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...For fans of competitive cycling, the story of Tour de France-winner Greg LeMond will be a familiar one, a major part of the sport’s lore....
...Tour de France: pedaling a good story As the Tour de France sweeps into Paris for its traditional Champs Elysees finale this weekend, its organisers can raise a glass to a bumper year....
...Travel by train to Grenoble, then a bus or carpool (movici.auvergnerhonealpes.fr) for the hour-long drive to Alpe d’Huez, by way of 21 hairpin bends immortalised on the Tour de France....
...The week ends with the start of this year’s Tour de France....
...As supreme on high mountain passes as he was sprint finishes, Merckx won 525 races, including five Tours de France, five Giros d’Italia and 19 “monuments”, the sport’s most prestigious one-day events....
..., the Uefa Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid kicks off at the Stade de France....
...Many Parisians were raised on the belief that cycling was for holidays or the Tour de France, and impractical in cold weather — even though they do walk in winter, notes Stein van Oosteren, a Dutch immigrant...
...The women’s Tour de France revealed a new eight-stage route next year, seeking to raise the profile of women’s cycling which has long been in the shadow of men’s road racing....
...When I hear a rumour that four-times Tour de France champion Chris Froome will join the 3.30pm race, I land in the starting pen alongside almost 2,000 other people....
...Lance Armstrong has argued that, in the years he won seven Tour de France titles, most of the peloton was also on drugs. His actions, therefore, merely levelled the playing field....
...Team Ineos, the road cycling team funded by chemicals billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, announced that its team for the upcoming Tour de France will be led by Colombian rider Egan Bernal....
...Ineos also owns the Tour de France-winning cycling group formerly known as Team Sky; funds the UK’s America’s Cup sailing team led by Olympic sailing champion Ben Ainslie; owns Swiss football club Lausanne-Sport...
...These demonstrations of teamwork and selflessness stand in stark contrast to the years in which Lance Armstrong ruled the Tour with a brutality that would have made Tony Soprano proud....
...Lance Armstrong had won his third Tour de France and was living it up at his home on the French Riviera. But the authorities were on to him after used syringes had been spotted in his team’s bins....
...The significance of the Tour de France, first organised in 1903, goes much deeper than a national enthusiasm for the sport of cycling....
...Alpe d’Huez, France Cyclists train all year to tackle the mountains, and Alpe d’Huez is a magnet with the 21 gruelling hairpins of its famous Tour de France climb....
...pelotons and race around, full of Tour de France delusions, barking at anyone who gets in their way....
...In smart neighbourhoods, a clutch of new boutique hotels has sprouted up, including the seven-room Seku Bi, named after the parrots in the garden, and La Demeurea, a simple B&B above a café and design shop...
...“The scale of their achievements has been bewildering,” said cycling writer and ITV Tour de France commentator Ned Boulting....
...Lance Armstrong, the US cyclist who was stripped of seven Tour de France titles following revelations of persistent doping, said Sir Dave was endangering the safety of his riders by further enraging French...
...Next departures in September Tim Moore is the author of ‘French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France’ and ‘Gironimo!...
...Cycling was hurt by Lance Armstrong, the drug-taking Tour de France champion, and Team Sky’s mission became “winning clean”....
...enhancing drugs during his seven Tour de France victories....
...And Lance Armstrong won the seven Tour de France titles, fair and square....
...I rode in a bike race when I was 13, did a bit more, then did a bit more, and that progressed to Olympic champion, then the Tour de France....
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