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How to watch the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift

The summer of sports continues on August 12, with the biggest race on the women's calendar

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The Olympics may be nearing its final days, but the summer of sports is far from over, with the women's biggest tour coming up on Monday, August 12.

Despite its young age, the women's Tour de France, officially known as the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift , has quickly become one of the highlights of the women's cycling calendar.

This year's event will see 154 riders travel across three countries, tackling eight stages totalling 950 kilometres ( 590 miles) and 13,566 metres (44,507 feet) of elevation in the quest for the iconic Maillot Jaune .

This year's event features the race's first foreign  Grand Départ, with the first three stages taking place in the Netherlands . From there, the race heads south to Belgium before finally arriving in France on stage five. In France, the race will wind up and over three mountain regions — Vosges, Jura and Alps — and will end atop of one of the most iconic climbs in all of cycling: the Alpe d'Huez .

While the ultimate winner of the yellow jersey will have to show substantial climbing prowess, the beauty of this multi-stage event is that every type of rider gets a chance to showcase her strengths.

This year's event features 3 flat stages where the sprinters can shine, 2 hilly stages for the all-rounders and 2 mountain stages for the mountain goats. There's also an individual time trial for the fastest among them in the race against the clock.

The star-studded field of contenders will truly be the world's best, with Olympians, world champions, national champions, living legends and the stars of tomorrow among them.

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In 2022, Annemiek van Vleuten became the first official female Tour de France yellow jersey wearer in 33 years . Another Dutchwoman, Demi Vollering , claimed the jersey in 2023 and will return in the hopes of defending it. Can she do it?

The competition is sure to be fierce, with last two-time third-place finisher  Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) looking to move up on the podium. Other favourites for the General Classification include Lidl-Trek's Elisa Longo Borghini and Shirin van Anrooij, Juliette Labous (Team DSM),  Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal) and Neve Bradbury (Canyon-SRAM).

For stage wins, look for inspiring performances by the likes of Olympic medalists Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease A Bike), Grace Brown ( FDJ-Suez) and Chloe Dygert (Canyon-SRAM), sprinter Lorene Wiebes (SD-Workx), and climbing specialists Mavi Garcia (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) and Liane Lippert (Movistar).

The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift offers a unique blend of high-stakes competition, inspiring teamwork, tactical battles, brave performances, triumph and heartbreak — all with a stunning backdrop. Don't miss a single minute of the action with our TV viewing and online streaming guide below.

TV streaming schedules weren't available at the time of publishing. Coverage usually begins around two hours into the race.  

Stage 1: Monday, August 12 - Rotterdam to The Hague - 123km, flat Starts: 12:15pm CEST, 6:15am EDT, 11:15am BST, 8:15pm AEST Expected finish: 3:55pm CEST, 9:33am EDT, 2:33pm BST, 11:33pm AEST

Stage 2: Tuesday, August 13 - Stage 2: Dordrecht to Rotterdam - 69.7km, flat Starts 9:50am CEST, 3:50am EDT, 8:50am BST, 5:50pm AEST Expected finish: 11:35am CEST, 5:35am EDT,10:35am BST, 7:35pm AEST

Stage 3: Tuesday, August 13 - Stage 3: Rotterdam to Rotterdam - 6.3km, flat Start: 3:10pm CEST, 9:10am EDT, 2:10pm BST, 11:10pm AEST Expected finish: 5:10pm CEST, 11:10am EDT, 4:10pm BST, 1:10am AEST

Stage 4: Wednesday, August 14 - Stage 4: Valkenburg to Liège - 122.7km, flat Starts: 12:25pm CEST, 6:25pm EDT, 11:25am BST, 8:25pm AEST Expected finish: 3:49pm CEST, 9:49pm EDT, 2:49pm BST, 10:49pm AEST

Stage 5: Thursday, August 15 - Stage 5: Bastogne to Amnéville - 152.5km, flat Starts: 11:55am CEST, 5:55am EDT, 10:55am BST, 7:55am AEST Expected finish: 3:48pm CEST, 9:48am EDT, 2:48pm BST, 11:48am AEST

Stage 6: Friday, August 16 - Stage 6: Remiremont to Morteau - 159.2, hilly Starts: 11:30am CEST, 5:30am EDT, 10:30am BST, 7:30pm AEST Expected finish: 3:45pm CEST, 9:45am EDT, 2:45am BST, 11:45pm AEST

Stage 7: Saturday, August 17 - Stage 7: Champagnole to Le Grand-Bornand - 166.4km, mountainous Starts: 10:30am CEST, 4:30am EDT, 9:30am BST, 6:30pm AEST Expected finish: 3:27pm CEST, 9:27am EDT, 2:27am BST, 11:27pm AEST

Stage 8: Sunday, August 18 - Stage 8: Le Grand-Bornand to Alpe D’Huez - 149.9km, mountainous Starts: 1:40pm CEST, 7:40am EDT, 12:40pm BST, 9:40pm AEST Expected finish: 4:38pm CEST, 12:38pm EDT, 3:38pm BST, 2:38am AEST

The official TV broadcasters are FranceTV and Eurovision Sport. Their images are then licensed to 150 channels worldwide to be shown in five continents and 190 countries.

