How To Use Tour de france In A Sentence
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Contador could face a two-year ban and disqualification from the 2010 Tour de France.
Contador says he won’t comment further on doping allegations
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He won the Tour de France last year.
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A keen cyclist is to live out his dream by riding across the finish line of the Tour de France.
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Hinault is the only rider ever to have finished either first or second in each Tour de France he finished.
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Then Al Trautwig, commentating on the Tour de France, said "The greatest dishonor is to literally have the maillot jaune ripped from your body, which is what happened to Michael Rasmussen yesterday.
When good kids show bad judgment
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A consultant with France Television, he commentated on the Tour de France in 2009 and 2010 despite the treatment he was receiving.
Two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon dead at 50
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The Australian had a superb build-up to last year's Tour de France and lived up to that billing with a stunning outing.
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Who would bet against him adding Olympic gold to his Tour de France crown.
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A big-hearted woman with ruthless determination, she has adopted a young boy called Champion who has grown into a potential Tour de France cycling champion.
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A Pearl Izumi spokesman has revealed a few more details about the skinsuit used by Garmin-Transistion at the Tour de France and other races this year.
Pearl Izumi talks about Garmin’s new skinsuits: ‘It’s really not that radical’
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RIDING BY: Competitors rode past windmills during the 95. 4-mile ride fourth stage of the Tour de France between Cambrai and Reims, France, Wednesday.
Pictures of the Day: July 7
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This is a Tour de France type of drug, this is endurance marathoners, 3,000 metres steeplechase runners type of drug.
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In an era where ESPN's greatest threat is a death by a thousand cuts from emerging specialized channels — NFL Network, MLB Network, Big Ten Network — Versus seems like a cut-rate generalist whose top properties — NHL and Tour de France — aren't a claim to fame.
A Comcast takeover could bring more tools, questions to NBC Sports
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Sastre, the defending Tour de France winner, finished in 4 hours, 33 minutes, 23 seconds over the 102-mile leg, which began in Avellino.
Armstrong unhurt after fall; Menchov retains Giro lead
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In today's photos, an anhinga goes fishing in Florida, musicians dangle from the air at Tour de France festivities, New York Gov.
Pictures of the Day: July 1
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Like most Tour de France books, this one has terrific photos: close-ups of cyclists slogging their way up steep hills, or more picturesque shots of the peloton winding its way through mountain ranges.
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Finally, a hearty congratulations to Sligo cyclist Mark Scanlon on his wonderful performance in the greatest of all cycle races - the Tour de France.
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Cavendish, a sprint specialist dubbed the Manx Missile, said: "I'm coming into the event off the back of a fantastic Tour de France - the British fans out there were brilliant and their support really helped to spur me on, but you can't beat the support of a home crowd and I'm hoping the fans will turn out at the test event to support me and the team.
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We basically rode him into that fourth place finish in the Tour de France.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's barely visible at a party to mark the end of the 2009 Tour de France, and yet there is something fascinating about the mindset of a sportsman who puts himself again and again through punishing challenges without any ambition to win, and Bathurst coaxes him rewardingly out of his anonymity.
The Bicycle Book by Bella Bathurst – review
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The peloton cycles past a windmill during the fourth stage of the Tour de France Wednesday between Cambrai and Reims in France.
Another Late Sprint Earns Petacchi Stage Win
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The Tour de France founder Henri Desgrange wrote a training book in 1894 (reissued in 1930), titled “La Tête et les Jambes,” in which he made the case that a complete cyclist is one who uses his head (tête) to decide when to make a decisive move in a race and then uses his legs (jambes) to go for victory.
The battle over two-way radios about to explode
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This blithely idiosyncratic, almost dialogue-free animated film concerns an old lady's quest to recover her grandson after he is mysteriously kidnapped during the Tour de France.
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The bicycle chain of Euskatel Euskadi rider Samuel Sanchez of Spain is seen the start of the 15th stage of the Tour de France 2011 cycling race from Limoux to Montpellier July 17, 2011.
