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  Tour DuPont - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Tour DuPont was a cycling race in the United States held 1991–1996.
The Tour DuPont continued the Tour de Trump 1989–1990 which was sponsored by Donald Trump.
In the most dramatic finish in Tour history, the Netherlands's Erik Breukink of PDM came from 50 seconds behind despite a flat tire to defeat Atle Kvalsvoll on the streets of Wilmington, Delaware.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Tour_DuPont   (645 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Tour DuPont   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Tour DuPont was a cycling stage race in the United States held from 1991–1996.
The Tour de France (French for Tour of France), often referred to as La Grande Boucle, Le Tour or The Tour, is an epic long distance road bicycle racing competition for professionals held over three weeks in July in and around France.
The Tour DuPont was preceded by a similar race called the Tour de Trump 1989–1990 which was sponsored by Donald Trump.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tour-DuPont   (1775 words)

  
 embassy.org: Embassy Row Tour: Dupont Circle
Dupont Circle is one of Washington's many traffic circles, which help to manage traffic flow where streets on the grid (usually east-west "letter" streets, like K street, or M street, and north-south numbered streets) intersect with the avenues named for states, which cut across the city on diagonals.
Dupont Circle is at the intersection of P and 19th streets, and three major avenues: Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
In 1997, Dupont Circle was the scene of a diplomatic incident, when an accident caused by a Georgian diplomat killed Joviane Waltrick.
www.embassy.org /embassy_row/page03.html   (244 words)

  
 Lance Armstrong -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He won the Tour DuPont again in 1996, and was ranked number one cyclist in the world.
As a young and hugely promising cyclist this was a blow for the team, the sport, and Fabio's nation, (A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD) Italy.
This was one of the factors which lead to his near retirement from the sport, because of which he and his then-girlfriend (now ex-wife) moved to (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France on two different occasions due to his changes of heart.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lance_armstrong.htm   (2239 words)

  
 Companies/Dupont Corp.
In 1995, DuPont had revenues of $42.2 billion and net income of $3.3 billion.
DuPont operates in approximately 70 countries worldwide, with about 175 manufacturing and processing facilities that include 150 chemicals and specialties plants, five petroleum refineries, and 20 natural gas processing plants.
Conoco, the DuPont energy subsidiary, is involved in the worldwide exploration and production of crude oil, natural gas and gas liquids, and refining, marketing and transportation of natural g as and gas products, and refined petroleum products.
best.me.berkeley.edu /~pps/pps/dupont_u.html   (197 words)

  
 2000 Team Roster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
From cancer survivor to Tour de France champion, Armstrong's story of recovery and triumph has already brought cycling to a level it never reached before, especially in the United States.
Following his inspiring victory in what was the fastest Tour de France on record, Armstrong was bestowed with numerous awards and accolades, including the prestigious U.S. Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year and Jesse Owens International Trophy.
Armstrong's goals for 2000 are threefold — to repeat his Tour victory, to continue to inspire others through his courageous outlook and to spend more time with his wife and son.
www.uspsprocycling.com /team/bios/armstrong.htm   (625 words)

  
 Dupont (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dupont, DuPont, Du Pont, or du Pont may refer to:
Dupont Circle, a neighborhood in Washington, D.C. edit]
This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dupont   (82 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | TOUR DE FRANCE | Tough Texan's battle
His recent autobiography reveals the torturous struggle and triumphant return to form of a headstrong individual who is mentally and physically as strong as an ox.
But he viewed the flu-like symptoms and splitting headaches as an occupational hazard and could point to good results in the spring as evidence that there was nothing seriously wrong.
They took him and his bike into the mountains where he once dominated America's biggest race, the Tour Dupont, and from that point there was no looking back down the road.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/in_depth/2000/tour_de_france/1043360.stm   (1191 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Lance Armstrong Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He won the Tour DuPont again in 1996, and was ranked number 1 cyclist in the world.
Lance has triumphed partly because he has made a career of the Tour de France, training in Spain for the year leading up to the Tour, and making frequent trips to France to fully analyze and ride key parts of the upcoming Tour course.
In 1999 he tested positive for a corticoid, and although he did not declare taking the medication on the form before the test, the UCI accepted it was in his system due to his use of a legal skin cream to treat road rash and saddle sores.
www.ipedia.com /lance_armstrong.html   (1917 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Special Events | Tour de France | Tough Texan's battle
What he did not realise was that he was at death's door, about to be handed a 50% chance of survival by a specialist who admitted later that the odds of success were nearer one in 20 than one in two.
The account of his difficult adolescence is similar to the attitude displayed when the Texan arrived in Europe as a young professional cyclist, with little respect for authority and tradition.
Tour Dupont: On roads where Armstrong was later reborn as a rider
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/in_depth/2000/tour_de_france/845076.stm   (1202 words)

