Tour De France

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The Tour de France () is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The race is broken into day-long segments, called stages. Individual times to finish each stage are aggregated 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 the leader's yellow jersey on the next day of racing. The course changes every year, but the race has always finished in Paris. Since 1975, the climax of the final stage has been along the Champs-Élysées.

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The tour typically has 21 days of racing and covers .
The shortest Tour was in 1904 at , the longest in 1926 at .
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 race alternates between clockwise and anticlockwise circuits of France. The first anticlockwise circuit was in 1913. 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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Websites

Tour de France - 2012
Official site of the famed race from the Tour de France. Includes route, riders, teams, and coverage of past Tours.www.letour.fr

Tour De France 2012: Results & News - Cycling News & Race Results ...
Follow live coverage of the 2012 Tour De France, including news, results, stage reports, photos, podcasts and expert analysiswww.cyclingnews.com/tour-de-france

Tour de France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than 3,600 kilometres (2,200 mi) and ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France_cycliste

Tour de France 2011
stage 21 - Créteil Paris Champs-Élysées 95 km ...www.letour.fr/us/homepage_courseTDF.html

Le Tour de France - The Official Videogame
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Tour de France on NBC Sports Network - Cycling News - All Access ...
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Sagan eyes Tour de France green jersey
Tour of California leader wants to make his mark in cycling's biggest event - Thus far the dominant rider in California with two stage wins, the overall lead and the points and youth classifications, Peter Sagan has set himself ...Shane StokesTuesday, May 15, 2012 5:21 AMhttp://www.velonation.com/

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... who represented Scotland at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. The Tour de France is sport's most compelling battle — an annual cauldron of heroism and treachery, spectacle and controversy, mind-games and endurance.admin6 Hours 32 Minutes agohttp://lirenwo.com/

Nancy Sharp: Something Like the Tour de France
Something Like the Tour de France - The Huffington Post.Nancy SharpWednesday, May 09, 2012 12:00 PMhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/

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Van Garderen, 22, placed fifth in the prestigious Paris-Nice stage race last March, and wore the King of the Mountains jersey briefly in last year's Tour de France. He blew by the 40-year-old Horner early in Thursday's time trial course, ...13 Hours 57 Minutes agosportsillustrated.cnn.comRelated News:
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