This Thursday, around 12:45 p.m., we will be fixed on the route of the Tour de France 2023. Christian Prudhomme, the boss of the Tour, will indeed formalize this October 27 – at the Palais des Congrès in Paris – the map of the Grande Boucle, which will take place from July 1 to 23. And like every year, Cyclism’Actu has taken you through what is being said on the web, in the regional press (PQR) or local radio stations. Which cities of departure and arrival will see the high mass in July next year? What are the massifs and large passes that the riders of the Tour will have to cross? Which regions will be skipped? How many time trial kilometers will be on the program? Here is a compilation of all the more or less confirmed rumors that are emerging for the Grande Boucle 2023. While waiting to be officially fixed by the boss of the Tour, Christian Prudhomme, this Thursday October 27 around noon, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, this is what the route of the Tour de France 2023 could look like. Previously and still this Thursday noon, Marion Rousse, the race director of the Tour de France Women with Zwift will have revealed to us at 12 p.m. the route of the 2nd edition of the Tour de France women which will take place from July 23 to July 30.Video – The route of the first 3 stages of the Tour de France 2023! The Grand Départ from Bilbao, then…? If it has been official for more than a year that the Grand Départ of the Tour de France will take place in Spain from Bilbao in the Basque Country, the Grande Boucle – which will organize its 110th edition next year – will visibly ignore this year the far west and the north of France. So where will the candidates for the yellow jersey be able to “slash” … among whom we will most certainly find Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), and who knows Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers) – the 3 last winners over the past four years – or even Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) and Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl). The possible route of the Tour de France 2023, from July 1 to 23! – Saturday July 1 – Stage 1: Bilbao – Bilbao (185 km) – Sunday July 2 – Stage 2: Vitoria-Gasteiz – San Sebastian (210 km) – Monday July 3 – Stage 3: Amorebieta-Etxano – Bayonne – Tuesday July 4 – Stage 4: Dax – Nogaro – Wednesday 5 July – Stage 5: Pau – Laruns – Thursday 6 July – Stage 6: Tarbes – Cauterets – Friday 7 July – Stage 7: Mont-de-Marsan – Bordeaux – Saturday 8 July – Stage 8: Libourne – Limoges – Sunday July 9 – Stage 9: Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat – Puy-de-Dôme – Monday July 10 – 1st rest day in Clermont-Ferrand – Tuesday July 11 – Stage 10: Vulcania – Issoire (Individual time trial?) – Wednesday July 12 – Stage 11: Clermont-Ferrand – Moulins – Thursday July 13 – Stage 12: Roanne – Belleville-en-Beaujolais – Friday July 14 – Stage 13: Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne – Grand Colombier – Saturday July 15 – Stage 14: Annemasse – Morzine – Sunday July 16 – Stage 15: Les Gets – Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc – Monday July 17 – Day 2 rest in Saint-Gervais – Tuesday July 18 – Stage 16: Passy – Combloux (individual or team time trial?) – Wednesday July 19 – Stage 17: Sallanches – Courchevel – Thursday July 20 – Stage 18: Moutiers – Bourg-en- Bresse – Friday July 21 – Stage 19: Moirans-en-Montagne – Poligny – Saturday July 22 – Stage 20: Belfort – Le Markstein – Sunday July 23 – Stage 21: National Velodrome of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Paris Champs- Elysées “Every year, since 1992, the Basque Country wants the Grand Départ…” Passing through the Tour of Spain 2022, on the occasion of the start of the 6th stage which started in Bilbao, Christian Prudhomme was thus able evoke the Grand Départ of the Grande Boucle 2023, and more precisely the fervor of the Basque Country, well known to the world of the little queen. “Here it’s a story of fervor, passion and love, without a doubt. In the best audiences in the world, there are the Belgians, we discovered the Danish public and there is obviously the Basque Country! specificity are these coasts with very steep slopes. A wonderful setting with hills, mountains and also the sea. The passion for cycling is extraordinary and you can see it here too on this Vuelta, he explained in comments reported by RTBF “They will have plenty to do…” “We have been in contact with the Basque Country for a long time and the Grand Départ was announced a good year ago already, continues the director of the Tour de France . What struck me about this candidacy is that, in fact, every year since 