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The Tour De France

The Tour De France is annual Cycle race taking a route around France

It is raced by Professional Cycle Teams each having a Sponsor.

The Tour De France is the Worlds largest Cycle Race and the Worlds

largest Televised Annual Sporting Event

The Race is very long and sometimes vias off into other neighbouring countrys

but the Race its self is a bicycle race around France. The Route is changed and planned each Year and the Race is 3 weeks long with a number of Rest Days for the Riders.

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It's a long - both in time and distance - bicycle race that's held - mainly in France - for
It is a multi-stage bicycle race that goes on for nearly 3 weeks mainly in the mountains between France, Italy and Spain.

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It's a multi-stage, road bicycle race.
Lots of English speaking folks just call it "The Tour" instead of Le Tour de France. It's the world's most famous cycling(bicycling) race in the format of a multi-stage road race spanning almost three weeks.

The Tour De France is the world's most popular Cycle race and is also the the most televised annual sporting event on earth. The Tour De France is raced annually over 20 stages around France over 3 Weeks. Each stage unless a time trial circuit is raced from one town in France to another. The Tour De France has been run annually for over 100 Years. The winner of the Tour will wear the coveted Yellow Jersey.

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βˆ™ 11y ago

The tour de farce is a 'stage' race

It is a Team Bicycle Race, made up of different stages. From Time Trials to the infamous Mountain Stages, to flat and rolling V long stages of over 200km. 3 weeks long with 2 rest days.

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It is the premier stage race for cyclists.

Also Its A race to see how good you are in a marathon

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Le tour de France basically means "the tour of France".

It's a long race that does cover a considerable part of France.

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βˆ™ 12y ago

Bike Race

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