In the U.S., the broadcasting rights are held by NBC. The race will be broadcast live on NBC, as well as on the network's streaming service and app, Peacock TV.

Peacock TV is a paid service with a subscription starting at $4.99 per month. If you're new to Peacock, there's a seven-day free trial that should last you for the whole Tour.

Cycling fans in Canada can catch the action on the FloBikes streaming service . 

An annual subscription is required, which costs $12.99/month.

In the U.K., the Tour de France Femmes will be broadcast live on TV on Eurosport and Discovery+ .

Again, a subscription is needed.  Normally, a Discovery+ subscription, which includes Eurosport's cycling coverage, starts at £59.99 per year, but there's currently a Special Olympics deal, which costs £3.99 per month through the end of 2024. 

As the official broadcaster of the race, France TV will have all the French-language coverage. 

Other European channels to carry the race include NOS in the Netherlands, VRT/Sporza and RTBF in Belgium, ARD in Germany, RTVE in Spain, TV2 in Norway and DKTV2 in Denmark.*

*Geo-restrictions may apply.

In Australia, the race coverage is provided by national broadcaster SBS . In New Zealand, Sky Sports will offer live coverage. 

The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift has garnered an impressive social media over the past three years with millions of people opting to tune in via TikTok , X , Facebook and Strava . 

The organisation has also been producing its own web series titled Femmes du Tour . This mini docuseries introduces fans to some of the Tour's contenders. This season's episodes feature Shirin van Anrooij, Léa Curinier, Amber Kraak, Sarah Gigante, Ella Wyllie, Cédrine Kerbaol, Niamh Fisher-Black and last year's winner Demi Vollering. 

The previous two seasons of the series are also for replay available on YouTube . 

If you are outside of your home country and try to access your usual live streaming services to watch the action, you may find your access to be geo-restricted.

In this case, a VPN service will come in handy, allowing your computer to pretend it's back home and let you log into your streaming accounts to catch all of the racing action.

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Originally from The Netherlands, she grew up a bike commuter and didn't find bike racing until her early twenties when living in Seattle, Washington. Strengthened by the many miles spent darting around Seattle's hilly streets on a steel single speed, Rook's progression in the sport was a quick one. As she competed at the elite level, her journalism career followed, and soon she became a full-time cycling journalist. She's now been a cycling journalist for 11 years. 

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Crawling Up The Epic KOM. Tour de Zwift Stage 6 Watopia Climber’s Gambit

When I looked at Stage 6 of the Tour de Zwift I was taken aback. Group B’s route was the Watopia Climber’s Gambit which I have avoided because of the 2200 feet of climbing. This is a brute of a stage. I looked at the Group C route, Watopia’s Waistband, which was about the same distance but only 331 feet of climbing. I rode Watopia’s Waistband 2 days ago and didn’t want to ride it again so soon. I clicked the Group B checkbox for the 12:02 PM start time and held my breath. I’ve rode farther than 17.4 miles but I’ve never climbed anywhere near 2200 feet in a ride. To help build my determination I read the description at ZwiftInsider.com but I’m not sure it helped much. Last night I put Silca Super Secret on my Blue Norcross bike chain (what I use for Zwift) and wondered if that would reduce the friction as I crawled up the Epic KOM.

At the start 584 Zwifters were in the Group B start pen. In the chat I said my goal was to just finish the stage. I did that coming in the 303rd position out of 317 Group B Zwifters. Everyone doesn’t have a ZwiftPower.com profile. There were 343 in Group A, 736 in Group C, and 25 in Group D. Apparently the less climbing in Group C attracted the biggest crowd.

ZwiftInsider.com didn’t list when the Epic KOM began but I guessed around 3 to 4 miles from the finish. As I rode I hoped the earlier climbs ate into the 2200 of climbing. It did but at the bottom of the KOM there was about 1200 feet left. It was a slow climb with inclines of 10% and above. There were a few false flats but they weren’t long enough to make a dent in the distance to the finish. Watching the profile in the box in the upper right of the screen I couldn’t see me moving but eventually I crossed the finish at 504 out 587 (some late joining I guess).

I notched two accomplishments: riding Stage 6 and the Climber’s Gambit route badge. Strava said the effort was massive.

The SportTracks ride overview shows when the road went up my speed went way down. Most of the climb my speed was 4 to 6 mph. I sped up a little when I got out of the saddle (thank you Wahoo Kickr Core stability).

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All About Tour de Zwift: Ride 2023

First launched in 2017, Tour de Zwift is the biggest annual tour on the platform – a celebration of discovery across all Zwift worlds!

This year’s tour has just been announced. Beginning January 9, it consists of eight stages, each hosted in one of Zwift’s worlds. Each stage has three route options based on how far you want to ride.

So grab a friend and join the biggest party of the year! Here’s everything riders need to know about this year’s TdZ.

New This Year

Fresh route badges.

Recently-launched route badges will be available on certain stages (you can also earn these badges by free riding the routes anytime you’d like.):

• Stage 2 – Richmond UCI Reverse
• Stage 3 – La Reine
• Stage 5 – Gotham Grind
• Stage 6 – Watopia’s Waistband

TdZ will be the first chance anyone gets to unlock one particular route badge, though. On stage 8, we’ll be able to ride the “Rolling Highlands” route on Zwift’s new Scotland map !

