Zona Sepeda – Meskipun tahun 2009 belum berakhir tapi rute Tour de France ke-97 yang akan berlangsung pada bulan Juni 2010 sudah dipublikasikan. Rute Tour de France 2010 didominasi rute pegunungan. Official Le tour sepertinya ingin kembali menyuguhkan balap sepeda klasik Tour de France jaman dahulu yang didominasi rute-rute pegunungan yang ekstrim dan jalan non aspal.
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Rute Tour De France 2010
TOM BOONEN IKUT TOUR DE FRANCE 2009
Pembalap Sepeda asal Belgia Tom Boonen dari Team Specialized Quick Step akhirnya bisa bernafas lega, Tom Boonen di beri kesempatan untuk ikut berkompetisi pada event kejuaraan balap sepeda dunia legendaris “Tour de France” bulan juli yang akan datang.
Tom Boonen yang merupakan juara event balap sepeda clasic Paris-Roubaix 2009 sempat mendapat cekal dari penyelenggara Tour De France 2009 karena kasus penggunaan obat terlarang. Bonnen terpukti positif menggunakan kokain pada hasil tes ke-2 pada tahun ini menjelang Tour De France 2009.
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Lance Armstrong Own Team
Seven Tour d'france champion Lance Amstrong believes there is a "high" probability he will start a professional team of his own for the 2010 season.
The American expects the announcement to come this July, after he races the Tour de France.
"I would like to have my own team: to be the owner, director and... cyclist. Because if I have a team I also want to race. It does not necessarily have to be the Giro and Tour, but only when I have the desire," he said in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport after the Tour of the Gila stage race in the USA.
Armstrong, seven-time winner of the Tour de France, announced his comeback to the sport last fall. He joined his former team manger Johan Bruyneel at team Astana and announced his support of an Under 23 development team.
"The name? That of the principal sponsor. Its probability? High. You will know it in July. Even if it is hard to convince sponsors to give money with the economic crisis and news of doping," he added.
Armstrong travelled from the US and arrived in Rome this morning. Tomorrow, he will meet with Italy's Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, to present his cancer foundation's programme.
From Rome Armstrong travels to Venice for the Centenary Giro d'Italia, May 9 to 31. He will lead the team with USA's Levi Leipheimer, winner of Tour of the Gila and Castilla y León.
History of Tour de France
The very first Tour de France back was back in 1903 - This first race became the creation of the greatest cycling race in the world we know today. Read on to find out about the tour de France's early beginnings...
The first Tour de France was designed as a publicity stunt for the French sports newspaper L’Auto, a race that was for the most gutsy and tough of professional cyclists of the time. The course was marked out to be a round France stage race, covering a distance of 2428 km, taking place over 19 days in six stages and rankings based on the cumulative time over the course of the tour.
At the very first tour de France sixty riders began that first race. The winner who dominated throughout the tour was Maurice Garin, who still today holds the record for a win by the greatest margin of 2 hours and 49 mins.
With over 20,000 people turning up to see Maurice Garin cross the finish line in Paris that year, the first tour de France was hailed as a great success. The next year, 1904, the tour de France became a must-win for every cyclist taking part. And this had disastrous results. The second tour was later billed as almost the last Tour de France, as riders would go to any lengths to try and win. Cheating was rife.
Riders were caught catching trains, taking cars and even dropping spikes trying to flatten their opponents’ tyres. Maurice Garin had won the race for the second time, but as reports of cheating surfaced, the top four riders were disqualified for their infractions, and it was to the 5th place little-known cyclist, Henri Cornet who became the tour de France 1904’s winner. After these major implications of the second Tour de France, the race officials then decided to implement many more rules on how the race was to be done.
The Tour de France was greatly limited during the First World War, but around this time it was the 1919 race that saw the now infamous yellow jersey or “maillot jaune” introduced. The leading cyclist wore the yellow jersey in order to show who was leading the race because previously no one could recognise who was winning.
Part way through the 1919 race, the organisers introduced the jersey into the race and it was France’s Eugene Christophe who adorned the yellow jersey for the first time. In the later stages of the race bad luck caught up with Eugene Christophe yet again just as in his previous racing years on the tour, this time he suffered various punctures and a broken fork that held him back and he later finished the 1919 tour 3rd place. By now the tour covered a distance of 5560km and it was Firmin Lambot who won that year, the Belgian was described as the first real contender of this new generation.
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