Stage 21: Monaco to Nice – 33.7 km (ITT)
Date: Sunday July 21, 2024
Streaming: 🇺🇸 Peacock/🇨🇦 FloBikes/🇬🇧 Discovery+/ITV/🇪🇺 Eurosport/🇦🇺 SBS
Estimated finish time: 🇺🇸🇨🇦 2:00 pm EDT/🇬🇧 7:00 pm BST/🇪🇺 8:00 pm CEST/🇦🇺 4:00 am AEST
Stage type: Individual time trial
Summary: Ah, the sprint finish on the Champs-Èlys—wait a minute, that’s not Paris! Just in case you haven’t already heard, thanks to final preparations for the Olympics, the 2024 Tour de France ends not with the classic sprint stage on the Champs, but instead with a time trial on the Mediterranean coast in Nice. It’s a hilly one too, with two tough climbs in the first half of the stage that will make pacing tricky.
In all likelihood, the GC standings will be pretty decided by this point, but just in case it’s close, this will be a thrilling TT battle where the GC favorites will also be the stage favorites.
Fantasy favorites: Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel are the two clear favorites for the hilly final time trial, with Jonas Vingegaard a more distant third contender. It’d be a surprise if anyone outside of that trio took this victory, but since you may have already used all of them in your fantasy squad, consider going with João Almeida, Wout van Aert, Matteo Jorgenson, or Matteo Sobrero.
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