The Tour de France Femmes is about to have its longest version but and prolong to 9 phases in 2025, as revealed at a press convention on Monday in Rennes.
Racing will return to France in subsequent yr’s Grand Départ after Rotterdam performs host to the opening three phases of the upcoming race in August, with the Brittany area internet hosting the opening three days.
Brittany has hosted the Grand Départ of the lads’s race on seven events, with the newest in 2021 taking in memorable wins and stints within the yellow jersey for Julian Alaphilippe and Mathieu van der Poel.
The information was revealed on the Tour de France Femmes’ X, previously Twitter, account with particulars of the beginning and end places in northwest France.
“Brittany will host the Grand Départ of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2025,” learn a publish from the race.
“A Grand Départ from Vannes earlier than crossing the Finistère the subsequent day, the TDFF2025 will then return to Morbihan for the third stage and a complete of 9 phases on the menu for the 2025 version!”
The race may even return to its July spot on the calendar after the lads’s Tour de France, moved again in 2024 as a result of Paris Olympics.
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Editions of the ladies’s Excursions de France have been longer than 9 phases of their earlier types because the Tour de France Féminin and Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale for instance, nonetheless, because it has been run as a stage race by the Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), all three editions have been eight phases.
Stage 1 is because of run on Saturday July 26 from the walled city of Vannes to Plumelec, earlier than the second stage kicks off from Brest, dwelling to final yr’s finest younger rider on the Tour de France Femmes Cédrine Kerbaol (CeratizitWNT), to Quimper.
“I’ve goosebumps fascinated about the Grand Départ de Bretagne, it will be wonderful,” mentioned Kerbaol. “And with a stage ranging from Brest, it is unimaginable.”
Different French stars from the Bretagne area embody six-time nationwide time trial champion Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Human Powered Well being), Aude Biannic (Movistar) and Marie Le Internet (FDJ-Suez).
A transfer as much as 9 phases marks a big development of the race after being reluctant to develop too rapidly after a profitable opening two editions.
“9 phases for the Tour de France Femmes 2025, it is a sturdy signal that exhibits the keenness across the Tour de France Femmes with Zwift and girls’s sport generally.” mentioned race director Marion Rousse.
“We’re heading in the right direction. We go from eight to 9 days of racing, however we now have to go fastidiously.”
The 2024 is listed as having 7 phases however solely as a result of second day taking in phases 2a and 2b in Rotterdam, a 67km highway race and 6.3km time trial. It kicks off on August 12 within the Netherlands earlier than heading south for the massive finale on August 18 as much as Alpe d’Huez.