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Armstrong said he just doesn't know if it's smart to compete against cyclists who will be coming off the Tour de France in tiptop shape.
Lance Armstrong, Bill Ritter, Announce Colorado's Return To Elite Cycling With 'Quiznos Pro Challenge'
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He cycled more than 2,000 miles following the route of the world-famous Tour de France on his own for six weeks in the blistering heat of French summer.
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“The Padova prosecutor invited M. Petacchi on July 12 (and not before the start of the Tour de France as has been claimed in error) to appear at a hearing after the Tour de France to answer questions which are related, and not to the current season,” said Angelini.
Petacchi being investigated in Italy for pre-Tour doping
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In a 1994 book, Inside the Tour de France, Walsh included a sympathetic portrait of a young phenom from Texas named Lance Armstrong.
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LIMOGES, France (AP) Alberto Contador is playing down tensions between him and Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France, but the issue over the lack of leadership within Astana's team will continue so long as the two former champions are fighting for the yellow jersey.
Contador plays down tensions with Armstrong
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I believe that the tiny Tour de France winner Jean Robic - almost sixty years ago, mind - used to take bidons of lead on descents to weigh him down.
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The cycling great, who just won his seventh straight Tour de France, says that's simply not true.
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While he seems to have lost the sharpness he had early on in his career, hopefully Bodrogi can hold his good form for the Tour de France and, more precisely, the race prologue.
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Richard Moore writes that nobody is quite sure who first started calling Hinault "Le Blaireau" "the Badger", but the name stuck to the man who would go on to win the Tour de France five times because, as an old team mate put it, "It suited him.
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The cycling authorities were still congratulating themselves on being ahead in the war against the cheats when the Tour de France was shown to be nothing more than a travelling medicine show.
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Six-time defending champ Lance Armstrong held on to the overall lead, cruising to a safe finish in the fifth stage of the Tour de France.
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As we went to press, his odds had shortened to 25-1 to win the Tour de France.
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Landis finished first at the 2006 Tour de France but had the title stripped after he was found to have had abnormally high levels of testosterone in his system.
The Money Times
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Miguel Indurain, Tour de France legend, had a huge advantage over his competitors.
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Natalya Estemirova's heirs: The women who risk all to expose Chechnya's horrors Tour de France 2009: police hunt gunman as Oscar Freire and Julian Dean are shot at
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He was the indomitable cancer fighter and cancer beater who finished first in the Tour de France a record seven times.
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Lance Armstrong trained to win a record-breaking seventh Tour de France by cycling up and down mountains in the Canary Islands.
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There are the cool dudes flashing along the byways as if they were racing in the Tour de France.
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ROTTERDAM: Just hours before the Tour de France began in Rotterdam last night, the three-week race was rocked with more controversy involving seven-time champion Lance Armstrong
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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The riders staged a go-slow in protest after that event and something similar happened after a spate of crashes on a descent in the Ardennes during the 2010 Tour de France.
Death of a cyclist – the tale of a tour and everyday risk
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NEW YORK If Lance Armstrong finishes in the pack during a cyclo-cross race sometime this winter — or even at Australia's Tour Down Under in January — the seven-time Tour de France winner won't mind.
Armstrong puts humanitarian concerns above racing legacy
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Visit Bastide d'Armagnac (labastide-darmagnac.net) with its enchanting square colonnaded central place; Notre-Dame des Cyclistes (notredamedescyclistes.net), a tiny 11th-century chapel where Tour de France competitors come to pray; the exquisite hamlet of Larressingle (and taste its equally exquisite armagnac – tinyurl.com/6z7yo22); the food market of Eauze and buy foie gras, croustade and armagnac direct from artisan producers. (tourisme-gers.com).
Budget wine trips in France
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He grabbed the highly prized green jersey as the fastest sprinter in the Tour de France in the summer.