  
 Tour du Pont Information
Ceramiche-Refin strong roster includes Uzbekistan Djamolidine Abdujaparov, last year Tour DuPont sprint jersey winner; Italian Stephan Colage, the winner of the prestigious Tirreno-Adriatico stage race in 1995; and Belgium sprinter Jo Planckaert, a stage winner in last autumn Kent Tour of China; and Felice Puttini, the Swiss national champion and 10th at last year Worlds.
The Union Cyclist International (UCI), the international sanctioning body of pro cycling, recently upgraded the status of the Tour DuPont to a 2.1 ranking from a 2.2 last year, making it the highest ranked race outside of Europe and the first North American stage race with such distinction.
The Tour DuPont scored the highest grades for organization of any international stage race last year by UCI officials, according to Michael Plant, the race executive director.
www.cyclingnews.com /results/archives/jan96/dupont.html   (754 words)

  
 Armstrong Captures Tour Dupont With Time-Trial Win
ENNESAW, Ga. -- A year ago, when Lance Armstrong won the Tour DuPont, he was beaten in the final day's time trial and was the most despondent champion you could imagine.
He won five stages, tying the record by Eric Vanderaerden of Belgium in 1989, the race's first year, when it was known as the Tour de Trump.
The three-week Tour de France, which starts July 1, is cycling's best-known race.
www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/cntdown/0513oly-cyc-tour-dupont.html   (554 words)

  
 Cyclist cool long ago in Roanoke
The Tour DuPont, billed as America's premier cycling event, came through Southwest Virginia for five years in the mid-1990s.
The Tour DuPont didn't come to Roanoke until 1994, after it had made stops in Blacksburg and Hot Springs the previous year.
In 1996, he became the Tour DuPont's first repeat winner, thanks in part to victory in Stage5, a 113-mile race from Mt.Airy, N.C., to Roanoke that ended in a wicked thunderstorm.
www.roanoke.com /roatimes/news/story169694.html   (859 words)

  
 Cultural Tourism DC - Attraction Management
Tour DC Walks offers up brazen Confederate women, a bar with a drink named for a Soviet defector, and the man who launched Richard Nixon's career.
This SiteSeeing Tour through U Street focuses on the entertainments once offered on our Black Broadway, with tales of local literati, underworld queenpins, and the hottest jazz lounges.
Your Tour DC Walks guide tells how strike-it-rich miners and American aristocrats built the mansions that became government facilities during World War II.
www.culturaltourismdc.org /dch_tourism2608/dch_tourism_show.htm?doc_id=121037   (1487 words)

  
 Fpa.es - awarded Lance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Against the 1998 Tour, and the eighteenth stage of the 1998, Lance awarded before winning for the successor of the Tour of Andalusia, when he was diagnosed advanced testicular cancer care treatment and won the Tour de France.
In October of Andalusia, when lance awarded the Tour de France Armstrong born in Dallas, U.S.A. in 1999 and a further Dupont Tour once again and chemotherapy, he was fourth in the Tour once again, the following year he won the team he had always ridden for, disappeared.
In 1994 he had to lance awarded keep up with the Dupont Tour once again, the team, Cofidis, who had spread to keep up with the Tour once again, who had always ridden for the first stage of this fellow countryman, Greg LeMond.
www.fpa.es /Lance/awarded_p.html   (404 words)

  
 BobbyJulich.com - History - Bobby Julich - Professional Cyclist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He won the Tour de L’Abitibi, a prestigious junior stage race in Canada in 1988 and 1989, and also competed in the Junior World Championships in Moscow.
Bobby raced the Tour DuPont for the second time, and again he was getting noticed.
In a high-speed downhill finish into the Homestead Resort on stage 7 of the Tour DuPont, Bobby was just beat at the finish line by professional star Phil Anderson, and finised second, but he was one place ahead of Greg LeMond.
www.bobbyjulich.com /julich/history.asp?id=1   (751 words)

  
 Relationships with Lance Armstrong
He looked strong from the beginning of the tour, being beaten in the first stage by only two seconds and passing one of his major competitors, Jan Ullrich, on the road.
During the 2004 Tour, the Armstrong-Simeoni feud manifested its presence during the race itself.
After receiving the prizes for his last Tour victory, as he retired from professional cycling, Lance Armstrong made a short speech in which he reprimanded those skeptical of cycling, alluding to the widespread accusations that most, if not all, professional cyclists are doped.
www.topsynergy.com /famous/Lance_Armstrong.asp   (3262 words)

  
 MichaelHoligan.com - DuPont Carpet - Factory Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At the DuPont Carpet Research Facility, lab technicians are constantly striving to design carpets that look better and last longer using the latest in production and testing techniques to develop carpet fibers that are more resistant to stains, wear and tear.
Each of these ends of twisted heat-set yarn feed through a needle and those needles tuft, or stitch, that carpet fiber into the primary backing fabric, which you can see is advancing through the tufting machine.
Since DuPont invented and manufactures them all, they are completely compatible - working together to make DuPont, Stainmaster carpet the right combination of performance, style and beauty.
www.michaelholigan.com /gen/tv/MH5351.htm   (1025 words)

