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Two years after the men’s Grande Boucle finished in Nice—and thus ended outside Paris for the first time, because of the 2024 Olympics—the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift bids farewell with a tough circuit in the Côte d’Azur city.
No fewer than four ascents of the Col d’Èze, a symbol of Paris–Nice, await. The climb is tackled from its most traditional side on the first three passages, but the final ascent goes via Quatre-Chemins, taking on a full kilometre at more than 12% midway up the climb.
The final ascent of Èze is crested 14 km from the finish, which will, of course, be on the Promenade des Anglais. The descent has historically been extremely fast and offers scarcely any chance to regain ground; anyone cresting it with a handful of seconds may make them count.