The Sun
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His reemergence is a major boost for Astana as it tries to lead Alberto Contador to his third Tour de France title in July.
Statesman.com - Highschool
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BOULDER, Colorado VN - The maillot jaune of the Tour de France will feature on the roads of Colorado next month when Cadel Evans starts the USA Pro Cycling Challenge.
Cadel Evans confirmed for Colorado stage race
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We basically rode him into that fourth place finish in the Tour de France.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the day began inauspiciously and got worse before a solid finish by Armstrong, who might have been rethinking his comeback during five frigid hours in the rain — if he hadn't already endured much tougher struggles with cancer and doping allegations during a historic racing career that includes seven Tour de France titles.
Armstrong endures rainy, rocky day in Tour of California
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His reemergence is a major boost for Astana as it tries to lead Contador to his third Tour de France title in July.
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A five-time Tour de France winner, Hinault is the last Frenchman to win in 1985.
Voeckler wins stage; no changes in overall standings
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Lance Armstrong sent that unmistakable message to his rivals this evening in the prologue to the 101st Tour de France.
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Or could the chap who nabbed the Tour de France title overtake them both?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Samuel Sanchez (ESP) As Olympic road race champion, Sanchez knows all about coming out on top in races of attrition, and the Spanish all-rounder, who excels on hilly courses, comes into the race having finished a career-best fourth overall on the Tour de France.
Favorites for Sunday’s world road race championships
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There are the cool dudes flashing along the byways as if they were racing in the Tour de France.
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Erik Zabel refused to be downhearted after being outsprinted for the third successive stage of the Tour de France.
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He's in the mould of Robert Millar [Scotland's 1984 Tour de France King of the Mountains] as his ability is very specific.
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The mountain is one of the hardest climbs of the Tour de France.
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Tour de France rider had called "fatally dangerous," Voeckler, a Frenchman who leads the Tour standings with only four days to go, nearly crashed out of the race.
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The Italian title was won by Paolo Bettini, who proved his Tour de France credentials by outsprinting his national rivals.
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ROTTERDAM: Just hours before the Tour de France began in Rotterdam last ...
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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Its almost time for the Tour de France and this type of bike racing is famous for drug abuse.
Tingilinde:
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The rider from the Netherlands is still in the lead as the Tour de France enters its closing stage today.
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Cyclist Lance Armstrong, en route to a fourth Tour de France victory, shrugs off accusations that he takes drugs
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The track pursuit specialist ultimately wants two more Olympic gold medals but has also been tipped to star in Tour de France time trials.
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BARCELONA, Spain - The seventh stage of the Tour de France between Barcelona and the Andorran ski resort of Arcalis has started, with Lance Armstrong facing his first big test in the mountains.
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Cyclist Floyd Landis, who won the Tour de France in 2006 only to lose his title amidst doping charges, which at the time he denied, has now decided to cop to them.
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Hincapie (High Road) of Greenville, S.C., the former U.S. National road titlist who was a teammate of Lance Armstrong in each of his seven Tour de France titles, won Sunday's 93. 4-mile road race from Santa Clarita to Pasadena in 3: 50: 57.
Leipheimer wins Tour of California; Hincapie takes final stage
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Jean Robic, though, was a journeyman cyclist but showed great courage in making his dash for glory in the Tour de France of 1947.
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LAWRENCE: The Tour de France no longer considers Floyd Landis its champion, but the decision to strip him of its title ultimately will rest with the International Cycling Union -- Soledad.
CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2006
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The Tour de France is the biggest race in the cycling calendar.
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The seven times Tour de France champion was requested, while training in France, to provide urine, blood and hair samples to a tester from the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD).
Timesofmalta.com
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So far in the Armstrong case, former teammates, a chiropractor, a sports physiologist, and Tour de France champion Greg LeMond are among those who have received subpoenas.
Jonathan Littman: Lance Armstrong Witnesses on Hot Seat
