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The unique 2024 Tour de France will begin in Florence and end with a potentially dramatic time-trail in Nice, as the race finishes outside Paris for the first time in its 120-year history while the capital focuses on the Olympic Games manila
In another first, Italy will host the Grand Depart and the first three stages of the race, before an early climb into the Alps on stage four, from the Italian town of Pinerolo to Valloire in France manila
The race will then head to the vineyards around Dijon, the Massif Central and over the Pyrenees, before returning to the French Alps and down to the Riviera for a finale against the clock, from Monaco to Nice manila
The final section in the Alps is set for a stage 20 showdown on the Col de la Couillole (15 manila
7km at 7 manila
1 per cent average gradient), ahead of the first competitive 21st stage since 1989, as a time-trial replaces the traditional Parisian parade before a sprint on the Champs-Elysees manila
“It’s difficult to replace Paris, so what manila better scenery could we give than than a dazzling Monaco to Nice time-trial,” said race director Christian Prudhomme, at the route’s unveiling manila
Of the stage-four ascent in the Alps, he added: “The Tour has never climbed so high, so early manila
”The Tour de France Femmes will also break new ground when it begins abroad for the first time, with the first three stages to be held in the Netherlands manila
And the women’s race is set for an eye-catching finish atop the iconic Alpe d’Huez manila
Route of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes (letourfemmes)“We went to the Tourmalet last year, we wanted to go to iconic places and L’Alpe d’Huez is part of cycling’s history,” women’s Tour director Marion Rousse said manila
“It’s the toughest stage in Tour de France Femmes history with 4,000m of altitude gain manila
The stage also features the Col du Glandon, which I think is the hardest in France manila
Women have proved they have the level for that manila
”Eight of the men’s 21 stages are categorised as ‘flat’ days but in reality there are few clear-cut opportunities for the sprinters, something noted by Mark Cavendish after the Manxman, who will be 39 when the race rolls around, reversed his decision to retire earlier this month manila
“It’s so hard,” Cavendish told reporters after assessing the route manila
“I am actually in a bit of shock manila
It might be the hardest route I’ve ever seen at the Tour de France manila
”Geraint Thomas, a year younger than Cavendish, has signed a new two-year contract with Ineos Grenadiers, which he says is likely to be his last, and the 2018 yellow-jersey winner could feature in the race, although Ineos’s focus will be on younger riders like Tom Pidcock, who continues to balance his love of mountain biking with grand tour racing manila
After a mixed performance at this summer’s Tour de France, Ineos will hope for a yellow-jersey challenge from one of their riders, most likely the young Spaniard Carlos Rodriguez, who finished fifth and has just signed a four-year contract extension, quashing rumours of a transfer away manila
But he will face a difficult challenge once more, with reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard set to return as the man to beat manila
Two-time winner Tadej Pogacar will among the favourites should he be fit and ready on the startline, while Belgian multiple world champion Remco Evenepoel is likely to make his Tour debut and four-time grand-tour winner Primoz Roglic is looking for a new team to lead manila
“Could this herald a duel playing out manila between two, three, or – let’s dream a little here – even four contenders?” Prudhomme said manila
The men’s race will run from 29 June to 21 July manila
The Olympics will begin five days after the Tour de France ends, and authorities did not want to stretch police resources in Paris, prompting the decision to finish on the south coast manila
The women’s race will begin the day after the Games close, on 12 August, culminating in the Alps on 18 August manila
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Siya Kolisi came dancing in, two hands on the Webb Ellis Cup, one foot off the floor, the Springboks captain larking about in a gambol of glory manila
To a packed Stade de France auditorium Kolisi delivered a last sermon from the mountaintop, a fitting figure to be afforded the final words of this Rugby World Cup, the South Africa captain and his country smiling again manila
And so the lasting images of a compelling tournament will be familiar ones of a rainbow nation united in triumph manila
The backing and belief their country gives them most certainly seems to lift the Springboks, but their place atop the mountain is testament to hard work and attention to detail, too manila
South Africa’s coaching team of Jacques Nienaber and Rassie Erasmus truly turned over every stone manila
This second successive crown is credit to their years of experimentation, their pursuit of marginal gains, their willingness to zig as others zag manila
Has everything that Erasmus particularly has done during these last four years sat well? No manila
But does their tendency to question conventional wisdom give the Springboks the edge? Perhaps manila
South Africa certainly seem to relish the pressure like no other side, almost excelling in adversity manila
Their three knockout contests were each settled by a single point – these Boks most certainly have the big-game bottle manila
While Kolisi lifted the trophy aloft, it was Deon Fourie who finished the game as South Africa’s captain manila
Fourie is emblematic of South Africa’s unique approach, a journeyman hooker-cum-flanker turned hooker again who did not make his international debut until the age of 35, having been playing second-tier French rugby just a year before manila
