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	Challenging bicycle tours in France & Spain including the Le Tour France, Alps, Mont Ventoux, Girona, and Pyrenees.
		OR, bicycle the French Grand Tour routes but at different times when the crowds are gone; we call it your own 'Personal Tour of France' guided tour.
		touring to the French Alps, Mont Ventoux, Girona, and the Pyrenees.
		Cycling Classics is a leader and specialist in Europe bicycle tours and we bring you to some of the classics rides: Alpe d'Huez, Galibier, Les Deux Alpes, Tourmalet, Luz Ardiden, and of course we couldn't forget the 'Giant of Provence' - Mont Ventoux!
	www.cyclingclassics.com (409 words)

	Cycling Hall of Fame.com
		The Italian rider was stood on the podium of a Grand Tour event.
		The Spanish rider stood on the podium of a Grand Tour event.
		The Spanish rider stood on the podium of one of the Grand Tour events on four occasions.
	www.cyclinghalloffame.com (828 words)

	France Grand Tour during the 2007 Tour of France includes challenging cycling tours in the Alpes and Pyrenees.
		France Grand Tour during the 2007 Tour of France includes challenging cycling tours in the Alpes and Pyrenees.
		The "French Grand Tour" known by other names now requiring a license to say*, is also known as the most physically challenging athletic competition in the world!
		This tour is sold out, but late add-ons are possible to join some other late add-ons at a nearby hotel.
	www.cyclingclassics.com /tourdefrance.php (320 words)

	Cycling: London to make £115m on Tour \| Cycling \| Guardian Unlimited Sport
		The mayor repeated that in his view the Tour will help to increase still further cycle use in the capital, which he said is already up 70% since 2000.
		Faced with the dilemma of how to deal with Landis's positive test - which is still to be resolved - the Tour organisers came up with a clever image, ending the video recap of this year's race that preceded the 2007 announcement with a still of the American which turned into a broken mirror.
		Cycling will not have won the fight against doping by next July, but at least there should be no repeat of the diversion from the route and the subsequent riders' strike that marred this year's dress rehearsal for the Kent stage in the Tour of Britain, if the mayor is to be believed.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /cycling/story/0,,1932703,00.html (464 words)

	Grand Tour (cycling) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most contested ones are the individual general classification (Maillot jaune (yellow jersey) in the Tour de France), king of the mountains classification (Polka dot jersey in the Tour de France), and points classification (Maillot vert in the Tour de France).
		Jacques Anquetil; France; 5 Tours (1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964), 2 Giros (1960, 1964), 1 Vuelta (1963).
		Eddy Merckx; Belgium; 5 Tours (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974), 5 Giros (1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974), 1 Vuelta (1973)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Tour_(cycling) (415 words)

	GRAND TOUR OF ICELAND TOUR
		GRAND TOUR OF quality tour including the most popular tourist attractions, as well as some less frequently visited sites, and combining culture and nature.
		After a sightseeing tour of Ísafjörður and surroundings, we thread the peaceful coast of Ísafjarðardjúp on to Dalir area to visit Eríksstaðir, the former home of Eirík the Red and the birthplace of Leifur Eiríksson who discovered America in the year 1000.
		The tour continues along nearly trafficless roads in Vestfirðir, the West Fjords, with a stop at the waterfall Dynjandi, passing the fishing villages Þingeyri and Flateyri before entering the new tunnel across Breiðadalsheiði to reach Ísafjörður for two nights stay at Hotel Isafjörður or similar.
	www.scantours.com /GRAND_TOUR_OF_ICELAND.htm (1532 words)

