The race runs from Compiegne, a suburb of Paris and travels north towards Belgium, ending in the City of Roubaix. 260 KM
The Paris-Roubaix is a one-day race. The 2014 edition was held on April 13.
Stuart O'Grady
No. the "big" event is male-only, by rule and definition. There is a Tour de France only for women, and most big cycling races, like Giro d'Italia, Paris-Roubaix etc. has womens versions aswell.
If you discount the Olympics and the World Cycling Championships, arguably the "biggest" is the 165 mile French race -Paris Roubaix- which occurs in April. It is raced on narrow roads and over centuries-old cobbles in often times terrible spring weather conditions (rain, wind). The winner must be lucky and a strong, determined survivor who can avoid crashes and be willing to race under the most difficult of conditions against the world's best.
Don't really know if it is, they're quite keen of football/soccer too.But France does host the Tour de France, a hugely popular three-week, multi-stage road bicycle race that is quite famous even internationally.There's another race called Paris-Roubaix, which also is rather well known.
with an accent on the e (pronounced pavee) it is the word used for coblestones in europe, and is synonomous with the Paris - Roubaix cycle race in France, as well as numerous other classics in Holland and Belgium ect.
The Tour de France traditionally ends in Paris after 3 weeks of racing about 3500km around alot of France's territory and even some border countries.
No! It's a one day race, totally different to the Tour de France. its one of the 5 one day monuments of cycling (the others being Milan - San Remo, Tour of Flanders, lLege - Bastogne - Liege and the tour of Lombardy). Its also one of the spring classics. These races favour totally different cyclists to the grand tours, to the extent that grand tour contenders may not race in the classics.
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Well theres the Tour de France, which just ended. The Giro d'Italia. The Dauphine Libere. Then there are one-day classics, like Paris-Roubaix. There are lots of great cycling races in the world. Hope this helps.