Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has confirmed talks are underway to potentially move the 2024 Tour de France arrival outside of Paris. That would be the first time since 1975.
The Tour’s finish is traditionally on the Champs-Élysées, but the dates of the Tour de France, which will run from June 29 to July 21, are very close to the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, which will start on July 26 . Tour boss Christian Prudhomme said in June that no decision had been made on where the 2024 Tour de France will finish.
“We’ll see,” Hidalgo told Le Parisien newspaper. “It is a subject that we are discussing with Prudhomme. We are working together on alternatives in good terms. We are pragmatic and will find a solution. The opening of the Games is on July 26, 2024. This means that in the weeks preceding the Place de la Concorde must be put in order. A possible absence of the Champs-Élysées in the Tour is not taboo.”