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The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 4 July in the principality of Monaco with a 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) individual time trial which included a section of the Circuit de Monaco .
The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. This Tour featured 180 riders from 30 countries on 20 cycling teams, starting in the principality of Monaco on 4 July and finishing on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 26 July. [1]
8 July 2009 — Le Cap d'Agde to Perpignan, 197 km. The Tour visited Cap d'Agde for only the second time ever, as the early Tour flat stages continued. Perpignan, on the other hand, is a traditional city for the Tour to visit, thought to symbolically indicate the Tour's entrance to (or exit from, in "counter-clockwise" years) the Pyrenees.
The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
The Tour has inspired several popular songs in France, notably P'tit gars du Tour (1932), Les Tours de France (1936) and Faire le Tour de France (1950). German electronic group Kraftwerk composed " Tour de France " in 1983 – described as a minimalistic "melding of man and machine" [ 165 ] – and produced an album Tour de France Soundtracks ...
Tour de France LIVE – Yates brothers, Rodriguez and Bilbao fight for third. 16:00, Lawrence Ostlere. 9km to go: Felix Gall leads Vingegaard and Pogacar up towards the finish like a sacrificial ...
The 2023 Tour de France starts outside Bilbao’s iconic Guggenheim Museum, and winds north to the Bay of Biscay coastline before returning to the city where the stage winner will take the yellow ...
2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11; 2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21; B. Butterfly Trek Madone; C. Chasing Legends; L. List of teams and cyclists in ...