![]() Lacapelle Marival - Rocamadour (Individual time trial) ![]() Tomblaine - La Super Planche des Belles Filles "This Tour can be lost as early as the second day." "It's windy 364 days a year, here," Tour director Prudhomme said on Thursday. ![]() The race will start with a 13km individual time trial in Copenhagen, before the second stage takes the peloton over the 18km Great Belt bridge. Tour de France organisers have also designed a treacherous route for the 2022 men's edition, which will feature rides in gusting winds, cobblestones and punishing mountain stages. 'Versatile' riders and strong teams needed for men's tour The 2022 women's Tour will run from July 24 to 31 and it commences two weeks after the end of the longest women's race on the calendar, the Giro Donne. "The goal is to organise a race that will stay, that will still exist in 100 years, that I can watch when I'm old and using a walker," Prudhomme, who is now 60-year-old, said. "But they are all paying an entry fee and to give you an element of comparison, it's more than for Paris-Nice and the Criterium du Dauphine," he added. ![]() While more than 300 towns apply and pay to host a stage of the men's Tour every year, Prudhomme had to approach candidates himself for the women's race. Lure - La Super Planche des Belles Filles ![]()
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