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	www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis
		Ventoux isn't the steepest French mountain either - its maximum gradient is 11 percent, while, for example, the little-lauded Col de Soudet, scene of the attack that gave Tyler Hamilton victory on stage 16 of the 2003 Tour, has pitches of 15 percent.
		What gives Ventoux its reputation is the combination of the dense, often still and stinking-hot forest at its base; the bare, sun-baked rock of the summit; and the sheer unrelenting character of the ascent.
		Ventoux probably gets its name from the Mistral winds that regularly sweep across its summit and that have been claimed to reach speeds of 230 km/h.
	www.cyclingnews.com /features?id=2004/ventoux (1148 words)

	ESPN.com - MORESPORTS/TDF00 - Armstrong conquers Mont Ventoux
		The summit of Mont Ventoux was obscured in clouds and high winds on Tuesday and Wednesday, prompting race officials to relocate the press center from the summit to Carpentras near the startline.
		Armstrong landed on the moon-like 6,299-foot summit of Mont Ventoux with panache in Thursday's 92-mile stage, proving not only he is a champion for the ages, but also a gentleman.
		MONT VENTOUX, France -- Lance Armstrong delivered another deadly blow to his rivals in the 2000 Tour de France on Wednesday afternoon.
	espn.go.com /moresports/tdf00/s/2000/0713/631433.html (1097 words)

	Mas Mont Ventoux in Vaison la Romaine, offered by Just France Vacation Rentals
		Mas Mont Ventoux's location in the old part of Vaison-la-Romaine, on a hillside rising from the south bank of the Ouvèze, is ideal in that it is within moments of Vaison yet removed from the busy commercial life of the town.
		Mas Mont Ventoux has a good central heating system, and with its huge living room fireplace and comfortable furnishings is as cozy and warm in the winter as it is breezy and bright in the summer.
		The mas is named after majestic Mont Ventoux, which lies about a half-hour to the east and, at 1,909m (6,263 ft.), is the high peak in the Vaucluse.
	www.justfrance.com /properties/ventoux.html (1162 words)

	VeloNews: 2002 Tour de France Special Coverage
		Mont Ventoux inspires fear, even on its descent, when a rider can struggle against the raging winds for which it is named.
		Bobet again won the Ventoux stage in 1955, the year he scored his third Tour victory and the year that the first human dramas erupted on the south face of the Ventoux.
		The Ventoux finish was the start of an open conflict between the two champions, as the Italian did not accept Armstrong's gratuitous gesture.
	www.velonews.com /race/tour2002/articles/2509.0.html (1546 words)

	Mont Ventoux - ProvenceBeyond
		The Mont Ventoux is a 1910-m high conical peak that's visible from far across the surrounding countryside.
		The Mont Ventoux is only the highest part of a mountain range running from the village of Montbrun-les-Bains in the east to Malaucène in the west.
		The D164 road from Sault to the top of Mont Ventoux is 26 km: 20 km to the Chalet Reynard ski station and the 6 km to the peak.
	www.beyond.fr /sites/ventoux.html (461 words)

	Grenoble Cycling Pages - The Mont Ventoux
		Probably the second most famous climb in the world after the Alpe d'Huez, the Mont Ventoux is a magnet for cyclists throughout the summer.
		From the Mont Ventoux, there is an incredible panorama with views in every direction.
		The view from one of the many vineyards underneath the Mont Ventoux.
	www.grenoblecycling.com /MontVentoux.htm (365 words)

	ESPN.com - Armstrong picking off rivals one by one
		("Mont Ventoux is like the moon with a nipple on top." "The Tour de France is the Disneyland of cycling, but without Mickey," were among Williams' samplings).
		On Sunday, Armstrong finished third behind French racer Richard Virenque on the legendary climb at Mont Ventoux and is now 0-for-5 on that particular mountain since his dramatic comeback from cancer in 1999.
		Armstrong's record pace up Mont Ventoux is 53 seconds faster than the mark set in 2000 by troubled Italian star Marco Pantani, who is not racing in this year's Tour.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1408601&type=story (1287 words)

	Mont Ventoux, general information.
		On the north side of the Mont Ventoux we have a steep flank descending to the river Toulourenc.
		The Mont Ventoux is located in the south of France, in the north of the region called the Provence.
		The Mont Ventoux is cornered in by a couple of small towns and villages.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Rapids/3892/where.htm (683 words)

	Mont Ventoux
		Namely just this Mont Ventoux, the "king of the Provence", during clear days already visible from the far distance (picture 1 shows it at a not really clear day from no far distance, nevertheless, imposingly), because its almost 2,000m rise almost directly from the plain of the Provence.
		Instead of this two pictures of the Mont Ventoux, seen from Sault: Picture 28 in the morning, picture 29 in the evening.
		Malaucène is a small provencal city with with an idyllic, narrow center (picture 20) and a military church from the 14th century.
	www.montivagus.de /e_fpven.html (1187 words)

