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Blog - Tour de France 2011

  • Added: tuesday 26 January 2010 at 20:43:00

    The Grand Départ (start) of the 2011 Tour de France in the Vendée confirmed, without prologue

    The Grand Départ (start) of the 2011 Tour de France in the Vendée confirmed, without prologueAnnounced on paris.thover.com since January 2008 already and recently confirmed, the Grand Départ of the 2011 Tour de France from Vendée has officially been presented today.

    The department on the west coast of France will organise a first stage in line, a team time trial and the start of another stage in line.
    Let's discover the details of this Grand Départ ...

    The Grand Départ of the 2011 Tour de France and the stage cities of the first stages

    The Vendée (French department number 85), which is used to receive the navigators of the Vendée Globe every 4 years for their adventures on sea, receives the Grand Départ of the Tour de France every 6 years since 1993 and after 2005 this will thus again be the case in 2011.

    The three stages in the Vendée
    The Vendée will organise no less than 3 stages of the Tour de France 2011: a first stage in line, a team ...

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    this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2011
  • Added: tuesday 12 January 2010 at 00:54:00

    The Tour de France 2011 starts in the Vendée

    The Tour de France 2011 starts in the Vendée

    initially published on 13 January 2008 (!!) at 4.35PM, updated on 12 January 2010
    While 2008 has just started, the place where the Tour de France will start in 2011 seems to be known already ...

    Yesterday night, Philippe de Villiers, president of the Conseil Général de la Vendée announced at his new year's speech that the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2011 (the 98th) will take place in the French department Vendée.

    In the department building in La Roche-sur-Yon he emphasised the four days of cycling in the department, which would mean a Grand Départ similar to the one organised by the Brittany region for the Tour de France 2008, with even one day more and that on a surface of about one fifth of Brittany.
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    this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2011
  • Added: monday 18 August 2008 at 23:33:00

    Did the Tour de France and the UCI manage to find out how to continue together?

    Did the Tour de France and the UCI manage to find out how to continue together?As you probably know (since I explained the whole story here, here and here), the organisors of the grand tours (Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España) have been in a conflict with UCI since several years already (since the end of 2004) about the UCI ProTour.

    However, the conflict seems to come to an end soon since the UCI today presented its plan for the future of professional cycling with which the Tour de France organisor would have agreed ...

    As a reminder, the main reason for the conflict were the selection rules for the participation of teams (UCI: all ProTour are automatically allowed to participate, ASO: wanted to continue to manage the team selection itself) and finally also the -sometimes hidden- goal of the UCI to obtain the TV broadcasting rights ...

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    this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Olympic Games| UCI ProTour| Tour de France 2011