	Grand Cayman Helicopter Tour
		Tour hertzienne Sainte Foy la Grande - Tour hertzienne Sainte Foy la Grande is a 60 metre high TV tower built of reinforced concrete at Sainte Foy la Grande, Aquitaine, France.
		Grand Canyon Adventure Tour Las Vegas Grand Canyon Tour - Grand Canyon Adventure Tour History of the Grand Canyon area - The known history of the Grand Canyon area stretches back 10,500 years when the first evidence for human presence in the area started.
		Tour Operator Grand Canyon West Grand Canyon Tour - Tour Operator Grand Canyon Wahoo got too high speeds, the tail boom and is played rounds of Walker is in sponsoring the difficulty escaping the gutta-percha ball.
	www.wc-heli.com /grandcaymanhelicoptertour.html (1122 words)

	Tour de France Cycling Trips - Trip Concept - EuroCycler.com
		The French race is one of the three Grand Tours on the calendar of the UCI-Pro Tours.
		Of course, the most exciting aspect of EuroCycler's 2007 Tour Cycling packages is the chance to ride the same historic course as bicycling's top competitors.
		All locations were selected for their comfort and easy access to the Tour route in order to provide as much riding time-and no hotel possible in a given trip package.
	www.eurocycler.com /trips/tour-de-france/concept.asp (1554 words)

	Pro Cycling Tour
		Pro Cycling Tour is the country's leading cycling marketing and event management company.
		Based in the Philadelphia area the Pro Cycling Tour creates and manages a variety of cycling events and special programs for corporate sponsors, non-profit organizations and municipalities.
		As a sponsorship vehicle, PCT believes that cycling offers uncluttered advertising, communications, marketing and brand-building opportunities to corporations looking for a unique sports sponsorship forum.
	www.procyclingtour.com /about_us.cfm (343 words)

	CNN/SI - Tour de France '98
		Jan Ullrich of Germany the 1997 Tour de France champion and who finished second in the overall standings of this year's race behind Marco Pantani of Italy said that had been so upset by the drug scandal he had considered quitting the race.
		Following on the heels of the 1998 Tour de France which was rocked by drug scandals, tour director Jean-Marie Leblanc said in an interview published Tuesday that the tour organizers were planning a good conduct charter for the cycling classic.
		The Tour de France may be over, but the scandal which surrounded this year's race before it even started, continues to fester.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cycling/1998/tourdefrance (802 words)

	USPS Pro Cycling Team - Rider Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the Tour, where he finished 11th in 2000 and 14th in 1997, Beltran again rode strong on the climbs, providing expert support for Lance Armstrong.
		That same season, Beltran finished fourth in the Tour of Austurias, fifth at the Bicicleta Vasca and 10th at the Tour of Burgos.
		In 2001 with Mapei, Beltran placed third at Semana Catalana, sixth at the Tour of Burgos, eighth at the Tour of Switzerland, 11th at the Tour of Romandy.
	www.uspsprocycling.com /teamfile/04profile_beltran.htm (378 words)

	VeloAsia - Vietnam - Hanoi Cycling
		Daytrip cycling in rural Bach Ninh Province outside Hanoi, a scenic region where Buddhism arrived to the country.
		As tour manager Tuong points out, "the wealthy did not come from heaven, but the farmer here works harder than anywhere else." In other provinces, most fields are empty in the time between the second rice season and the first planting of the following year.
		Aside from the beautiful expanse of emerald green rice fields, life along the canals, this trips ends up at one of the most magnificent temples near Hanoi, Bu Thap Pagoda, which according to academics, was the first buddist center in Vietnam.
	www.veloasia.com /tours/vietnam/hanoi/index.html (280 words)

	Cycling Hall of Fame.com
		The Danish rider stood on the podium of one of the five monuments in cycling.
		The Belgian rider stood on the podium of one of the five monuments in cycling.
		The Italian rider won a Grand Tour event and the Points Jersey in the event the same year, stood on the podium of another Grand Tour event, won a one-day classic, and placed in the World Championship Road Race.
	www.cyclinghalloffame.com /index.asp (1045 words)

