to think that we will be able to travel our beautiful country, and in view of the enthusiasm that there is around this event is going to be something grandiose. "
The old versions of the women's Grande Boucle remain marked by the figure of Jeannie Longo, triple winner of the event at the end of the 1980s. Until now, the organizing company of the Tour de France, ASO, hesitated to relaunch the event. doubting its financial profitability.
A sponsor was finally found: Zwift, a site dedicated to online training.
The cyclist, champion of France and also consultant for France TV, Marion Rousse, will be the director of this Grande Boucle.
She has already announced that the leader's jersey will be yellow like the men's.