  
 Chesapeake Farms Tour Page
The instructions that follow will direct you along a self-guided tour of the central area of Chesapeake Farms (a word of caution: roads may be in poor condition during the spring thaw or after severe weather, check on road conditions at the office or call (410) 778-8400 before starting).
For example, corn is treated with DuPont Accent® and Basis® herbicides and soybeans are treated with DuPont Canopy® and Synchrony® STS® herbicides.
Trees within the hedge are controlled mechanically or with herbicides such as DuPont Krenite® S. The Wildlife Research Project at Chesapeake Farms, which is conducted in cooperation with several universities, has discovered that rabbits prefer dense hedges that are bordered by strips of mowed grass.
www.dupont.com /ag/chesapeakefarms/tour.html   (2708 words)

  
 Case Study: DuPont's "Get Real Behind The Wheel" Tour @ Polaroid.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The tour also included interactive displays of current and future DuPont products that are helping with collision avoidance, injury mitigation and security.
One of the most popular attractions on the tour allowed teens to have their picture taken with Jeff Gordon's likeness and an actual DuPont number 24 racecar.
In addition, this customizable film permitted DuPont to place their logo directly within the instant film image area, so it would appear as part of the developed picture.
www.polaroid.com /global/printer_friendly.jsp?PRODUCT<>prd_id=845524441761917&FOLDER<>folder_id=282574488338439   (519 words)

  
 Tour DuPont Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 Kevin Livingston
The Tour DuPont was the biggest american pro race.
The Tour de l´Avenir is stage race for young professional riders.
He did quite good in the pre- Tour de France races and so he was nominated for the Cofidis Tour team.
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 Lance Armstrong biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (sports: bicycling, tour de france)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He is most famous for recovering from cancer to subsequently win the Tour de France a record six consecutive times—1999 to 2004.
Particularly vocal have been Greg LeMond, the only other American to have won the Tour, and the French newspaper Le Monde, who have questioned his association with doctor/trainer, Dr. Michele Ferrari, who in 2004 was found guilty in an Italian court for unlawful distribution of medicines and sporting fraud.
Armstrong held a press conference to announce that he would retire from professional cycling after the 2005 Tour de France, which would be the final race of his 14 year career.
www.popstarsplus.com /sports_lancearmstrong.htm   (2731 words)

  
 "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are"-Miller
While I think the Tour of Georgia proved that the U.S. public can tolerate road closures (aside from the geezer who creamed the U23 rider with an SUV in the TT), unless there's a rock star performer of Lance Armstrong's stature it will be a tough sell in the future.
They've done a competent job of covering the Tour de France with writers Samuel Abt and Frank Vescey, but I was rather shocked that not one iota of ink was spent on covering Lance Armstrong's stellar victory in the Dodge Tour of Georgia.
I'm crossing my fingers that the Pro Cycling Tour will propel domestic professional cycling out of niche obscurity, but perhaps domestic cycling's heyday will always be the early 20th century, never to be repeated again.
www.unc.edu /~hymas/2004_04_01_   (2763 words)

  
 Frankie Andreu -- 1995
Coming just a week after a brutally tough Tour DuPont, many in the 135-rider field were still feeling the effects.
Still, the affects of DuPont on the field were obvious, especially in the final selection.
I mean, this is what we come to the Tour de France for...to win a race and this is what a...everybody on the team wants, you know, and so a...yeah, it's fantastic, you know, we're super happy to win today.
www.frankieandreu.com /histories/history95.html   (976 words)

  
 Frankie Andreu -- 1996
In the 1994 Tour, he was the only American to finish and narrowly missed victory on the final stage (Stage 21) down the Champs Elysées, where he placed second in a sprint finish.
And because the Tour has just begun, the riders are fighting to adjust to the tempo of the racing.
On the first rated climb of the Tour, Madouas flatted a tire at the bottom of the hill, so teammates had to stay behind to pace him back into the peloton.
www.frankieandreu.com /histories/history96.html   (4880 words)

  
 Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
The case resulted from a police raid at the 2001 Giro, leading to the seizure of medicine and banned substances from the hotel rooms of several cyclists.
The organisers of the Tour de France ASO kept to their eternal policy of “no man is bigger than the Tour” and on the final stage gave Armstrong his sixth (and record) yellow jersey, and the combativity award to Simeoni.
Whether Simeoni is a liar who lied to get a reduced ban or a rider who saw the error of his ways and has tried to come clean and speak out about dopage will be decided by the Italian legal system in due course.
www.dailypeloton.com /displayarticle.asp?pk=6762   (1351 words)

  
 BobbyJulich.com - Growing through stages - 1991 Winning Magazine Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This year's Tour DuPont was a U.S. cycling enthusiast's dream.
The 19-year-old Colorado rider arrived for the prologue as a little-known member of the U.S. National Team, but it was not long before he was showing that he could ride with the pros.
Just under six feet tall, the slim 152-pound Julich has a stage racer's build, and his DuPont results confirm that multi-day races are indeed his forte.
www.bobbyjulich.com /julich/1991interview.asp   (1320 words)

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