2024 Tour de France stage 9 reported to feature gravel sectors

The Tour de France Femmes tackles the 'white roads' of Troyes, tipped to be used in the men's race in 2024
The Tour de France Femmes tackles the 'white roads' of Troyes, tipped to be used in the men's race in 2024 (Image credit: Getty Images)

The 2024 Tour de France will include a gravel stage at the end of its first week, local media reports, with the peloton tackling unsurfaced ‘white roads’ around the north-easterly town of Troyes.

The gravel roads around Troyes already featured in the first edition of the revived Tour de France Femmes, back in 2022, with a win for Marlen Reusser (SD Worx).  

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Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.