Any ideas as to where I can find some info on the tour de france, such as the history of it, any doping incidents there have been, the route and a french person who has completed it and is relatively famous? I need to know for my French Oral exams for AS....I'm doing the research myself, but any help and/or suggestions would be greatfully received!! Thanks :]
2006-10-19 06:15:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Cycling
Everybody else has given good sites to learn about the Tour's history, but I would say that Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil are the two most famous French riders. Hinault won 10 Grand Tours (second all-time) and Anquetil won 8 Grand Tours (3rd all-time). Both won 5 Tour de France races (second only to Lance Armstrong's 7 victories in that race).
2006-10-20 13:20:03 · answer #1 · answered by Ruun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most famous frenchman to ride in the Tour is definetly Raymond Poulidor, and he may also have the most unfortunate nickname of any Tour rider :'Poo-Poo'. If you watch film clips of old tours (of the amazing film of Pris-Roubaix "A Sunday In Hell") you'll here crows yelling 'Poo-Poo' every time he passes. I've just read J.P. Partland's new Tour guide,'Tour Fever' and it is truly excellent. It has plenty of info for people unfamiliar with the sport, as well aslists of just about every winner of every prize in the race. It's very informative and well written. Truthfully, I'm a bit burnt out on the whole Lance/USPS story, but 'Insside the Postal Bus' by Michael Barry is another great Tour book, as Barry was a rider on the USPS team, who was on the Tour but didn't race it, so he us a good observer. Plenty fo great French Tour slang exists, 'Lanterne Rouge', being my personal favorite. Bonne Chance!
2006-10-19 13:48:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tour-de-France has an excellent website in several languages, with historical information going back to 1903. Of course if you are studying french, je pense que tu doit le lire en francais ;-)
http://www.letour.fr/
I was in Pau to see the end of the mountain stage. Frenchman Cyril Dessel won. I am pretty sure Cyril finished the race in the top ten.
2006-10-19 13:33:01 · answer #3 · answered by Sionk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wikipedia
2006-10-20 22:26:59 · answer #4 · answered by dbqdawg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France
2006-10-19 13:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by BrockleyDave 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
www.versus.com
2006-10-19 13:19:44 · answer #6 · answered by Magick Kitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