Tour de France Femmes 2024 - Stage 1 preview

The 2024 Tour de France Femmes begins with an international Grand Départ on August 12, with the flat stage from Rotterdam to The Hague expected to be a battle between the sprinters, as they target a prestigious stage victory and the first race leader's yellow.

Simone Giuliani
Australia Editor

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.

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