Male Team 23 - 30 Jul
Tour de France
957 Kilometers 8 Stages
The last 2h30′ of every stage will be broadcast live on Eurosport / GCN. Two stages will be shown in full: the Clermont-Ferrand opener and the Tourmalet finish.
There will be 10-6-4″ at the finish of all seven road stages, plus 6-4-2″ at three ‘Bonus Points’ distributed over different days of the race.
Yes, we’ve got a GC victory in this race, that of Annemiek van Vleuten in 2022. Yet if you visit this website, you probably know it already – and hold it dear to your heart.
The pride of defending their 2022 title. The responsibility of tackling the most relevant stagerace of each season. And the confidence of having conquered no less than two Grand Tours already in 2023, La Vuelta and the Giro Donne. Annemiek van Vleuten and the Movistar Team head into the 2nd Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift with a chance to again show their talents in front of the world audience.
Two stages -with a big new feature for 2023- will be decisive to the end result: the majestic finish atop the Col du Tourmalet, Saturday 29th, and the decisive ITT, the first ever in the history of this young race, to close the event in Pau on Sunday 30th. Yet before we reach that, multiple key points will be tackled over long, demanding stages.
Three hilly ones are to mention other than the weekend’s: the opener in Clermont-Ferrand (Sunday 23rd), with Durtol (Cat-3) just 9km from the end; stage two to Mauriac on Monday 24th, over six rated ascents including la Trébiac (Cat-3) less than 2km from the end; and the ‘marathon’ on Wednesday 26th, over 177km -plus eight kilometers neutral- and two ascents into the last 20km towards Rodez.