I saw that the Tour de France was on the other day. How does that work exactly?
The Tour de France is a multi-stage bicycle race across France! It also passes into other countries briefly.
Oh so that is why it was on every day. I thought the Tour de France was just a single race.
Tour de France
The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists of 21 day-long stages over the course of 23 days. It "is the world’s most prestigious and most difficult bicycle race".
The race was first organized in 1903 to increase sales for the newspaper "L'Auto" and is currently run by
too reminiscent of the shamed "L'Auto" and so was specifically banned.
Legacy.
Henri Desgrange was one of the few people in the world to have invented a sport: bicycle stage racing. Before him there had been cycle races that lasted more than one day but never a race composed of individual races adding up to a total. His achievement is not only to have created the Tour de France but that that achievement has been copied across the world in a multitude of other stage races from a weekend to a