Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while occasionally passing through nearby countries.
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42 Facts About Tour De France
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The Tour De France is a UCI World Tour De France event, which means that the teams that compete in the race are mostly UCI WorldTeams, with the exception of the teams that the organizers invite.
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On one hand was Le Velo, the first and the largest daily sports newspaper in Tour De France, which sold 80,000 copies a day; on the other was L'Auto, which had been set up by journalists and businesspeople including Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, Adolphe Clement, and Edouard Michelin in 1899.
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Tour De France was a prominent cyclist and owner with Victor Goddet of the velodrome at the Parc des Princes.
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Tour De France cut the entry fee from 20 to 10 francs and set the first prize at 12,000 francs and the prize for each day's winner at 3,000 francs.
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Such was the passion that the first Tour created in spectators and riders that Desgrange said the 1904 Tour de France would be the last.
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The Tour De France returned after its suspension during World War I and continued to grow, with circulation of L'Auto reaching 500,000 by 1923.
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The Tour De France was again disrupted by War after 1939, and did not return until 1947.
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In 1944, L'Auto was closed—its doors nailed shut—and its belongings, including the Tour De France, sequestrated by the state for publishing articles too close to the Germans.
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Tour De France made Felix Levitan co-organizer of the Tour, and it was decided that Levitan would focus on the financial issues, while Jacques Goddet was put in charge of sporting issues.
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The Tour De France returned to national teams for 1967 and 1968 as "an experiment".
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The Tour De France returned to trade teams in 1969 with a suggestion that national teams could come back every few years, but this has not happened since.
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Tour De France was not successful in acquiring more funds, and was fired within one year.
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In 1988, the Tour De France was organised by Jean-Pierre Courcol, the director of L'Equipe, then in 1989 by Jean-Pierre Carenso and then by Jean-Marie Leblanc, who in 1989 had been race director.
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In 1993 ownership of L'Equipe moved to the Amaury Group, which formed Amaury Sport Organisation to oversee its sports operations, although the Tour itself is operated by its subsidiary the Societe du Tour de France.
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Tour De France won the time trials by such dominating margins that virtually nobody could compete with him, and as a result he became the first rider to win five Tours in a row.
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In July 2008, the Tour De France reconfirmed his victory but with an asterisk label to indicate his doping offences.
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Not long after the Tour De France was over Landis was accused of doping and had his Tour De France win revoked.
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In 2011, Cadel Evans became the first Australian to win the Tour De France after coming up just short several times in the previous few editions.
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Tour De France won the mountains and young rider classifications again; thus winning three distinctive jerseys in consecutive years.
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The Tour De France has five categories for ranking the mountains the race covers.
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Souvenir Henri Desgrange, in memory of the founder of the Tour De France, is awarded to the first rider over the Col du Galibier where his monument stands, or to the first rider over the highest col in the Tour De France.
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Tour De France was unsuccessful and he and Roche finished in the peloton.
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The first to sign to precede the Tour De France was the chocolate company, Menier, one of those who had followed the race.
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The modern Tour De France restricts the excesses to which advertisers are allowed to go but at first anything was allowed.
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Teams would have been drawn from military units in Tour De France, including the British, who would have been organised by a journalist, Bill Mills.
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The Tour De France has since started in Germany four times: in Cologne in 1965, in Frankfurt in 1980, in West Berlin on the city's 750th anniversary in 1987, and in Dusseldorf in 2017.
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Tour De France was first followed only by journalists from L'Auto, the organisers.
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Tour De France was shown first on cinema newsreels a day or more after the event.
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Tour De France was joined in following seasons by an analyst for the mountain stages and by a commentator following the competitors by motorcycle.
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The 1979 Tour De France was the first to be broadcast in the United States.
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Academic historians Jean-Luc Boeuf and Yves Leonard say most people in Tour De France had little idea of the shape of their country until L'Auto began publishing maps of the race.
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The 1965 Tour De France was filmed by Claude Lelouch in Pour un Maillot Jaune.
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Tour De France said he had used skin cream containing triamcinolone to treat saddle sores.
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Tour De France's admission meant the top three in 1996 were all linked to doping, two admitting cheating.
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Twice the Tour De France was won by a racer who never wore the yellow jersey until the race was over.
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Tour De France has been won three times by racers who led the general classification on the first stage and holding the lead all the way to Paris.
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The smallest margins between the winner and the second placed cyclists at the end of the Tour De France is 8 seconds between winner Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon in 1989.
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Tour De France was the fourth and most recent rider to win a stage by more than 20 minutes.
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L'Etape du Tour is an organised mass participation cyclosportive event that allows amateur cyclists to race over the same route as a Tour de France stage.
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