If Brussels has its way, the Tour de France Femmes 2030 will start in the heart of the European Union. That year marks the Belgian capital's two-hundredth anniversary. As part of the celebrations, the 2030 UCI Road World Championships will also take place in Brussels.
Alderman for Sport Florence Frelinx announces the candidacy to host the Tour de France Femmes start in the Walloon newspaper La Dernière Heure. Together with organizing the UCI Time Trial World Championships and the Road World Championships, both major events aim to help turn Brussels' bicentennial into a grand cycling celebration.
The Tour de France Femmes, in its current stage race format, was launched in 2022. Since then, the race has only started once abroad. In 2024, Rotterdam had the honor, followed by two stages and the start in Valkenburg on Dutch soil. Next year, the women's Tour will start in Switzerland, and the year after, in Great Britain.
For the seasons after that, organizer ASO has not yet made a decision. The last time Brussels hosted the men's Tour de France was in 2019. To everyone's surprise, lead-out rider Mike Teunissen won the first bunch sprint (ahead of Peter Sagan and Caleb Ewan) after the clear top favorite – his sprinter Dylan Groenewegen – crashed two kilometers from the finish. Teunissen delivered the Netherlands its first yellow jersey in thirty years.
Teunissen takes yellow – photo: photo press agency Cor Vos
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