Showing posts with label Tour de France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tour de France. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 November 2018

TOUR DE FRANCE 2019

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After ignoring the Tarentaise for what seemed like absolutely ages, the Tour de France returns this coming summer for the second year in a r...
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Thursday, 29 October 2015

PARADISE POSTPONED: No Tour in the Tarentaise (again)

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There are loads of good things about the 2016  Tour de France  route: The opening days in La Manche will be beautiful - weather permittin...
Sunday, 26 October 2014

NO TOUR FOR THE TARENTAISE: #TdF2015

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The Tour de France route  for 2015 has been announced. This blog is in an official strop, due to the continued absence of the Tarentaise. ...
Friday, 12 July 2013

MONT VENTOUX: Le Ski

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It may be seem unlikely as we watch the Tour huff and puff its way up the mountain in scorching temperatures, but there is skiing in them t...
Saturday, 29 June 2013

BIENVENUE DANS LE YORKSHIRE

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This time next year will see the Grand Depart from another fiercely independent-minded part of the world:  Yorkshire . Stage 1 sees...
Saturday, 1 June 2013

LE TOUR DE FRANCE IN THE TARENTAISE

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This year's Tour de France sees the peloton visit the Tarentaise briefly  en route from Bourg d'Oisans to the practically perfect  ...
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Saturday, 1 September 2012

LES ARCS AND THE SMALL SCREEN: 10 Videos

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Here, in no particular order, are ten videos all about Les Arcs and its environs. 1.  The Beginning of the End for Miguel Indurain Tour ...
Saturday, 14 July 2012

LE TOUR A TIGNES

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Tignes isn't really steeped in Tour history.  It's only been there once in fact, but the 2007 tour did stay on for a rest day when i...
Monday, 9 July 2012

LE TOUR A VAL D'ISERE

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Given its fame, it's perhaps surprising that the Manchester United  of skiing has only hosted two Tour arrivals, in 1963 (below) and in ...
Sunday, 1 July 2012

LE TOUR ET LA PLAGNE

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The famous La Plagne logo. More on the history of the resort (and the evolution of the logo)  here. La Plagne has a more illustrious T...
Saturday, 30 June 2012

TOUR DE FRANCE: Les Arcs 2009

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The Tour de France stage to Bourg St Maurice lacked the drama of the 1996 visit to Les Arcs (scene of Indurain's downfall - more  here ....
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Tuesday, 5 June 2012

TOUR DE FRANCE 1996: Les Arcs and The Beginning of The End for Miguel Indurain

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The 1996 Tour de France can hardly go down as the greatest in history, given that the winner Bjarne Riis admitted taking drugs during the to...