Tour de France begins tonight in Bilbao, Spain and continues throughout 23 days to most well-known boulevard on this planet, the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Throughout the 21 phases of the Tour, there can be eight flat phases, 4 hilly phases, eight mountain phases – together with 4 summit finishes – and one particular person time trial for the cyclists to sort out. Within the 40 picturesque cities the Tour will journey by way of, there can be 12 debutant stage begins. Visiting all 5 of France’s Mountain mastiffs – the Pyrenees, the Massif Central, the Jura, the Alps and the Vosges – the 2023 Tour route can be a difficult one which most accurately fits the dynamic climbers.
SBS Director of Sport, Ken Shipp mentioned: “SBS is proud to be Australia’s unrivalled residence of biking, headlined by our unique protection of the Tour de France – one of many greatest sporting occasions on this planet. Our workforce would be the forefront of all of the motion and astonishing sporting moments that the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift ship. SBS is extremely excited to proceed to ship world-class protection with professional commentary to Australian audiences, offering unique entry to the celebs of world biking and spotlighting our Australian contenders.”
The SBS commentary workforce can be on the bottom capturing all of the motion in Spain and France.
Dr Bridie O’Donnell
Bridie raced within the Australian National Team, and Professional Italian groups in Europe and the United States, representing Australia at three World Championships between 2008-2012. From 2013-2017, Bridie managed and raced for Rush Women’s Team within the Cycling Australia National Road Series. In 2016, she broke the UCI Hour World Record. In 2017, she was appointed the inaugural Head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation by the Victorian Government and in 2018, her biking memoir: “Life and Death” was revealed, detailing her experiences as knowledgeable bike owner in Europe.
Matthew Keenan
2023 can be Matt’s seventeenth 12 months commentating on biking’s greatest occasion, the Tour de France. After two seasons of beginner racing in Europe, Matt turned to commentary, having since commentated on the Commonwealth Games, Tour of Spain, Paris-Nice, Giro d’Italia and Tour of Qatar. Known for his supreme biking data and talent to recall detailed details about particular person cyclists, Matt is recognised internationally as one of many main commentators within the enterprise.
Gracie Elvin
Gracie is a two-time nationwide highway biking champion. She represented Australia on the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, has been to 2 Commonwealth Games, and competed in eight world championships in highway biking and mountain biking. Gracie has gained UCI races in Europe, took second on the Tour of Flanders, and was workforce captain at many workforce victories. She was additionally a co-founder of the primary worldwide girls’s biking union – The Cyclists’ Alliance.
Simon Gerrans
Simon Gerrans is the primary Australian to have gained a stage in all three Grand Tours – the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana. He discovered aggressive biking as a young person on the suggestion of Australian biking legend Phil Anderson. Simon has been a proud ambassador and energetic fundraiser of the Chain Reaction Challenge Foundation since 2010 and was the founding father of the Victorian Inter-School Cycling Series.
Christophe Mallet
Christophe is a tv presenter, podcast host and long-time Executive Producer of SBS Radio’s French program. In 2017 he was awarded a National Order of Merit – he was extremely honoured to be launched as a Knight of the Order of Merit in France. Over his 10+ years at SBS, he has been concerned in lots of tasks together with internet hosting the Tour de France highlights present and has been closely concerned in SBS’s protection of the Dakar Rally.
David McKenzie
David made his first biking look for Australia at simply 16. He joined his first skilled biking workforce in 1997 after a stint on the Australian Institute of Sport and in 1998 gained the Australian National Road Championship. On the pro-cycling circuit David has competed in Australia and all through Europe for numerous groups, profitable phases at plenty of occasions together with the Giro d’Italia, Tour of Japan and Tour Down Under.
Mark Renshaw
Mark Renshaw rode professionally between 2004 and 2019 for the Française des Jeux, Crédit Agricole, HTC–Highroad, Belkin Pro Cycling, Etixx–Quick-Step and Team Dimension Data groups. His most notable wins are the general common victory within the 2011 Tour of Qatar, Tour Down Under Stages, Tour of Britain Stages and Tour of Turkey stage victory, and the one-day race Clásica de Almería. He raced within the Tour de France 10 instances. In 2004, he additionally raced within the Olympic Games in Athens on the monitor biking factors race.
