Tour de France
The Tour de France is a three-week long road race that covers a circuit of most areas around France, and sometimes, neighboring countries. It is the world’s best-known cycling race.
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A Tour lover for life
Eighteen years ago I fell in love with Le Tour, being introduced to it through my father’s colleagues who organized tour manager games. It seems a ludicrous undertaking: men cycling through France for three weeks, up mountains as high as 3 kilometres and through sun, rain and snow with speeds of well over 45 km/hour. But then, the heroic struggle of the Peloton, the team tactics for every stage and the fierce battles of the favourites made me a Tour lover for life. Every year my Tour de France fever creeps up in March, when the first of the great spring cycling races are on. From March it’s a long wait until the riders take to the road for the Prologue in July. From then on it’s all about France, mass sprints, Radio Tour de France, the Alps, time trials and the Maillot Jaune. Every day. For three weeks.
Jasper, United Kingdom - 20 July 2007
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The feeling was electric
Vive La Tour De France. You cannot imagine how great it feels to be speeding through the French Countryside leading a train of 40 - 60 bikes. All you can hear is the gentle whoosh of the wind in your spokes. Having ridden London to Paris twice, I had to go and see the tour pass through Dartford. The feeling was electric. Masses and masses of people lining the way. Car after car, support vehicles, gendarmerie, ambulances, more police bikes, all whizzing past for 10 minutes...then...silence... and the massive roar as the yellow jersey shoots past and up the hill...an uncomforable silence...then four in hot pursuit...then a great big silence only broken by the helicopter in the sky....and then the pack! What a tour! What a stage, and what a finish! Absolutely Brilliant!!!!
Kevin, United Kingdom - 09 July 2007