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The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. This Tour featured 180 riders from 30 countries on 20 cycling teams, starting in the principality of Monaco on 4 July and finishing on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 26 July. [1]
The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours.It started on 4 July in the principality of Monaco with a 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) individual time trial which included a section of the Circuit de Monaco.
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]
Alberto Contador Velasco (Spanish pronunciation: [alˈβeɾto kontaˈðoɾ βeˈlasko]; born 6 December 1982) is a Spanish former professional cyclist.He is one of the most successful riders of his era, winning the Tour de France twice (2007, 2009), the Giro d'Italia twice (2008, 2015), and the Vuelta a España three times (2008, 2012, 2014).
While acknowledging that the Tour de France is very male-dominated – there were no Women's Tours before 2022 – Tour director Christian Prudhomme has said that he is trying to bring women into the management of the Tour. For the 2009 Tour, he selected champion cyclist Claire Pedrono to ride pillion on a motorcycle ahead of the riders ...
2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21; B. Butterfly Trek Madone; C. Chasing Legends; L. List of teams and cyclists in the 2009 Tour de France This page ...
Chasing Legends is a documentary film covering the events of the 2009 Tour de France from the perspective of Team Columbia–HTC. [1] It premiered at the cinema in May 2010 in the US [2] and October 2010 in the UK. [3] Among the cyclists featured in the film are Mark Cavendish, George Hincapie and Erik Zabel.
8 July 2009 — Le Cap d'Agde to Perpignan, 197 km. The Tour visited Cap d'Agde for only the second time ever, as the early Tour flat stages continued. Perpignan, on the other hand, is a traditional city for the Tour to visit, thought to symbolically indicate the Tour's entrance to (or exit from, in "counter-clockwise" years) the Pyrenees.