Here are some facts, figures and information about the upcoming 95th edition of Le Tour de France starting tomorrow. MORE »
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This weekend the world’s toughest sporting event, the Tour de France gets underway and as always I will be as hooked as ever.
Drug scandals year-after-year has put a lot of people off but although I often threaten it, I cannot help coming back for more in the hope that a clean race will put the spotlight on the great things about the event and that will save the sport in the eyes of the passive on looker.
The race is quite unique this year. There is no prologue time-trial to get the event underway, there is just the two time-trials and the Tour will go up a mountain pass that will take it higher than it has ever been before. The race starts in Bregagne, circles France in an anti-clockwise direction, goes through two mountain ranges, only leaves France when it dips into Italy for a day, and as always finishes up in the heart of Paris.
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