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Why is the Tour de France 2023 starting in Spain?

The 2023 race is set to start from bilbao, spain with the first three stages taking place in the basque country, article bookmarked.

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The Tour de France , cycling’s premier race, is fast approaching with action set to get underway on Saturday 1st July.

The multi-stage race will see the best cyclists in the world race across different terrains and locations with 6 flat stages, 6 hilly stages, 8 mountain stages and one individual time trial scheduled to decide this year’s yellow jersey holder.

Defending champion, Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard will be looking to retain his yellow jersey with his main threat likely to be two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar , despite the 24-year-old seeing his early year form and tour preparations hampered by a fractured wrist.

Despite the race’s French roots, however, the 2023 edition will not start inside the country with the first three stages set to take place in various points around northern Spain. Here’s everything you need to know:

Where does the 2023 Tour de France start?

The first stage of the Tour de France, known as the Grand Départ, will take place in Bilbao which is located in the Basque Country in northern Spain. The first stage starts and finishes in Bilbao before the riders head towards San Sebastián on stage two.

The third stage will be the final stage which begins in Spain, with the riders starting in Amorebieta-Etxano before crossing over into France for the conclusion of stage three in Bayonne.

Why is the Tour de France starting in Spain?

This is far from the first time that the Tour has started in a different country. In fact, it will be the second time that the Tour has started in the Basque country after the 1992 race began in San Sebastián.

It has been common for the race organisers to hold the first stage, known as the Grand Depart, outside of France as a way for cycling fans from other nations to watch the race. This tradition began in the 1950s and became a regular feature in the 1970s, with cities nowadays putting together bids to win the right to host future opening stages.

Where else has the Tour de France started?

The first Grand Depart that took place outside of France was in 1954 when the race started in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Since then the first stage has taken place in nine other different countries ranging from Germany and Belgium to Luxembourg and Ireland.

The 2022 Tour de France began in Copenhagen, Denmark while the 2024 edition will see the eleventh country added to the list when the race departs from Florence, Italy.

Has the Tour de France ever started in the UK?

The Tour de France has started in the United Kingdom on two occasions - 2007 and 2014. The 2007 edition started in London while the more recent race in 2014 began in Leeds.

The government has announced that they will bid to host the Grand Depart again, in 2026, with the UK hoping to have stages taking place in Scotland, England and Wales.

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Spain’s Basque country to host the 2023 Tour de France’s Grand Départ

• Bilbao will follow San Sebastian in 1992 as first stage
• First three stages will all be staged in northern Spain

Spain’s Basque country will host the start of the Tour de France for the second time after organisers confirmed on Wednesday the city of Bilbao would stage the 2023 Grand Départ.

It will be only the second time the race starts in Spain, the other occasion being in San Sebastian in 1992 at the beginning of Miguel Indurain’s reign in yellow.

The first three stages of the 2023 edition will be contested in the region with the first stage, a tough 185km route, starting and finishing in Bilbao.

The second stage runs from Vitoria-Gasteiz to San Sebastian along the roads of the San Sebastian Classic while the third stage will start in Amorebieta-Etxano.

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It’s going to be a mountainous ride through France for the men in the 2023 edition of the Tour.

The route for the 2023 men’s Tour de France was released on Thursday, October 27, and now it’s almost time for the Tour to start.

There’s just one individual time trial set, a 22km race against the clock which will open up the final week of racing on Stage 16. The riders will cover 3,404 kilometers (2,115 miles) in total over the 21 stages.

It all gets started on July 1 and runs through July 23 just in time for the Tour de France Femmes to begin on the same day that the men ride into the Champs-Élysées.

Here are the stages for the 2023 Tour de France:

• Stage 1 : July 1 - Hilly - Bilbao to Bilbao - 182km
• Stage 2 : July 2 - Hilly - Vitoria-Gasteiz to Saint-Sébastien - 209km
• Stage 3 : July 3 - Flat - Amborebieta-Etxano to Bayonne - 185km
• Stage 4 : July 4 - Flat - Dax to Nogaro - 182km
• Stage 5: July 5 - Mountain - Pau to Laruns - 165km
• Stage 6 : July 6 - Mountain - Tarbes to Cauterets-Cambasque - 145km
• Stage 7 : July 7 - Flat - Mont-De-Marsan to Bordeaux - 170km
• Stage 8 : July 8 - Hilly - Libourne to Limoges - 201km
• Stage 9 : July 9 - Mountain - Saint-Léonard-De-Noblat to Puy de Dôme - 184km
• July 10 - Rest Day
• Stage 10 : July 11 - Hilly - Vulcania to Issoire - 167km
• Stage 11 : July 12 - Flat - Clermont-Ferrand to Moulins - 180km
• Stage 12 : July 13 - Hilly - Roanne to Belleville-en-Beaujolais - 169km
• Stage 13 : July 14 - Mountain - Châtillon-Sur-Chalaronne to Grand Colombie - 138km
• Stage 14 : July 15 - Mountain - Annemasse to Morzine Les Portes Du Soleil - 152km
• Stage 15 : July 16 - Mountain - Les Gets Les Portes Du Soleil to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc - 180km
• July 17 - Rest Day
• Stage 16 : July 18 - Individual Time Trial - Passy to Combloux - 22km
• Stage 17 : July 19 - Mountain - Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc to Courchevel - 166km
• Stage 18 : July 20 - Hilly - Moûtiers to Bourg-En-Bresse - 186km
• Stage 19 : July 21 - Flat - Moirans-en-Montagne to Poligny - 173km
• Stage 20 : July 22 - Mountain - Belfort to Le Markstein Fellering - 133km
• Stage 21 : July 23 - Flat - Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines to Paris Champs-Élysées - 115km

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Will the Tour de France be won by the last man standing?

With Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel and Primož Roglič hitting the deck at Itzulia Basque Country, all three now face battle to get their seasons back on track

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Juan Ayuso might have stood atop the podium at Itzulia Basque Country as the overall winner last week, but the biggest winner was possibly not the Spaniard, but his UAE Team Emirates teammate Tadej Pogačar .

The 25-year-old wasn’t present in the north of Spain, and so dodged the misfortune and injuries that befell his rivals for the Tour de France . It’s counterintuitive that avoiding racing makes you more of a favourite, but at Itzulia, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Primož Roglič (Bora-Hansgrohe) were all impacted to different extents by the horror crash on stage four .

Evenepoel broke his collarbone and shoulder blade, while Roglič escaped serious injury, just receiving a lot of bruises and road rash, but it was Vingegaard who looked the worst off . The Dane remained motionless on the floor for a significant amount of time; it later transpired that he had broken his collarbone, several ribs, and suffered a collapsed lung. His plans for a defence of his Tour crown remain uncertain as a result.

It takes around six to eight weeks to bounce back from broken ribs and collarbone, but it isn’t so much the time away from racing, as the time away from training which could cause more concerns for three of the favourites for the Tour. In a video message, Evenepoel said his “long term goals”, ie the Tour, would not be impacted, but hard earned training gains could well be lost through the layoff.

Vingegaard was described as getting “a little bit better every day” by Richard Plugge, his team boss, at the weekend, but it will take a couple of weeks for the true extent of his injuries and the impact of them to be realised. 

On Tuesday, Visma-Lease a Bike reported that he had had a successful operation on his collarbone. However: "He will now spend the next few weeks recovering. It is not yet clear how long this will take. He is doing well and expresses his gratitude to everyone for their kind words over the past few days."

Pogačar then, the fourth member of this quad of Tour de France favourites, is the one who moves into the virtual lead, three months out from the race actually taking place. Of course, he has to race the Giro d’Italia in between now and then, in which anything could happen, but if he stays upright, it might be swinging towards the Slovenian. Perhaps, though, this is the year for someone out of the blue to win, the first surprise winner in years. Nothing can be predicted.

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Bike racing is often decided as much by fortune as by design. This is nothing new. How often have we been excited about a potential Tour for the ages, only for something to come up? The expectation is often better than the reality. That could well be the case with the 2024 Tour de France, which has been shaped already.

Visma-Lease a Bike, especially, cannot catch a break at the moment. The dominant squad of 2023 lost Wout van Aert to a crash ahead of the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, and now have Vingegaard out of action for an unclear amount of time.

Away from the impact on the Tour, the crash was a reminder that something needs to be done to lessen the outcome of these racing incidents. As well as Vingegaard, Evenepoel, and Roglič’s injuries, Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates) suffered a cervical and two thoracic spine vertebral body fractures, while Steff Cras (TotalEnergies) also came away with a collapsed lung, broken ribs and a two fractured vertebrae. These kinds of injuries should not be normal.

Gino Mäder’s crash and subsequent death last June forced the UCI to create the SafeR project, which looked to study crashes and other parts of races to make them less dangerous. Because, as Vuelta stage winner Nicholas Roche said after the Itzulia crash , “it's not normal that riders should risk their life”.

Crashes are a part of cycling, and crashes mean injuries. However, they shouldn’t be life threatening, or so regular. Riders will not slow down, organisers will not want to be constrained in their route choices, and the money isn’t there to put crash protection on every descent. Action is needed. The lottery cannot go on.

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ISSOIRE, France — It was an emotional — and costly — first win at the Tour de France for Pello Bilbao on Tuesday.

The Spanish cyclist sprinted to victory at the end of the tricky 10th stage and also gained significant time in the overall standings, which are still led by Jonas Vingegaard.

Bilbao raised his arms above his head in celebration at the end of one of the hardest stages of the Tour so far, finishing the undulating 167-kilometer (104-mile) route from Vulcania to Issoire just ahead of Georg Zimmermann and Ben O’Connor in the sweltering heat of central France.

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The Bahrain-Victorious rider immediately dedicated his win to former teammate and friend Gino Mäder, who died last month from injuries suffered in a crash at the Tour de Suisse.

“I closed the gap with O’Connor first and then, with cold blood, let Zimmermann make his sprint, go on the wheel, and just [went] full the last 200 meters without thinking of nothing,” Bilbao said. “And then I crossed the line and I just put out all the energy that I had inside and remembering the reason of this victory.

“A special one, for Gino.”

Bilbao had announced pre-Tour that he would be following in the actions of Mäder, by donating one Euro for every rider he beats on each stage toward funding to replant trees in areas of deforestation.

He beat 168 riders on Tuesday.

Most of the overall contenders finished a little more than three minutes further back and that saw Bilbao move up from 11th to fifth, less than two minutes off the podium.

Defending champion Vingegaard maintained his 17-second advantage over two-time winner Tadej Pogačar. Jai Hindley was in third place, 2:40 off the pace.

