Two months before departure, its director Marion Rousse promises a “terrible” and “historic” race

Two months for the day of the start of the Tour de France female, which will run from July 26 to August 3, the director of the cycling event Marion Rousse promises a race “terrible” et “historical”Monday May 26, In the program Ma France On here (ex-France Bleu). The 4th edition of the Female Tour will start from Brittany. The runners will travel a large diagonal to the Alps. “We added a racing day, we went from eight steps to nine”specifies Marion Rousse, also French cycling champion in 2012.

“We will do three days in Brittany. On the third day, we will leave from Gacilly (in Morbihan) to Angers”she continues. The first two steps will be “For the Plchants”. Ensuite, “We will have two stages for the sprinters who will make us arrive towards Poitiers. And then the middle mountain will arrive very quickly with the Massif Central, stage of Clermont-Ferrand, Ambert, Bourg-en-Bresse, Chambéry then the high mountains to finish”continues the director of the female tour. The finish of the Saturday stage will take place at “3 500 meters of elevation gain, we will arrive at the top of the Madeleine pass, an ascent of 18 kilometers “long”predicts Marion Rousse. Finally the last step will also drive in high mountains, to Chatel, in Haute-Savoie.

The Tour de France female will see the Frenchman Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt, the Dutch Demi Vollering and the outgoing winner, the Polish Katarzyna Niewiadoma. Marion Rousse believes in a tricolor victory: “We have been waiting for a successor to Bernard Hinault for so many years that we say that it may be among women that we are going to find it”she hopes.