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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 UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955. [1] Prior to the 1992–93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. [1] The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) member associations (except Liechtenstein, which has no league competition), as well as to the clubs finishing from ...
LeBron James (USA, in white) attempts a shot against China's Yao Ming at the 2008 Olympics.. Basketball is a sport contested at the Summer Olympic Games.A men's basketball tournament was first held at the 1904 Olympics as a demonstration; it has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1936.
Great Britain's only stripped medal in Winter Olympic history was an Alpine Skiing bronze at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Alain Baxter tested positive for a banned substance, resulting from Baxter using a branded inhaler product bought in Salt Lake City which, unknown to him, contained different chemicals in the United States ...
The winners of the first tournament were Wanderers, a team of former public schoolboys based in London, who went on to win the competition five times in its first seven seasons. The early winners of the competition were all teams of wealthy amateurs from the south of England, [ 5 ] but in 1883 , Blackburn Olympic became the first team from the ...
the UK Athletics Championships which existed from 1977 until 1997 and ran concurrently with the AAA Championships. [ 2 ] The AAA Championships were open to international athletes but those athletes were not considered the National Champion in this list if they won the relevant Championship, with the highest ranking British athlete given that title.
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [ 1 ]
9m 49s 1898: Drogheda 6 10-12 John Gourley Dick Dawson: C. G. M. Adams 25/1 9m 43.6s 1899: Manifesto: 11 12-07 George Williamson Willie Moore John Bulteel 5/1 9m 49.8s 1900: Ambush II 6 11-03 Algy Anthony Algy Anthony Prince of Wales: 4/1 10m 1.4s 1901: Grudon 11 10-00 Arthur Nightingall Bernard Bletsoe Bernard Bletsoe 9/1 9m 47.8s 1902