Thierry Gouvenou, director of the race and architect of the Tour de France race route promises less sprinter stages in the future
Friday 19 July 2024 at 09h04

At the finish of the 18th stage of the Tour de France 2024, for Radio Sports I went to see Thierry Gouvenou, director of the race and responsible for the creation of the race route of the Tour de France. We quickly looked back on how the Tour de France 2024 went so far and looked forward to the 3 upcoming stages which will be extremely difficult, with the finish at Isola 2000 today, at the Col de la Couillole tomorrow and with the individual time trial between Monaco and Nice on Sunday to finish off with.

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Looking back tat the Tour de France 2024 so far

In this Tour de France 2024 we have seen very few breakaways go on until the finish and one of the strong riders in the breakaway take the stage victory. The past two stages, with the finish at Superdévoluy and the victory of Richard Carapaz (EF Education First-EasyPost) and in Barcelonnette which saw the victory of the Belgian Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny), finally allowed the breakaway to go on until the finish and that's maybe one of the only things which lacked in this edition of the Tour de France which was quite beautiful to see in all other aspects.





I think that we'll try to grow the number of stages like these. The sprinters stages disappointed us a little bit and we won't include that many in the future!



Thierry Gouvenou

Director of the race





In the interview with Thierry Gouvenou you'll discover a quite clear statement about this: less sprinters stages, more breakaway stages.

The upcoming stages

Concerning the stages to come, Thierry Gouvenou leaves the door open to a possible evolution of the general classification, even though he saw - like anyone who's following this Tour de France 2024 since a few weeks now - that Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) is stronger than anyone else!

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