Pacer Groups

This year, multiple Robopacers will be in each event, riding at different paces. Join the category riding the route you want, then find a RoboPacer to group with once the pack gets rolling, so you can ride at your pace with others!

Note: Robopacers will be at the starting line when you join an event and can be identified by the beacon next to their name on the leaderboard. Only one Robopacer per event will have a beacon atop their avatar and be visible on the minimap.

We all love Ride-Ons! During TdZ events, participants will be able to give new TdZ branded Ride-On bombs. 

Speaking of branding, Zwift is partnering with Pedal Mafia to bring the Tour de Zwift collection to life, including cycling kit, run shirt, towels, socks, and more. (Hot tip: an early bird sale will be happening Dec 20-Dec 31 where Zwifters can get 20% off the entire collection and an additional 5% off bundle purchases.)

Ride Categories

TdZ events are group rides, not official races*. The ride category you join determines which route you will ride:

• A: Long Ride
• B: Standard Ride
• C: Short Ride
• D: Women-Only Ride (uses the Standard route)

Category groups will leave the pens two minutes apart, with A starting first. Late join will be enabled for TdZ events beginning January 25th.

*Some riders will race the stages, while others will treat them as social rides. Events do not count for ranking points on ZwiftPower , but everyone is free to go as easy or push as hard as they’d like. Just have fun!

Stage Schedule and Route Details

Stage 1 (jan 9-12): yorkshire.

• Long Ride: Royal Pump Room 8 , 1 lap
• Standard + Women-Only: Tour of Tewit Well , 2 laps
• Short: Harrogate Circuit Reverse , 1 lap

Stage 2 (Jan 13-15): Richmond

• Long Ride: Richmond UCI Reverse , 3 laps
• Standard + Women-Only: 2015 UCI WOrlds Course , 2 laps
• Short: The Fan Flats , 3 laps

Stage 3 (Jan 16-19): France

• Long Ride: La Reine , 1 lap
• Standard + Women-Only: Douce France , 1 lap
• Short: Champs-Elysees , 2 laps

Stage 4 (Jan 20-22): London

• Long Ride: Surrey Hills , 1 lap
• Standard + Women-Only: Greatest London Loop Reverse , 1 lap
• Short: London Loop , 1 lap

Stage 5 (Jan 23-26): New York

• Long Ride: Everything Bagel , 1 lap
• Standard + Women-Only: Knickerbocker Reverse , 1 lap
• Short: Gotham Grind , 1 lap

Stage 6 (Jan 27-29): Watopia

• Long Ride: Three Sisters , 1 lap
• Standard + Women-Only: Climber’s Gambit , 1 lap
• Short: Watopia’s Waistband , 1 lap

Stage 7 (Jan 30-Feb 2): Makuri Islands

• Long Ride: Chasing the Sun , 1 lap
• Standard + Women-Only: Island Outskirts , 2 laps
• Short: Flatland Loop , 1 lap

Stage 8 (Feb 3-5): Scotland

This is your chance to experience the thrill of fast laps on a route designed to test the mettle of the athletes competing in the 2023 UCI Esports World Championship . Welcome to Zwift’s new Scotland map!

• Long Ride: Rolling Highlands, 3 laps
• Standard + Women-Only: Rolling Highlands, 2 laps
• Short: Rolling Highlands, 1 lap

Make-Up Week: Feb 6-12

If you missed any stages, they will all be available to ride during the make-up week.

Registration

Registration for TdZ is now open online and in game. Sign up at zwift.com/tour-de-zwift/ride .

Riders will unlock items progressively as they complete TdZ stages:

• Socks: 1 stage
• Backwards Cap: 5 stages
• Kit: 8 stages

There’s also an event badge to unlock! After completing the tour, Zwifters will earn this badge which will be displayed with other achievement badges. 

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Tour de Zwift: Stage 6 Group Ride – Long Distance

For this afternoon’s ride I opted for Stage 6 of the Tour de Zwift 2020 , this time being the Long Distance group ride – or two laps of Richmond.

Originally I intended to do this ride tomorrow morning at 10am, but due to a family illness it meant I wouldn’t be out visiting this afternoon, so had way more free time than usual. Perfect for a little light Zwifting.

Only deciding to tackle this ride quite late in the day, I managed just 3km of warm up pre-ride, and that was really just about enough to get my legs from “stand still” to “aware they needed to move for about an hour or so”.

My plan here was simply not to do my warm up during the ride itself, as I have done in previous Tour de Zwift group rides. I was quite keen to find out where I might sit, in the grand scheme of things, if I put in a bit more effort at the start.

Ideally I wanted to stick to around 200w, or if at all possible, 3w/kg average. This would involve a couple of things:

• Not partaking in the sprints;
• Being a little more conservative on the climbs.

Not hitting the sprints is easy enough. Rarely does the moment take me during a race to nail it on the sprints. I know how much time it takes me to recover. Slow and steady wins the race.

Actually… it’s not a race, is it? Well, not officially.

More importantly was the climbing strategy.

Richmond has 3 climbs. Two are timed / KOM segments, and then the third is there for you when your legs are tired.

Typically I go too hard on the first two climbs, leaving nothing left for the that third ascent back up to the start / finish line. Today I planned to pace myself more conservatively, ideally aiming for ~250w / 3.3-3.5w/kg, give or take.

