The 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is about to be the longest but, with the race extending to 9 levels, it was introduced on Monday.
The fourth version of one of many largest ladies’s races of the 12 months would be the longest but, including an additional stage on. It was additionally introduced that it’ll start in Brittany, a return to France for the Grand Départ.
The official Tour X (previously often called Twitter) account posted: “A Grand Départ from Vannes earlier than crossing the Finistère the subsequent day, the Tour de France Femmes will then return to Morbihan for the third stage and a complete of 9 levels on the menu for the 2025 version!”
The 2024 race will start with a stage from Vannes to Plumelec, earlier than a second stage from Brest to Quimper. The third day will start in La Gacilly earlier than it leaves Brittany.
This 12 months’s race, which begins in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 12 August, takes place over simply seven days, with stage two cut up into two halves, to maintain it at eight levels. That is because of the Paris Olympics, with the race additionally shifting dates from instantly put up the boys’s occasion because of the video games.
Final Might, the race’s director, Marion Rousse, advised Biking Weekly that there have been no present plans so as to add additional levels to the Tour, however the organiser will rethink “when the time comes”.
“We actually don’t wish to increase too shortly,” she mentioned. “There have been ladies’s Excursions de France earlier than us, and since we’re a brand new version, it implies that what got here earlier than didn’t work out.
“I need the race to nonetheless exist in 100 years’ time, and never shut down in a couple of years.”
“We’ve to take it little by little,” she confused. “We’re not closing the door on any potentialities. In fact, when the time comes, we’ll add extra levels if we are able to.”
9 days will give the race extra risk of crossing France to the excessive mountains of the Pyrenees of the Alps with out the necessity for lengthy transfers, one thing the riders and followers will each respect.
At 9 levels, the Tour could be longer than any present ladies’s Grand Tour – the 2024 editions of the Vuelta Femenina and the Giro d’Italia Ladies each have eight days, similar to this 12 months’s Tour. Nevertheless, the Giro has had ten levels in latest reminiscence.