After the first rest day on Monday, the Tour kicked off the second week with a difficult stage featuring five categorized climbs and almost no flat sections. The soaring temperatures were made even more brutal by the heat reflecting off the roads.

It was relentless from the start and many riders were clearly suffering. But eventually a break of 14 formed.

Krists Neilands looked like one of the strongest of the 14 and he attacked on the final climb, crossing the Côte de la Chapelle-Marcousse with a 30-second advantage. However, he was chased down by Bilbao on the descent and caught with a little more than 3 kilometers remaining.

“Everybody was on the limit, Neilands did an impressive attack,” Bilbao said. “I think he was the strongest one, but he spent a lot of energy with the hot wind in the face.

“In the back group, we just collaborated in the right way and then in the last 3 kilometers I knew that [I] was the fastest man in the group, so I just took the control.”

Neilands eventually finished in fourth for Israel-Premier Tech.

“It was a really tough stage,” Neilands said. “It was hard, it was hot, but it was great to be there on the road and we did a really good race as a team and we were always there in the moves, and I think we raced really good and we did the maximum we could do today and it just didn’t work out.”

O’Connor was the first to attack as he knew the sprint didn’t suit him, but Bilbao was straight on him, with Zimmermann swiftly catching up. But Bilbao launched his sprint off Zimmermann’s wheel and held him and O’Connor off for the win.

“I hadn’t experienced such a day on a bike for a while,” O’Connor said. “The start of the stage was absolutely brutal. I’m really happy to have managed to get into the breakaway after such a battle.

“With the heat, you had to stay focused at all times and not crack mentally. Even if I was off the back a bit, I always believed in it. In the last kilometers, I tried to maneuver as well as possible to try to escape my breakaway companions and win the stage. I didn’t manage it so I’m definitely a little disappointed.”

Wednesday’s 11th stage features three lower-category climbs on the 180-kilometer (112-mile) route from Clermont-Ferrand to Moulins and is expected to end in a sprint finish.

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Fresh from a winter of smooth preparations and with the promise of a Tour de France debut to come in the summer, Juan Ayuso began his 2024 campaign on Monday with great expectations. Lining up for the first time this year, Ayuso rode to a commendable if not spectacular 20th place at the Clásica Jaén for UAE Team Emirates , as fellow Spaniard Oier Lazkano of Movistar sealed a spectacular victory from the breakaway.

Ayuso and Lazkano are two of the young Spanish hopes to follow in the footsteps of riders like Alejandro Valverde, and win races of the highest order. But as Ayuso reflected back at UAE Team Emirates’ training camp in Spain over the winter, filling the cleats of bygone Spanish stars is no such easy job.

“They have left us a somewhat difficult task, the legends we have had like Valverde, [Alberto] Contador, Purito [Rodríguez] and all the others, is a difficult gap to fill,” Ayuso told GCN and other members of the media.

Where Lazkano seems to be stepping cautiously into the one-day race void left by four-time Liège-Bastogne-Liège winner Valverde, Ayuso’s eyes are set firmly on stage race success and becoming the first Spanish winner of a Grand Tour since Alberto Contador.

Since the height of Contador’s success - which yielded seven Grand Tour titles - only Enric Mas of Movistar has come close to flying the Spanish flag on the top step of a podium, with a handful of second-place finishes at the Vuelta a España to his name.

In truth, though, Ayuso, third place himself at the Vuelta in his first full professional season, is the biggest talent the country has produced since the man known as El Pistolero. Furthermore, at just 21 years of age, Ayuso is already the figurehead of Spain’s new generation of riders.

Such a burden on young shoulders may be a well-earned compliment for Ayuso, but it does raise an obvious question: is he too young to have the responsibility for taking the reins of Spanish cycling?

“That does not weigh me down,” Ayuso was quick to answer, “because it means that we have had some legends from our country and thanks to them I started cycling and it made me dream that I could do it too. It is a motivation for me that people think I can become as good as them. More than pressure, it is a big motivation.”

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Juan Ayuso won the white jersey at the Vuelta a España in 2023

The charismatic Ayuso is every bit the superstar that was promised when he became the youngest Vuelta a España podium finisher in history just a couple of years ago. He has since won stages of both the Tour de Suisse and Tour de Romandie, whilst his elegant style on the bike paints the picture of a rider rarely in trouble.

With a fourth place finish at the Vuelta a España, Ayuso has arguably dethroned Mas as Spain’s biggest challenger for Grand Tour success, and with the backing of the number 1 ranked UCI WorldTeam, he has all the tools in the world at his disposal.

But what stands out from the conversation with the Spaniard is not the pressure to succeed that one might imagine could come with such status, nor the burden to become Spain’s latest great champion, but the continued importance of sporting heroes in his story to date.

After two seasons spent riding the Vuelta a España as part of his tutelage, Ayuso has been named in UAE Team Emirates’ squad for the Tour de France this summer, alongside Adam Yates and Tadej Pogačar. It will be a moment to remember for the 21-year-old, as he makes his debut in the sport’s biggest race.

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“When I started riding a bike my dream was always to ride the Tour, I grew up watching Contador, Valverde and Purito ride the Tour and now I can be there and be one of them. Without a doubt, it is a great motivation.”

For some, the Tour de France is a faraway spectacle that captures the imagination through a TV screen - Ayuso’s teammate Isaac del Toro told GCN of watching Nairo Quintana on television as a child in Mexico - but for those who live in Europe, the Tour can be seen from roadside, inspiring thousands of young cyclists along the way.

