At the turn of each decade, the Tour de France has gone through organisational changes and backstage struggles that have variously turned out to be decisive or utterly inconsequential. The journey back in time proposed by letour.fr continues in 1950, marked by the collective departure of the Italian riders after […]
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LA COURSE BY LE TOUR DE FRANCE 2020 with FDJ : LADIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Key points: Ø The 7th edition of La Course by Le Tour de France avec FDJ will take place next month on a 96-kilometre course with the start and finish in Nice, for the first time before the Tour de France riders head into action. Ø While the sprinters cannot […]
The Tour to the power of 10 – 1930: The Tour revolutionizes (3/10)
At the turn of each decade, the Tour de France has gone through organisational changes and backstage struggles that have variously turned out to be decisive or utterly inconsequential. The journey back in time proposed by letour.fr continues in 1930, the year of a major revolution when, Tour boss and […]
VIRTUAL TOUR DE FRANCE DAL-CIN AND ERATH MAKE THE MOST OF THEIR ZWIFT ABILITIES
July 11 th 2020 Matteo Dal-Cin (Rally Cycling), a true Zwift enthusiast, has won stage 3 of the Virtual Tour de France as he outsprinted Jake Stewart (Groupama-FDJ) on Saturday. NTT Pro Cycling Team maintain the overall lead thanks to Ryan Gibbons (5th) and Rasmus Tiller (6th). Earlier in the […]
1920: “sportsmen” according to Desgrange (2/10)
The Tour to the power of 10 1920 TdF peloton At the turn of each decade, the Tour de France has gone through organisational changes and backstage struggles that have variously turned out to be decisive or utterly inconsequential. The journey back in time proposed by letour.fr continues in 1920, […]
The Tour to the power of 10:1910: Alphonse Steinès’s great deception (1/10)
The Tour to the power of 10 At the turn of each decade, the Tour de France has gone through organisational changes and backstage struggles that have variously turned out to be decisive or utterly inconsequential. Our journey back in time begins in 1910 with journalist-organiser Alphonse Steinès, who was […]
BAHRAIN McLAREN READY FOR THE VIRTUAL TOUR DE FRANCE
Thursday, 2nd July 2020 – The Covid-19 pandemic brought many challenges to our lives but also many innovative solutions. One of those is also digital editions of classic races that were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Our team fully supports such great initiatives and is delighted to join many […]
A.S.O.’s UCI WORLD TOUR CALENDAR 2020
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has announced the dates of its new calendar following the postponement of numerous cycling races and events. With regards to A.S.O.’s UCI World Tour events, return to play will begin with the Critérium du Dauphiné from the 12th to the 16th August, over 5 days […]
New 2020 Cycling Calendar Unveiled
Wednesday 15 April 2020 Tour de France to take place from August to September, followed by the World Championships, the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España, Monuments rescheduled as well. After weeks of uncertainty generated by the coronavirus pandemic that led to hundreds of races being cancelled or postponed, […]
The 2020 Tour de France has Officially Been Rescheduled
April 15 th 2020 Following the President’s address on Monday evening, where large-scale events were banned in France until mid-July as a part of the fight against the spread of COVID-19, the organisers of the Tour de France, in agreement with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), have decided to postpone […]