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Description: Sports: Cycling / The Tour de France is the world's best-known cycling race, a three-week long road race that covers a ... more
Tour de France in General ... circuit of most areas around France and, sometimes, neighbouring countries. The race is broken into stages from one town to another, each of which is an individual race. The time taken by cyclists to complete each stage becomes a cumulative total to decide the outright winner at the end of the Tour. Winners: Lance Amstrong, Miguel Indurain, Greg LeMond, Jan Ullrich, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Marco Pantani, Bjarne Riis, Stephen Roche...

Newest Review: ... aspire to emulate them in some way. I am a big fan of the Tour de France and I have learnt a lot about Lance Armstrong and his battle with cancer. The way that he has bounced back and dominated the cycling world for the last 6 years or so, is amazing. I certainly admire him, but I’m not sure if he is an inspiration to myself personally. 10. What's your middle name? I actually have two ... more

 ... middle names, lucky me! One of them is particularly embarrassing and I don’t really like to share it. They way I look at it is, that my three names are all the names of British Kings/monarchs from some point in history. There aren’t a lot of other people ...more

thespurs
Premium Review Tour de France in General: Come in and find out... (2733 words)
by thespurs - written on 14.04.05 (Very useful, 167 readings)
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Made you look! Personally, I don't think that there is as much of a community spirit and general interaction between members as there should be. Therefore, I am going to publish a review that will tell people a little more about myself and perhaps prompt others to do the same. I will answer various questions, as set out in the review. I hope that you find this of interest and perhaps an inspiration to make you write about yourself a little. 1. What time do you wake up in the morning? I have two different wake up times for the weekdays. The ‘early’ time, when I have to be at school for lesson one, sees me wake up at ...

Hudson
Premium Review Tour de Force (249 words)
by Hudson - written on 22.11.00 (Useful, 8 readings)
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I have been a keen follower of the Tour de France for a number of years now and it never fails to amaze me just how the riders do it. They spend up to 6 hours in the saddle each day for three weeks and only get a couple of rest days. The cyclists really are the most physically and mentally strong people in sport. It is true that many drop out mid-way throught the tour but at least 2/3 of the original field finish in Paris at the end of the tour. This is a remarkable achievement given the distances and terrain involved. The mountain stages are the ultimate test for most riders and this is where the time gaps start to appear. In this years tour we saw how Lance ...

Tour de France in General: lance tha man (241 words)
by - written on 28.07.00
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well folks he's done it again. the great lance armstrong has won the tour de france. let me explain why i knew lance armstrong would win the tour de france and why he's in the minds of all bikers now. he won the tour de france last year while he had CANCER and now he's back without it, and you expect him to loose? so maybe tons of people thought he'd win it again. well i'll be the first to say, that i believe he won't next year. all the racers are psyched out that he won it again and now they're gonna try harder and harder. which makes things harder for Lance. i believe though that not next year, but the year after that he'll win ...

 
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