“I think it was two or three summers that I went to the Alps and the Pyrenees to see the Tour as a child,” revealed Ayuso. “[Chris] Froome was dominating back then and Contador was also in the mix.

“Making my debut in the race that I had been going to watch since I was little - when I put on the Tour jerseys that were too big for me because there were none in my size - being able to try to fight for them now is the biggest dream I can have as a cyclist and it will be emotional this year that I can get to ride it myself.”

At the time, the Tour de France was simultaneously at arm’s reach and something of a fantasy for Ayuso. The ambition to reach the top of the sport, however, was always there. Despite being born in Barcelona, Ayuso was brought up on Spain’s eastern coast, and impressed in the junior ranks before being signed by UAE Team Emirates as a 17-year-old. His talent far outweighed his years and was a mark of the athlete that team boss Matxin Joxean Fernández was adding to their ranks on a five-year deal.

“Since I was little I was always competitive and would throw tantrums when I didn't win, it's something I've worked on because now I lose more times than I win, so I don't get so angry when I lose,” he laughed.

“Now I see it with more maturity and at the end of the day I am sacrificing my entire life, I always try to give my best and when you put in so much effort you also want to be the best. Whether I will achieve it or not, I don't know, but it is part of the motivation and with that, each sacrifice becomes easier.”

Since his initial signature, Ayuso has put pen to paper on a fresh contract through to the end of 2028, and with two strong showings at the Vuelta a España behind him, the Spaniard is ready to prove himself on the sport’s grandest stage.

UAE Team Emirates eye up different cards to topple Vingegaard at Tour de France

It wasn’t always the plan that Ayuso would make his bow at the Tour de France this year. Instead, the 21-year-old had originally looked to follow a similar path to Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), in riding the Vuelta and the Giro d’Italia for his first few professional seasons, before attacking the Tour in his fourth year. To little surprise, the Spaniard’s development threw a welcome wrench in those plans.

“My debut has been brought forward because we had planned to debut in the Giro a year before going to the Tour, but seeing how I have evolved, I have asked the team to debut earlier in the Tour because I feel ready and they agreed.”

Ayuso emerged as one of UAE Team Emirates' main riders at team camp over the winter

Eyebrows were raised when Ayuso’s name joined the likes of Pavel Sivakov and João Almeida in UAE Team Emirates’ provisional squad for the Tour de France, with all three capable of leading other teams but sure to start the race behind Tadej Pogačar and Adam Yates in the team’s pecking order this summer. Contrary to initial concerns, Ayuso is quick to insist that the strength of UAE’s climbing department in France will be of great benefit to the team, rather than a hindrance.

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“Tadej has shown that he is the number one and the leader of the team, but Jumbo has proved in the Vuelta a España that different cards can be played,” he noted. “We also did it during the Tour and it is something that we also have to do to take advantage for Tadej.”

The Spaniard was on the receiving end of the numbers game at the Vuelta last season, where Sepp Kuss, Jonas Vingegaard and Primož Roglič swept home a 1-2-3 finish for Jumbo-Visma, and left Ayuso unable to match his podium result from 2022. As the best of the rest in fourth place, though, the 21-year-old heads into 2024 a mature rider and one ready to seize hold of any opportunities which fall his way.

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Ayuso will be a domestique de luxe but also possible back-up plan at the Tour de France

Ayuso will naturally begin the Tour as a workhorse by the side of Pogačar. Still, the Slovenian himself began the 2020 Tour de France as a domestique-deluxe for Fabio Aru, before laying siege on Roglič to take his first Tour victory. With Pogačar now set to ride the Giro d’Italia beforehand for the first time in his career, there is no certainty that the team roles assigned at the Grand Départ on 29 June will be the same once the race arrives in Nice.

Well aware that anything can happen once the flag drops, Ayuso is confident he is ready to assume team leadership should it be required of him.

“If I get the opportunity, I will obviously not give it up. It would be a big responsibility and I am going to prepare myself as best as possible to be in the best condition and, whatever the race situation, take advantage of the opportunities,” he said.

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“Tadej is the leader but I am not going to give up any chances the team or the race offers me. Obviously, I will go out thinking about winning a stage, if the circumstances arise, and also being able to fight for my personal goals in the GC. “

Before last year’s Tour de France, there had been four fallow editions without a Spanish stage winner, much to the chagrin of the expectant public. But last year saw the country take victories through three different riders, the most since Contador won the Tour in 2009. In Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers), Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) and Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Spain were well represented, and in the former, Ayuso is seeking motivation ahead of his debut this summer.

“Winning a stage would be huge, I envy Carlos [Rodríguez] a little bit because I am always with him and this year he was able to achieve it,” he admitted. “That healthy rivalry is part of that motivation that makes me want to prepare myself as best as possible to be able to achieve it this year too.”

Whether it be a GC push in the space of a faltering Pogačar, a stage victory of his own or commendable work done on behalf of his teammates, a fit and firing Ayuso will no doubt be one of the strongest climbers at this year’s Tour de France. He will also be one of the happiest as he takes to the start in Émilie-Romagna for the Grand Départ.

For the man who used to pull on oversized jerseys as a child and cheer on the likes of Alberto Contador from the roadside, each push of a pedal this summer will be fulfilling a lifelong dream, and with that, Ayuso can be immensely proud.