The Zwift gods were smiling on me today. Ahead of all the climbs on the first lap I managed to pick up a feather.

Managing to put my feathers to good use, I grabbed 20 or so places during the first two climbs, and whilst definitely tired, I wasn’t dead.

The strategy seemed to be working.

Probably the most challenging part of the first lap was getting back into the big ring after each of the successive climbs, without losing too much time in the process.

Coming to the start / finish line for the start of the second lap I was in pretty good shape. I’d pushed myself hard enough on the first lap to have maintained a good place (for me) and it was now all about keeping that position.

I managed to come into the start of the second lap with a small bunch of riders around me, and I was at the front of them for a while setting the pace. In doing so we managed to slowly but surely start to mop up more and more stragglers on the road ahead.

Building up the blob, combined with double draft makes for a speedier conclusion of all the hard work.

At least, that’s what I always think.

Things were slightly less intense on the second lap. My pacing had dropped off a touch for sure, more like 2.7-2.9w/kg instead of the 2.9-3.1w/kg on the first lap. But still, we were making good pace, and our ever growing peloton gave me several moments of welcome respite.

Coming into the second set of climbs, again I’d managed to pick up a feather after the second sprint and was therefore feeling fairly decent about my chances in the remaining ~8km or so.

My plan would be to hit the feather as we hit the first corner of the first climb, get as much value out of that as I could and then hope I was lucky enough to get another one for the short, sharp sprint-y climb at the next KOM point.

Things went better than expected in the first climb on the second lap.

I timed my feather fairly well, though hit a small flat spot meaning I was spinning at high cadence but low wattage. Typical Zwift climbing.

By the time I made it to the top I’d broken below 350th which out of 950 active riders felt pretty good by my standards.

But then, unfortunately, disaster struck.

I lost my chain whilst trying to go back from the little ring up to the big.

I attempted to put it back on whilst still clipped in, but failed. In the end it took about 5 minutes in which time I had to get off, sort out the problem (learned a lesson here), then wash a ton of oil off my hands, and then get back on and resume.

I badly mistimed my effort on the second hill, and then by the third climb I was totally thrown out.

Disappointing. In fact, my second disappointment of this Tour de Zwift 2020 so far.

Still, at least I finished.

Looking at it from a workout perspective, I managed over 670- calories burned (across two rides), and hit both my 3 hour riding goal, and 100km riding goal for the week with a day left.

I’m not sure what course I plan to ride tomorrow. It won’t be the Richmond race though, I do know that. Possibly a jaunt on RGT Cycling .

I’m potentially even tempted by a Sweet Spot Training session tomorrow. I guess it depends on how keen I’m feeling in the morning.

I guess today is all about what could have been.

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Tour de France Femmes 2024: The Ultimate Guide – Route, Riders, Rivalries, Maps, TV Guide

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The Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift is turning it up to 11 for volume three.

Starting Monday, defending champion Demi Vollering and the women’s elite will be walloped with the windy flats of the Netherlands, a “back to the future” split stage, a taste of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and the iconic 21 switchbacks of Alpe d’Huez in the race’s most ambitious course yet.

A peloton packed with every big name you could wish for – except for one rainbow-clad exception – will be jousting for prestigious stage wins and the iconic maillot jaune in a race that treks from sea level Rotterdam to the 1,850m-high Alpe d’Huez.

Olympic champion Kristen Faulkner , Italian sensation Gaia Realini, and do-or-die climber Kasia Niewiadoma will all be in the radar during ASO’s season centerpiece.

The 2024 Tour de France Femmes will be the first of the race’s three editions to be totally divorced from the men’s competition.

An Olympic-enforced gap between the end of the men’s Tour de France and the start of the women’s Tour will give the TDFF space to breathe, totally separate from Tadej Pogačar and Co.

The narratives are bubbling toward delivering a bang for the race’s unprecedented late-summer slot.

Will stage-race dominator Vollering blow the doors off everybody once more, or can Lidl-Trek and Canyon-SRAM defy the SD Worx stampede?

Can “The Boss” Marianne Vos scoop the Tour’s first yellow jersey on home soil in Rotterdam? Or will Lorena Wiebes reassert her sprinter superiority?

Here’s everything you need to know about the 2024 Tour de France Femmes.

Overview: Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift 2024

• Dates: Monday, August 12 to Sunday, August 18 (7 days / 8 stages)
• Total distance: 950km
• Total elevation: 13,600m+
• Total prize purse: €250,000 (overall winner prize: €50,000)
• USA: NBC, Peacock
• Canada: FloBikes
• UK: Discovery, ITV4
• EU: Eurosport, Sporza, RTBF, France 24, France TV, RTVE, DKTV2, NOS

Top riders:

GC Contenders:

Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime), Gaia Realini, Shirin van Anrooij (both Lidl-Trek), Juliette Labous (DSM-Firmenich PostNL), Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, Évita Muzic (both FDJ Suez), Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal), Mavi García (Jayco AlUla), Riejanne Markus (Visma-Lease a Bike)

Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime), Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek), Charlotte Kool (DSM-Firmenich PostNL), Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike).