1992 and the departure from San Sebastian, the Basque government, the province of Biscay and the city of Bilbao have written to say that they wanted a Great Departure again. Every year for 30 years! So we’re going to come back to it and I’m absolutely delighted. The Basque organization was present in Denmark, they saw the fervor and I put pressure on them by saying: you know what awaits you! For the past two years, the first week of the Tour de France has clearly been made for the punchers. It depends on the riders but next year there will be a start of punchers and that’s very good. I hope we will have Julian Alaphilippe, Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert of course. I don’t want to say it can be even better but if riders who feel limited in the high mountains, but otherwise have phenomenal ability, want to use the first week to get ahead overall, not just to be ahead for a week but to be ahead longer, they will have plenty to do.” 🟡🗺 The 110th edition of the Tour de France will start from Euskadi Basque Country
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ℹ�’� Info💉 https://t.co/MDL497eJ5R#letour #OngieTOURri #GrandDépartPaysBasque2023 pic.twitter.com/CZPfLowTYP — Grand Départ Pays Basque 2023 (@letour_euskadi) October 25, 2022 After the Basque Pyrenees, the French Pyrenees! As announced by the newspaper La Dépêche among others, “there will be many Pyrenees on the Tour de France 2023”! We are of course talking about the Pyrenees in France since in the continuity of the three days in Spain, the race will take the way to Bayonne on Monday July 3 before spinning the next day from Dax in the Landes towards Nogaro in the Gers where 50 years ago Louis Ocaña won the Tour de France. Before arriving in Pau to face the French Pyrenean passes. The queen step? On Thursday, July 6, obviously, between Tarbes and Cauterets, with the Col du Tourmalet on the menu, no doubt. TOUR DE FRANCE. A Tarbes – Cauterets stage in 2023 and the great return of the Tourmalet #TDF #TDF2023 https://t.co/2qPROfr9XW via @ladepechedumidi — La Dépêche Sports (@Ladepechesports) October 22, 2022 Puy-de-Dôme and Auvergne at the party! The last passage of the Tour de France dated from 1988… Puy-de-Dôme will therefore find the Grande Boucle, on July 9 at the arrival of a 9th stage which will start from Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat in Haute-Vienne, city where Raymond Poulidor is buried according to information from the newspaper La Montagne. Le Puy-deDôme, Clermont-Ferrand, Vulcania, Issoire… the Tour will be packing its bags in Auvergne from July 9 in the evening to July 13 in the morning, with the first rest day of this Grande Boucle 2023 in Clermont-Ferrand. Excluded @lamontagne_fr: The Tour de France is on track to make its big comeback at the top of the Puy de Dôme! âž¡https://t.co/L7JCyopM0G pic.twitter.com/FZ0LINoD1l — La Montagne (@lamontagne_fr) June 24, 2022 Seven days in the Alps before heading back to Paris via the Jura and the Vosges! For the last week of this Tour de France 2023, Le Dauphiné Libéré announces heavy and seven tough days in the Alps with an arrival at the top of the Grand Colombier pass on July 14! Then, a 14th stage on Saturday July 15 between Annemasse and Morzine beyond the Col de Joux-Plane. Before facing the terrible Col de la Loze on July 19 during the 17th stage, the “pass that did not exist” according to Christian Prudhomme, the boss of the Tour de France and which will therefore be climbed once again as in 2020. Cycling. “La Loze? The pass that didn’t exist”: hell is back on the Tour de France 2023 #DauphineLibere https://t.co/OKcZpMyy9w — Le Dauphiné Libéré #dauphinelibere (@ledauphine) October 24, 2022 Le Grand-Ballon, the day before the finish… After the Alps, heading east for this Tour de France 2023 with two stages in Franche-Comté and in the Jura according to information from France Bleu. Before a 20th and penultimate stage, on Saturday July 22, between Belfort and Le Markstein via the Grand-Ballon which culminates at 1,424m, the highest peak in the Vosges mountains, also called the Ballon de Guebwiller. As for the 21st and last stage on Sunday July 23, it will be a parade between the national velodrome of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, headquarters of the French Cycling Federation (FFC) and where most of the cycling events of the Games will be held. Paris Olympics 2024, and the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Tour de France 2023: Belfort should host the penultimate stage of the Grande Boucle #TDF2023
➡�’� https://t.co/PsGV5bYziF pic.twitter.com/c029GUEHaO — France Bleu Belfort Montbéliard (@bleubelfort) October 24, 2022