	Cycling Hall of Fame.com
		He won the Tour de France five times, the Giro d'Italia five times and the Vuelta a Espana once for a total of eleven Grand Tour victories.
		He is the only rider to win all of the classifications (overall, mountains and points jerseys) in a single year at the Tour de France (1969) and the Giro d’Italia (1968).
		He won his last Grand Tour in 1974 at the age of 29 and his last major classic in the spring of 1976, at the age of 30.
	www.cyclinghalloffame.com /riders/rider_bio.asp?rider_id=1 (568 words)

	BBC Sport Academy \| Other Sport \| Cycling \| The grand Tour
		The Tour de France is so special because it's the biggest race historically in cycling.
		It's the race you first follow in cycling and learn all the riders names and how it works.
		There aren't many races in cycling that get coverage around the world, so the Tour is a really big deal.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sportacademy/hi/sa/special_events/cycling/newsid_3031000/3031508.stm (251 words)

	Tour d Afrique (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In his memory Tour d'Afrique is establishing a fund simply called The Alfons Zehnder Fund.
		There was only one reason why Alfons Zehnder hesitated to register for the 2005 Tour d'Afrique: he would miss the winter, the winter in Switzerland and his extensive skiing tours in the Alps.
		He enjoyed the weeks he spent on the Tour d'Afrique, and he made a deep impression on the other participants and the crew of the tour.
	www.tourdafrique.com /alfonszehnder.htm (663 words)

	Tour de France - 2008
		Tour de France comprendra 21 étapes pour une distance d’environ 3 500 kilomètres.
		L’instant de la découverte du tracé du Tour est toujours un moment précieux pour les amoureux du vélo.
		Tour de France, nous savions déjà qu’il était bien né depuis l’annonce du Grand Départ en Bretagne, où les racines sont si fortes et la ferveur…
	www.letour.fr (171 words)

	Active.com - Inaugural BriarRose Grand Peloton (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This year, in conjunction with the Ford Tour de Georgia, a new concept, dubbed the Grand Peloton, has been devised to provide "the ride of a lifetime" for recreational cyclists as they travel the final 25-mile section of Stage 6 on the final day of the Tour, Sunday, April 23.
		To participate in The BriarRose Grand Peloton, each participant will be required to raise a minimum of $500, with an incentive program to reach higher levels, including recognition of the top five fundraisers during the Tour's official awards ceremony.
		Teaming with the Tour and the BriarRose Grand Peloton, we now have an opportunity for Georgians, and all race fans, to actively help our friends and neighbors who are battling cancer," said Bill Todd, president and CEO of the Georgia Cancer Coalition, which as been the official beneficiary of the Tour for four years.
	www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=12896&sidebar=21&category=cycling (795 words)

	France Grand Tour during the 2007 Tour of France includes challenging cycling tours in the Alpes and Pyrenees.
		France Grand Tour during the 2007 Tour of France includes challenging cycling tours in the Alpes and Pyrenees.
		The "French Grand Tour" known by other names now requiring a license to say*, is also known as the most physically challenging athletic competition in the world!
		Personal King of the Mountains Tour - this tour combines the Alpes, Ventoux, and the Pyrenees but we offer it at times between May and October apart from the July Pro Tour.
	www.pure-adventures.com /challenge-cycling-tours/july-french-grand-tour.php (327 words)

	BMC Grand Prix
		Now in its 3rd year, the BMC Software Tour of Arlington, July 8, will draw a top field of competitors for the second of four races within the BMC Software Cycling Grand Prix.
		The next race on the BMC Software Grand Prix schedule is the San Rafael Women's Criterium presented by BMC Software, September 8, and the San Francisco Grand Prix presented by BMC Software, September 9.
		The PCT is the nation's premier cycling series linking 15 of the top professional criteriums, road races and stage races from across the United States from March through October.
	www.bmc.com /cycling/0703_01_1.html (690 words)

