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History Of The Tour De France

The first Tour de France was in 1903. Thetheir toes. In 1910 Desgrange added the
race originated because of a feud between 2Pyranees to the route, and the following
French newspapers - Le Velo and L'Auto-velo.year,  the  Alps.
A trademark hearing, that Le Velowon, over
the names of the papers started the row. TheThe famous yellow jersey worn by the winner
editor of the losing paper, which was forcedof the Tour was thought up by Desgrange in
to change its anme to L'Auto decided a race1919 when he decided the leader of the race
would create publicity and stop the papershould wear something distinctive - and
from losing readership. George Lefevrebecause his paper was printed on yellow
suggested a race over 6 days covering roadspaper, the jersey was to be yellow - the
and mountains. The Tour de France was born onmaillot  jaune.
19 January 1903 when 'The Greatest Cycling
Trial in the Entire World' was announced inThe distance of the race changes from year to
L'Auto - stretching over a month participantsyear depending on the course but most
would cycle from Paris to Lyon to Marseillesrecently it tends to stretch between 3500 and
to Toulouse to Bordeaux to Nantes and back to4000  kilometres.
Paris. The 20 franc entry fee was clearly off
putting at there were only 15 entrants forTo enter the race is strictly by invitation.
the 1903 Tour. The race was suspended andThere are 20 or so teams, each with 9 riders.
riders were incentivised with a 20,000 francThe  prize  money  is  now  over  $2 million.
prize fund. On July 19th the first ever Tour
was  underway  with  60  competitors.The first Tour was won by Maurice Garin. The
record for most wins of the tour goes to
Maurice Garin was the first ever winner ofAmerica Lance Armstrong with 7 successive
the Tour and was greeted in Paris by a crowdwins  between  1999  and  2005.
of 20,000 people. Circulation of L'Auto also
rose-  by  500%!!Last years winner was Floyd Landis, also of
the United States. Past winners have some
The basic formula of the Tour de France hasfrom all over the world. Noticeably, a
remained unchanged from the original raceBritish rider has yet to win the race - with
back in 1903. Interest has been kept alive bya Grand Depart in London in July 2007 for the
the route being altered from year to year,94th Tour de france - is this year our year?
keeping the course fresh and competitors on



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