Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of stage 8 of the Tour de France Femmes 2024
- Sunday, 18 August
- Le Grand-Bornand - Alpe d'Huez
- 149.9 kilometres, mountain stage
- Official start: 14:00
- Finish: ~ 18:38 - 19:27
- TV: ARD, from 16:00 - 17:45, stage finale from 18:20, Eurosport 1, from 17:30*
- 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 8
The finale of the third Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will undoubtedly go down in the history books of international women's cycling. What better way to round off the tour than with the women's race première on the legendary Tour de France mountain in the French Alps with its 21 hairpin bends?
When the peloton reaches the foot of the climb to the ski station in Le Bourg-d'Oisans, the racers already have almost 2,700 metres of altitude in their legs. This will show who can mobilise the most energy reserves after seven strenuous days on the 13.9-kilometre climb with an average gradient of eight percent. After all, the 19.7 kilometre long and on average 7.2 percent steep Col du Glandon had to be climbed 65 kilometres earlier.
My tip for the stage win: Gaia Realini
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.
