Europe 1 with AFP 6:36 p.m., December 21, 2022
The Tour de France will set off from Italy in 2024 for the first time in its more than century-old history, departing from Florence for an 111th edition decidedly unlike the others with a final finish in Nice.
The Tour de France will set off from Italy in 2024 for the first time in its more than century-old history, departing from Florence for an 111th edition decidedly unlike any other with a final finish in Nice.
"The Tour has started from all the countries bordering France. It has even started six times from the Netherlands, which has no common border with France. But it has never yet started from Italy. There has a kind of incongruity that will disappear", explains to AFP Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France who is in Italy until Friday to present this 26th Grand departure from abroad, the third consecutive after Copenhagen in 2022 and Bilbao in 2023.
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