Designated hitters:

Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale), Chloé Dygert (Canyon-SRAM), Grace Brown (FDJ Suez), Pfeiffer Georgi (Lidl-Trek), Lianne Lippert (Movistar), Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime), Puck Pieterse (Fenix Deceuninck).

Who’s not racing?

Lotte Kopecky .

That’s right, no Tour de France Femmes for the reigning world champion. Kopecky structured her season around the Giro d’Italia and Olympic Games, where she raced both the TT and road race already, with the omnium still to come Sunday on the track.

And what of Olympic MTB ace Pauline Ferrand-Prévot? You’ve got to wait until she transfers to Visma-Lease a Bike in 2025 to see what “PFP” can do on road racing’s biggest stage.

The race for yellow: Who can stop the Vollering stage-race stampede?

Can Vollering defend?

It’s the narrative at the center of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes.

The Dutchwoman won the maillot jaune at a canter last summer and stampeded through this spring with equal speed.

Four GC wins in four stage-races in 2024 make Vollering and her SD Worx-Protime team the women to beat this month.

Who can do it?

All eyes were on newly crowned Giro d’Italia Women champ Elisa Longo Borghini to lead the way until she withdrew just days ahead of the grand départ  following a training crash.

Longo Borghini nipped at Vollering’s heels all season and was poised to land into the Femmes loaded with grinta after she publicly blasted her own failings at the Olympic road race.

But Longo Borghini’s exit doesn’t rule Lidl-Trek out of the race. Its young duo Realini and 2023 TDFF white jersey Shirin van Anrooij have all the potential to keep Vollering checking her shoulders.

Nieiwiadoma and Juliette Labous will be right all of their wheels in what could make for a “peloton vs. Vollering” dynamic.

Lidl-Trek will bring all its climber power into the Femmes. They, Canyon-SRAM, and FDJ Suez will be piling pressure onto an SD Worx team short of superdomestiques  Kopecky and Marlen Reusser.

There will be a couple of interesting subplots in the Vollering-SD Worx storyline during this Tour.

SD Worx-Protime is so omnipotent it’s taking sprinter of the season Wiebes to hunt for the stages that won’t impact Vollering’s GC charge.

Can the slightly depleted SD team successfully balance climbing and sprint opportunities?

It’s not been a problem before but could be worth watching.

Secondly, this is likely Vollering’s last Tour with the team that made her queen of women’s classification racing before she reportedly transfers to FDJ Suez in 2025.

Vollering’s upcoming move shouldn’t shift SD Worx-Protime’s ambition or strategy this summer, but it could be something to keep an eye on.

The US contingent: Small in number, mighty in power

US riders: Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale), Chloé Dygert (Canyon SRAM), Ruth Edwards, Lily Williams (both Human Powered Health)

The U.S. contingent for the Femmes is small but loaded with power.

Olympic pursuit teammates Faulkner and Chloé Dygert bounce straight out of their gold medal race Wednesday in Paris to Monday’s grand départ in Rotterdam.

Paris road race champion Faulkner already stated her ambition to win a Tour stage having already collected victories at the Vuelta Feminina and Giro d’Italia Women.

Few would bet against the Alaskan attacker from completing her grand tour set in the slew of hilly/breakaway days that fall between the Netherlands and the Alps.

Dygert likewise will be on a mission to win a stage when she’s not busy pulling for team leader Niewiadoma.

Dygert could be in the mix for a sprint if any of the race’s opening Dutch stages are made complicated by crosswinds. If not, look to the two-time TT champion for stage 3 and its lightning-fast 6km  chrono .

Team USA nips New Zealand by 0.621 seconds to win the elusive gold medal in women’s team pursuit that the team’s been chasing since 2012. #Paris2024 https://t.co/tG5SLKl9Hr — Velo (@velovelovelo__) August 7, 2024

Human Powered Health’s deadly duo of Lily Williams and Ruth Edwards will fly into the Femmes with their mojos at maximum.

Edwards definitely didn’t slow down during her two years away from road racing. The returning 31-year-old reaped some of her best form to light up the breakaways of the Giro d’Italia and scoop two second-place finishes.

Edwards’ teammate Williams is tapping a similar mid-career run of hot form.

The 30-year-old pursuit powerhouse packs a similar marauding skillset to Edwards and is sure to be joining her on an HPH pulverization of the Tour’s mid-week transition stages.

Also, watch out for those Canucks.

EF-Oatly-Cannnondale brings a triple threat of Candian talent with Magdeleine Vallieres, Giro d’Italia women breakaway star Clara Emond, and Paris-Roubaix winner Alison Jackson.

Where Jackson goes, action follows. And that sure won’t change next week at the Tour.

The course: A Dutch start, a split stage, and some severe switchback bends

The big talking points of the 2024 parcours ?

A first foreign start, that old-school split stage, and of course, the Alpe.

The Tour de France Femmes will hop over the border Monday to the Netherlands for its first foreign grand départ  in a sign of the race’s growing ambition and reach.

Three stages – two sprints and a TT – will take place entirely within the homelands of Vollering, Vos, and Wiebes.

Two sprint stages in a row might suggest the Dutch start will be dull, but the possibility of home speedsters Wiebes, Vos, or Charlotte Kool scooping the race’s first maillot jaune should ensure bike-mad “Low Country” spectators serve up a show nonetheless.