	My ride up Mont Ventoux
		In the valleys around Mont Ventoux, the wind was howling at around 70 kph (40 mph).
		I knew that Mont Ventoux was not far from where I going.
		Ventoux is known for having high winds at the top and I knew this would be the case.
	www.hendersonzone.net /bill/europe/ventoux (1330 words)

	Mont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		a French word for mount or mountain, as in Mont Blanc, Mont Ventoux
		Mont is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mont (110 words)

	Peakware - Mont Ventoux
		Please go to the new Mont Ventoux page, or wait 10 seconds for us to take you there automatically.
	www.peakware.com /encyclopedia/peaks/addapeak1329.htm (19 words)

	Bienvenue sur le site officiel de l'office de tourisme de la région de Sault
		In 1990 the title MAB ("Man and Biosphere") was granted to le Mont Ventoux by UNESCO in recognition of the mountain's natural and cultural riches, and for their protection..
		Le Mont Ventoux, the Luberon ridge and the Monts de Vaucluse were at that time islands protruding from the Rhone sea.
		The ways in which each day, each hour, each season transform the vegetation, the light, the sky and its clouds, make of Ventoux a god of many shapes.
	www.saultenprovence.com /GB/Decouverte.asp (773 words)

	Mont Ventoux -- bicycling in France -- Ken
		Mont Ventoux stands alone in the middle of southern France, near Avignon.
		Mont Ventoux -- bicycling in France -- Ken
	www.roberts-1.com /t/b02/fm/ventoux (103 words)

	MAB France - Mont Ventoux Biosphere Reserve
		To the south of Mont Ventoux, the Nesque Gorges are home to endangered plants such as the Martagon Lily and also reptiles like the viperine snake Natrix maura.
		Mont Ventoux (1909 meters altitude) is the highest point of Provence.
		The floristic richness at the top of Mont Ventoux is home to exceptional floristic richness with over sixty species classified as rare.
	www.mab-france.org /eng/reserves/R_ventoux.html (423 words)

	Le Mont Ventoux traduction en anglais.
		The Mont Ventoux is the highest point of Provence, with its 1.912 meters.
		As all the cyclists will tell you, the Mont Ventoux is a really difficult ascent that you can compare with the hardest from the Alps.
		From the ten French reserves, two, Mont Ventoux and Lubéron are located in the Vaucluse.
	www.lemontventoux.net /ventoux-anglais.htm (503 words)

	Bedoin travel: Maps, History, France - Provence Beyond
		Along the D19 in the forest of the Mont Ventoux, llamas are being raised.
		The hilltop village of Crillon-le-Brave is visible across the fields to the southwest, while the 1900m-high Mont Ventoux towers high above Bédoin to the northeast.
		Apt is in the region of the Rhône Valley Côtes de Ventoux wines.
	www.beyond.fr /villages/bedoin.html (611 words)

	Cycling in Provence, Mont Ventoux: Cycling holiday in France
		The Mont Ventoux in Vaucluse and Drome departments will be your campanion all along your trip.
		To make a cycling tour all around the Mont Ventoux possible, one or tow overnights in nice and friendly 2* hotel(s) in Aurel (and Buis-les-Baronnies for the 9- and 10-day tours) is necessary for "plus" as well the luxury packages.
		You be cycling through Cote du Rhone Villages-wineyards all along your trip north of the Mont Ventoux.
	www.valac.nl /dbdb16-Provencecyclingtour.html (975 words)

	Les Vignerons du Mont Ventoux
		Le Côtes du Ventoux LE DOM BALAQUÈRE derives from grapes harvested on the southern slopes of the Mont-Ventoux.
		The Mont Ventoux is a kind of Mecca for the passionate cyclist.
		The Côtes du Ventoux derived from organically-grown grapes, certified by the organisation ECOCERT (sas F 32600).
	www.bedoin.com /EN/catproduit.asp?CAT=1 (1239 words)

	International Travel News: In the shadow of Mont Ventoux - a special place in Provence
		Mont Ventoux is some 1,912 meters high and overlooks the whole region, which offers mountains and sheep pastures, cultivated olive and fruit trees, lavender fields and grape vines, wildflowers, Roman ruins and medieval villages.
		Along the north face of Mont Ventoux lie the villages of Entrechaux, Beaumont du Ventoux, St. Leger, Brantes and Savoillan.
		At the base of Mont Ventoux there are nine villages.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3648/is_n1_v23/ai_20465501 (498 words)

	www.cyclingnews.com presents the 87th Tour de France 2000
		With 21km to race in Bedoin at the foot of Le Mont Ventoux, the gap was under 2 minutes and as the chasing peloton approached the sharp lefthand bend in St. Esteve that signaled the start of the steep section of Mont Ventoux, USPS had taken over the chase.
		Chalet Reynard is just above the treeline on Le Mont Ventoux at 1410 meters above sea level and it's where the riders are exposed to the full force of the fierce, biting mistral wind.
		With 2.5km left to race, Armstrong and Pantani had ridden away from the rest and at the final summit sprint, the rejuvinated Italian slipped ahead of Le Maillot Jaune to win the epoch stage to the summit of Le Mont Ventoux.
	www.cyclingnews.com /results/2000/jul00/tdfrance00/stages/tdfrance00st12r.shtml (655 words)

