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The 2023 Tour de France will be the 110th edition of the world's biggest bike race and will take place from July 1-23.
The race will start over the border in Spain, with the Basque Country hosting the Grand Départ and opening three stages. The race will finish in Paris after 21 stages and two rest days.
The full route was revealed at the official Tour de France presentation on 27th October, the route features only 22km of time trialing alongside four summit finishes and a highly mountainous profile.
The 2023 Tour de France will be made up of 22 teams, although they have not yet been confirmed.
The 18 WorldTour teams will be on the start line, with two spots going to the top-ranked second-division teams, and two more handed out as discretionary wildcard invitations by the organizers.
With relegation and promotion not yet confirmed for 2023, the start list is not final, but it is almost certain that Alpecin-Fenix and Arkéa-Samsic will be joining the WorldTour, while Lotto Soudal and Israel-Premier Tech drop down.
Lotto Soudal would earn an automatic spot as one of the best second-division teams from the 2022 rankings, along with TotalEnergies.
That would leave Israel-Premier Tech scrapping for one of the two wildcard spots, alongside French squad B&B Hotels-KTM, ambitious Norwegian outfit Uno-X, and the Basque Euskaltel-Euskadi who'll want to represent their home region at the Grand Départ.
Reference
https://www.cyclingnews.com/tour-de-france/
