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L'Étape du Tour (French for 'stage of the Tour') is an organised mass participation cyclosportive event that allows amateur cyclists to race over the same route as a Tour de France stage. First held in 1993, and now organised by the ASO, in conjunction with Vélo Magazine , it takes place each July, normally on a Tour rest day.
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]
Pro cyclists racing the Tour de France or the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift put their bodies through a battle during every day, for three weeks straight (minus a couple of rest days). But ...
At more than 200km this is the longest stage of the 2023 Tour and, with the sizeable Jaizkibel climb (8.1km, 5.3% average gradient) shortly before the finish, this is even more tough on the legs ...
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.
Later in 2002, he won the first mountain stage in the Tour de Suisse [23] but several stages later he fell on a mountain descent and was taken to hospital after the stage. [24] Vino abandoned the race to prepare for the Tour but it was discovered two weeks later that he had a broken coccyx and could not ride the 2002 Tour de France. [25]
This is a list of records and statistics in the Tour de France, road cycling's premier competitive event. One rider has been King of the Mountains, won the combination classification, combativity award, the points competition, and the Tour in the same year - Eddy Merckx in 1969, which was also the first year he participated.
Every Tour de France only has one winner. But a cyclist that has won the Tour de France previously can enter the race again, and a cyclist not winning the race can win the race in a later year. In almost every Tour de France, there were multiple 'former or future' Tour de France-winners in the race. Only seven times, the Tour started without ...