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- The Tour de France is the world's best-known cycling race, a three week long road race that covers a 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 in order to decide the outright winner at the end of the Tour.
Together with the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) and Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), the Tour de France is one of the three major stage races and the longest of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) calendar at three weeks each. While the other two European Grand Tours are well-known in Europe, they are relatively unknown outside the continent, and even the UCI World Cycling Championship is familiar only to cycling enthusiasts. The Tour de France, in contrast, has long been a household sporting name around the globe, known even to those not generally interested in cycling.
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2008 Tour De France Teams Have Been Named..
The 20 teams for the 2008 Tour de France have been named by the organiser, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO).
There has been no reprieve for Astana, which ASO said would not be welcome at any of its races.
Slipstream and Barloworld make the cut but there's no room for Dutch squad Skil-Shimano, which impressed at Paris-Nice last week.
FRANCE
Agritubel
Ag2r-La Mondiale
Bouygues Telecom
Cofidis
Crédit Agricole
Française des Jeux
BELGIUM
Quick Step
Silence-Lotto
DENMARK
CSC
GERMANY
Gerolsteiner
Milram
GREAT BRITAIN
Barloworld
ITALY
Lampre
Liquigas
NETHERLANDS
Rabobank
SPAIN
Caisse d'Epargne
Euskaltel-Euskadi
Saunier Duval
USA
Team High Road
Slipstream0 Comments 104 weeks
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2008 Tour Stages..
The 2008 stages
The route
Running from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2008, the 95th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,500 kilometres.
These 21 stages have the following profiles:
* 10 flat stages,
* 5 mountain stages,
* 4 medium mountain stages,
* 2 individual time-trial stages.
Distinctive aspects of the race
* 4 mountain finishes,
* 2 rest days,
* 82 kilometres of individual time-trials,
* 19 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed.
10 new stop-over towns
Auray, Aigurande, Brioude, Prato Nevoso (Italy), Cuneo (Italy), Jausiers, Embrun, Roanne, Cérilly, Étampes.
The Stages
1 Saturday 5 July BrestPlumelec 195 km
2 Sunday 6 July AuraySaint-Brieuc 165 km
3 Monday 7 July Saint-MaloNantes 195 km
4 Tuesday 8 July CholetCholet 29 km
5 Wednesday 9 July CholetChâteauroux 230 km
6 Thursday 10 July AigurandeSuper-Besse Sancy 195 km
7 Friday 11 July BrioudeAurillac 158 km
8 Saturday 12 July FigeacToulouse 174 km
9 Sunday 13 July ToulouseBagnères-de-Bigorre 222 km
10 Monday 14 July PauHautacam 154 km
R Tuesday 15 July Pau
11 Wednesday 16 July LannemezanFoix 166 km
12 Thursday 17 July LavelanetNarbonne 168 km
13 Friday 18 July NarbonneNîmes 182 km
14 Saturday 19 July NîmesDigne-les-Bains 182 km
15 Sunday 20 July Digne-les-BainsPrato Nevoso 216 km
R Monday 21 July Cuneo
16 Tuesday 22 July CuneoJausiers 157 km
17 Wednesday 23 July EmbrunL'Alpe-d'Huez 210 km
18 Thursday 24 July Bourg-d'OisansSaint-Étienne 197 km
19 Friday 25 July RoanneMontluçon 163 km
20 Saturday 26 July CérillySaint-Amand-Montrond 53 km
21 Sunday 27 July ÉtampesParis Champs-Élysées 143 km0 Comments 110 weeks
got a 3000pound road bike for xmas joined a club going to spain for race at weekend tour de france roxs
klaus ur rite!
message to Robert Jer
cycling isent ass easy as it looks you know
contador is king
My dad and i watch the tour de france every year
and i like lance armstrong
i love the le tour de france it is the best thing ever so i am getting a bike and am going to practice need to get the money for a bike tho
those shleck brothers or how eva
you spell it are doing
brilliant imo
the worst event in the history of sport.
Bradley Wiggins Is doing great i hope Lance doesnt get on the podium hes and arrogant wanker ,
After Contador attack yesterday and dropped Kloden, Lance has something against him
Thor Hushovd Is an Arse too.
Cavendish to win in Paris
Tour de france cnt wait til i leave school im doing it
LANCE ARMSTRONG ALL THE WAY
Mark cavendish was in shoc after todays result
Lance showed us that he is getting stronger as the days go by in the Giro and now hes only getting stronger and hes 2nd in the tour after 3 n a bit years out off top end cycling like dats impressive...good performance from contador and Lance in the team time trial
Astana are not going to be beaten...they are just too stron with three potential winners....lance, contador and kloden.....seems to me lance will be on the podium in paris if he is at his best, but contador will also want to win. will be interesting seeing who ends up working for who!!!
IMO lance is doing this for all the right reasons, critics should shut up about doping and EPO. I hope he wins for all suffering from cancer!
cadel hasnt got a good enough team arround him for the tour
dont care what any1 says lance is useless shoudlnt of came back !! cadel and contador 1st and 2nd for the tour !!
Lance is back
Stuff Cadell Evans...
lance armstrongs bak this year gunna win it agian