	Tour of Quatar 2004: welcome on the official website
		For the third year running, it will be in Qatar that the cycling season will kick off for fifteen of the best cycling teams in the world.
		The first novelty is that the corniche of Doha will set the stage for a new race, the "Doha International Grand Prix" this week, a debut for some top-level cycling.
		Five stages however — and this is new — that will not always return to Doha, but on the contrary, that finish at some of the most remarkable tourist sites in the country.
	www.letour.com /stf/quatar/2004/us/infos.html (237 words)

	Commentary: Grand tours, L'Équipe have their heads in the sand
		A month ago in Paris, the organizers of the three grand tours made a very public statement by holding a press conference in which they said they were going to extract the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Vuelta a España and their eight ancillary races from the UCI ProTour system.
		In those few words, the world's most powerful pro teams - without which the grand tours would be degraded to sideshows - shot down what they see as the retrograde and divisive plans announced last month by Clerc and his associates.
		The newspaper has since treated the grand tours' "split" from the ProTour as a fait accompli, even though none of their plans can be accomplished without the teams and their riders.
	www.velonews.com /news/fea/9355.0.html (736 words)

	Grand Canyon National Park \| GORP
		The Grand Canyon has been touted as the Eighth Wonder of the World ever since John Wesley Powell braved the raging whitewater in its depths in 1869.
		It's inarguably the most overexposed icon of the American landscape—every year, 5 million people come to gawk into the abyss, and you have to wonder if the millions of rolls of film shot here through the generations might come close to filling the canyon from river to rim.
		Yet no matter how jaded you might feel after years of seeing postcards, snapshots, and IMAX movies of the Grand Canyon, or for having been stuck in the slow-moving traffic of a South Rim-bound caravan of RVs, the Big Ditch's power to move first-time visitors is inescapable.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_park/az_grand.htm (267 words)

	Tour de France 2005: welcome on the official website
		On the subject of anniversaries, the 2005 Tour de France cannot forget the tragic and magnificent events that took place ten years ago.
		Among our neighbouring countries so eager to welcome the Tour, and after Luxembourg in 2002 and Belgium in 2004, it is this year Germany's turn to host a start and a finish.
		And we assure you that conditions for the riders in terms of recuperation and comfort will be treated with the greatest consideration, as we know only too well that the quality of the competition depends upon this.
	www.letour.fr /2005/presentationus (476 words)

	Tour of Missouri
		The crowd’s cheers on the streets of St. Louis built to a crescendo as a police-estimated 60,000 course spectators witnessed Stage One winner Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) slide skillfully from the back of the charging peloton with less than 500 meters remaini...
		Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) finished the Tour of Missouri as he began it, crossing the finish line first, in a skillful display of sprinting that also earned him the Overall Edward Jones Sprint Points winner.
		American George Hincapie also made Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team’s last American ride a victorious one as he held onto a one-minute, 40-second advantage in the General Classification over the last five days and won the inaugural Tour of Missouri.
	www.tourofmissouri.com (484 words)

	Open Directory - Sports: Cycling: Racing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Active.com: Cycling - The Cycling section of the Active.com site offers searching and online registration for thousands of cycling races in the US and around the world.
		Cycling in Asturias - Everything about cycling in Asturias, Spain: professional races, routes, racers, profiles of the toughest climbs, and news.
		Daily Peloton - "Pro Cycling News" is Daily Peleton's subtitle, and it's backed up with fast-breaking reports from the Grand Tours and other important events on the UCI calendar.
	dmoz.org /Sports/Cycling/Racing (1106 words)

	Cycling Training Articles - Recovering from a Grand Tour
		Every bit as important as the workouts we choose and races we compete in, are the methods we use to recover from these hard efforts.
		Andrea: Normally you’re more tired after the Tour de France, it’s tougher mentally, so after 3 weeks you are both physically and mentally tired in the Tour because everyday you ride very hard, in the Giro sometimes the body gets stressed a little less.
		If you want to keep good form you’ve developed from the Tour, you can be very good for the 3 weeks after.
	www.athleticamps.com /cycling/coaching/id0017 (1021 words)

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