Jonas Vingegaard of Jumbo-Visma will defend his championship against rival Tadej Pogaar, who will be seeking vengeance after losing the Tour for the first time in his career. The 2023 Tour de France gets underway on Saturday, July 1 in Bilbao, Spain, and concludes on Sunday, July 23 in Paris.
The route for this year starts off with three challenging stages in the Basque Country region of northern Spain and only gets more difficult from there with the first mountain day on Stage 5, the Col du Tourmalet on Stage 6, the return of Puy de Dôme on Stage 9, then climbs like the Grand Colombier, Col de Joux Plane, and Col de la Loze that shake things up before the Vosges mountains near the German border.
The Tour de France’s peloton will consist of 22 teams. The 18 UCI WorldTeams that were automatically invited and the four UCI ProTeams are among these teams.
The 3,404 kilometres (2,115 miles) that make up this year’s Tour are spread across three weeks. With two rest days on July 10 (between stages 9 and 10) and July 17 (between stages 15 and 16), the cyclists will finish one stage each day.
There are 21 stages in the 2023 Tour de France, including 1 individual time trial and 6 flat, 6 hilly, and 8 mountainous ones.
With just 14 miles of time trial racing on the route, this will be the first Tour where there is only one individual time trial rather than two since 2015.
Live TV and streaming coverage will be available worldwide on GCN+, Eurosport, ITV4, S4C, NBC, Peacock, SBS, Sky Sport and more. Netflix crews will also be following the race to film the second series of the new Tour de France: Unchained series.