| STAGE | DATE | SBS TV LIVE | SBS On Demand |
| 1 | Saturday 1 July Bilbao (Spain) | 2030 – 0200 AEST | 2020 – 0200 AEST |
| 2 | Sunday 2 July Vitoria-Gasteiz to San Sebastián (Spain) | 2020 – 0145 AEST | 2005 – 0145 AEST |
| 3 | Monday 3 July Amorebieta-Etxano (Spain) to Bayonne | 2130 – 0200 AEST | 2050 – 0200 AEST |
| 4 | Tuesday 4 July Dax to Nogaro | 2130 – 0150 AEST | 2100 – 0150 AEST |
| 5 | Wednesday 5 July Pau to Laruns | 2120 – 0205 AEST | 2055 – 0205 AEST |
| 6 | Thursday 6 July Tarbes to Cauterets (Cambasque) | 2130 – 0150 AEST | 2100 – 0150 AEST |
| 7 | Friday 7 July Mont-de-Marsan to Bordeaux | 2125 – 0150 AEST | 2105 – 0150 AEST |
| 8 | Saturday 8 July Libourne to Limoges | 2030 – 0150 AEST | 2020 – 0150 AEST |
| 9 | Sunday 9 July Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat to Puy de Dôme | 2130 – 0250 AEST | 2120 – 0250 AEST |
| REST DAY | |||
| 10 | Tuesday 11 July Vulcania to Issoire | 2130 – 0200 AEST | 2055 – 0200 AEST |
| 11 | Wednesday 12 July Clermont-Ferrand to Moulins | 2130 – 0200 AEST | 2055 – 0200 AEST |
| 12 | Thursday 13 July Roanne to Belleville-en-Beaujolais | 2130 – 0205 AEST | 2055 – 0205 AEST |
| 13 | Friday 14 July Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne to Grand Colombier | 2130 – 0150 AEST | 2130 – 0150 AEST |
| 14 | Saturday 15 July Annemasse to Morzine | 2130 – 0205 AEST | 2055 – 0205 AEST |
| 15 | Sunday 16 July Les Gets to Saint-Gervais-les-Bains | 2130 – 0250 AEST | 2100 – 0250 AEST |
| REST DAY | |||
| 16 | Tuesday 18 July Passy to Combloux | 2130 – 0205 AEST | 2055 – 0205 AEST |
| 17 | Wednesday 19 July Saint-Gervais-les-Bains to Courchevel | 2130 – 0155 AEST | 2010 – 0155 AEST |
| 18 | Thursday 20 July Moûtiers to Bourg-en-Bresse | 2130 – 0210 AEST | 2055 – 0210 AEST |
| 19 | Friday 21 July Moirans-en-Montagne to Poligny | 2130 – 0150 AEST | 2105 – 0150 AEST |
| 20 | Saturday 22 July Belfort to Le Markstein | 2130 – 0135 AEST | 2120 – 0135 AEST |
| 21 | Sunday 23 JulySaint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to Paris (Champs-Élysées) | 2400 – 0400 AEST | 2400 – 0400 AEST |
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift
| STAGE | DATE | SBS TV LIVE / SBS On Demand |
| 1 | Sunday 23 July Clermont-Ferrand | 2030 – 2400 AEST |
| 2 | Saturday 24 July Clermont-Ferrand to Mauriac | 2300 – 0150 AEST |
| 3 | Monday 25 July Collonges-la-Rouge to Montignac-Lascaux | 2300 – 0150 AEST |
| 4 | Tuesday 26 July Cahors to Rodez | 2300 – 0150 AEST |
| 5 | Wednesday 26 July Onet-le-Château to Albi | 2300 – 0150 AEST |
| 6 | Thursday 28 July< Albi to Blagnac/td> | 2300 – 0150 AEST |
| 7 | Friday 29 July Lannemezan to Tourmalet Bagnères-de-Bigorre | 2400 – 0335 AEST |
| 8 | Saturday 30 July Pau | 2300 – 0150 AEST |
The SBS Tour de France podcast additionally returns, hosted by Mallet and McKenzie, together with specialists and particular visitors. Covering each the lads’s and girls’s occasion, the podcast options updates on the race, interviews with riders and engaging conversations on the distinctly ‘French’ issues that make this biking race particular.
Plat du Tour
As an accompaniment to the Tour De France, famend French-Australian chef Guillaume Brahimi returns to SBS with Plat du Tour on Saturday July 1. Guillaume will journey by way of France following the Tour de France areas and take viewers on a culinary journey exploring great French meals tradition from every area, whereas assembly among the greatest meals producers within the nation. Airing throughout SBS’s protection of the Tour de France, the collection will characteristic 21 recipes, for the 21 Tour de France phases, with Guillaume plating up his ‘Plat du Tour’ with scrumptious conventional French meals that correlate to the tradition and traditions of every metropolis and city on the Tour.
Guillaume journeys throughout probably the most stunning areas in Spain and France protecting all phases of the Tour, together with the official Tour de France beginning line Bilbao Spain the place he cooks on the terrace of the Guggenheim Museum. Guillaume additionally visits Bordeaux France the place he discovers a metropolis delicacies secret, and the picturesque French village of Saint Gervais the place he visits a chocolatier and learns make a neighborhood candy specialty.
Plat du Tour recipes positive to make your mouth water embrace a scrumptious Burned Basque Cheesecake from the Spanish Basque area, the traditional French stew Le Coq au Vin within the historic Rhone wine area, and scrumptious Crayfish and Saffron Risotto in Passy, a quaint and picturesque French city simply 30km from the Italian border.
Plat du Tour segments can be accessible on SBS Food Online and SBS On Demand and can air as particular episodes on SBS Food from July 27 after the 2023 Tour de France has concluded. Plat du Tour is produced by Blink TV for SBS.
