Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of stage 7 of the Tour de France Femmes 2024
- Saturday, 17 August
- Champagnole - Le Grand-Bornand
- 166.4 kilometres, mountain stage
- Official start: 10:50
- Finish: ~ 15:27 - 16:02
- TV: ARD, from 13:50, Eurosport 1, from 13:00*
- Live stream: ARD Mediathek, sportschau.de, Discovery Plus (for a fee)
- All stages of the Tour de France Femmes at a glance
Lisa Brennauer's assessment of stage 7
This penultimate stage is a hugely important day in terms of the overall classification. At 167 kilometres, the longest stage of this year's women's Tour de France offers riders such as Vollering, Niewiadoma and Longo Borghini the opportunity to possibly force a preliminary decision for the overall victory on the final climb to Le Grand-Bornand.
However, I expect the first sorting out after 58 kilometres, when the route climbs the Col de la Croix de Serra over twelve kilometres with an average gradient of 5.1 per cent. There will be no more hiding at the mountain finish in Le Grand-Bornand. This will show who has brought the best mountain legs to the Tour.
My tip for the stage win: Demi Vollering
Our expert and her daily forecast
Lisa Brennauer competed in the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift once during her active career. At the inaugural event in 2022, the Allgäu native finished 58th in the final standings in her last year as a professional racer. The former road world champion in the time trial and Olympic champion in the team pursuit has since switched sides. She is now the mother of a son and has been supporting the German Cycling Federation as national coach of the women's U23 category since 2023. She also works as a TV expert and sporting director of the Women's Cycling Grand Prix Stuttgart, which is now the largest international women's one-day race organised in Germany with UCI Pro status.
For TOUR, the 36-year-old analyses all the stages on the route from Rotterdam to the legendary Alpe d'Huez, which features on the Women's Tour route for the first time and sets the stage for the exciting finale. On which stages could there be a sprinters' festival? Where could a preliminary decision be made with a view to the overall standings? With the first foreign start and a detour to neighbouring Belgium, the Tour of France promises eight exciting and varied stages. As the most successful German cyclist in recent years, Brennauer provides insights into possible race scenarios and describes with great expertise what the riders can expect on their three-country tour through the Netherlands, Belgium and eastern France into the Alps just one day after the end of the Olympic Games in Paris. We also use the number of classification jerseys to assess the significance of the stage for the overall classification, the climber's jersey and the sprinter's jersey.
* Broadcast times are subject to change.
Live from Tour de France Femmes 2024
TOUR editor Sandra Schuberth will be there live at the start of this year's Tour de France Femmes before cycling back to Munich. Her bikepacking tour is being organised under the name Deutschland-Trail Gravel-Edition. If you want, you can accompany them for a while.
