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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 most well-known and prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
The course was also used for the first three editions of La Course by Le Tour de France, a women's one-day race held between 2014 and 2021. In these years the race was held in a kermesse-style circuit racing format. [11] The first edition of Tour de France Femmes in 2022 used the course as the first stage of an 8-day race. [4]
The final serious stage of the 2023 Tour de France before Sunday’s procession to Paris is today’s 133km ride from Belfort to Le Markstein ski resort in the Vosges mountains.. When race ...
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 ...
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 ...
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The 2024 Tour de France was the 111th edition of the Tour de France.It started in Florence, Italy, on 29 June, and finished in Nice, France, on 21 July.The race did not finish in (or near) Paris for the first time since its inception, owing to preparations for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
‘Coup du kilometre’: Victor Lafay wins Tour de France stage two hiding in plain sight. Coming up tomorrow. Sunday 2 July 2023 17:03, Ben Fleming. After a hilly start to the Tour, tomorrow sees ...