“Every day I ride it doesn't feel like work, the best thing is to live from your dream, from what you've wanted since you were seven years old. For me, this is what fulfils me the most, along with raising my arms to celebrate a victory.”

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A history of foreign starts at the Tour de France

As Copenhagen marks the 24th foreign Grand Départ, we take a look back at memorable starts through the years

Friday's Tour de France Grand Départ in the Danish capital of Copenhagen will mark the 24th time the race has kicked off with a start outside of its home country, a tradition dating back all the way to 1954.

The 2022 Tour start will be the most far-flung yet, even if it doesn't quite match up to the Giro d'Italia's starts in Greece and Israel over the years. It's the first time the race – or any Grand Tour – has started in Denmark.

Over the past 68 years, the Tour has begun in almost every major western Europe country, barring Italy (which could host the 2024 Grand Départ ). The likes of Switzerland, Ireland, Germany, and Spain have all hosted Tour starts in that time.

This weekend, the peloton will take in three stages in Denmark, with a time trial and two sprints on the menu before they fly back to the north of France on Monday. Ahead of the 2022 start and all the action that lies ahead, we've taken a look back at some of the most memorable Grand Départs of years gone by.

1954: Amsterdam, Netherlands

The 1954 Tour would eventually be won by Louison Bobet, the second victory of the first Tour three-peat. The Frenchman was already on the podium on stage 2, winning as the peloton raced from the Flemish city of Beveren to Lille in northern France.

A day earlier, the race had kicked off in Amsterdam, where Dutch rider Wout Wagtmans gave the home crowds something to celebrate as he took the second of four career stage victories at the race just over the Belgian border in Brasschaat.

Massive crowds lined the roads for the opener, which saw Wagtmans attack to the win late on, just about holding off the peloton. He would hold yellow for three days before ceding it to Bobet, and later enjoyed another four days in the lead as the race snaked down to the Pyrenees. (DO)

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1973: Scheveningen, Netherlands

Joop Zoetemelk had already stood on the final Tour de France podium on two occasions before he had the opportunity to start the 1973 Tour – his fourth – at home, just minutes away from his hometown of The Hague.

He hadn't won a stage of the race by this point, having already accrued two runner-up spots in addition to his two overall second places, but pulled out all the stops on home ground for the short 7.1km prologue.

Under 10 minutes after setting off, Zoetemelk would have his first career Tour stage win, getting the beating of 'the eternal second' Raymond Poulidor by just one second.

He'd end the race fourth overall, and would have to wait seven more years to seal the yellow jersey, while the 1973 race spent three more (half) stages working its way across the Netherlands and Belgium, including a mini 12.4km time trial. (DO)

1987: West Berlin, Germany

By the late 1980s, the Tour was regularly visiting neighbouring countries for Grand Départs, with three in the Netherlands, two apiece in Belgium, and West Germany, and one in Switzerland.

1987 brought a third start in West Germany, and what would be the final visit to the country before reunification. It would be the most far-flung Tour start at the time, and there would be a full five days of racing in Germany before the race even hit the border and returned to France.

A 6km prologue on the opening day brought glory for Dutchman Jelle Nijdam, who utilised two disc wheels to take the win by three seconds as eventual race winner Stephen Roche rounded out the top three.

Nijdam's countryman Nico Verhoeven won stage 1, sprinting home from a small breakaway group, while Roche's Carrera Jeans squad beat Saronni's Del Tongo in the stage 2 time trial.

Portuguese rider Acácio Da Silva and solo breakaway man Herman Frison won stage 3 and 4 into Stuttgart and Pforzheim before the race headed to Strasbourg on stage 5, concluding what would be the last Grand Départ in Germany for three decades. (DO)

1992: San Sebastián, Spain

While the Vuelta a España was at this point in the midst of what would be a 33-year avoidance of the Basque Country (the race returned in 2011), the Tour chose the region to host its first Spanish Grand Départ three decades ago.

The prologue was overshadowed by a bombing in an underground car park in Fuenterrabia the night before, a reminder of the tensions in the region that saw the Vuelta stay away.

The race itself, however, went off without any such problems, and was instead a celebration of reigning champion Miguel Indurain, who hailed from the town of Villava in the eastern Basque Country.

The Banesto leader duly pleased the home crowds with a victory in the 8km prologue, beating ONCE's Alex Zülle by two seconds. Indurain would cede the lead to the Swiss rider on the first road stage a day later, though he'd be back in yellow in the Alps en route to a dominant four-minute overall victory. (DO)

1998: Dublin, Ireland

The 1998 Tour start in Ireland was not completely overshadowed by the Festina scandal that almost caused the entire race to grind to a halt, but the storm clouds were looming fast.

Festina soigneur Willy Voet had been arrested earlier that week on the French border with a trunkload of doping products in his car, the team had already gone into full denial mode over his whereabouts, and riders were already pouring their doping products down the wash-basins and toilets of their hotels.

Given the meltdown that then unfolded in that Tour, with the glorious gift of hindsight it almost seemed irrelevant that Chris Boardman claimed his third Tour prologue win in five years on a rain=soaked Dublin Friday evening. Or indeed that Boardman, while in the leader’s jersey, then crashed out en route to Cork and the ferries assembled to take the race back to France that evening.