	Cycle Touring in Provence - Nice to Mont Ventoux - Graham Baxter Sporting Tours
		Mont Ventoux is steeped in cycling history, and has featured so prominently in the Tour de France, no more so than when it claimed the life of Tom Simpson in the 1967 Tour de France.
		Today’s ride will be a circular route, climbing Mont Ventoux from the Bedoin side and descending via Malaucene before returning to Carpentras.
		Cycle Touring in Provence - Nice to Mont Ventoux - Graham Baxter Sporting Tours
	www.sportingtours.co.uk /touring/provence.html (754 words)

	Malaucene to Mont Ventoux
		When the same poet Petrarca climbed in 1336 with his brother to the top of the mont Ventoux, he makes a report in a letter of what we can consider as the first modern route description in travelogue history.
		The mont Ventoux (Mont des Vents, mount of winds) is called “lou Ventou” in Provencal
		in the west to the Mont Blanc in the east.
	www.jack-travel.com /Provence/Html/MontVentoux.htm (655 words)

	Mont Ventoux
		Mont Ventoux, the very name conjures up images of the howling winds that bear down on anyone impudent enough to climb to its summit.
		Since Francesco Petrarch first described The Ascent of Mont Ventoux in the Middle Ages, the mountain has passed into myth.
		The couloirs from the top of The Ventoux are quite steep, between 35-40?, and narrow in places.
	www.pistehors.com /resorts/southern/ventoux.htm (771 words)

	Michigan Nordic Ski Racer - The Altitude Function on the Polar S710 Heart Monitor
		Considered the toughest climb in the 2002 Tour de France, Mont Ventoux rises 5280 feet in 21km at an average grade of 7.6 percent.
		It would take 26 trips up the full 200 foot Kensington road hill to equal the elevation change on Mont Ventoux, but it would not be as steep, and of course you would get to rest as you zoomed down at 40 miles per hour between climbs.
		Mont Ventoux averages 7.6% and has sections as steep as 15%.
	www.nordicskiracer.com /Equipment/PolarS710Altimeter.asp (981 words)

	Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
		One source of irritation on the climb up Mont Ventoux was that the butterflies kept dropping me. These little black butterflies would flutter up to my face, flit around my head for a minute, and then fly off my front wheel up the climb.
		He was the first from our group up Mont Ventoux, which was convenient for us because then he could take pictures of us as we got to the top.
		They are all triathletes who hammer hard, but it was Joe "Dad" who had the ride of the day on Mont Ventoux, leaving both of his twenty-something sons behind him as he stormed to the top.
	www.dailypeloton.com /displayarticle.asp?pk=6769 (716 words)

	The Tour de France 2002: Le Mont Ventoux
		Though the Mont Ventoux is not stage for the 2001 edition, the 'Mont Ventoux' is a symbol for this most famous bicycle race of the world.
		The swaying style of the cyclists, climbing up the mountains of the Tour de France, is a core component of the realisation of the motive of a racer in his struggle for winning at the 'Mont Ventoux', a figure whose name could be Tom Simpson, but not necessarily needs to be.
		It was Friday the 13th 1967 when former World Champion Tom Simpson tried started a desperate escape at the 'Mont Ventoux', maybe the most mythical mountain of the Tour de France, to defend his 'maillot jaune'.
	www.the-shot.com /tour-de-france-2001.html (297 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cycling - Cycling Weekly: Virenque conquers Mont Ventoux - Thursday August 01, 2002 09:33 AM
		Posted: Thursday August 01, 2002 9:33 AM Richard Virenque could not contain his delight as he climbed to victory on the lunar slopes of Mont Ventoux and won back the hearts of the French public, reports Cycling Weekly magazine.
		Another Ventoux victim was Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (ONCE), 21st on the summit, which has enabled Rumsas, rarely seen on the front but always shadowing the leaders, to move into third overall.
		Armstrong was disappointed not to have caught him, but nonetheless argued: “I didn’t come here to win on the Ventoux, I came to win the Tour.”
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cycling/news/2002/08/01/14_cw (1131 words)

	Mont Ventoux, géant provençal
		Although the Mont Ventoux is not a extraordinary high mountain in comparison to the high Alps further North and East, it's isolated position gives it a dominating feature.
		But also in other aspects the Mont Ventoux is a "giant", whether you refer to its extraordinary climatical differences, its strange looks, and last but not least in cycling terms.
		Situated as last Alpine mountain ridge before the Rhône plain, the Mont Ventoux can be seen almost from everywhere in Provence.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Rapids/3892 (113 words)

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