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The first Tour de France was staged in 1903. The plan was a five-stage race from 31 May to 5 July, starting in Paris and stopping in Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, and Nantes before returning to Paris. Toulouse was added later to break the long haul across southern France from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.
Lance Edward Armstrong (né Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) [4] is an American former professional road racing cyclist.He achieved international fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his titles after an investigation into doping allegations, called the Lance Armstrong doping case, found that Armstrong used performance ...
List of teams and cyclists in the 2014 Tour de France. The number of riders per nation participated in the 2014 Tour de France: 20+. 10–19. 2–9. 1. The 2014 Tour de France was the 101st edition of the race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,358.1-kilometre (2,086.6 mi) race included 21 stages, starting in Leeds, United Kingdom, on 5 July ...
The 111th edition of the Tour de France got under way in Florence, Italy on Saturday, 29 June with the three-week race ending in Nice on Sunday, 21 July. Here's the story of the race. Saturday, 29 ...
VICTOR LAFAY WINS STAGE TWO! Sunday 2 July 2023 16:25, Ben Fleming. That is the first Tour stage win for team Cofidis since 2008 - 15 long years of wait ended in superb style by Lafay.
July 21, 2024 at 3:05 PM. Tadej Pogacar previously won the Tour de France in 2020 and 2021 [Getty Images] Tadej Pogacar sealed a sensational Tour de France-Giro d'Italia double by winning the ...
Indurain is the only man to win five consecutive Tours. Henri Cornet is the youngest winner; he won in 1904, just short of his 20th birthday. Firmin Lambot is the oldest winner, he was 36 years, 4 months old when he won in 1922. [ 5] French cyclists have won the most Tours; 21 cyclists have won 36 Tours among them.
A rare double: Pogačar is just the eighth cyclist — and first since 1998 — to win the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in the same year. Marco Pantani (1998) Miguel Induráin (1992-93 ...