Tour de France Champs-Élysées stage to include cobbled climb in Montmartre, copying Paris Olympic road race

Route change confirmed to mark 50th anniversary of first ever finish on the Champs-Élysées

2024 Paris Olympic road race
The men's Olympic road race on Montmartre in 2024
(Image credit: Getty Images)

The final stage of this year’s Tour de France will include a visit to Montmartre on route to the traditional finish on the Champs-Élysées, it was announced on Wednesday.

No specific route information is currently known, but the Tour's organisers, ASO, confirmed that the parcours would include an ascent of the Butte de Montmartre cobbled climb, used in the 2024 Paris Olympic road races last year, before the race then passes beneath Sacré-Cœur. Full details will be announced later this month.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.

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