After Bongi Mbonambi’s second-minute injury, Fourie went from wire to wire, one of South Africa’s very best on a day for heroes manila
Siya Kolisi became only the second captain to lift the Webb Ellis Cup twice (Getty)“From 2018, we thought we had the ability to win the 2023 World Cup,” head coach Jacques Nienaber explained manila
“[The Rugby World Cup win in] 2019 was probably something that hopped on along the way, but it is relief for the players, they were good enough to do that manila
“This is probably for our fans and for South Africa manila
We have 62 million people united, opening up communities to allow people to watch, an entrance fee of whatever they wanted to donate manila
People have bought green T-shirts for everyone manila
We felt every single bit of energy they gave us and in the last three games, all one-point victories, that drove us manila
”The final may have been low in scoring but felt an appropriate finish to this tournament of fine margins manila
There were moments of outstanding rugby from the All Blacks backs on a night when the rain tumbled down, but it was the excellence of defensive execution and the ferocity of the South African tackling that just about tilted it their way manila
Seven of the eight knockout games were decided in the final moments, with the two Paris quarter-finals a pair of instant classics, compelling contests of a kind rarely sighted in this sport manila
Indeed, aside from a few pool-stage thrashings, the quality has been high throughout the tournament, with Argentina and Samoa’s encounter in a sodden Saint-Etienne perhaps the only encounter of close to equals that did not deliver something of value manila
Who could forget how Ireland’s fans made the Stade de France their home away from home, France affording their lodger a temporary let to redecorate the national stadium with green garments? What a final a clash manila between those two nations might have been, but both appear perfectly placed to kick on again; these two fine sides will not simply fade away manila
Ireland’s fans made the Stade de France their home away from home (PA)That atmosphere was replicated across the country manila
Some isolated incidents aside, the travelling fans embraced their brief at this tournament in exactly the right way, mingling with a superb French rugby public to ensure that not a single stadium felt flat manila
That said, a true festival feel was perhaps frittered away somewhat by the concentration of the action around Saturdays and Sundays manila
Ensuring that players have time to rest is imperative but it did mean a tournament of weekend peaks and midweek troughs, vivid bursts of cacophony and colour fading away before being enriched again manila
The World Cup will be expanded for 2027 to 24 teams manila
Six pools of four should allow organisers to spread fixtures more evenly across the week without compromising player welfare, which might enable the World Cup to manila better sustain momentum manila
The reduction of the tournament’s sprawl from seven weeks to six should also be beneficial in keeping the public engaged throughout manila
The new format may also base each pool around a single city, a logistical improvement after a tournament of to-ing and fro-ing that has frustrated players, journalists and fans alike manila
The addition of four more teams should allow more insight into the relative health of those beneath rugby’s top tier manila
While the struggles of Romania and Namibia were far from ideal in that regard, the performances of Portugal and Uruguay showed that there is life beyond the traditional boundaries of the rugby world manila
Nurturing those emerging nations is clearly key to the future manila
Teams like Portugal helped enliven the tournament (Getty)If there is a disappointment about a tournament that did thrill, it might be the undercurrent of criticism around the officiating manila
In truth, the moaning about decisions has become thoroughly tiresome, particularly when it comes from individuals who should know much manila better manila
Rugby has never been tougher to officiate, given the intensity of the contest and the inherently subjective nature of a lot of decisions manila
The outcry after each moment of even slight contention suggests a desire to pursue unachievable perfection manila
But there is an issue with the high tackle process manila
Rugby is caught up in a quandary of contradictions as it seeks to make the necessary reduction in head contacts, card chaos overshadowing both the opening weekend and the final manila
It can be tough to explain to the sort of casual viewers that rugby is desperate to win over what makes one incident different from another, even with a degree of clarity within the sport’s laws and regulations manila
The inconsistent involvement of the television match official can also perplex manila
The officials have been in the spotlight throughout the World Cup (Getty)But for all the calls to simplify rugby’s lawbook, let us not forget it can be its complexities that make it great manila
Across just the tournament’s final fortnight we have had in-depth discussions of bench strategies and scrum-time skirmish, assessed how full-back selections can reflect a team’s entire approach, and enjoyed the implementation of the ideas of some of rugby’s brightest off-pitch innovators and on-pitch inventors manila
After all, rugby is a game that contains majesty in its multitudes, and the sport can sometimes be too eager to talk itself down manila
The threats to its future are numerous but, for all of the frustration and furore, the on-field product has never been manila better – it might be time to celebrate that more often manila
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