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Mapping Le Tour. Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 228– 229. ISBN 9780007543991. OCLC 872700415. Landis, Floyd; Mooney, Loren (2007). Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4169-5023-3. Wilcockson, John (2006). The 2006 Tour de France: Triumph and Turmoil for Floyd ...
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 Tour de France (French pronunciation: [tuʁ də fʁɑ̃s]) is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France. [1] It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.
Three riders have won points competition in Tour de France: Zabel (1996 to 2001), McEwen (2002 and 2004) and Hushovd (2005) Two riders have won mountains classification in Tour de France: Rinero (1998) and Rasmussen (2005) Four riders have won under-25 classification in Tour de France: Salmon (1999), Menchov (2003), Karpets (2004) and Popovych ...
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]
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Only seven times, the Tour started without any former Tour de France winner. This happened in 1903, 1927, 1947, 1956, 1966, 1999 and 2006. Only in 1903, apart from the cyclist that won the race, was there no other former or future Tour de France winner. In 1914, a record of seven former Tour de France winners started that year's Tour: [23]
Route of the 2006 Tour de France. The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours.The Tour began in Strasbourg with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 11 occurred on 13 July with a mountainous stage to Val d'Aran in Spain.