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Stage nine of the Tour de France 2024 will have gravel sectors, 59km of individual time trials, and five summit finishes. It starts on June 29 and ends three weeks later on July 21.
For the first time, the race will start in Italy, with stages starting in Florence and going all the way to Rimini, Cesenatico to Bologna, and Piacenza to Turin. It will be 100 years since Ottavio Bottecchia, the first Italian winner of the Tour, achieved his feat.
Another first is that the Tour will finish in Nice rather than Paris for the first time ever because of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. It also implies that the final stage will be contested in a time trial for the first time since 1989.
The event traverses the Alps, the Massif Central, and the Pyrenees en route. It also involves 59 kilometers of time trialling spread over stages seven and twenty-one, as well as four summit finishes at Pla d’Adet, the Plateau de Beille, Superdévoluy, Isola 2000, and the Col de la Couillole.
