There were restless editions, editions with one, two, three, five or six days “off” but at the beginning of the story, the tour took its time …
Sad memory. 30 years ago, with his teammates of Motorola, Armstrong, Andreu, Bauer, Mejias, Ozers, Peron and Swart, Fabio Casartelli spent a day of “paradise” rest in the sun of the Couserans. Death awaited him a few hours later in the descent of the Porte-D’aspet pass. The first victim of the Tour de France, the young Rennais Adolphe Hélière, 19, had disappeared during the day -free day, in Nice on July 13, 1910.
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Probably a hydrocution when he had just dive into the Mediterranean … It was also after having died twenty-four hours in Millau that the Stéphanois Roger Rivière changed by hitting the Col du Perjuret, the fall ending his promising career …
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With Luchon, Toulouse and its suburbs, the high-sought-after-old Garonne
Automatic during the first years of the big loop (in 1903, the survivors recovered three days in Toulouse before leaving for Bordeaux), the “without” day was then used afterwards, almost always in Luchon in the Pyrenees in the 20s and 30s. In 1938, there were even two in forty-eight hours, one in Pau, the other in Luchon after the taking of the Belgian Félicien Vervaeke.
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Like Ariège (Ax-les-The-Thermes 1955 then 1998 before the Tarascon strike), Les Pyrénées-Orientales, (1968, 1976), Le Gers (1975), Les Hautes-Pyrénées (Lourdes 1994), Tarn (Albi 2019), Andorra was chosen, in 1964 of course with the famous Méchoui de Radio Andorre and the participation of Jacques Anquetil The next day in Envalira, then in 1993 and 2021. But the Haute-Garonne keeps the yellow jersey of this specialty with Luchon and Toulouse therefore the most asked, but also Colomiers (1974), Blagnac (1988) and Saint-Gaudens (1999).
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After the arrival in force of the Audois sites (Carcassonne, Narbonne and Gruissan last summer), the pink city finds a welcome stop before, and it is unpublished, a sequence probably hectic between Toulouse and … Toulouse on Wednesday.
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The runners appreciate variously the fact of stopping the machine (they vote for the majority of which are still in the majority) but the supporters always check these steps without steps where they are lucky to be able to meet some of their idols for autographs and now selfies. It’s up to you, the runners are coming next night!