The Story of the 2024 Tour de France

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The 2024 Tour de France was expected to be a duel between the world's two best Grand Tour racers Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Poga��ar. Poga��ar had won the 2020 and 2021 editions of the Tour while Vingegaard had triumphed in the 2022 and 2023 editions.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The 2023 Tour started out as a duel between Vingegaard and Poga��ar. By the end of the mountainous sixth stage Vingegaard was in the race leader's Yellow Jersey with Poga��ar just 25 seconds back. After crashing early in the seventeenth stage Poga��ar lost his legendary climbing power. While riding the stage's final climb Poga��ar said into the team race radio I'm gone I'm dead. He finished nearly six minutes behind Vingegaard.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And that's how the 2023 Tour ended. Vingegaard had won his second consecutive Tour as Poga��ar had done in 2020 and 2021.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>That made the prospect of a tie-breaking shootout between the pair a rare and exciting opportunity to watch well-matched athletes at the top of their games contest the greatest athletic contest in the world the three-week Tour de France.</span></p><p>The Story of the 2924 Tour de France will introduce the route and the riders so that even a person new to the Tour de France will feel at home with the book and its competitors.</p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>So please join us for the 2024 Tour as we go on the 111th trip around La Belle France.</span></p><p></p><p></p>