Tour De France is such a fascinating competition to me, can you imagine being that high level to compete even?!
It would take a lot of work and dedication, for sure. I would love to go, just to bike through France and other countries.
Tour de France
There's actually 21 stages that occur in a little bit more than 3 weeks.
Me too, I just saw a documentary on netflix about French countryside homes and it's absolutely gorgeous over there.
It would be. The vegetation there is gorgeous. Also, the Tour de France has been happening ever since 1903. It only stopped for the 2 World Wars.
Do all of the competitions happen in succession or is there a break between them?
exception of the teams that the organizers invite. It has become "the world's biggest annual sporting event."
Traditionally, the race is held primarily in the month of July. While the route changes each year, the format of the race stays the same with the appearance of time trials, the passage through the mountain chains of the Pyrenees and the Alps, and the finish on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The modern editions of the Tour de France consist of 21 day-long segments (stages)
best sports article of the year and the Grand Prix of Sporting Literature in 1972 for his work on the Tour de France.
Jacques Anquetil said of the insight of Chany's journalism: "Don't ask me to tell you what happened during the race. There's someone more competent than I am to do that... Even I will wait until tomorrow's article by Pierre Chany in L'Équipe to find what I did, why and how I did it. What gives him authority is that he is competent, that he