No
no, it takes part in different countries, but the majority of the tour is in France
No. You have to be a part of a team to be allowed to race in the Tour de France
Tour de France
Prisoners
the alps the pyranees and the cevennes
First condition in order to participate in Tour de France, you will have to be part of a Pro Tour team (UCI licensed) or a team that recives a wildcard invitation from the organisation. Second condition is that you must be selected as one of the 9 riders of the team. For De Hoog it will be necessary to be part of a Pro Tour team. Then there are chances to participate in Le Tour.
After the Polish campaign of 1939, the Germans attacked France, Netherlands and Belgium.
Because it's just such a traditional and really really tough race. For a cyclist, winning the Tour de France is bigger than winning a world championship or even the olympics.
'Lanterne Rouge'means 'red lamp'. Back in the days of steam trains and crude signal systems, the last car had a red lamp hanging off itin case the train should be caught up by another train. The last rider gets compared to the last part of a train basically.
Neither -- she was born an ethnic Pole, within the "Kingdom of Poland" (which was, at that time, part of the Russian Empire), had a Polish name, and spoke the Polish langauge until she moved to France. Her family suffered repeated legal and academic troubles due to their desire for Polish independence. She eventually became a French citizen, and (no surprise) France WANTS to claim her as "French." But she was clearly Polish.
The Alps and the Pyrenees are two mountain ranges that were part of the Tour De France in 2007