After two days in Shanghai rich in tourist and cultural discoveries, the riders flew to Saitama, Japan, which has hosted the Tour de France for 5 years now. A new guest straight from England was waiting for them – Mark Cavendish, the man with 30 victories at the Tour – […]
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Tour de France Shanghai Criterium: Froome-Emperor of Shanghai
Shanghai (China), Sunday, October 29, 2017 – Winner of La Vuelta, winner of the Tour de France, the season of Chris Froome is unparalleled. Yet, for the first time, he left the Champs Elysees without a stage victory. Everything came back to order in front of the Chinese Pavilion early […]
LE TOUR DE FRANCE SKODA SHANGHAI CRITERIUM
Tomorrow, the 24 riders will make the show and discover the route and atmosphere of the first edition of the Skoda Shanghai Critérium Tour de France. But in the meantime, the Tour champions were introduced to the ancient practice of Tai Chi before receiving the great honor of the Lion […]
Van Vleuten shows her class with victory at La Course
Dutch national time trial champion Annemiek van Vleuten has produced a spectacular performance for ORICA-SCOTT women to take victory atop the iconic Col d’Izoard at Le Course by Le Tour de France today, ensuring pole position for Saturday’s individual time trial in Marseille. A short 67.5kilometre opening day of racing […]
EBU BACKS TOUR DE FRANCE UNTIL 2023
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) are pleased to announce they have signed an agreement for the media rights to the 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 Tour de France. Besides the Tour de France, this new agreement encompasses Paris-Roubaix, Flèche Wallonne, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Paris-Nice, Critérium du Dauphiné, […]
Bianchi Cafe & Cycles Teams Up with Eurosport to Broadcast Tour de France
The Grande Boucle live commentary from Bianchi’s exclusive venue in Milan Following the successful Giro d’Italia experience, Bianchi Cafè & Cycles Milano and Eurosport renew their partnership in view of the Tour de France (starting on July 1st from Düsseldorf, Germany). After the maglia rosa, the Bianchi venue in Milano […]
Andre Greipel on Tour de France Start
André Greipel is about to start his seventh Tour de France. This time the Grand Départ takes place in Düsseldorf, in his home country. The German already won eleven Tour stages and he won at least one stage in twelve consecutive Grand Tours that he participated in, starting with the […]
Astana 2017 Tour de France Team
Astana Proteam is ready to start the famous Tour de France, which will be held from July 1st to 23rd in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Team’s line-up: Fabio Aru, Jakob Fuglsang, Dario Cataldo, Alexey Lutsenko, Dmitriy Gruzdev, Michael Valgren, Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev, Andriy Grivko and Andrey Zeits. Sports directors: Dmitriy […]
ORICA-SCOTT’s GC focus remains for Tour de France as nine-rider line up is confirmed
ORICA-SCOTT has today named the nine-rider team selected to race the Tour de France in support of the team’s Grand Tour general classification focus identified at the start of the year. The Australian outfit will support young climbers Simon Yates and Esteban Chaves at the three-week Tour, following their support […]
Inaugural Exposition: “Le Tour and Europe”
The 60 years of the Treaty of Rome could not escape the Tour de France. Since its first edition, the Grande Boucle has champions from Germany, Belgium, France and Italy, to which will be added Luxembourger, Dutch, British, Danish, Polish and many others … With this exhibition Along the Quai […]