Full list of 22 teams announced for 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift

A little under four months from the start of this year's Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, race organisers ASO have confirmed the full list of teams who will be competing across the eight stages from Rotterdam to Alpe d'Huez.

All 15 UCI WorldTeams will be in attendance, ensuring that the likes of SD Worx-Protime, Lidl-Trek and Canyon-SRAM will contend for the prized yellow jersey captured by Demi Vollering last summer and sought after by Elisa Longo Borghini among others. Meanwhile, the world's best sprinters will be expected to race, such as Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) and Charlotte Kool (dsm-firmenich PostNL).

Joining the 15 WorldTeams on the start list will be seven UCI Continental teams, two of whom have earned the right on the basis of past performance, with the other five handed invitations to race. The headline inclusion is probably EF Education-Cannondale, who are in their first year of competition but had been vocal about their desire to be invited.

Cofidis and Tashkent City Women Professional Cycling Team are the two Continental teams who finished highest in the UCI's rankings last season, offering themselves automatic invites to all WorldTour events this season.

The financial backing of Cofidis has recently been extended to 2028, while the inclusion of Tashkent City will raise a few eyebrows. They will become the first team from Central Asia to compete in the Tour de France Femmes and found themselves in the top two of last year's rankings following the demise of EF Education-TIBCO-SVB and the merger between Liv Racing TeqFind and Jayco AlUla.

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Hailing from the capital city of Uzbekistan, Tashkent City were primarily racking up points in a bid to gain the country's qualification into this summer's Olympic Games, something which they comfortably achieved. As a result of the country's focus on the Olympics, the team has raced a stripped-back campaign in 2024, with their riders mainly focused on track events.

But the team will be in attendance at the Tour de France Femmes, as will the teams of Arkéa-B&B Hotels, Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi, Lotto Dstny Ladies and St Michel-Mavic-Auber93, all of whom have received invites alongside EF Education-Cannondale.

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The third edition of the Tour de France Femmes will take place this summer from 12-18 August, beginning in Rotterdam for the Grand Départ and ending with a first-ever visit to Alpe d'Huez on stage 8. It will be a mountainous double-header on the final weekend, with stage 7 finishing atop Le Grand-Bornand.

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