But at the time, the massive crowds that lined the route in Dublin despite the weather, and again on the stages taking the race inland that followed, seemed to hold out hope that the Tour start in Ireland would be remembered as a success. But that was all quickly eclipsed by what unfolded in France. (AF)

2007: London, United Kingdom

Pre-empting the British cycling explosion that saw the founding of Team Sky, the 2012 Olympic Games, and the rise to superstardom of Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins, Geraint Thomas, and Chris Froome, the Tour headed to Britain for the first time 15 years ago.

The home start came a year too early for Cavendish, who broke out with four stages in 2008, though time triallists Wiggins and David Millar – as well as Liquigas domestique Charly Wegelius and Barloworld neo-pro Thomas were also holding up the home end.

Wiggins and Millar were both among the favourites for the opening prologue around the streets of central London, though it was Swiss star Fabian Cancellara who dominated the day (as he had in 2004 and as he would in 2009, 2010, and 2012) to win by 13 seconds as Wiggins was the top Brit in fourth.

The next day Millar gave home crowds something to cheer, taking the polka dot jersey from the break on the flat stage to Canterbury as Robbie McEwen sprinted to victory. Three weeks later, Alberto Contador claimed his first Tour win after a controversial race which saw Iban Mayo, double stage winner Alexandre Vinokourov, and yellow jersey Michael Rasmussen all leave the race under doping clouds. (DO)

2010: Rotterdam, Netherlands 

Three days across the Low Countries kicked off the 2010 Tour as the Netherlands hosted the Grand Départ for the fifth time.

Once again it was Fabian Cancellara's time to shine as the Swiss rider, hot off a superb spring with wins at E3 Harelbeke, the Tour of Flanders, and Paris-Roubaix, beat Tony Martin by 10 seconds over the 9km course in Rotterdam. 

Alessandro Petacchi shot to sprint glory on stage 2 in Brussels, while the hilly third stage to Spa was perhaps the most memorable of the lot. There, Sylvain Chavanel soloed to the yellow jersey as the peloton staged a go-slow after the carnage and mass crashes on the wet, slippery roads.

The Frenchman would hand yellow back to Cancellara the next day as the race hit France – and the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix – but would be back in the lead for another day with another breakaway win on stage 7. In Paris, it was Alberto Contador (later Andy Schleck) who took the overall glory. (DO)

2014: Leeds, United Kingdom

Seven years on from the London start, the Tour revisited the UK once more, with two days in Yorkshire followed up by one into London before the race travelled back across the Channel.

It was the year following the triumphs of Wiggins and Froome, and so the roads of Yorkshire were packed with fans there to cheer on Team Sky as well as Cavendish, who by that point had 26 Tour stage wins to his name.

As was the case in 2007, though, there would be little home glory for the Brits. In Harrogate and London, Marcel Kittel, the dominant sprinter of the previous year, would take the wins, while eventual winner Vincenzo Nibali nipped away to stage 2 victory in the hills of Sheffield.

Cavendish, meanwhile, left the race after stage 1 after crashing hard in Harrogate, while defending champion Froome made it to France and the cobbled stage – but not the cobbles – 5 before crashing out. 

The Grand Départ had a lasting effect on cycling in the region, spawning the Tour de Yorkshire men's and women's race before COVID-19 and financial problems saw both events cancelled from 2020 through this year. (DO)

2019: Brussels, Belgium

The last Tour to start outside of France came three years ago with the fifth Grand Départ from Belgium – the first time the race had kicked off in the capital, Brussels, since 1958.

The city hosted both the opener and the second stage of the race, before a third stage from the Walloon town of Binche took the peloton on a hilly stage into France.

Jumbo-Visma dominated the first two days of the race as Wout van Aert (who would later win stage 10 in Albi) making his Tour debut. The opening stage, which featured the Muur van Geraardsbergen early on, would be prime Van Aert territory today, but then it was Dylan Groenewegen set to sprint for the Dutch squad.

He was taken down by a mass crash late on, though, and instead it was Mike Teunissen who took a surprise victory, holding off Peter Sagan and Caleb Ewan to take yellow. The squad would go on to dominate the stage 2 TTT, too, putting a full 20 seconds into second-placed Ineos over the 27.6km course. (DO)

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Federico Bahamontes, the pure climber who became the first rider from Spain to win the Tour de France , died Tuesday. He was 95.

Born in 1928, the “Eagle of Toledo” raced against some of the peloton’s biggest names in the Tour golden era of the 1950s and 1960s.

He won the 1959 Tour de France, the first by a Spanish rider. A natural born climber, he won 11 grand tour stages across his prolific career, and won King of the Mountains jersey in all three grand tours.

Bahamontes grew up during Spain’s Civil War, and turned pro in 1953.

A keen climber, Bahamontes often targeted the climber’s jersey, winning the title six times at the Tour, which stood as a longtime record. At 95, he was the oldest living Tour winner.

Bahamontes also won seven Tour stages, three stages at the Vuelta a España, as well as the climber’s title in 1957 and 1958, and one stage at the Giro d’Italia, with the climber’s jersey in 1958.

He also finished second in the 1957 Vuelta, and second in the 1963 Tour, and third in 1964.

After retiring in 1965, Bahamontes owned a bicycle and motorcycle shop in Toledo, Spain, and was named the best climber in the history of the Tour de France by a panel organized by L’Équipe in 2013.

