The TOUR live blog for the Tour de France 2024
The Tour de France is the highlight of the cycling season and TOUR is part of the action. In our live blog, we take a look behind the scenes of the Tour of France. We show the teams' racing bikes, their equipment and have exciting guests to talk to. Our team, consisting of Julian Schultz, Sandra Schuberth, Jens Klötzer, Matthias Borchers and Sebastian Lindner, is on the road in the paddock every day and presents exciting stories from the technical area, but also from riders and personalities.
About the Tour de France 2024
Alongside the European Football Championships and the Olympic Games, the Tour de France 2024 is one of the highlights of the sporting calendar. This year, for the first time in the history of the race, the start will be in Italy. The race starts on Saturday 29 June in Florence. TOUR will be there before the start, taking a look at the teams' bikes and equipment and talking to the protagonists. You can find it all here in the TOUR live blog. The Tour of France ends three weeks later. This year, however, not in Paris as usual.
The reason for this is the Olympic Games. The destination is therefore Nice in 2024. The 21st stage is an individual time trial this year, as it was last in 1989, when Greg LeMond snatched the yellow jersey from Laurent Fignon by eight seconds on the Champs Elysees.
Eight flat stages, four hilly stages, seven mountain stages with four mountain top finishes and another individual time trial await the riders until Nice. An overview of the entire route of the Tour de France 2024 can be found here. There will be 22 teams with eight riders per team at the start in Florence. We have compiled the start list for the Tour de France 2024 here.
The top favourite this year is Tadej Pogacar, who is aiming for the double of Giro and Tour after his victory at the Giro d'Italia in May. Jonas Vingegaard, winner of the Tour de France in 2023 and 2022, is also in the race, but after his heavy crash in early April at the Tour of the Basque Country, he is not considered to have as good a chance as his great rival Pogacar, whom he has beaten in the last two editions of the Tour of France.
Tour de France Femmes 2024
Of course, there will also be another women's Tour de France in 2024, which Tour de France Femmes. Due to the Olympic Games, the women's race, which runs over eight stages, will not be held until mid-August 2024. TOUR will also report in detail on the women's Tour of France.
History of the Tour de France
The Tour de France has a long history dating back to 1903. Over the years, the race has undergone many exciting developments: changes to the route, more international fields of participants and, last but not least, big surprises that have made the Grand Boucle a legend over the years.
The list of winners of the Tour of France
- 1903 Maurice Garin (France)
- 1904 Henri Cornet (France)
- 1905 Louis Trousselier (France)
- 1906 René Pottier (France)
- 1907 Lucien Petit-Breton (France)
- 1908 Lucien Petit-Breton (France)
- 1909 François Faber (Luxembourg)
- 1910 Octave Lapize (France)
- 1911 Gustave Garrigou (France)
- 1912 Odile Defraye (Belgium)
- 1913 Philippe Thys (Belgium)
- 1914 Philippe Thys (Belgium)
- 1919 Firmin Lambot (Belgium)
- 1920 Philippe Thys (Belgium)
- 1921 Leon Scieur (Belgium)
- 1922 Firmin Lambot (Belgium)
- 1923 Henri Pelissier (France)
- 1924 Ottavio Bottecchia (Italy)
- 1925 Ottavio Bottecchia (Italy)
- 1926 Lucien Buysse (Belgium)
- 1927 Nicolas Frantz (Luxembourg)
- 1928 Nicolas Frantz (Luxembourg)
- 1929 Maurice Dewaele (Belgium)
- 1930 André Leducq (France)
- 1931 Antonin Magne (France)
- 1932 Andre Leducq (France)
- 1933 Georges Speicher (France)
- 1934 Antonin Magne (France)
- 1935 Romain Maes (Belgium)
- 1936 Sylvere Maes (Belgium)
- 1937 Roger Lapebie (France)
- 1938 Gino Bartali (Italy)
- 1939 Sylvere Maes (Belgium)
- 1947 Jean Robic (France)
- 1948 Gino Bartali (Italy)
- 1949 Fausto Coppi (Italy)
- 1950 Ferdi Kübler (Switzerland)
- 1951 Hugo Koblet (Switzerland)
- 1952 Fausto Coppi (Italy)
- 1953 Louison Bobet (France)
- 1954 Louison Bobet (France)
- 1955 Louison Bobet (France)
- 1956 Roger Walkowiak (France)
- 1957 Jacques Anquetil (France)
- 1958 Charly Gaul (Luxembourg)
- 1959 Federico Bahamontes (Spain)
- 1960 Gastone Nencini (Italy)
- 1961 Jacques Anquetil (France)
- 1962 Jacques Anquetil (France)
- 1963 Jacques Anquetil (France)
- 1964 Jacques Anquetil (France)
- 1965 Felice Gimondi (Italy)
- 1966 Lucien Aimar (France)
- 1967 Roger Pingeon (France)
- 1968 Jan Janssen (Netherlands)
- 1969 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1970 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1971 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1973 Luis Ocana (Spain)
- 1974 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1975 Bernard Thevenet (France)
- 1976 Lucien Van Impe (Belgium)
- 1977 Bernard Thevenet (France)
- 1978 Bernard Hinault (France)
- 1979 Bernard Hinault (France)
- 1980 Joop Zoetemelk (Netherlands)
- 1981 Bernard Hinault (France)
- 1982 Bernard Hinault (France)
- 1983 Laurent Fignon (France)
- 1984 Laurent Fignon (France)
- 1985 Bernard Hinault (France)
- 1986 Greg LeMond (USA)
- 1987 Stephen Roche (Ireland)
- 1988 Pedro Delgado (Spain)
- 1989 Greg LeMond (USA)
- 1990 Greg LeMond (USA)
- 1991 Miguel Indurain (Spain)
- 1992 Miguel Indurain (Spain)
- 1993 Miguel Indurain (Spain)
- 1994 Miguel Indurain (Spain)
- 1995 Miguel Indurain (Spain)
- 1996 Bjarne Riis (Denmark)
- 1997 Jan Ullrich (Germany)
- 1998 Marco Pantani (Italy)
1999 Lance Armstrong* (USA)2000 Lance Armstrong* (USA)2001 Lance Armstrong* (USA)2002 Lance Armstrong* (USA)2003 Lance Armstrong* (USA)2004 Lance Armstrong* (USA)2005 Lance Armstrong* (USA)- 2006 Oscar Pereiro (Spain)
- 2007 Alberto Contador (Spain)
- 2008 Carlos Sastre (Spain)
- 2009 Alberto Contador (Spain)
- 2010 Andy Schleck (Luxembourg)
- 2011 Cadel Evans (Australia)
- 2012 Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)
- 2013 Christopher Froome (Great Britain)
- 2014 Vincenzo Nibali (Italy)
- 2015 Christopher Froome (Great Britain)
- 2016 Christopher Froome (Great Britain)
- 2017 Christopher Froome (Great Britain)
- 2018 Geraint Thomas (Great Britain)
- 2019 Egan Bernal (Colombia)
- 2020 Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia)
- 2021 Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia)
- 2022 Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark)
- 2023 Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark)
* Lance Armstrong was disqualified from all competitions from 1 August 1998 by decision of the International Cycling Union (UCI) on 22 October 2012.