The official route of the #TDFF2024 avec @GoZwift ! Voici le parcours officiel du #TDFF2024 avec Zwift ! #WatchTheFemmes pic.twitter.com/rl14MqCXdn — Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) October 25, 2023

The peloton will take on two stages Tuesday in a “split” format that’s not been seen for decades.

Stage 2 is 67km short. It’s a flat, sightseeing tour of suburban Rotterdam that will be over in less than two breathless mid-morning hours.

Only a quick cool-down and a few bowls of pasta separate the stage 2 finish Tuesday and the start ramp of stage 3, a 6.3km afternoon time trial through the docklands of the Dutch capital.

Weird, huh?

The “split” concept allows race organizer ASO to shoehorn eight stages into seven days, and should maximize the party potential for the Dutch crowds.

But will it bring good racing ?

There’s definitely nothing wrong with a short sprinter stage, but is there much point to a sub-10 minute TT at this point in the race?

There will be a stage-win up for grabs but only a few seconds available for the GC contingent.

A time trial that won’t be the all-out decider in the race for yellow is a good thing. Anything upward of 20km against the clock could tilt things way too far toward GC chronowomen like Vollering or Grace Brown.

But this “2b” stage could taste like a nothing burger to the fans and make for junk miles for most of the peloton.

Discover the Alpe d’Huez climb that awaits you on 18 August on @LeTourFemmes avec @GoZwift Challenge! Get your bib/Prends ton dossard https://t.co/xeLEMbsBDI Découvre la monté de l’Alpe d’Huez qui t’attend le 18 août prochain sur @LeTourFemmes avec @GoZwift Challenge ! pic.twitter.com/yBqzRUWbR7 — Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) June 4, 2024

At the other end of the race, let’s feel the love for the Tour’s classification-confirming assault on the high Alps and its yellow jersey decider on the most picture-perfect climb in cycling.

Stage 8 will decide the race in a brutal fashion.

A 150km stage that serves the sprawling 20km HC Glandon as an appetizer for the infamous bends and torturous grades of the Alpe d’Huez summit finish will be by far the toughest day ever delivered to the Tour de France Femmes peloton.

The sights will be spectacular, and the racing could be too.

Any would-be GC contender could lose minutes on this devastating final day of racing.

But will this crusher “queen stage” overshadow the entire Tour and rob the rest of the race of ambition?

Let’s hope not.

Other stages to be sure to watch: The Ardennes and the Vosges

Also be sure to stock up on popcorn and bunk off of work for stage 4 on Wednesday and stage 6 on Friday.

Stage 4 out of Valkenburg and up to Liège is the Tour’s take on the Ardennes classics. The course packs in ascents of Amstel Gold Race icon the Cauberg before taking the peloton through a parade of leg-snappers regularly used in Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

Stage 6 is a climb-riddled 160km romp through the fiendishly complex Vosges. It’s the type of rugged terrain that could catch anybody off guard – including you, Demi V.

2024 Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift: Stage profiles:

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Stage 2 – Tuesday 13 (AM):

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The Tour de France Femmes has been a long time coming. In 2024, it's a victory for gender equality in cycling

Sport The Tour de France Femmes has been a long time coming. In 2024, it's a victory for gender equality in cycling

Until recently, it was the question elite women cyclists dreaded: "Do you ride in the Tour de France?"

"Whenever I talk to people who don't know much about cycling, they always ask me if I've raced the Tour de France," Australian cyclist Neve Bradbury says.

"Until three years ago, I had to say 'no we don't actually have one'. But now I'm going to be able to say I've raced it, which is really cool. It's a huge step forward for women's racing."

The women's version of the iconic race has a chequered history, marred by decades of sexist disregard that mirrors the gendered disparity in cycling more broadly.

While the men's event was established in 1903, it wasn't until 2022 that the current iteration of the women's race — the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (TdFFaZ) — was launched.

It's not exactly the 'first' women's Tour de France (TdF). A one-off event was held in 1955, while there have been various attempts to establish something akin to the men's race (under different names) from 1984-2009.

None of these came close to emulating the three-week men's event, and after years in the wilderness, four of the biggest names in women's cycling resorted to guerilla tactics to force the race's governing body — Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) — to take notice.

In 2013, they formed an activist group called 'Le Tour Entier' (the whole tour), releasing a manifesto, and garnering over 100,000 signatures on a petition to establish a women's TdF, before they were rewarded with a single day event called 'La Course'.

Once again, it fell well short of the pomp of the men's TdF, and women were left wondering if they would ever reach the heights of Alpe d'Huez.

It's a situation Kate Veronneau, director of women's strategy at Zwift, says would be unthinkable in other sports.

“The way I put it is, can you imagine where women’s tennis would be today if they didn’t play Grand Slams?" Veronneau said.

“In 2021, we weren’t playing in the Grand Slam of cycling.

"The Tour de France is one of the most watched annual sporting events in the world, and one of the most valuable landscapes in sport… and women weren't there."

So why, in 2022, did women's cycling finally get the Tour it deserved, and what more needs to change?

How a pandemic heralded the arrival of the Tour de France Femmes

Veronneau knows first-hand the frustration of being a woman in elite cycling.

Before taking on the role at Zwift, her own cycling career was cut short by a lack of professional opportunities for women.

"Cycling is one of the worst offenders when it comes to gender disparity," Veronneau says.

