Which countries has the Tour de France been through?
March 6, 2010
Apart from France, which other countries has the tour visited? Has the tour ever been to the island of Corsica too?
Spydr, you obviously know nothing, because this year it has already been through Monaco, Spain, Andorra and now Switzerland and it will head through Italy later
I did mean, since it began. For the record there is also a Tour of Missouri in USA too
do you mnean this year or since the race started in 1903
in 1998 it started in Ireland, 2006 in London. It started in West Berlin in 1987 but visit to east germany was abandoned. it has visited the bordering countries and also the netherlands in recent years
David Harmon on Eurosport yesterday was saying it first visited a foreign land in 1906 when it visited Alsace-Lorraine which was a political move
some might say "you wrong" at this, as alsace-lorraine is part of France. it became a region of France after world war one. it had became german teritory after the franco-prussia war of 1871 but France reclaimed it as reparations for world war I
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Ubu, that will never ever happen. there has been talk of creating a three week race in the US as being Tour of America but the plans have not yet came to fruition and probably won’t. there is the tour of california and until last year, there was a tour de georgia. there’s also the vuelta a chihuahua in mexico-us region and tour de beauce bell in canada
there’s plenty of regional and national races around and the thing to do would be to build those up with local support into something big.
it’s not like the olympics where it’s the only cycling event, there are plenty of cycling events. the giro di italia and vuelta a espana are comparable to the tour de france while there are other excellent races but the races themselves represent their own regions
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i’ve checked wikipedia and it say['s it's never visited corsica
to quote:
"By the cartography of France that it helped make known, the Tour acted as a teacher in showing a map printed with the contours of the country - which was rare at least until the Great War - and as avant-gardiste in very quickly popularising the notion of France as more or less hexagonal, a France amputated from 1903 not only of its "lost provinces" [19]but also of possessions overseas and of Corsica, (which the race has) never visited in a century nor figured on maps of the race. "
i don’t recall it visited in recent years
the giro di italia has visited Sardinia though
The name tells it ALL. It’s NOT the Tour de Europe.
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many neighbors countries "monaco – spain – switzerland" i’m not sure if it though belgium this year or not
you can check this:
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/22102008/58/tour-de-france-tour-de-france-route-2009.html
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I don’t know all of the countries, but one year they started in England. ‘Very unusual.
I wish the Tour would evolve into a tour of the world that would move from region to region each year, as the Olympics does every four. Or return to France every so many years to maintain French tradition.
It would be neat to host it once in the US-Canada-Mexico. What a rush to showcase our national treasures. Imagine a Yellowstone, Yosemite or Glacier stage. A stage or three in the Rockies. A stage on the Mississippi. A finish in New York City for the Champaign ride.
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do you mnean this year or since the race started in 1903
in 1998 it started in Ireland, 2006 in London. It started in West Berlin in 1987 but visit to east germany was abandoned. it has visited the bordering countries and also the netherlands in recent years
David Harmon on Eurosport yesterday was saying it first visited a foreign land in 1906 when it visited Alsace-Lorraine which was a political move
some might say "you wrong" at this, as alsace-lorraine is part of France. it became a region of France after world war one. it had became german teritory after the franco-prussia war of 1871 but France reclaimed it as reparations for world war I
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Ubu, that will never ever happen. there has been talk of creating a three week race in the US as being Tour of America but the plans have not yet came to fruition and probably won’t. there is the tour of california and until last year, there was a tour de georgia. there’s also the vuelta a chihuahua in mexico-us region and tour de beauce bell in canada
there’s plenty of regional and national races around and the thing to do would be to build those up with local support into something big.
it’s not like the olympics where it’s the only cycling event, there are plenty of cycling events. the giro di italia and vuelta a espana are comparable to the tour de france while there are other excellent races but the races themselves represent their own regions
—–
i’ve checked wikipedia and it say['s it's never visited corsica
to quote:
"By the cartography of France that it helped make known, the Tour acted as a teacher in showing a map printed with the contours of the country - which was rare at least until the Great War - and as avant-gardiste in very quickly popularising the notion of France as more or less hexagonal, a France amputated from 1903 not only of its "lost provinces" [19]but also of possessions overseas and of Corsica, (which the race has) never visited in a century nor figured on maps of the race. "
i don’t recall it visited in recent years
the giro di italia has visited Sardinia though
References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Desgrange
Check this
http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/histoire_home.html
http://ibertchildseatreview.blogspot.com/
References :
http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/histoire_home.html