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Unveiling the High-Octane Riders Set to Dominate the Sprints at the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia

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As summer grows ever closer, our focus shifts to the emblematic jerseys of the Grand Tours : the maglia rosa , the maillot jaune , and the maillot rojo —and rightly so. After all, we watch bike races in large part to see who’s going to win, especially when we have such riches as we do these days, with some of the most talented GC riders in generations battling it out on the long course of a Grand Tour.

But what about the green and purple jerseys , those awarded to the leaders and winners of the points classifications, often, though not always, noted sprinters?

These are men and women capable of making unfathomable watts, often after four, five, and sometimes six-plus hours of racing, who are held at bay all day, only to unleash their greatest skills for barely a few hundred meters. They’re often the ones who give us the biggest thrills and the narrowest victories (or defeats).

While we focus on the speed and raw power of sprinters, one thing that’s often overlooked is how well they race; how the best sprinters are often the most patient riders, waiting until the perfect moment to launch their attacks. Theirs is often a game of cat-and-mouse, a strategic battle as much as a power-based one. Given the blazing speed at which these riders can sprint, it’s easy to forget that they’re some of the savviest riders in the peloton.

So, who are they? Let’s take a deeper look at the riders going for those green jerseys and points competitions at the Giro d’Italia , Tour de France , and Vuelta a España this summer.

Men’s Top Sprinters

Jasper philipsen – alpecin-deceuninck.

The young Belgian, once derided as “Jasper the Disaster,” is the best sprinter in the world right now. Possessing the perfect combination of strength, racing know-how, and the patience required to win a bunch sprint, he has to be the favorite heading into any stage suited to sprinters. After a second-place finish at Roubaix , the reigning Tour de France green jersey will head into this year’s Grande Boucle as the heavy favorite to repeat.

Mads Pedersen – Lidl-Trek

Unlike most others on this list, Mads Pedersen is hardly a pure sprinter. Rather, the one-day specialist has shown that he’s most at home when launching attacks from a long way out. In fact, just a few weeks ago, he did something most people didn’t think was possible when he stayed with Mathieu van der Poel for some fifty kilometers in Ghent-Wevelgem , only to outsprint the Dutch superstar in the closing meters. There isn’t a team in the men’s peloton looking quite as strong as Lidl-Trek is right now, so expect Mads to compete for at least a few bunch sprint wins in his scheduled Tour and Vuelta appearances.

Tim Merlier – Soudal-Quick-Step

By the metric of the modern peloton, Tim Merlier is getting a bit long in the tooth. The 31-year-old from Flanders only has two Grand Tour stage wins to his name: one in the Giro and one in the Tour . But, as most of Merlier’s early career was focused on cyclocross racing, he very well could just be coming into his prime. In the last three seasons, Merlier has won the Belgian National Road Race and Brugge-De Panne, and, from 2022 to this year, three-peated in Nokere Koerse. Maybe, like a great sprinter does, he’s waiting until the perfect moment to launch.

Sprinters with something to prove

Mark cavendish – astana qazaqstan.

In 2024, Cav is sitting on the precipice between these two categories. The Manx Missile was coaxed out of retirement not once but twice with the promise of nabbing Eddy Merckx’s longstanding record of 34 Tour de France stage wins. And while his early-season returns have been anything but stunning, we’re talking about the greatest sprinter of all time here. And so, for that very reason, we have to consider Cav, a two-time Tour de France green jersey winner, in the upper echelon here.

Dylan Groenewegen – Jayco AlUla

Groenewegen has five Tour de France stage wins. But four of them came before 2020 and one in 2022. Much of that drought likely has to do with the nine-month ban he received from the UCI after it was determined he caused the crash that put Fabio Jakobsen in an induced coma for two days. Still, Groenewegen has shown form early this season with a ninth-place finish in Ghent-Wevelgem and a few strong stages in Paris-Nice and the UAE Tour.

Kaden Groves – Alpecin-Deceuninck

Groves, the four-time Vuelta a España stage winner and reigning green jersey champion of that race, will likely contest again for several of that race’s sprint stages. Groves has shown a predilection for hilly stages that tend to thin the herd over the course of the day, stages that are becoming increasingly common in the modern Grand Tour.

Arnaud Démare – Arkéa–B&B Hotels

Though he didn’t get any last year, Arnaud Démare has won ten Grand Tour stages: eight in the Giro and two in the Tour . He’s also a two-time points champion in the Giro. And though his spring campaign has been nothing to write home about, he’s an expert at positioning when the bunch really starts charging. Given as much, he should have more than a few opportunities to outsprint the bunch in this summer’s Tour.

Fabio Jakobsen – dsm firmenich PostNL

Like a few others on this list, Jakobsen’s results don’t necessarily match his strength. Easily one of the fastest sprinters in the peloton, Jakobsen will definitely find his way to the bunch in this year’s Giro and Tour, where he’ll try to add to his palmarès, which already counts five Vuelta stage wins. Of course, he hasn’t gotten one of those since 2021, so you either think he’s washed or he’s due.

Dark Horses

Sam Bennett (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) - Outside of Mark Cavendish, Sam Bennett is the most decorated racer on this list. His palmarès includes five stage wins at the Vuelta , three at the Giro , and two at the Tour . He was also the Tour’s 2020 green jersey. And though his last two seasons have been hardly spectacular, it’s easy to predict that Sam Bennett could be in the mix for stage wins, especially after he was left off AG2R’s Tour roster last year.

