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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
    Slipstream

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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 km

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  • Oisin Oc
    Oisin Oc

    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!

    5 days ago
  • Ollie Ritchie
    Ollie Ritchie

    Astana will be strong but cervelo test team will fuck up as they have hayden rolleston and he's a kiwi!!! rep New Zeland!!!

    5 days ago
  • Pete Lilley
    Pete Lilley

    cadel hasnt got a good enough team arround him for the tour

    2 weeks ago
  • Dav Mac
    Dav Mac

    dont care what any1 says lance is useless shoudlnt of came back !! cadel and contador 1st and 2nd for the tour !!

    3 weeks ago
  • Megan Byers
    Megan Byers

    Lance is back :)

    Stuff Cadell Evans...

    4 weeks ago
  • BArnerzz
    BArnerzz

    lance armstrongs bak this year gunna win it agian

    9 weeks ago
  • The Postman
    The Postman

    1987 stephen treacy ireland :) gud site

    22 weeks ago
  • Elsa Greenlee

    supppp! :S how are you pimp out your profile with this site its sooocoool :P Just Copy and Paste this link in your browser cool-offerz.com byez

    47 weeks ago via Mobile
  • Alex Donnet
    Alex Donnet

    the only thing good about it is they all get on drugs befor it. rest is boring. i meen the shit ther pants

    48 weeks ago
  • T O M
    T O M

    HAHA
    i though Cadel Evans was a complete freak this tour!!!!
    the interviews were hilarious i reckon he was on drugs :S

    48 weeks ago
  • Optimus Lime
    luv Optimus Lime

    can someone take my poll?

    48 weeks ago