"It's a very old, historically male-dominated sport. And it has taken a while to come into the modern era."

Strangely enough, she credits the COVID-19 pandemic with creating the conditions that enabled the TdFFaZ to emerge.

In 2020, with most in-person races paused, Zwift ran a 'virtual' Tour de France on their platform, embedding gender equality into the coverage.

The event was broadcast on Eurosport, across 130 countries, with footage switching between the men's and women's races on a daily basis.

Presented in this manner, the women's race drew almost equal viewership to the men's.

It was this success story that enabled Zwift to start a conversation with ASO about sponsoring a (non-virtual) women's Tour.

"I think it's a good lesson in the way tech and innovation can change sport," Veronneau says.

"We built a virtual cycling world, and in doing that, we kind of disrupted things. We didn't have to do things the way they had historically been done. We could play by our own rules, which we decided was going to be parity and equal opportunity.

"We wanted to make cycling more accessible and inclusive, because it hasn't always been."

An ‘absolute game changer’ for women in cycling

In 2022, the TdFFaZ was born, with riders finishing a stage on the renowned Champs-Élysées on the morning of the men's final.

The event succeeded even its most ardent supporters' expectations, with an accumulated live audience of 23.2 million, and over 100 million viewed hours.

In France, a benchmark was set to have 12 per cent of TVs tuning in on a daily basis. The final figure was over double that, at 26 per cent, while 44 per cent of all French TVs tuned in for the final stage.

Veronnea calls it an "absolute game changer" for women's cycling.

As she explains it, the teams competing in the men's TdF accumulate approximately 80 per cent of their sponsorship value from three weeks of prime time exposure.

Without the same visibility, Veronneau argues that it has been impossible for women to create a "commercially viable" product.

The financial discrepancy is hard to dispute.

The average budget of a men's World Tour team is USD 28 million, compared to 3.8 million for women.

The average elite male cyclist, meanwhile, earns USD 450,000, while the average elite woman earns 85,000.

But after the first edition of the TdFFaZ, the top women's riders "immediately" earned 10 per cent more.

"It has changed their opportunities, salaries, and more investors want to get behind teams and behind races," she says.

Veronneau is also hopeful of a flow-on effect for women who aren't at the pointy end.

As it stands, in the second tier of women's cycling, there is no mandated minimum salary (with one set to be introduced in 2025).

That means there are a number of women competing in 2024's TdFFaZ who are not getting paid.

As Veronneau puts it, they may be lucky to get "flights and bikes" paid for, but that's it.

"It's a very hard life," she says.

"A lot of them have second jobs and have to be supported by family members."

Australian debutant Neve Bradbury hopes Tour brings more exposure

When 154 cyclists embark on the 2024 edition of the TdFFaZ this week, it will mark the first time the event has stood alone from the men's race.

With the Olympics wrapping up in Paris, and the Paralympics to come, the event will start in Rotterdam, Netherlands, before wrapping up, after one week and eight stages, on the famous backdrop of Alpe D'Huez.

Among the riders will be 22-year-old debutant Bradbury, who secured her place in the Canyon/SRAM team after a breakout performance at the Giro d'Italia — one of cycling's most prestigious races — last month.

Bradbury, a Melbournian who spent her junior days racing with St Kilda Cycling Club, finished third in the General Classification and won the exceptionally difficult 'Queen' stage (123km in length, with an elevation of 3700m).

Having made a name for herself on the Blockhaus mountain range, Bradbury is most looking forward to the notorious French climb that will round out this year's event.

"I think the scenes on Alpe D'Huez will be insane," she says.

"The crowds will hopefully be insane too, and it'll be the last day, so hopefully we'll be able to soak it up a bit."

While the current iteration of TdFFaZ is eight days long, making it the longest women's Tour yet, Bradbury hopes the race eventually grows to two weeks.

"I'd like to see it be two weeks long with a rest day," she says.

"I'm quite good at the longer races, so it'd suit me. But three weeks [like the men] is a long time. I'd be happy with two."

More importantly, Bradbury hopes the event drives greater exposure for women's cycling.

"We just need more coverage," she says.

"At the moment, there seems to be one hour of coverage per race compared to the whole men's race being live-streamed. So we're still a bit behind, but it's definitely getting better.

"I think the more attention the better, and that's what the Tour de France does. If you're ever going to watch a race, it would probably be the Tour de France. That means more viewers, more brands wanting to sponsor these events and riders and so on.

"It's a domino effect."

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Bicycling’s Staff Predictions for the 2024 Tour de France Femmes

A two-stage day and a mountain finish on the Alpe d’Huez: anything could happen, but we’re making bets.

The hype from the men’s Tour de France last month took us directly into the Olympic Games in Paris. And now, the hype from the Olympics is taking us into the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift . It’s not “just” the women’s version of the Tour de France. It is an entirely different race with different strategies and storylines.

Women’s WorldTour races tend to be even more packed with attacks and successful breakaways. In fact, last year, half of the stage wins happened after a breakaway, and eight different women won the eight stages. Picture the last 10 km of the women’s Olympic Road Race in Paris last week, times a million. Luckily, gold medalist Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) will be there to give us even more of what we saw in Paris.

