The Tour de France will start in June in 2028 in order to avoid a clash with the Olympic Games, with the Grand Départ moving back to France in the heart of the Champagne region in Reims.
The Los Angeles Olympic Games get underway on Friday 14 July, 2028 and finish on Sunday July 30, 2028.
The news was unveiled on Monday in Reims, where the Tour will begin in just over two years’ time. Following the Grand Départ in Barcelona this summer and that in the UK in 2027, this marks a return to French soil and only a second home start in seven editions.
In any case, Reims hosts its first Grand Départ since 1956, when André Darrigade pulled on the yellow jersey, though the city and the surrounding Grand Est region has featured prominently on the route since then.
The Grand Départ will be made up of four stages, covering the Marne, Ardennes, Meuse and Moselle departments, with six cities on hosting duties: Reims, Charleville-Mézières, Épernay, Metz, Thionville and Verdun.
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