Caleb Ewan (Jayco AlUla) - The man who was once a sure-fire bet to take a Grand Tour sprint stage—he’s won ten in his career—has fallen to the bottom of this pack simply because he hasn’t been able to nab a stage win since the 2021 Giro d’Italia . Of course, he’s still one of the strongest sprinters on Earth and always a threat to take a win, which, over the last three years, he’s been ever so close to. Despite his recent cold streak, Ewan is truly one of the riders you can never, ever count out.

Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) - After a historic stage win in the 2022 Giro d’Italia and a third-place finish behind Jasper Phillipsen and Mark Cavendish in stage 7 of last’s Tour de France, the Eritrean rider showed a lot of promise as a Grand Tour sprinter. Now confirmed for the Giro, we hope to see Girmay bring on the heat to the favorites.

Alberto Dainese (Tudor Pro Cycling) - While still early in his professional career, Dainese has already demonstrated his potential as a top-level sprinter and is definitely one to watch. In 2023, the Italian sprinter won two Giro stages and one Vuelta stage.

Women’s Top Sprinters

On the women’s side of the coin, there’s far less separation between the heavy favorites, the maybe-they-could, and the sprinters who might steal a stage here or there. And much of that has to do with the fact that there’s much more parity in general in the women’s WorldTour (which is why we should all be watching a lot more women’s races!). But there is still the cream of the crop and everyone else.

Lotte Kopecky – SD Worx-Protime

You could easily argue that Lotte Kopecky is the strongest bike racer in the world, regardless of gender. Her ability to sustain efforts and grind her opponents into dust behind her is matched only by the likes of Mathieu van der Poel . As she heads into this summer as the reigning Tour de France points champion, all eyes will be on the 28-year-old to rack up more stage wins.

Lorena Wiebes – SD Worx-Protime

It’s no secret that SD Worx is sitting on an embarrassment of riches right now. This is evidenced by the fact that Lotte Kopecky is racing on the same team as Lorena Wiebes , perhaps the strongest pure sprinter in the women’s peloton. The 25-year-old Dutchwoman has won Ronde van Drenthe four years in a row and just added to her palmarès with a Gent-Wevelgem victory last weekend. In a heads-up sprint, Wiebes is as tough as out there is.

Elisa Balsamo – Lidl-Trek

With wins at Brugge-De Panne and Trofeo Alfredo Binda and second-place finishes at Paris-Roubaix , Ronde van Drenthe, and Ghent-Wevelgem , the Italian one-day specialist is having a world-class spring campaign. She’s had a bit of success in stage races, nabbing a pair of wins at the 2022 Giro Donne and another pair at 2023’s Setmana Ciclista Valenciana. But at just 26 years old, Balsamo could be on the precipice of a breakout summer.

Charlotte Kool – dsm firmenich PostNL

At just 24 years old, Charlotte Kool seems to be hitting her prime. She won her first Grand Tour stage in last year’s Vuelta and was fighting for wins in Brugge-De Panne and Ghent-Wevelgem, where she finished second and fourth, respectively. She won the points classification in last year’s UAE Tour and should rack up plenty of points over the course of the summer.

Emma Norsgaard – Movistar

Though Norsgaard’s spring has been inauspicious at best, she’s always a tough out when it comes to sprints. With a pair of stage wins to her name (a Giro stage in 2021 and a Tour stage in 2023), she knows how to win from the bunch. She just needs to find her way to the front and put herself in a position to compete. If she can get there, there’s no doubt she’s got the legs.

Marianne Vos – Visma-Lease a Bike

So long as there’s a bike race, and so long as Marianne Vos is in that bike race, it’s just plain stupid to count her out. To list her palmarès would take all of the space this story has, so just accept the fact that she’s likely to be there at the end, whether the stage calls for a breakaway, a punchy climb, or a bunch sprint. And though she’s one of the women’s peloton’s elder stateswomen at age 36, with recent wins at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Dwars door Vlaanderen , she’s still proving week after week that she can race with—and beat—the best.

Elisa Longo Borghini – Lidl-Trek

Between Mads Pedersen , Elisa Balsamo, and Longo Borghini, Lidl-Trek’s cup runneth over with one-day talent. But to win one-day races, you need to be able to create and sustain attacks, and there are few better in the women’s bunch at that than Longo Borghini. Hardly a pure sprinter, she’ll need to use her well-honed racing acumen if she’s going to take a stage win.

Chloé Dygert – Canyon//SRAM

Dygert is back. After suffering a training setback late last year, stemming from an injury sustained earlier in 2023, Dygert returned to the peloton with a sixth-place finish in Brugge-De Panne. And while she’s known more for her time-trialing acumen than her pure sprint ability, she can put down and sustain boatloads of power. If she and her teammates can put her in the right position, look for the American star to steal a stage here or there.

Chiara Consonni (UAE Team ADQ) - This is only Consonni’s second year at the WorldTour level, but she’s shown in recent times that she has the legs and the know-how to go elbow-to-elbow with the best of the bunch. Her best result is arguably a third-place finish in the points classification in this year’s UAE Tour. Look for her to steal a stage win or two (or three) as the summer progresses.

Rachele Barbieri (dsm firmenich PostNL) - For all of the success Rachele Barbieri has enjoyed on the track, she’s had little on the road. Her best finishes in major races are a pair of second-place finishes in stages in the Giro and UAE Tour and two fourth-place finishes in Tour stages. However, anyone who can make the kind of power Babieri is capable of making can and should not be counted out. Look for her to snag a sleeper win at some point this year.

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