The Tour De France, The Worlds Biggest Road Bike Race.
The Tour de France is the BIG one; its the World cup and the Olympics all in one. It has it all, the high mountains, the wind swept northern planes and the heat of the south. It also has the worlds media, all the top teams and riders and millions of cycling mad fans watching. The other Grand Tours of Italy and Spain are as exciting, sometimes more so, but they dont have the thing the Tour has, that unique Tour ness, that unique French ness.
How it started.
It all started in 1903, when the French daily paper, LAuto wanted to sell more than its competitor, Le Vlo, who at that time was the only paper reporting on cycle racing. It was suggested to the papers director, Henri Desgrange that they should organise a bike race all round France. The first race was 2,428 kilometres split into six stages and was run off at 25.29 kilometres per hour and out of the 60 starters 21 finished and the race was lead from start to finish by Maurice Garin.
The Heroes.
Over the years there has been a lot of heroes in the Tour de France, you could say all the riders are heroes, to win the race once is hard, but to...
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