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Tour de France 2012 Route (from the rumor mill)
Update: Oct 11. The Tour route was mistakenly posted on the TdF website yesterday, so I suppose all the guessing is over now. Here is a look at what the Tour (and Giro) will look like from John...
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2012 Tour de France Route
Here it is, the official 2012 Tour de France route, hot off the internet! To my untrained eye this Tour looks to be one for an all-rounder, like Cadel Evans again, dare I say. Two ITTs, equaling double...
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Pau to Luchon – The Meaning of Classic
Act II of next year’s Etape du Tour is from Pau to Luchon, in the Atlantic Pyrenees. From the very beginning of the announcement of the Tour de France route there’s been talk of this stage being...
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2013 Tour de France Route: Rumors Abound
No, not a typo – the first 5 stages for the 2013 Tour de France have been made public. Why the rush? I’m not sure, but I suppose it has to do with two connected facts: 2013 will be the … Continue...
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The House That Eddy Built
Well, not exactly ‘built’, but definitely ‘made’, as you you’ll see soon enough. __________________________ I have a race coming up in less than a week and I really should be training. Instead, Shoko...
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Stage 13 of the 2012 Tour de France: Where You Need to Be
The Tour, as usual, is flying through my home region of Languedoc, and if you blink you might miss it. For the most part, Languedoc is considered a transition area between the Alps and the Pyrenees and...
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Tour de France 2013 Rumors: Alpe d’Huez Arrivée
My rationale tells this couldn’t be true, but my hope for awesomeness overrides it. A rumor has just surfaced in France and Belgium, stating that next year’s TdF could FINISH on the 21 switchbacks of...
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2013 Tour de France Route
The 100th Grande Boucle will run from June 29th to July 21st, 2013. Here are some details from the TdF site: 7 flat stages 5 hilly stages 6 mountain stages with 4 summit finishes 2 individual time...
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The 2013 Tour de France in Languedoc
The following is a page from my other site, Cycling Languedoc, that I’ve just updated for this year’s Tour. We’ve got 3 stages this year, plus a massive Ventoux finish on our doorstep. Come one, come...
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Half an Afternoon in Provence
Keeping the tradition alive, Shoko and I drove over the river to see a stage of the Tour de France, which is flying through Languedoc at the moment. I’d had plans on parking in Maussane-les-Alpilles...
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