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The Tour de France is, without a doubt, the single most prestigious and well known bicycling race in the world. While riding a bike in a race may seem like a simple undertaking, multi-stage races such as the Tour are amazingly complex events requiring an extreme level of fitness. There are many races going on within the overall... more »
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The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race run throughout France. Cyclists have competed in the long distance race for more than 100 years.... more »
Without a doubt, the Tour de France is the single most prestigious and well-known bicycling event in the world. It is one of the oldest races in... more »
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The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race that covers approximately throughout France and bordering countries. The race lasts three weeks and attracts cyclists from around the world. The race is broken into day-long segments, called stages. Individual times to finish each stage are totalled to determine the overall winner at the end of the race. The rider with the lowest aggregate time at the end of each day wears a yellow jersey."ASO">
The course changes every year but it has always finished in Paris. Since 1975, the climax of the final stage has been along the Champs-Élysées.
The Tour de France is the most well known and prestigious of cyclings three "Grand Tours". The other two Grand Tours are the Giro dItalia (Italy) held every May and the Vuelta a España (Spain) held every August–September.
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The Tour de France is a bicycle race known around the world. It typically has 21 days, or stages, of racing and covers not more than .
The shortest Tour was in 1904 at , the longest in 1926 at ."tourlength">
The three weeks usually include two rest days, sometimes used to transport riders from a finish in one town to the start in another.The first Tour in which the race finished in one town and started in another was 1906, when riders travelled between the finish at Lille to the next start at Douai. The race alternates between clockwise and counterclockwise circuits of France. The first counterclockwise circuit was in 1913.Augendre, Jacques (1996), Le Tour de France: Panorama dun siècle, Société du Tour de France, no ISBN, p17 The New York Times said the "Tour de France is arguably the most physiologically demanding of athletic events." The effort was compared to "running a marathon several days a week for nearly three weeks", while the total elevation of the climbs was compared to "climbing three Everests."
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