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The Tour de France 2023 will hold its Grand Départ in the Basque Country, with a first stage in Bilbao on 1st July, and will finish in Paris on 23rd July, on completion of a 3,404-km route that will tackle the difficult slopes of the country’s five mountain ranges. The battle for the Yellow Jersey will witness a decisive and emotional episode on the Puy de Dôme, where a stage finish will be held 35 years after the victory of Denmark’s Johnny Weltz. The return to this legendary climb will be accompanied by the rise in importance of sites that will mark the Tours of the future, such as the Grand Colombier or the Col de la Loze. The sole time-trial on the Tour de France in 2023 will take place over 22 kilometres between Passy and the Combloux ski resort in Haute-Savoie. The sprinters will also have the opportunity to express themselves on finishes in Bordeaux, Limoges, Moulins, before the grand finale on the Champs-Elysées.

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00:00 - You've just won a stage on the Tour de France.
00:04 What a day.
00:05 What a day for you, what a day for the team.
00:07 - Yeah, we started the stage full focus.
00:12 Yesterday we checked the first 40k's
00:15 and we were super mentalized to expecting
00:20 a hard race day after the rest day.
00:22 And we were in a critical moment, I checked,
00:27 and we were five teammates in the first 20 riders.
00:30 So I just wanted to make the right group,
00:35 if it was possible, with two riders.
00:37 Matej was attacking all the time,
00:39 also Fred, Mikkel, Bo, Jack,
00:44 everybody was trying to go.
00:45 We were not just thinking in anything,
00:48 just going full, full, full.
00:50 And in one point I saw that the guys from Jumbo
00:55 needed to let one group, and that was my opportunity,
00:59 my chance to go.
01:00 I knew that was going to be difficult before,
01:02 but I just wait for the right moment
01:04 when everybody was in the limit.
01:06 And then in one point, the time gap started to go down,
01:11 so we needed to start to go full in the front.
01:15 Everybody was in the limit,
01:17 Wayland did impressive attack.
01:21 I think he was the strongest one,
01:24 but he spent a lot of energy with a hard win in the face.
01:28 And in the back group, we just collaborate in the right way.
01:31 And then in the last three case,
01:35 I knew that was the fastest man in the group,
01:40 so I just took the control, the responsibility.
01:43 I closed the gap with O'Connor first,
01:46 and then with cold blood, let Zimmermann make his sprint,
01:52 go on the wheel and just full the last 200 meters
01:56 without thinking on nothing.
01:58 And then I crossed the line,
02:02 and I just put out all the anger I had inside,
02:06 and remembering the reason of this victory,
02:12 special one for Gino.
02:14 - That was the first thought you had in your mind.
02:19 You probably had that thought in your mind
02:21 during the whole day, during the whole tour.
02:23 - Was the only reason, no?
02:24 Was hard to prepare the last two weeks
02:28 with him in the mind.
02:29 But yeah, same with the family at home,
02:33 and same with my kid Martina, she helped me a lot
02:38 to just keep calm, be positive,
02:41 and put all my positive energy
02:45 to try to do something nice in the tour.
02:49 I wanted to do it in the first two stages,
02:52 was so special for me, was not possible,
02:55 but I just waiting for my moment.
02:57 Maybe I was thinking that the position in the overall
03:03 was going to be a problem,
03:04 but I decided to make an all-in movement,
03:09 and in the end, yeah, was the right movement.
03:15 And first victory in the tour
03:18 after 13 years in profession,
03:20 that's such a special moment for me.
03:24 - Thank you very much.
03:25 - Thank you.
03:26 (upbeat music)
03:30 you
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