The action kicks off Monday, August 12, with a Grand Départ from Rotterdam, Netherlands. The women will ride 946 km (590 mi) over eight stages, including a double-stage day on Tuesday. The tour will end on the iconic Alpe d’Huez, where fans are sure to go absolutely bonkers.

Last year’s winner, Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime), has been training hard to defend her title, but plenty of other riders are ready to threaten the yellow jersey. And in women’s racing, it’s harder to predict how individual stages will play out, which makes the race even more fun to watch.

Here are the Bicycling staff picks for the upcoming week of racing.

Which stage are you most looking forward to?

Michael Venutolo-Mantovani: It’s easy to say the final stage with its Alpe d’Huez finish because, duh, but I’m going to go with day two, which consists of stages 2 and 3. Granted, it’s a short, flat course followed by a time trial that is the distance of many people’s daily commute. But I can’t wait to see how this all shakes out. The transitions. The impact that the full stage has on the TT. All of it. It should be very interesting, especially for those starting the TT first.

Rosael Torres-Davis: Stage 8, the final stage, starts on Le Grand Bonnard and finishes on the Alpe d’Huez. It will just be so historic and visually stunning. I also prefer to wrap up the race with an actual race rather than a ceremonial stage like it is traditionally done on the men’s edition.

Molly Hurford: I’m interested to see how stages 2 and 3 play out on the same day, but I’m most excited for the final stage—ending on the Alpe d’Huez means that there could be a shakeup in the GC in the final moments of the race.

Whit Yost: As much as I love the throwback double-stage, I gotta go with Alpe d’Huez. It’s arguably the most famous climb in cycling, and it closes out the race—can’t beat that!

Stages 2 and 3 will be held on the same day. One is a flat 70-km course and the other a flat ITT. How do you think that will pan out?

RTD: Stage 2 is a 70 km stage, and Stage 3 is a 6.3 km time trial. Both stages have flat terrain and are short, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we had a TT specialist dominate both. However, while Stage 2 is flat, it goes through many narrow country and city roads and contains over thirty corner turns, so it could also be a stage for a powerful and technically gifted rider. Too bad Lotte Kopecky is not racing !

MH: I think it’ll be a very cat-and-mouse-y Stage 2 with no teams wanting riders to burn many matches. I’m guessing a massive bunch sprint after some halfhearted breakaways so that riders can be as fresh as possible for the super short ITT.

WY: SD Worx-Protime will win both stages with Lorena Wiebes and Demi Vollering. There will be much Dutch rejoicing.

What will be the biggest disappointment from this year’s TdFF?

MVM: I’m already disappointed that the TdFF is only eight stages long. I appreciate that the race is growing, and I think they’re doing it very intentionally and, therefore, wisely. But I want a two-plus-week women’s Grand Tour!

RTD: Lotte Kopecky not on the start list.

MH: That Lotte Kopecky isn’t racing—it’s always fun when ALL of the top favorites are on the start line.

WY: I get why she’s not there, but I wish Kopecky were racing. She’s a contender in any race she enters, and SD Worx will miss her.

What will be the biggest surprise?

MVM: I think Kristen Faulkner’s Olympic victory was a much bigger gut punch than anyone is letting on at this point. And I think we’re going to see some of the fallout from it manifested in some very underwhelming performances for some of the favorites. Conversely, that’ll give some typical mid-packers the chance to make names for themselves, just as Faulkner did in Paris.

RTD: After winning the overall at the Thüringen Ladies Tour in Germany and finishing second place in two stages of the Giro d’Italia, Ruth Edwards is back to top form. I think she can surprise everyone by winning a stage. Maybe Stages 4 or 6.

MH: I’m hoping for a couple of new stage winners this year.

WY: Just a hunch, but I could see this being a down year for Visma-Lease a Bike. (Now watch them win the first two stages.)

Which riders will win the Green, Polka Dot, and White Jerseys?

Green Jersey (Sprint Points Jersey) MVM: Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) RTD: Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) MH: Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) WH: Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime)

Polka-Dot Jersey (Mountain Points Jersey) MVM: Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM) RTD: Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM) MH: Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM) WH: Demi Vollering (Sd Worx-Protime)

White Jersey (Best Young Rider) MVM: Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) RTD: It will be between Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime) and Neve Bradbury (Canyon//SRAM) MH: Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) WH: Shirin van Anrooij (Lidl-Trek)

Who will win the Yellow Jersey?

MVM: Demi Vollering, again! RTD: I would like to see Niewadoma in yellow, but Demi Vollering is too consistent. So, as long as things go her way, I think Vollering takes this one. MH: Gotta say Vollering, though I wish I could say someone else just to be unique. WY: Vollering will defend her title, then announce she’s leaving the team.

And finally, who will round out the GC podium?

MVM: Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM) RTD: Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime) MH: Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) WY: Kasia Niewiadoma and Mavi García

In the end, we can feel sure when we say that all eyes are on GC favorite Demi Vollering, who looks to defend her title, and Kristen Faulkner, fresh off her Olympic victory. We may also see potential surprises from riders like Ruth Edwards, Blanka Vas, or Neve Bradbury and intense battles for the jersey classifications.

Whether it’s on the iconic Alpe d’Huez finish or the unique double-stage day, the 2024 edition promises fierce competition and unexpected outcomes. So, who do you think will win the Tour de France Femmes?

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