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Tour de France (Bicycle race)

LC control no.n 98020404
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Meeting name headingTour de France (Bicycle race)
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Variant(s)Grande boucle (Bicycle race)
Tur de Frans (Bicycle race)
Beginning date1903
Associated countryFrance
Field of activityBicycle racing
Special noteSee also related access points for individual instances of this race which include specific information about the date or place of the individual race.
Found inLa France du Tour, c1997: t.p. (Tour de France)
Les France du tour, 2003: t.p. (Grande boucle)
Tour de France WWW Home page, Nov. 21, 2003: (Tour de France; "Grande boucle")
BLIC online, Aug. 6, 2007: article dated 29.07.2007 (Tur de Frans)
Britannica online, viewed April 23, 2015 (Tour de France; f. 1903 by Henri Desgrange; race is held mainly in France but also has stages in other European counties; it may start outside France but has always finished there; there was no Tour held 1915-1918 and 1940-1946 because of the World Wars)
Invalid LCCNsh 85136245